All too real.

So if there is actually some punishment handed down, any bets on what even more hellish scenario will rise up to replace the one where Google controls internet ads?

Since middle school or so I’ve always started notes/real work from the front of the notebook, and pure doodles from the back (though plenty make it to the front pages as well). Decades later I wonder how many kilos of graphite or liters of ink I’ve used (spoiler: probably not even one of each).

hah, thanks, tho it’s kind of the opposite of work. I had about 3.5hrs of zoom calls that particular day, and if my hands aren’t doing something there’s absolutely zero chance of me staying tuned in.

Just another day with debilitating ADHD…

Based and Lincoln-pilled

The ultimate hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.

And have made differently in the past.

While we’re all living in the present it’s extra-important to acknowledge the successes (and sometimes catastrophic failures) of different civilizations of the past. The way we’re living now is not the only way we’ve ever lived as a species, but we seem amazingly incapable of learning from past successes and failures sometimes.

Not that we have any real info about who collects/uses what when you use the API

I’m not too sure about varietals of any of the trees. One mango I know is called a lemon meringue mango, and as you might guess is very citrusy. It’s much smaller and paler than the usual Caribbean mangoes at the supermarket. Likewise not sure about either avocado. One is what’s colloquially called a Florida avocado. It’s huge - like bigger than a softball - with a smooth, bright green skin. The flesh is a bit watery, to the point where I use cheesecloth to wring it out if making guac. Milder than a haas as well. The other variety is really interesting. It ripens on the vine until it is dark purple or almost black, like an eggplant. This one is delicious and slightly floral. I haven’t seen any fruits on either tree again this year, so something is definitely up. An arborist was over a few years ago to do some pruning and didn’t mention anything problematic about either, so it will likely take some research to figure out. I’m not aware of other avocado trees in the neighborhood, but certainly one possibility is that they’ve lost their pollinators.

It’s called “The Tiffany Problem”. You might want to use the historically accurate name Tiffany for a character in your 16th century historical fiction novel, but you can’t because it sounds like someone who was born in 1982.

Nobody knows! There’s no specific disclosure that I’m aware of (in the US at least), and even if there was I wouldn’t trust any of these guys to tell the truth about it anyway.

As always, don’t do anything on the Internet that you wouldn’t want the rest of the world to find out about :)

They’re talking about what is being recorded while the user is using the tools (your prompts, RAG data, etc.)

If money counts as a freedom unit then yes, probably (maybe)

Anthropic and OpenAPI both have options that let you use their API without training the system on your data (not sure if the others do as well), so if t3chat is simply using the API it may be that they themselves are collecting your inputs (or not, you’d have to check the TOS), but maybe their backend model providers are not. Or, who knows, they could all be lying too.

And I can’t possibly imagine that Grok actually collects less than ChatGPT.

Gene sequencing wasn’t really a thing (at least an affordable thing) until the 2010s, but once it was widely available archaeologists started using it on pretty much anything they could extract a sample from. Suddenly it became possible to track the migrations of groups over time by tracing gene similarities, determine how much intermarrying there must have been within groups, etc. Even with individual sites it has been used to determine when leadership was hereditary vs not, or how wealth was distributed (by looking at residual food dna on teeth). It really has revolutionized the field and cast a lot of old-school theories (often taken for truth) into the dustbin.

That humans came out of Africa once and then settled the rest of the world. In reality there was a constant migration of humans in and out of Africa for millennia while the rest of the world was being populated (and of course it hasn’t ever stopped since).

I love how much DNA analysis has completely upended so much “known” archaeology and anthropology from even just a couple decades ago.

That’s some fancy joinery!

Or is the arrow of time just our way of perceiving a universally necessary change of entropy?

Yeah, had they asked Grok instead of GPT4 it probably would have been the Book of FAFO.