Im not in the loop about what people are expecting of ai or what state of the art models can do. But here’s my review.

Ive found chatgpt useful for code snippets, rewording paragraphs, writing emails, fun images. It saves time, but I still need to adjust things. I also use an llm for code suggestions, which I love.

I can not use it for things I don’t already understand well. Whenever I try to diagnose issues in my Linux computer, i feel like I get dragged down tangents and I get confused and after many messages it completely forgets what we’re doing. I would need to already know how things work to be able to navigate this.

It doesn’t do well with niche information. I haven’t been able to have it make me a functional EDH-deck. I have not been able to get basic information about my not-so-niche field of research. It gets things wrong too often for me to trust it as a source of information.

Overall ive found it very useful for the things I’ve found it useful. I understand why it fails at the other tasks. But I assume that someone better equipped than me could prompt-engineer, or adjust the model somehow, to make it useful for those tasks as well.

But ive also heard of really impressive uses, like alphago and alphafold. Im sure there are more recent examples.

But I honestly don’t understand what people are envisioning that these ai are supposed to do. Im probably just ignorant about the state of the art, but it seems absurd to me that an ai could tell you how to make government efficient by just throwing existing data at it, to use a topical example.

By the end of ww2, the nazis were the underdogs.

My pie in the sky hope for UBI is that it would be large enough so that you don’t need to work to live, maybe with some frugality.

At that point I’d be fine with scrapping minimum wage altogether. Companies would have to offer a job/salary that attracts people who aren’t desperate.

It would be much easier to quit a job. And I think it would broadly increase the value of labor. Automation would increase, but that wouldn’t be a problem, because its no longer a problem to be unemployed.

Nice try FBI

What do you do for a living? How does NPD impact your work? Is it beneficial or detrimental? I imagine there are careers that would be particularly suited for someone with NPD.

Only 0.001% randomly selected books get a fanbase.

TIL fake books are sold. It has never crossed my mind to check a book like that.

Good thing it’s stern. I don’t think they’ll stop otherwise.

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The electrons can not be stored stationary floating in the vacuum of the bottle. They will immediately attach to the internal surface. The entire bottle is now negatively charged and will accumulate positive charge on the external surface until it is electrically neutral. Now you have a funny looking capacitor with extra steps.

The closest thing in existence are the magnetic bottles used for different fusion reactor designs and particle accelerators. In these, the charged particles are kept moving in a closed loop contained by electromagnets that contiously adjust to keep the system pseudo-stable. These certainly cant store energy.