That’s misophobia, misophonia is when you don’t like how soy paste sounds.

If he were smarter and/or not a walking ego then yeah, that would have been the move. Though if he were smart he probably wouldn’t be in this mess.

It’s not. He never wanted to buy twitter, he just wanted to pump and dump the stock, but because he is stupid and the plan was obvious they sued him to make him honor the deal.

So if he just turned around and shut the company down, it would give the SEC legal grounds to argue that his intention all along was market manipulation.

My understanding is that the SEC would have fucked him if he just shut it down, because it would indicate that he never intended to buy it in the first place and instead was just trying to manipulate the stock market (which is definitely what he was doing).

They don’t reason, they’re stochastic parrots. Their internal mechanisms are well understood, no idea where you got the notion that the folks building these don’t know how they work. It can be hard to predict/understand how an LLM generated a given prompt because of the huge training corpus and statistical nature of neural nets in general.

LLMs work the same as any other net, just with massive sample sets. They have no reasoning capabilities of any kind. We are naturally inclined to ascribe humanlike thought processes to them because they produce human-sounding outputs.

If you would like the perspective of real scientists instead of a “tech-bro” like me I would recommend Emily Bender and Timnit Gebru. I’d recommend them as experts without a vested interest in the massively overblown hype about what LLMs are actually capable of.

I work on chatbots for a big tech company. Every team is trying to use GenAI for everything. 90% of the stuff they try won’t work. I have to explain that LLMs can’t actually think at least three times a week. The hype train was too strong. Even calling it AI feels misleading.

That said, there are some genuinely great applications for LLMs that i’ve enjoyed looking into.

Hah, this was about 10 years ago - I doubt anything I wrote is still around.

When I used to do copywriting for junk SEO, I began to suspect that my editor didn’t actually read anything I wrote and just passed it through a content uniquness filter, so I started putting in random references to HP Lovecraft stories in the articles I got assigned.

They all got published, no questions asked. For a while if you searched “Homeopathy and the Esoteric Cult of Dagon” my content was the only result

Should have also mentioned Mount & Blade, Warband is the old but gold with lots of great mods (Prophecy of Pendor is excellent if you want some low fantasy) but M&B2: Bannerlord is coming along.

How has Kenshi not been mentioned