You should read up on the Silurian Hypothesis. It’s a fun scientific paper asking whether, if another intelligent species had arisen on Earth in deep time, we would be able to detect it. One of the most promising theoretical signals might be unexplained carbon spikes…. Very little other evidence could be expected to endure. No reason to believe it’s true, hard to prove a negative, etc etc, but it’s fun to think about.

Carbon emitting intelligent species ;)

I dunno. I was surprised to learn the extent to which it’s carcinogenic. And the fact that there are no known benefits.

I’m no fan of the democrats, but they don’t want to systematically exterminate people like me.

Our riding was projected 99% Conservative win but we went NDP. The riding specific forecasts are misleading, and I wonder how many important votes stayed home because they looked at the forecast and thought it was pointless.

LLMs are trained to do one thing: produce statistically likely sequences of tokens given a certain context. This won’t do much even to poison the well, because we already have models that would be able to clean this up.

Far more damaging is the proliferation and repetition of false facts that appear on the surface to be genuine.

Consider the kinds of mistakes AI makes: it hallucinates probable sounding nonsense. That’s the kind of mistake you can lure an LLM into doing more of.

I think everyone understood that the original commenter meant nauseous/nauseated instead of noxious. The corrector was being an annoying pedant, so I was pointing that out by correcting their “incorrect” word.

Do you mean nauseated?

Is there any way to use it offline? My data cuts out when inside the supermarket, which has frustrated me with other web-reliant shopping list solutions