Of course I care whether the answer is correct. My point was that even when it’s not, it doesn’t really matter much because if it were critical, I wouldn’t be asking ChatGPT in the first place. More often than not, the answer it gives me is correct. The occasional hallucination is a price I’m willing to pay for the huge convenience of having something like ChatGPT to quickly bounce ideas off of and ask about stuff.
LLMs have their flaws but for my use it's usually good enough. It's rarely mission critical information that I'm looking for. It satisfies my thirst for an answer and even if it's wrong I'm probably going to forget it in a few hours anyway. If it's something important I'll start with chatGPT and then fact check it by looking up the information myself.
There's not a single mention of LLM's in my entire post. The argument I'm making there isn't even mine. I heard it from Sam Harris way before LLMs were even a thing.
Maybe I'm selfish, but I've pretty much decided that if there’s nothing I can do about something, I won’t waste much time worrying about it either. If it’s something important to me and I can affect it, like by voting, then I do - but once I've done my part, I shift my focus to other things. There’s always going to be bad stuff happening all over the world, and an inability to ignore most of it feels like a form of self-harm. What good is living life if you can’t enjoy any of it?
Maybe I’m not solving the big global issues, but I’m still solving local problems through my work. I fix pipe leaks, unclog sewers, paint walls, and build and repair things. At the end of the day, I can go to sleep happy, knowing I’ve made the world a tiny bit better than it was yesterday. I think it’s unreasonable to ask more of myself or others than that.
Thanks! Yeah I meant free soloing. I was under the illusion that 'Free Solo' was just the name of the Alex Honnold documentary and free climbing was the term for the sport itself, like free diving.
From my European perspective, it's super weird to see how much Americans care about who people vote for. The way I see Democrats talking about Republicans, and vice versa, is almost as if they’re speaking about a different species of humans. I guess it’s the benefit of living in a country with more than two political parties, so even when you know which way someone leans, you can’t be sure who they voted for. People do talk politics, but I rarely hear anyone say who they’re voting for, and from what I’ve seen, most people don’t even seem to care.
I always read in the news about how everything is going to fall apart because a certain person got elected, but then nothing happens and everything stays the same. Events like COVID or the war in Ukraine had far greater consequences on my daily life, and even those barely affected me. It feels like every time I open the news, the world is burning, but when I go outside and everything is fine, and people are nice to each other.
Edd Sorenson has some fantastic cave rescue / body recovery stories incase anyone's interested. The dude is an absolute legend in the cave diving circles.
Getting caught by police aircraft sounds very American.
I’ve adopted the granddad driving style too. Now I get my enjoyment from watching people rush and make pointless overtakes, only for me to end up right behind them at the next traffic light.
It was way above my comfort level. The ride itself was smooth due to me driving a big saloon but it also felt like I was about to take off at the slightest bump
I once was young and stupid and maxed out the speedometer of my car on a empty highway at the middle of the night. Now I can say I've done it and don't need to do that again. Normally I hardly even drive above the speedlimit.
Got to credit them for at least being honest about their motives, rather than spending every day criticizing Israel while being unable to utter one critical sentence about their enemies.
I don't know the statistics, but I wouldn't be surprised if more than 99% of drivers have, at some point, looked at their phone or engaged in some other distracting behavior while driving. It almost never leads to an accident. What's the difference then between someone who ends up killing someone and someone who doesn't? Bad luck - that's the difference. I'm not going to pretend that this unlucky person is somehow morally exceptionally reprehensible, knowing that it could just as easily have been me. If you're in the tiny minority who has, from day one, put 100% of your focus and attention into driving every single time you get behind the wheel without exception, I applaud you. But understand that this is extremely rare. That's why I see it for what it is - an unlucky accident and I'm glad no one got seriously injured.
What a time to be alive when suggesting we shouldn’t wish physical harm on an idiot teenager / young adult who we’ve all been at one point, is met with such fierce opposition.
In my experience (hexbear and .ml instances excluded) the majority of trolls I encounter seems to be from either infosec.pub or blahaj.zone