The Hall of Fire

This was the first Strands I've seen where one of the word paths crossed itself (made an X). I didn't realize that was allowed, and I'm not sure I approve...

George Carlin spelled this whole dynamic out years ago (NSFW; the bit includes at least 2 of his words that you can't say on TV, but evidently can on YouTube). The difference is that, unless you were an unwilling target of his womanizing, Clinton's bullshitting was largely beneficent, while Trump i...

Voronwë the Faithful wrote: ↑Fri Mar 22, 2024 4:39 pm More fodder for Trump's attorneys. I really think that the NY Times and the Washington Post are on his payroll.

: strokes beard in wizard : His arm has grown long.

Just unsure whether "he" is T himself or the various people who own him.

Belittling Trump for being trapped beneath crushing debt is not the way to win voters over. Pointing out all the things the Biden administration has done to assist debtors and publicly directing him toward programs that could help would have been far more effective.

IMO, ChatGPT should not be used for fact-finding at all. It is not a search engine, and it does not have the power to look things up on the internet. As a first approximation, it relies on its "memory" to answer questions, and its memory is subject to all the same problems a person's is--t...

One tried to overthrow the US government, one failed to fill out the HR forms for an office romance. Guess who gets punished? What a crock; Trump doesn't deserve to win, but his pusillanimous "opponents" certainly deserve to lose. This is a critical moment in history--Putin and Trump are w...

This one, to be precise:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/trav ... l-memories

If they're truly concerned about Chinese companies having too much influence over Americans' lives, maybe they should start with manufacturing instead of social media.

I do not care for Neognathae

WWII was too long ago for people to remember that Nazis are bad

Every time I see a headline along the lines of "Biden administration responds to latest Russian atrocity by imposing additional sanctions on...", all I can think is why the h3|! weren't you doing that already.

Not the free version (DALL-E can do that sort of thing), but it can invent and describe them.

Now that I have more experience with it, it's a little easier to recognize that a bunch of its responses are just (extremely) wordy versions of "404 Not Found". By far, its strongest use case is generating original text where a bit of absurdity is a feature rather than a bug. If you ask it...

So pre-GPT messageboard text could become the equivalent of low-background steel (I feel a bit like a bot right now in that I’m not sure if I’m making that up or read it somewhere before). we might be sitting on a goldmine here.

All in all, I'd say it is shockingly good at generating text from a prompt and will follow whatever proddings you give it (until you try to make it stop being so nice). But it is dangerously bad at explaining what something means, providing facts about a requested subject, or critiquing existing wri...

Seconds. Also, I've found some boundaries: ascii.png music.png . It's also very cool that it can explain its choices. It's been a longstanding problem in AI that you end up with a model that makes predictions, but there's no way for you or it to understand or describe why it does what it does. Along...

Stayed up way too late testing its creativity with various bizarre requests: The fellowship of the ring arguing about whether balrogs have wings: Frodo: So, do Balrogs have wings or not? Gimli: Of course they do! What else do you think those massive shadows were, sweeping through the halls of Moria?...

Certainly! Here's an 18th-century style advertisement for mithril, using the long s symbol: --- **Advertisement** **To All Gentlemen and Ladies of Distinction** **The Wonders of Mithril** By the Providence of the Most High, the rare and wondrous metal known as Mithril hath been discovered in abunda...

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A bit spooked now. Asked it to write a sonnet about the Mines of Moria: In depths where shadows dwell, beneath the earth, Where ancient halls of stone lay silent, cold, The Mines of Moria, of fabled worth, A tale of glory lost, of tales untold. Within these halls, where once the dwarves did delve, A...