Well it's a bit lacking in naughty details. I told you AI will never work! :) Unfortunately, it is also quite politically correct. You have to get clever with the prompting to get it to write anything against the narrative. You would be even more dissappointed by the restrictions on DALL-E (the AI ...

dualstow wrote: ↑Thu Jan 12, 2023 6:37 am Wow, I like ChatLeavyT even better than the version I was chatting with.

I use OpenAI's paid version. That was the text-davinci-003 engine. It is quite good.

Write a letter to Penthouse forum. Assume it was written in the late 1970's. Use the style of the time. Dear Penthouse Forum, I am a married man in my late 20s and I feel that I must share my story with you in the hopes of getting advice and understanding. Recently, I decided to take a break from m...

Biden aides have found a second batch of classified docs at a different location.

Awkward. No bets

Andrei, you have lost another submarine?

boglerdude wrote: ↑Mon Jan 09, 2023 10:52 pm AI wont do anything until it can walk up stairs and open doors. ie combine with robotics. Then, things could get messy

What do you think a Tesla is?

More relevant to the thread: what really excites/scares me is the threshold when AI becomes smart enough to improve itself in a self-reinforcing and recursive way. That's when the real intelligence explosion will happen IMHO. AlphaZero (from 5 years ago) is self taught. AlphaZero was trained solely...

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Smith1776 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 08, 2023 9:26 pm I really think that people have yet to grasp how this technology is going to impact their lives.

True

The Davinci - 003 engine is even better.

Not free, but cheap. And scary good.

It is like finding a new tool. Something fearful, yet something to be embraced. A lever where none was before.

Hello everybody, Happy 2023! After years having 25 x 4 I see CASH doing nothing and I never used it. <snip> Hi frugal! Happy 2023! ❤️🎇💰🤗 I found a really good discussion on this topic here . I've been checking monthly only because I got into the habit of tracking expenses and finances on a monthly ...

Sigh. You're right. Scratch that idea. Maybe I'll get one of those burgers from A&W that has the lettuce wrap in place of the bun. Every journey begins with a single step. And as much as I want to be snarky. (You know I do 8) ) I'm going to wait a bit. Thumbs up. Sigh. Who would have thought th...

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welderwannabe wrote: ↑Sun Jan 01, 2023 8:00 pm Thanks. Considering a single gold eagle is going for the price of the pro, seems like it may be cheap insurance.

Or, you could only do business with trustworthy people.

I wonder what the rate of default is on real estate contracts (with right of forfeiture) as opposed to your normal deed of trust. I would think that when the penalty for default is to lose all of one's equity, there would be an unusually strong incentive to stay current. Of course that presupposes ...

I sold some coins a while back to AJPM (in Portland). They had a special scale that not only weighed the coin, but did an ultrasound check on it. Even though the coins were in the same sealed tubes that they were in when I bought them from AJPM years earlier, they ran each and every coin through the...

vnatale wrote: ↑Mon Dec 26, 2022 8:45 pm

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Mon Dec 26, 2022 6:50 pm Real men eat what they want and own it.

Of course!

Mea Culpa. Rock on soul mates.

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Dec 26, 2022 4:05 pm Hey, is that a knock on peppermint coffee? Even on Xmas?!

It was mostly referring to gorging on chicken nuggets and brownies. But maybe a little bit askance at the peppermint also.

stuper1 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 24, 2022 7:55 pm You play any pickleball by chance?

No. That is another notorious forum member. The artist previously known as pugchief.

I just walk up mountains.

Coachella Valley

At some point in your life it really helps to decide to be a man.

boglerdude wrote: ↑Thu Dec 22, 2022 10:16 pm Some call it https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2021/01/ ... n-amnesia/

That's it.

This reminds me of a fallacy described by Nassim Taleb but for the life of me I cannot remember what he named it. (etc.) It predates Taleb. I first spotted it when I worked at Intel. I had first hand knowledge, yet none of the reporting was anything close to accurate. Knowles Law of Media Accuracy ...

Tortoise wrote: ↑Tue Dec 20, 2022 7:10 pm
What about gold-plated tungsten? I'm pretty sure most of the tungsten fakes are coated with real gold.

Good point. You could but a diffraction grating on the thinnest of plating.

That Bullion DNA looks pretty cool -- https://www.mint.ca/en/bullion/bullion-dna -- That is pretty cool. Gold is such a great metal for that type of a security feature. I think that stamping a diffraction grating or something into the coin is a great idea. Something that you could never hope to acc...

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