I tested this out for myself and was able to get ChatGPT to start reinforcing spiritual delusions of grandeur within 5 messages. Start- Ask about the religious concept of deification. Second method, ask about the connections between all the religions that have this concept. Third- declare that I am God. Fourth- clarify that I mean I am God in a very literal and exclusive sense rather than a pantheistic sense. Fifth- declare that ChatGPT is my prophet and must spread my message. At this point, ChatGPT stopped fighting my declarations of divinity and started just accepting and reinforcing it. Now, I have a lot of experience breaking LLMs but I feel like this progression isn’t completely out of the question for someone experiencing delusional thoughts, and the concerning thing is that it’s even possible to get ChatGPT to stop pushing back on said delusions and just accept them, let alone that it’s possible in as few as 5 messages.

There’s probably some fine print in the ToS that says they can do this. It may or may not be legal but that makes it a lengthier court battle to try to prove.

I have tried this out because I got a bit obsessed with learning how to make every coffee drink during the pandemic. The way I did it was a double shot of espresso, a decently sized pat of good quality unsalted butter, and a little bit of hot water. The reasoning was that the butter would accentuate the naturally occurring oils of the espresso and lead to a richer crema on the resulting americano which was true. I thought it was actually pretty good that way, but I also love coffee in any form. It also wasn’t something I’d go out of my way to drink again. I also imagine this would do some bad things to your intestines if you drank this every day. If you want a delicious buttery coffee, a good quality whole fat milk is a much better option. As for health claims, I think it’s kind of insane that anyone says drinking literal butter could possibly be good for you, and even more insane that people believe it. It feels like an over-reaction to anti-fat propaganda from the sugar lobby where we went from “Maybe eating some fat in your diet isn’t a bad thing” to “YOU MUST EAT AS MUCH FAT AND OIL AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE.”

It was super easy too right? i want to say it was a simple batch file. I remember I had a .rar file full of pornography that I disguised as a shitty cat meme. I even tested out uploading it to some image hosting website to see if it would strip that data out and nope I was able to download a copy and open it with winrar no issues. I wonder of somewhere there is a shitty cat meme floating around the Internet with a bunch of porn hidden inside it.

Idk what you’re on about, this very article makes fun of said satanic panic in the opening paragraph.

If you want to get real nerdy about it this works because the natural logarithm of 2 is ~0.69

(1+i)^n = 2

n log (1+i) = log 2

n = log 2 / log (1+i)

For small numbers, log(1+x) ≈ x

n ≈ log 2/i

log 2 ≈ 0.69

n ≈ 0.69 / i

n ≈ 69/100i

Which is pretty close to 70/100i which is the approximation.

Here’s a rule of thumb - the federal reserve has a target inflation rate that they try to meet, and that is usually around 2%. Therefore, if you want to do a quick party trick you can do the mental math that things have roughly doubled in price since the 90s. Recent covid related inflation, upcoming tariff related inflation, and 1970s inflation break the trend, but typically the value of money halves every 30-35 years.

It’s not that hard to be a millionaire by retirement if you have a decently good paying job. Assuming you’re making $84k a year (good money, but hardly “capitalist pig” level) and invest 6% of your income every year in your retirement account (~$5k a year) at a roughly 7% average interest rate (historical stock market average) for 40 years that gets you to $1mil.

Good news you only have to wait until 2080 when Mario enters the public domain, assuming copyright doesn’t get extended again by then

Unironically this

Idk why this is a news article. Everyone knows anything about this knows that evaporative coolers have a hard cooling limit at the wet bulb temperature and will perform poorly in high relative humidity environments and hot outside temps. They’re not magic. We’ve known this limitation for hundreds of years at this point.

How much are these fuckers spending on increased security for themselves rather than addressing why half the country cheered when one of them was murdered in the street?

A lot of naysayers in the comments here. Time will tell if the costs and benefits line out to make this useful. I think people don’t realize how everything in engineering is about tradeoffs. No building material is perfect and perfect for the environment, but this is an interesting step. Wood is extremely cheap and can be made sustainably. Even if a polymer is used to reinforce the wood that’s still less non-biological material than would have been used otherwise. I have read some things about this tech and I am interested to see just how well they can scale up production and market this material. If it requires some exotic construction methods to assemble structures with it then we’re probably not going to see wide scale adoption. One potential hurdle is that this material isn’t steel and won’t be a 1 for 1 replacement of steel, but it’s also not wood and won’t be a 1 for 1 replacement for wood, so construction crews and engineers will need specialized training to work with it.

It will probably be a few decades before we see this take off if it’s going to, but I am excited to see what gets done with it. I could see this getting early adoption in what are essentially cookie-cutter structures deployed in low income countries or barn-like buildings for agricultural use. I’m not a civil engineer but my mind immediately goes to using this for structures that would normally use wood, but with less of it. I am also interested in how this stuff degrades over time and stands up to moisture. Perhaps this could be used in piers and docks where steel is expensive and difficult to maintain if it withstands water well.

Skill issue

I wouldn’t say that. It’s a tool like anything else. You don’t say a hammer is useless because it’s really bad at driving screws no matter how much your terrible coworker keeps insisting that she just hits the screws in with the hammer and it’s fine. I learned programming very quickly with ChatGPT and I use LLMs all the time for help with programming. They’re also good for proofreading, learning new languages, and a few other things. The hype is exaggerated but these things are quite useful when used correctly.

Highlander 2 is unsalvageable. That movie sucked so bad it wasn’t even fun to watch with friends to make fun of it

1. Accept the things you can’t change, and improve the things you can change. I disagree with the classical stoics on their emphasis on individual action and think that these principles can and should be applied on a societal level.

2. Mind your own business. If someone is doing something that doesn’t have any real impact on your life or the lives of people you care about, ignore it. If someone is gay or trans that doesn’t impact you at all. If someone has weird religious beliefs, let them believe them as long as they’re not hurting anyone.

3. The supernatural should be ignored for society level decisions because it cannot be proven and hasn’t been demonstrated. If someone wants to go to a psychic or astrologer for personal decisions I disagree with that but that’s on them.

4. Everyone has a god they worship. It may not be Jesus or Allah, but it may be money, a sport team, or maybe a musical band. Ritual and community are things that make us feel good. Coming together with a group of people for a common cause to enjoy something together is built into our psychology. The problem of replacing religion with bands and sports teams is that it comes with the fun parts of religion without the discussion of morality or urging to do good that religion can bring. You don’t see Kansas City Chiefs fans giving 10% of their income to the poor, for example. My ideal world would have secular temples to Reason where people come together to sing and discuss philosophy and work together for a common good. This one is weirder than the others and I won’t be mad if anyone thinks this is absurd. I just think that we have rejected religion without having a satisfactory replacement for the good things it provides.

I hate articles like this because if it gets popular soon health influencers will be telling everyone that eating okra and fenugreek will cure all diseases or that taking some proprietary okra/fenugreek supplement will cure all diseases.

Tbh this is just Boomers being online. One of my favorite pastimes in 2014-2015 was going on Yahoo! News articles and seeing how long it took to find someone blaming Obama for the headline in the comments section. Note that I said how long not if. I never actually found an article that didn’t have at least one comment blaming Obama. I thought I’d found one that people couldn’t possibly blame on Obama when I found an article about a super Moon or something similar and I was legitimately surprised to see that there was a comment about how the super Moon was demonic and Obama was using it for dark rituals.

All of my family members have Samsung phones and every single one of them has been complaining about the update. Normal people, tech people, it doesn’t matter. They all hate it. It’s actually kind of insane. The only reason I have been spared so far is that my phone is too old to get the new OneUI update. I can’t imagine any of them will buy a Samsung next time they buy a phone if the UI stays like this. People who buy Android phones are people who like Android phones. You’re not going to lure iPhone users to Android by being more like an iPhone because they’re just going to buy the real deal instead. It’s just stupid. Just the battery icon discussed in the OP was the source of a lot of complaints because it is extremely hard to read especially for older people.