how can someone find ads becoming persuasive. I don't want or seek them out, but those that I do see are some of the least relevant crap in my life. so many car ads (dont have a license), ads in languages I don't speak (including languages that aren't widely spoken in the country I live in), ads targeted at demographics I clearly am not (pensioners, people with specific diseases, parents), adverts for schools (I have a masters degree, I'm unlikely to be going to a college)
"targeting" is a myth imo. If they even tried a little bit, they wouldn't have these problems.
I think ads for Muse itself. I've seen it literally everywhere. It's heavily advertised in the iOS App Store, and I'm seeing Muse advertised on random websites my Adblock doesn't block, like Reddit and such.
For me it was "head to head" table. Typical complete nonsense llm-generated comparison table. Rest of the content is still quite good tbh, generated or not
Not arguing whether this article is or isn't LLM-generated, but I've seen skewed comparison tables like that in marketing since before LLMs. Pick a bunch of qualities skewed towards the new thing being proposed, highlight all the ways the new thing wins.
This is a very interesting group of takes that feels quite different from my own beliefs. What would you call the belief system?
> Global warming: yes, kinda can wipe humanity, but I think much less likely
As someone who's seen the stats about heat deaths in the EU and also the drought in the UK, I feel like crop failures and other unforeseen consequences will fuck up both the economy and quality of life. People are dying and will die cause of human action, the only question is how many.
I don't think that's easy to guarantee in the modern day world, with the kinds of people in power and rhetoric that they enjoy. On one hand you have Russian saber rattling, on the other all it takes is a deranged enough leader and similarly bloodthirsty people down the chain of command.
> Wealth inequality: this one is driver of progress, opposite of extinction
Tell that to the people who are starving or living in shanty towns, or the even more people that struggle to make ends meet and experience anxiety regularly over living from salary to salary and sinking into debt. I'd say none of that is worthy of a dignified human life.
> War: another driver of progress, also will always naturally stop before every single human is dead
Tell that to all of the Ukrainians that are dead due to being invaded. I agree with the assessment that it leads to advancements (e.g. drone warfare) but I think it'd be harder to describe remotely positively if someone you know would have been blown apart by a drone/missile hitting their apartment block.
My take personally would be that all of those need to have attention paid to them (e.g. EU needing to spend more on defense), even if not immediately world ending. They do cause human misery, though, and should never be discounted.
Exhibit A: Here we have someone who's been sold war and inequality as the drivers of progress. Coincidentally, their obedience was deemed fiscally advantageous in order to advance the interests of the members of the 1% club.
Because nuclear war balances itself: more nuclear bombings = less nuclear weapons, less people to send them. It will naturally stop at some fraction of humanity left which is incapable of making and launching more nukes
The general idea of a nuclear apocalypse is that all the nukes that matter are launched in a matter of hours, and anyone being targeted gets their launches out before they're hit. The feedback loop that slows things down is too late to matter.
Kinda good, but burns a ton of tokens compared to sol. Gave it mid sized task, it burned entire context on thinking and then compacted after first edit. Sol would use 20-30% of context in comparison
I think it’s tongue in cheek. When I first got access to Sonnet 4.5 I remember thinking to myself “y’know if they never got any better and I just had access to this forever then that would be pretty okay”. Turns out my expectations have changed since then and I would like a higher baseline now.
Yes and the last thing I want to do is to integrate my life with best ad business in the world