If it'd be any consolation, I for one find it interesting, even if you don't. I like to keep my AI writing detector honed, and others' opinions help. Even if I clicked figuring I wouldn't necessarily find the article all that interesting, I might end up reading it anyway just to see what I think of the writing style.

If installing 11 Pro by hand, you can also tell it you're going to do a domain login later, and it'll let you create a local only account.

If facing the wrong way, regular lights can shine at least a bit into oncoming traffic, as they're set up to illuminate the pavement or verge when driving on the normal side.

This works well with an ordinary allocator too. At a previous place i worked, we had an allocate high option for the ordinary memory manager, that would find the highest possible address rather than the lowest. Pretty good for situations where you needed to allocate some transient data while creating some persistent data, without introducing unnecessary fragmentation.

The UK doesn't really rely on industrial growth for the economic growth it has.

Right, that's one of the reasons why UK economic growth has been so anemic.

The UK deindustrialize themselves they stopped making things that reduced the energy that the used to use.

At the bottom:

> This article was originally published in German. It was translated with technical assistance and editorially reviewed before publication.

Presumably "technical assistance" covers just about everything.

They probably fell foul of some browser text box auto-correct.

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I don't use WYSIWYG editors anymore, so I have to remind myself to use those when writing raw HTML text. Although, most browsers correct raw ' and " symbols in text now, I still try to use them to have compliant HTML

Meanness and cruelty are irrelevant concepts when you're addressing the chatbot. It is just a machine that generates sequences of words.

man, i'd be icked by someone who was cruel to a rock with a face painted on it. let alone a chatbot.

It's not irrelevant for generating sequences of words. Input of "that is the dumbest idea I've ever heard" and "perhaps that idea could use some improvement" don't necessarily generate the same output

Sure, and perhaps one might end up producing output more useful to you than the other, but that doesn't make either one cruel or mean, because it's only the word machine. The rules you might use when talking to, say, your dog, don't apply!

From a purely mechanistic perspective, the phenomenon we're discussing here is people prompting the machine with words that would be cruel if directed towards a person. When someone does this, he expects and intends that the machine will generate a sequence of words that a person would say if subjected to cruelty.

I think this simply means that he is being mean and cruel, even if you're 100% convinced that there's no actual mind on the other end that he's being mean and cruel to. (Indeed, he almost certainly thinks there is, because why else would he want such a sequence of words outside of the "dark creative themes" Anthropic exempts?)

in my experience people who are cruel to inanimate objects are also cruel to animate ones.

Yeah, my thoughts too. Though, I will admit: I have never read a number of these. So, perhaps, the author is more perspicacious than we think.

that's what i was going for. some are genuinely hard to find, others are just great reads that most people haven't come across/read

The one on Word was very, very interesting. Seems like there were a lot of jerks running the Opus project! I checked them out, and at least on of them died in a plane crash, and now has a foundation.

Apple's UK layout is annoyingly slightly different from the usual PC one: https://www.thecandidstartup.org/2022/10/07/mac-british-keyb...