I knew someone who ate a chemical once and they died so it must be true.

I hate the “chemicals bad” nonsense. It’s ignorant fearmongering. Meanwhile I eat chemicals for breakfast.

Bets on whether every one is in a blue state?

My favorite example was when they gave all the top LLMs a task to figure out how many circles in an image were touching. Every single one failed miserably at this task that would have been trivial for a 3 year old.

Unless the answer was five. Because of the Olympics logo.

Kinda gives new meaning to the term “war hero”.

Disregarding sampling bias and other effects, sure, 1,245 is enough for a statistically significant representative sample. You can’t do a lot of subsampling or cohort analysis from it, but if you just want to infer the behavior and attitudes of “Americans” and you sample that many Americans effectively enough, you’re fine.

But practically speaking, no. You’re not going to sample that many Americans effectively enough. Polling is a shitshow these days.

Big brain move, asking an LLM to do economics math. They’re large LANGUAGE models, not large MATHEMATICAL models. They forgo rigorous methodologies in favor of stochastically predicting correlations based on intractably large datasets, which can lead to such impressive mathematical feats as failing to count to three. Great job, Yahoo.

You’re both right. Capitalism selects for psychopathy and gives them power to flourish.

That’s helpful, thanks.

Nice try but you’re not going to out-stupid our head of state. 🫡🇺🇸🤡

Well that’s good to know. Once I find several free days hidden under the couch, I intend to fire it up.

Oh no. I’ve heard such good things about that game. Say it ain’t so.

Lucky bastard. I feel like by the end of the game, many hours in, I was doing like all of 15% more damage.

Yeah that’s pretty close to how I treated it, but I still had to wade through mountains of garbage to get to useful upgrades.

Both Control and the dogshit Avengers game had these upgrade systems where you were constantly bombarded with pickups that offered inane benefits like “2.5% increase to headshot damage for 3 seconds after taking damage while in midair” and you spent half the game managing your goddamn upgrades and the limited upgrade slots instead of having fun. It got to the point where I was relieved when I DIDN’T get any upgrades after a battle.

Shut up, Moon Moon

You’re a low quality person.

System Shock 2 is in my top 3 games of all time.

Cut a strip of vinyl siding, cardboard, whatever, about two inches wide and eight to ten inches long. Drive a nail through it at the centerline about an inch from the end. Remove the nail. Cut a slit from the nail hole to the end down the centerline.

Now if you need to drive a nail just out of reach or hammer one in without risking your fingers, just stick a nail in the hole, set it with a few strikes, then tug to pull the strip away.

Why grift from foreign people when you can grift the American people instead?