
Ulrich Gall
@outscape
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Engineer, problem solver. Explorer of ideas, the universe, and the mind.
Earth, for now.
Joined December 2006
we didn't build flapping wings to fly why would we need consciousness for AI? evolution made things that contract we made things that rotate survival+reproduction had to be at the root of all action suffering, joy, love, hate, selfishness, altruism so much complexity we can skip
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Cursor keeps getting worse. GPT-5, max mode: "I see that the open file shows 206 lines, which matches what we read earlier. It might be the same, but I think we can proceed without another read." This is so bad at so many levels: 1. Why not always do a diff and add to the
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I think it's a good thing that *everyone* can now generate fake stories like this. Why? Bad actors can obviously do it, and good actors doing it raises awareness, which is the real solution here. Just one request: Can the consumer-oriented services (@openai, @perplexity_ai ,
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Sustainable aviation fuel is a government-subsidized fraud scheme, dressed up as climate policy. @matt_levine covered this yesterday and I ended up going down a rabbithole - it's interesting Here’s how the racket works: The US, EU, and others mandate that a % of airline fuel
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Last year, someone proved that LLMs can't reason. Now it turns out they can reason, but they can't model. So while they can predict the next token, they can't make predictions. What's next?
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FRIGHTENING: ChatGPT 4o just offered that it could write a "simulated" eyeglass prescription for me. It didn't protest when I said that I would now use that to buy new glasses. I then asked it to reflect on this advice and to compare it to what it would have said in 2023. It
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Seems like latest round of LLMs have worse taste when coding. Did some vibe coding feedback loop get closed where they are being trained to achieve whatever passes for success in vibe coding land?
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PSA: If you're a heavy ChatGPT user and intentional about when you start with a fresh context, turn off the memory feature. Otherwise there is a lot of spill over and you get distorted responses primed on earlier conversation.
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Next: vegetable shop, open to street. Owner not there. Shopkeeper next door says something in Chinese and laughs. I laugh, point at what I want, she weighs it, I scan the QR code next to the scale to pay, they confirm we're all good, we both laugh again.
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Data point from morning walk in China: This is a muslim family owned halal noodle shop in the center of a city of 20 million people. 7am, place is still locked up, nobody there. fresh grocery delivery left outside. every morning.
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Now in https://t.co/RYwlI1xRlj (the AI tutor I'm building my kids) They can just read the documents they want to learn from alongside the chat where Wanda can answer their questions about it.
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ChatGPT's take on OpenAI's explanation of the "Improved Shopping Results from ChatGPT Search". appreciate that they are not self-censoring
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Yoga and Logistics Angst in Guangzhou, China. Breathe. Lunge. Question everything. Narrated like a documentary you didn't know you needed. PLAY WITH AUDIO
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Major record labels are demanding $700 million in their lawsuit against our library. Help defend the Internet Archive & the Wayback Machine. ✍️ Sign our open letter on https://t.co/W5XVRM79Y0 ➡️ https://t.co/oI53MJBqQ5
@InternetArchive @WaybackMachine #libraries #preservation
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I am going to outline the one (and only) strategy by which America can beat China. While I personally think the two great countries can and should learn to cooperate and co-exist, the governing midwits of our current age don't think that way, so I'm going to lay out the battle
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Love is your husband secretly customizing your ChatGPT instructions so that, no matter what you ask, it always finds a way to remind you how much he loves you—and your dog too!
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