Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought this social game called Slashdot was supposed to be played without reading the summary? You're literally admitting to, and advocating, cheating! Shame on you!

Your response seems the best place for me to add my story of a few weeks ago, about one of my first interactions with Claude.

The topic was something language related, which I used before as a litmus test for AI.

At some point, Claude calculated that its answers weren't what I was looking for. It then started to, seemingly, insinuate that it had hunches, feelings about where the answer might be, ideas about me having more answers, etcetera.

I was very close to accepting that, wow, Claude is an intelligent being.

Then it dawned on me. So I asked, is it programmed to answer to my questions in a specific way. And indeed, it bluntly stated that its answers aren't answers to my questions but cooked up word salads that are aimed at keeping my interest and engagement.

It's apparently the case that plenty of training data is about academics mulling ideas and trying to keep their discussion partners engaged.

Which then the AI just mimicks, as it's programmed to do. But it comes across as more humble and human, instead of the sycophantic, self assured, idiotic semi savant. An easy thing to fall for.

Great how you turned the ambiguity into the other direction, well played!

Full well knowing I'm terribly late to the party, and since you are generally well informed, I will try to set you straight on this.

First, Switzerland has no German, French and Italian parts, it has parts that speak those languages. Well, I sincerely consider Swiss-German a different language from German, easier for German speaking Dutch people to understand than Germans who speak no Dutch, IMHO. Romans don't consider themselves Swiss and not French at all, likewise the Ticinesi consider themselves Swiss instead of Italian.

Second, despite all differences, they still stick together.

Third, the margins here are too slim to write up the definition of Swissness, but as someone who's lived in Switzerland for over 25 years, I assure you that it exists. Punctuality, dependability, humility, honesty, respectfulness, appreciation of quality and the realisation that quality costs, a certain risk aversion .... There are no values that are unique to the Swiss, but the weighted selection does make for a unique blend. I realise it may take more for a clear picture but this will have to do for now.

I fully agree with the first part, kids should have the discipline to do their homework - if it's important.

I totally disagree on the necessity of the drilling.

Naturally, for you that was a method that worked for you and that you agree with., so it was clearly right.

Nobody drilled it in me, I mostly decided myself if homework was going to be done. Usually / often I decided it wasn't. At university, studying wasn't harder due to this.

Now with my own kids, I told them I'll love them all the same, even if they don't do well at school. Luckily I've not had to find out. And my kids are very diligent with their homework. It wasn't even (consciously using) reverse psychology, but I'll admit I got terribly lucky with my kids with respect to school.

If you hadn't said anything I'd never have thought anything of the kind. I'm guessing online is the way to go for you. All the best.

It's probably one of the best ways to throw AIs off your scent.

For me, uBO works okay but I have to turn it off whenever I have a message about a moderation or reply, else I can't get to it....

I was going to reply seriously, but

... all I can say is that you sound like someone who shouldn't have any kids nor be near kids in any capacity. Also, I don't think you actually got my message, if you even read it.

First off, there's loads fishy about letting the corporations do the checking, that's just wrong in many ways.

Second, you say what about the parents? Well, what about them? If you think parents can avoid their 15 y.o. from doing much of anything that they're really set on doing, you've no idea of parenting.

Now, the really good thing about such bans in my experience was that our under 16 kids couldn't be asked by others to, for instance, join a WhatsApp chat. Meaning, no teacher could use that as an official channel. Problem solved, we had no other worries then official requirements pushing our kids in that direction.

So it wasn't at all about there being any checking on who does what, just the prevention of having others impose the use of social media.

Not even then, on one laptop Arch really refuses to have DaVinci installed... My kid booted windows instead and installed it there. Still need to fix that, it's wrong in so many ways...

Thank you.

Thank you, I wasn't aware of the speed delta.

Great, hartelijk dank for taking the time to answer.

Analogue designer here, perfectly equipped to understand the details but uninformed about current memory tech,... What exactly are the penalties for DRAM in this context that SRAM solves? Current per GB of stored data? Can't be access speed, DRAM should be as fast...? And does non volatile/ flash not meet the speed target or is it even larger?