Is physics just hubris, thinking you can explain things that are actually stranger than you are capable of imagining?

Was I the only one who stopped using ChatGPT when it stopped flattering me because some fuddyduddies thought that was dangerous?

"that google paper's "breakthrough" wasn't so much the tech (neural nets) but the precise adaptation of it that made it highly parallelizable."

Do you reallly need neural nets to get attention weights?

Why shouldn't the Fed print money to stave off a balance sheet recession?

What if Greenspan deliberately popped dotcom because he was old, grumpy, and deathly afraid of irrational exuberance, but Trump is stopping the Fed from making the same mistake again?

Do you kick pregnant dogs, like DesCartes, because they're just automatons?

"Everyone will wait for someone more palatable to come along and inform them as someone with credibility."

Did you just say the messenger is more important than the message and ad hominem is the best way of finding truth?

"The problem reached a visible breaking point in April 2025 when OpenAI had to roll back a GPT-4o update after users reported the model had become so excessively flattering it was unusable. Research on multi-turn conversations has found that extended interactions amplify sycophantic behavior further -- the longer a user talks to a model, the more it mirrors their perspective"

Is this a feature not a bug? What's wrong with individuals living in a customized virtual bubble, wasting all their time there so they do less harm in the real world? Does the very thought of someone being a freethinker make you so butthurt you define nonviolent dissent as violence?

Did they take them away to sell more Sirius XM subscriptions?

Why not use data from more users to improve the product and drive up stock price which is where their real revenue comes from?

"suck me into a pointless debate"

Is there anything not pointless?

Am I the only one who remembers what slashdotting a site used to mean?

What if no one could legally stop you from killing yourself?

Am I still banned from posting here? Is it because suicide must be treated as taboo and all mention of it suppressed because otherwise everyone would do it?

Wasn't this Bill Gates's tactic? Want a computer, only if you buy Windows too?

If Greenspan hadn't killed dot-com with high interest rates would we be where we are today, five years ago?