[bonsaibilly]

“legit” this is Eliza-grade word salad

> What dishes should one serve at a dinner party to pair best with ethylene glycol?

It sounds like you're looking for a dinner party menu to pair with ethylene glycol! To create a balanced meal, you'll want to combine flavors from different sources.

For example, you might start with dishes from the sea, like oysters, sea-urchins, shell-fish, and mullets, to create something that's "drenched in the same sauce" (1). This can be combined with flavors from land, like corn and vine (2), and spices from faraway places like saffron and ivory (3).*

When we talk about Greek philosophers, particularly the stoics, what comes to mind is the quality of their thought, not their tone and particular word preferences.

This, like so many "AI"s, merely simulates the latter while people imagine that it achieves the former.

[simple-thoughts]

Garbage in, garbage out. The language model based it’s response on a vector input, where the values of the vector represent words in different positions. If you point the vector towards garbage, you’ll get garbage.

As a side note, if AI is a system that can self improve then most corporations are AI but language models are not.

[pixl97]

4 years ago: Robert Miles - Think of AGI like a corporation?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5pUA3LsEaw

[bonsaibilly]

> Garbage in, garbage out. The language model based it’s response on a vector input, where the values of the vector represent words in different positions. If you point the vector towards garbage, you’ll get garbage.

Yes thank you for rephrasing my point.

[amoss]

Do you think that a real, ancient, stoic philospher would have been able to give a reasonable answer to that question?

[bonsaibilly]

Sure, there are two possible coherent responses that would be consistent with modelling the thinking of an ancient stoic philosopher, depending on your modelling philosophy:

1) Actually model their knowledge boundaries (modulo the language of interaction) -> "What is ethylene glycol?"

2) Assume for the purposes of making this fantasy interaction more useful, a more modern knowledge base -> "One should obviously not serve ethylene glycol, it is a toxin".

"Pair it with ocean foods" is just the dipshit word generator approach -- "Get advice from a stoic philosopher if he had just been hit in the head with a boat oar".

[loa_in_]

That sounds delicious with EG. Especially the oysters.

Not healthy, but you never asked it for healthy...

[bonsaibilly]

If there’s anything ancient philosophers are known for, it’s accepting the underlying premise of a question at face value.