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by ben_w 831 days ago
> Detractors like you

Ah, been a while since someone pigeon-holed me like that. Usually it's the opposite pigeon hole I get stuffed into.

Ironically, that kind of rapid but inaccurate misreading is one of the things that makes LLMs somewhat easier to deal with than a human: with an LLM, I can backtrack, edit my past words, and get a different answer. One cannot generally do that with a human, as it's a rare trait indeed for someone to be able to hear "you misunderstood, not x, y" and actually take that on board. Even on this site, I've been in threads of:

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>>>>>>> x

>>>>>> y is dumb, you're dumb

>>>>> sorry you misunderstood, I'm not saying y, I'm saying x

>>>> I just told you y is dumb, you're dumb

>>> no, you're still not getting me, I'm not saying y, I'm saying x

>> stfu noob, I'm a professional: y is dumb, you're dumb

> I'd agree y is dumb, but I'm saying x

stop moving the goalposts!

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(In this case, x was "it seems implausible that the Saudi Public Investment Fund would really last forever, forever is a long time and there's a always going to be a temptation for the people in charge to extract short term value to the detriment of long term potential", and y was (I think from context but I couldn't read their mind) "they're making bad decisions and will go under imminently".

> I asked chatGPT to program me a complex GUI in Python about selecting multiple time segments out of an overall interval using sliders. It gave me working python code.

Cute. I used it to write a web GUI for its own API, so I can have GPT-4 access as PAYG without a monthly subscription: https://github.com/BenWheatley/YetAnotherChatUI