If you understand how LLMs work, that’s not surprising.

LLMs generate a sequence of words that makes sense in that context. It’s trained on trillions(?) of words from books, Wikipedia, etc. In most of the training material, when someone asks “what’s the name of the person who did X?” there’s an answer, and that answer isn’t “I have no fucking clue”.

Now, if it were trained on a whole new corpus of data that had “I have no fucking clue” a lot more often, it would see that as a reasonable thing to print sometimes so you’d get that answer a lot more often. However, it doesn’t actually understand anything. It just generates sequences of believable words. So, it wouldn’t generate “I have no fucking clue” when it doesn’t know, it would just generate it occasionally when it seemed like it was an appropriate time. So, you’d ask “Who was the first president of the USA?” and it would sometimes say “I have no fucking clue” because that’s sometimes what the training data says a response might look like when someone asks a question of that form.

That only works if people use it.

For some reason, people have stuck with Twitter. But, the users of TikTok are not the same as the users of Twitter, so who knows, maybe they won’t stick with it.

the media just repeats it

The media reports on it, attempting to do so from a neutral point of view.

I actually appreciate that the professional media is still attempting to stick to a neutral point of view. If they abandon that, you get media like MSNBC and Fox News where every single news story is discussed from a certain political point of view. That just sorts people into camps that listen to the news source that agrees with their perceived notions, which then radicalizes them even more.

If people can’t agree on a basic set of facts, then there’s no point to having a democracy. A media that covers the facts with as little bias as possible is essential to that working.

That isn’t to say that I think the media is doing a great job. The big media companies that are owned by the oligarchs are doing especially badly. When Trump does something like this, responsible media that’s attempting to be unbiased should at least connect historical dots, like other times that presidents have threatened the media, and what the results of that have been.

So, Trump effectively nationalized TikTok, valued at $300b. He sells it to friendly oligarchs for $15b. So far, this is basically the post-USSR playbook, and how Roman Abravmovich, Alisher Usmanov, Vladimir Lisin, etc. got so rich.

But it might piss off his oligarch buddies if he drives all the users off TikTok making what seemed like a steal into something worthless instead.

Teen Vogue is killing it right now. For example How ICE Raids Are Making It Easier for Civilian Men to Assault Immigrant Women

I wonder if they’re starting to feel some real competition and feel threatened!

Probably the opposite. They’re confident they won’t lose sales over this because they’re too firmly established as a monopoly. And they know that with Trump in office they’re not going to face any pushback from the FTC.

So, not how it’s spelled.

Wheat.

Next you’re going to tell me there are places in the UK named Manchester and Liverpool and Notts County and St Johnstone and Celtic and Rangers and Port Vale.

English has way more vowel sounds than it has vowels.

• jack
• barn
• arena
• ball
• able
• rare

Those are just words where the primary vowel letter is “a”.

The terrible attempt to solve this is by using double letters, but then consistency goes out the window. There’s times when “ea” is a single vowel sound like /rid/ (reed) or /rɛd/ (red). But it can also be /ɛrn/ as in earn, which rhymes with urn and burn. It can be /ˈɡɹeɪt/ as in great, where the “ea” is a diphthong and pronounced like the “a” in grate or vague. Or, for more fun, the two letters can each fully get their own pronunciation like “react” or “theatre”.

We’re really at the “bearn it all down and start over” stage with English. Let’s just all agree to switch to español.

You pronounce the middle syllable as “me”?

If you look at an IPA chart, you can see how going from /i/ to /e/ to /a/ is a process of the vowel becoming more and more “open” over time (said with the mouth wider and wider).

In Quebec, the vowel shift that caused “oi” to have a /wa/ sound didn’t fully happen. So, the word “moi” is often pronounced more like /mwe/ or /mwɛ/. But “oiseau” (bird) is still pronounced with a /wa/.

The modern French pronunciation of the Loire river /lwaʁ/ influences the English pronunciation /lwɑːr/. But, other languages use a spelling that matches the French but have a different pronunciation. In Italian and Spanish it’s Loira. The Latin name was Liger. So, it used to have a /i/ pronunciation before the vowel shift.

tl;dr: modern French pronunciation vs spelling is just about as bad as English.

And that’s one of the sounds “ou” can make.

• there’s “ou” as in bought
• there’s “ou” as in house
• there’s “ou” as in touch
• there’s “ou” as in group
• there’s “ou” as in boulder
• there’s “ou” as in famous
• there’s “ou” as in tour

Inglish speling iz stoopid.

English has many contronyms.

• Clip: to attach (clip X to Y) or detach (clip coupons)
• Dust: to remove dust or to add it (dust the cake with icing sugar)
• Fine: excellent (fine wine) or not great but decent (it’s fine)
• Left: remaining (I have 5 left) or gone (I had some but they left)
• Oversight: supervision (he had oversight over the whole process) or lack of supervision (I forgot to do that, it was an oversight)

A bigger deal to them is the theme parks and cruises.

Not only are those big money makers, they’re also easier for news crews to see and report on.

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(As of 2019)

You could care less? You mean, you care, possibly a lot?

Does it count if an LLM is generating mountains of code that then gets thrown away? Maybe he can win the prediction on a technicality.

Sure you can. Just unplug the headphones.

First you have to stop whatever you’re listening to or you start playing it on a speaker for everyone. Doing that is an annoyance that you don’t need to put up with if you just use wireless headphones.

Playback stops automatically when you unplug a wired headphone

Maybe it does today, I don’t know, I haven’t used wired headphones in many years. Back in the day it didn’t.

Wtf? Lol. If you’re kitchen is that loud, something’s wrong with it.

If you are kitchen is quiet, you really should be using the fan to get the smoke and food smells out of the kitchen. Maybe if you’re just making pop-tarts then it isn’t a big deal, but if you actually ever do any serious cooking you’ll discover that it gets loud.

Yeah, you’re either trolling or a very special kind of person.

Why are you so scared of the modern world? Is it that you’re too confused by it all? Can’t handle touchscreens? Scared by https? It’s ok man, just take a course. You’ll learn to live in the present, not the past.

You’re the one that implied headphone jacks add cost to phones.

They do.

I’m saying that they don’t, and whatever cost they do add is minuscule.

Ok.

The implication that any cost savings is being passed to you is laughable.

It is, but it isn’t a major savings. But, it’s hard to know because the pricing of phones isn’t very transparent.

Look, they killed the jack because they could save a couple bucks of design time and get a few cubic millimeters of space

Yes…

most importantly they could softly force their users to buy wireless headphones

Why would they care?