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Not at all. I see that as knowledge sharing.

Thanks for the ideas—I will try most, if not all of your suggestions.

some of things I had missed.

I noticed that negative constraints (like telling the model what not to do) tend to break down over longer threads.

I’ll try using XML formatting

Very true.

A way to get around this is to provide contrast through an affirmative example. So instead of saying ā€œDon’t do X’, say ā€œBecause Z is what we want to accomplish, we should do Y instead of X. Here is an example of Y’.

If the model sees a pattern where it is likely to follow with X but it has in its context a ā€˜This is why we don’t do X, here is how to do Y’ then it is much less likely to end up doing X or something dumb that you dont want in its place. The examples are actually the key to getting good prompt adherence for this reason.

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Did you want to share?

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Been traveling ALOT with a friend in search of income, business opportunities, and hole-in-the-wall eateries. :pizza: As a side effect of this, we’ve made up a travel game to amuse ourselves. If you spot (and call out first) a tesla, 1/2 point. If you spot a cybertruck, 1 point. If you spot a tesla dealership, game over - you win, BUT, each dealership can only be used once, forever and ever. Plus… If you call out, and are wrong, then you lose whatever point you stood to gain. So far nobody’s mis-identified a cybertruck (but there were some deceptive looking dumpsters), so it’s mostly been a case of mis-tagging a Toyota and losing a half point.

Interesting and fun way of keeping peoples noses out of phones too. Might be fun with kids. Was definitely fun when we took a trip with my friend’s (adult) highly competetive sister.

That is all.

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Should I be surprised that the ā€œI am not a robotā€ thing is not checked?

:robot_marvin:

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Maybe once it’s more substantial haha, it’s only a couple specimens right now. I’m looking for more and better storage before sharing

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Today I discovered that in addition to 50 or 60 hz power, there is also 400hz. Apparently it’s an aircraft thing.

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There’s also tons of DC in small villages and tribes all over the world.

Too bad I didn’t buy a DC generator instead.

Company I work for makes sepcial PSUs for DC systems on navy ships. The connectors they use are overkill, basically blocks of copper

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I was kinda impressed when I realized how much silver gets used in relays and breakers.

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I think that I just got the weirdest handshake ever. Some guy decided that it was perfectly fine to push his thumb into the R0 spot of my hand.

I currently don’t have anything in that position and I need more implants. But gosh, I would’ve given him a creepy grin or something along those lines. That would’ve been fun…

:robot_windows: :face_with_peeking_eye: :rofl:

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That spot is supposedly a pressure point.. he was probably trying to play some kind of dumb fucking domination game with his handshake.

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Something tells me that that’s the type of person who doesn’t take it well when others have implants…

:emoji_die:

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or member of a fraternity like the Masons

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My girlfriend mentions rather negative things about the Masons in the states, are they that bad?

I come from a family of Masons in the UK and don’t have any negative interactions, would be good to know to avoid them if they’re different to how I was raised.

Can’t tell since I never met a American Mason. I think its like always rather on individual level as it would be on a organizational level. People are people.

The most Masons I met has been very kind and nice.

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Did see that. I use Claude via Duckduckgo ai, and I don’t know of a way to save a preamble to conversations via the duck.

I typically word my prompts in a dry and impersonal 3rd person as though it’s an essay question at a university or a task description at an office. I figure the text most likely to follow such prompts in its training data would more closely resemble what I’m looking for than if I compose my prompts like someone asking for help on a forum or typing a question into a natural language search engine.

I try to avoid negatives with any generative model as I find they often interpret all negatives as positives. Neural networks, even ours, don’t handle negation anywhere near as consistently as a boolean circuit. eg: ā€œDon’t imagine a pink elephant.ā€ Looks for associations with the words its given rather than understanding them as a filter to trim certain paths of association.

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I don’t know much about the masons, but they don’t have the best reputation in Latin America.

I personally don’t like organizations that withhold beliefs, values, and information to their members. This sort of thing was done by the cult that I got dragged through growing up, and I don’t think that it’s healthy.

Many cults use something along the lines of ā€œYou wouldn’t feed a baby thick pieces of steak, would you? You have to feed a baby something it can digest, like formula. Potential recruits are spiritual babies.ā€ to justify the withholding of information. But behind that you’ll find manipulation and intellectual dishonesty. Organizations that have to guide their members through a series of stages to get them to accept certain beliefs and values don’t inspire confidence. So I’d rather avoid them.

As far as the masons go, well, I guess that it depends on the group that you’re dealing with. I know that different groups within that have had a their differences… So your mileage may vary. The ones from one region might be good people and have a relatively healthy organization, while some from another country might be really messed up.

Also:

And as you guys probably know, I’m an individualistic atheist who doesn’t want to join any fraternities or secretive groups.

Still, a weird look, a creepy grin, and a comment that implies ā€œthere’s a lot of things that you don’t knowā€ sounds like the perfect reply to a weird handshake that ends up on your implants. Regardless of it’s a fraternity thing or a dumb domination game…

:rofl:

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@ODaily I saw this and thought of you

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