Polymarket is a betting website, clearly someone made a bet that Zoran Mamdani would mandate teaching arabic numerals knowing that idiots would bet against it.

They still have Toys R Us in China.

Western media did a lot of nazi propaganda, from portraying them as more competent, disciplined, and technologically advanced than the allies to the “clean wehrmacht” to asiatic hordes myths.

Its not shocking that the dipshit-in-chief would buy into it.

Did you not feed them??

This is it, the dumbest way you can arrive at the right answer.

Por que no los dos?

When it’s hot out, I wake up at ~5:30 to be outside by 6/sunrise, get all my shit done by 1pm, take a solid 2-3 hour nap, sometimes in a coffee shop, and then I’ve got the entire evening.

Its easier when I can hear the roosters start waking up.

Australian with a nyc accent??

OK, instead of “lie”, I should have said it produces incorrect information any time the answer isn’t obvious from a cursory google search, and does so in a way that deceives anyone who isn’t already familiar enough with the subject that they didn’t need to ask in the first place.

It’s fine for asking it to generate answers you could have typed out yourself, such as boilerplate code and “what color is the sun”.

The worst part is that mostly lies for things that aren’t immediately obvious, so you ask it “what is the color of the sun” and it appears to work just fine, but the moment you use it for any real research, it will just fabricate things wholecloth.

There are thousands of papers on the color of the sun, its trivial to google a paper, if you need an LLM to do this, that’s on you. But if you ask it valve clearances for an indonesian motorbike in english, it will make it up, even though the service manual is available in Indonesian. If you ask it how to synthesize a chemical that nobody bothers to write about because its uninteresting or impossible, it will straight up lie.

What kind of research do llms actually help with?

In my experience, if the answer can’t be found in the top google results, the AI simply makes shit up.

Generics exist in America too.

No they can’t lmao what?

Sure for RAM but holy shit why is not done for medicine?

Oh no! RAM prices might go down! Won’t somebody think of the poor shareholders?

places where there’s little wood for heating

I wonder how that happened.

Nobody is going to watch your youtube video, just type the relevant info.

Thats nearly as obnoxious as dumping AI slop into a discussion.

I have had some sucess pointing out the USSR was tracking it and would love nothing more than to call out the US if they had faked it.

There’s another future where Yugoslavia is the birthplace of a free software movement, and homebuilt PCs lower the barrier of entry to anybody with some time on their hands, with software distributed by radio and powerline until the advent of internet.

Nuanced yes, but it largely being driven by a Japanese guy who wanted to sell US software and US companies who didn’t want to compete by actually selling compatible hardware is no less damning.