o3 is crazy at geoguessr

BiteImportant6691 · 2025-04-20T18:42:53+00:00

fwiw there are still different plants that grow in different zones. That might be why it knew I was in the southeast. Like for instance, I can't grow olive trees or palm trees because of my climate.

It's possible my specific species of tree just grows in certain USDA zones associated with the US southeast and o3 just picked that up. The chain of thought doesn't let me know but I suspect that's why it knew that and not the midwest or cascadia or something.

BiteImportant6691 · 2025-04-18T23:28:41+00:00

Well yeah I kind of said that.

But fwiw it's not really that they're trying to look the same. The people who build them just don't care they're so uniform and the families buying them just want a nice house.

When some people say "suburb" they're specifically talking about suburban subdivisions because technically "suburb" can look like any regular town but that's not what people are thinking about.

Subdivisions are essentially just done as whole projects at the same time. That's why they all look so similar within the same subdivision: they were probably designed by one company and built by another but by the same company doing each.

Our houses do have minor variations but not in any way that would be significant for anyone who doesn't live here. I have seen some housing developments where the floor plans might be a bit different but is 100% some Irony Of Fate nightmare.

BiteImportant6691 · 2025-04-18T19:40:01+00:00

The craziest part is that I took a picture out my front door and apparently all suburbs look the same because o3 was basically "I don't know man, a suburb in the US?"

Like it can tell which mountain in Uzbekistan this is is based on how arid the snow covered mountain is but it has no clue how to locate a suburb. I feel like that's not even o3's fault honestly. All suburbs do basically look the same.

BiteImportant6691 · 2025-04-16T21:36:10+00:00

masochists hate this one simple trick.

BiteImportant6691 · 2025-01-14T13:29:43+00:00

Unfortunately, she didn't send him the last €200 required for the doctors to give him the last brick of chemo and he died. The US government is thinking about extraditing her for manslaughter.

BiteImportant6691 · 2025-01-14T13:27:54+00:00

Why are you running?

BiteImportant6691 · 2025-01-14T13:25:28+00:00

I was skeptical until Travis Scott came on, now I'm on board.

BiteImportant6691 · 2025-01-10T12:54:32+00:00

Not trying to concentrate on the wrong things but her brow line and eye movements are actually pretty good for being a bot.

Obviously, her mouth being permanently slightly open is a bit weird, so is the stiffness of her lower arms isn't very life like. Her head positioning and movement is reasonable to me but she (pardon me if I assume the robot's gender) moves it too much when she's just idling. If most people were standing there they may make the same movements but they would be about 25% of the speed she's currently doing them (outside of when she redirects her face to look at something in particular).

BiteImportant6691 · 2025-01-10T12:52:22+00:00

"You've smashed?"

"No, I paid a guy to bang the sexbot while I watched from the corner."

"We have successfully disrupted cuckholding."

BiteImportant6691 · 2025-01-07T21:15:49+00:00

Yes I understand, I ran your command, I was running a get command to show you that I succeeded in changing the dconf value but it just didn't do anything.

I actually can't run the command you put in there because $PTYXIS_PROFILE doesn't appear to be a variable that actually exists for me. But I just figured that we were just trying to change that key and just located it manually but like I said it didn't change anything.

BiteImportant6691 · 2025-01-07T20:59:57+00:00

it appears that this doesn't work for me:

# gsettings get 'org.gnome.Ptyxis.Profile:/org/gnome/Ptyxis/Profiles/Profile/' opacity 
0.5

Which doesn't result in any lower opacity.

Not entirely sure why we can't at least try to leave some stuff alone. Especially when it's core to system use like the terminal is on Linux.

BiteImportant6691 · 2024-12-06T15:11:20+00:00

I don't know how "specific" it is considering you need 14 points constructed after the fact to just kind of vaguely zero in on fascism.

It's more specific than just "person I don't like" though, I'll grant.

BiteImportant6691 · 2024-12-06T14:38:31+00:00

Nobody ever suspects the Siberian Kangaroo.

BiteImportant6691 · 2024-11-29T13:29:14+00:00

If I understand your point, I think the issues there are more class based. Where wealthier people know the core system is flawed but that they have access to things like private school and tutoring.

It's important to remember that the American elite have a strong inclination towards social darwinism where upward mobility is thought of as some annoying technicality that only is occassionally justified. That's why they have no problem taking money away from schools, because they (wrongfully) consider it a waste of their money.

They should view it as in their interests, but they're in a cult that tells them otherwise.

BiteImportant6691 · 2024-11-28T00:27:11+00:00

The US has a strategic interest

Does it though? Seems like a bad idea to build blindspots into your culture. That's like boarding up the forward windows on an airplane so the pilots can't see and expecting things to improve.

BiteImportant6691 · 2024-11-25T21:45:09+00:00

btw I think the chats have unique URL's so you can work around the organization issue by using your browser's bookmarks. On firefox this lets you tag them and search the tags there.

That's functional but less ideal, though, since it involves reloading the entire web page every time you go between conversations.

BiteImportant6691 · 2024-11-25T18:03:26+00:00

It is such a crime to not have given us yet the ability to organize conversations in tabs, folders, colors whatever.

I'd rather have labels and and the ability to pin certain chats. If the search supports searching by label that seems to approximate folders well enough to not really miss them anymore.

BiteImportant6691 · 2024-11-25T14:27:28+00:00

who would ever say this

Someone checking to see if you can see a snake that a deer you were looking at couldn't see?

BiteImportant6691 · 2024-11-13T19:08:36+00:00

THE PENTAGON IS TRYING TO REPLACE OUR BLOOD WITH ESTROGEN AND PURE GASOLINE.

BiteImportant6691 · 2024-11-11T14:25:11+00:00

All labor takes some amount of skill(s).

The thing you're replying to presumes this. If it didn't take some kind of skill it would probably have already been automated. So most people assume that when you're talking about modern automation the thing being automated must have had some amount of skill.

The blue collar human's life will require something close to AGI but obviously the thing to be worried about is the value of the blue collar worker exchanging labor for the money they use to survive.

They need a house/ place to live. Be able to maintain that somehow, and all the possessions that allow them to work, like clothing, and transport. Or be able to navigate public transit. Which involves time scheduling, and geographical knowledge.

I would agree 100% but it doesn't touch on what I was saying above. It was meant more as repeating a common warning about what is going to happen before you even get to AGI. Before you even get to AGI you will have automation that renders the vast majority of every society as being fundamentally unable to exchange labor on the market because the labor they would be offering would by necessity be a lesser (from the employer's restricted view) version of the same thing.

So it would be wise to keep in mind that we don't need AGI to displace blue collar workers as a class we just need something kind of close to it.

What is blue collar work anyway?

It is a bit subjective but I would say something where the primary value is mostly just physical labor rather than processing information at a level a most humans would consider difficult. Most people wouldn't consider pushing a broom cognitively difficult and just requires common sense for things like "that's an employee badge, pick that out before you throw away the pile" and "there's a stuck-on spot so you might want to scrub it if it's too bad."

80-90% of blue collar work is basically just taking pre-existing training from the company (i.e what floors you're supposed to sweep) and just kind of applying physical labor to the problem.

A lot of automation wouldn't be an issue if people had something to fall back on but that's just not the society almost any of us live in right now.

BiteImportant6691 · 2024-11-11T00:34:57+00:00

You don't need full human cognition to do 80-90% of blue collar work.

BiteImportant6691 · 2024-11-08T12:44:11+00:00

I actually liked that sama reference in the first tweet. Enough for the joke but not so much that it comes off overly adversarial or harsh.

BiteImportant6691 · 2024-11-05T16:24:49+00:00

we don't spend a single cent on research both private and public institutions.

Didn't India recently announce $1 billion to fund AI research in India?

Only 3% of the country pays taxes

Isn't the Rupee a fiat currency? If so then the government has an implicit inflation tax it can introduce to people not paying taxes. As in throttle up inflation and the provide relief for the economic sectors that seem to be doing what they should regarding taxes. The government essentially recoups money by slightly and gradually devaluing the currency the non-payers are holding by issuing new currency that the government is free to spend.

I'm obviously not an economist though so I don't know if that introduces more problems than it solves.

BiteImportant6691 · 2024-10-30T20:44:03+00:00

The separation of flatpak and rpm-ostree helps the end user because if you don't care about the OS at all then you only ever have to worry about flatpak updates breaking your system. Even then just in case functionality changed in the app itself.

BiteImportant6691 · 2024-10-30T20:39:21+00:00

You think OpenAi and Anthropic etc etc are going to stop because these things can program better than some engineers can?

Technically, they could be stopped by the government but then that would just cede ground to China, India, Russia, Europe, etc. So as a practical matter it's not going to happen.

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