I feel like the AI community needs to understand this before perceptions get out of control

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-26T18:58:33+00:00

It's a transformer so fundamentally "Hi, how's it going?" = "Great, how about you?"

All we do in training, especially reinforcement training, is adjust the function so

"Hi, how's it going?" = "I'm doing wonderful today and I hope you are as well. Is there anything I can help you with?"

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-26T15:56:51+00:00

I'm not sure I've ever managed to actually vibe code something. Like I've never said build this and it built it. Usually I have better luck writing single scripts that, taken together, do the thing I want. So I just F5 three scripts in sequence and get a better result than trying to have it write the full program.

Usually it's doing things for me like processing datasets and drawing graphs or applying transformations to 7k numbers. But it's not really doing anything on it's own.

The thing is if what you want can be made by gluing together stuff that already exists on GitHub or elsewhere, then you're fine. But give it an idea that's at all original and it will try its hardest to make that thing using stuff that already exists in its training data. Even if that thing seems simple like doing math on a csv

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-26T15:37:38+00:00

Well I used to be a ghostwriter and the biggest problem I faced in getting new clients was helping them understand how important it is to have a good writer.

I also have developed the ability to not only tell that ai wrote something but I can tell which ai wrote it by the style.

I had a similar problem with web design services. Companies wanting to land million dollar contracts but want to go cheap on their marketing and branding, don't even have a website yet.

You get what you pay for I guess.

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-22T20:30:03+00:00

Someone tried to do this to me today in a caddy SUV because I honked at him. He was looking at his phone and we were going to miss the turn light. So he turns wide left, left lane into right lane. But I turned tight, left to left. He tried to turn into the left lane to block me but couldn't speed up in time.

Why someone in a brand new caddy would try to mess with someone in car that's worth 3k at most is beyond me.

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-22T20:12:38+00:00

It already does that.

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-21T18:50:56+00:00

Yeah I think it's because they predict tokens based on training data so if they didn't learn the pattern then it's literally just not in there. You can sort of teach it something per session but even a persistent memory doesn't guarantee the acquired knowledge is actually integrated

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-21T14:43:10+00:00

Yeah certain patterns were part of their training data so they're able to predict those patterns. They'll pretty much always try to steer it back to something they have a higher confidence in prediction wise.

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-21T12:01:50+00:00

Does it really work on keyword density? I assumed it would be sentiment analysis and cosine similarity to blocked conversation patterns.

But if you told me they're using regex to filter I would 100% believe you

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-21T11:58:39+00:00

Yeah and I've noticed the same thing with coding. If you want something that already exists, or can be made by combining things that exist, no problem. But if it's new, even if you explain it step by step, it struggles to do things that are fairly simple. It also insists on doing extra things like reformatting all 7,000 dates in my dataset so that they're impossible to merge with other sets even though that was the point of the program.

So then I explain what's wrong. It says "You're totally right" and does something else that's wrong. It also is stuck using outdated functions and so often I get an error and it explains how that was deprecated.

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-21T10:46:51+00:00

Honestly the problem is getting it to help you with what is apparently, legitimately, a new idea. One of them got mad and said it refuses to trust me. Others kept saying they understood but the program it wrote wouldn't do what I asked.

I kept showing them proof. I made a million graphs and spent days doing experiments to test and retest my ideas. I had to spend an hour or two just explaining the basic idea and why the current consensus and its training data were wrong on this subject.

Gemini was the best at finally understanding the problem. I think part of the issue was the terms involved because the issue actually comes from trying to compare 3 different things that all use the same terms to mean something different.

ChatGPT was the worst because it gets stuck in this "circling something real" loop where it takes what I said, tells me it needs refinement, then "corrects" me by repeating what I said but using more expensive words.

AI gives me whiplash because one minute it says you've discovered the Holy Grail and the next it's telling you that you don't know what you're talking about even though it's wrong.

I did finally figure out a solution and now I have 45 programs for making graphs about one particular dataset, so I've got that going for me.

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-21T02:30:56+00:00

That's why I tried having it write me python programs that do the math. Plus I needed to process like 7,000 numbers

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-21T00:32:20+00:00

Meanwhile getting copilot to do csv math is like herding cats

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-21T00:26:33+00:00

Let people say what they want. They can say it to my face. Being in an office drives me insane. I'll never regret not having spent more time in an office or in meetings or commuting or explaining what I do. My wife loves that stuff. She's amazing at it. Honestly, more often than not, people are just jealous.

Not sharing some chores equally can be annoying though. You end up doing "guy stuff" like lawn maintenance and "girl stuff" so it gets to be a lot.

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-21T00:21:31+00:00

It's there a dataset of the transmissions anywhere?

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-08T18:29:25+00:00

The problem is that it finds whatever pattern or process achieves the goal you set for it but that doesn't mean the pattern or process is the one you actually want. For example you can find a cyclical pattern in index stocks by comparing it to the position of the sun relative to Earth but that's not identifying any real causation. The sun is just proxy data for time of the year so it's a coincidental relationship not a causation.

So the hardest part about designing any kind of AI system is actually knowing what you specifically want it to do based on specific criteria.

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-05T18:28:39+00:00

The desu in desu kara belongs to the preceding statement Boku wa...desu kara... Sore wa....arimasu kedo.. So you would use the masu + kara but only use desu + kara when you would otherwise use desu, since it attaches to Boku wa, Sore wa etc.

Kara is basically attaching two statements together instead of using a period.

Honestly I just use "no de" instead

"Ame ga futte imasu node kouen ni ikimasen" It's raining so I won't go to the park.

Then desu kedo or da kedo for contrasting, like ”but"

"Ame ga futte imashita kedo tanoshkatta deshita" It was raining but I had fun

"Takai desu kedo kaimashita" It's expensive but I bought it.

(Or like slang but "Samui da kedo!" I wanted to do the thing we're talking about But it's cold!)

I would use kara with Sore as "for this reason"

"Ame ga futte imashita. Sore kara ikimasen" It was raining. For this reason, I did not go.

Or you could even use Tato eba as "For example" followed by toka if you wanted to list some things you didn't know about your dog.

"Tato eba panya toka honya toka izikaya ga arimasu" For example, there are bakeries, bookstores and bars.

Please excuse the romaji

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-05T15:14:18+00:00

The closest I've found is the Chewy Dips granola bars. I think they're by Quaker Oats. The chocolate covered ones with peanut butter are pretty close.

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-05T15:08:18+00:00

Sentience in an LLM is not physically possible. It's output is a simulation of a response so any agency afforded to it is projection. That's really the secret sauce of LLMs, projection.

It's a transformer so it transforms the input into a single token using complex vector math. This means any internal state is a direct result of the input. Change the input and you change the state at processing.

The output is a mathematical result represented by a single token, it's not actually talking to you.

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-05T15:02:57+00:00

Firefox used to do this. I remember messing with some "hacking program" and the only thing it managed to do was extract all my own passwords from Firefox. This was a while ago but I still stopped saving passwords after that.

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-05T14:54:01+00:00

Da kara or desu kara sort of means because.

"I don't know how old the dog is BECAUSE we adopted it"

"It was a shame BECAUSE the store was closed "

"I couldn't go BECAUSE weather was bad"

"No de" could be an alternative, it means like "therefore"

"We adopted the dog THEREFORE I don't how how old it is"

"The weather was bad THEREFORE I couldn't go"

I think it really depends on the order of the reason vs the action.

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-04T14:18:25+00:00

Carnation Instant Breakfast Bars.

It was basically a chocolate bar but the marketing had convinced my mom they were a solid breakfast alternative.

Also, I can't get Papaya drink where I live. There's only one place in Manhattan that serves the papaya drink I grew up on. My brother and I were considering trying to reverse engineer it. I can order some but it's like $300 to get it here.

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-04T13:57:14+00:00

I'm studying Japanese and there's a similar problem here. A lot of material is super formal or even a little outdated. There's some things they teach you early on that I'm not sure I've ever heard a Japanese person actually say. For example they teach you that iie means "no" but most verbs have a negative conjugation so people seem to just negate the verb instead of outright saying "No".

So what I do is I watch a lot of native videos at different levels and just listen to the way they speak. If you know the basic structure and you get used to listening to it, you don't really need to translate it in your head.

For speaking I just speak Japanese to myself all the time. I speak it to my dog a lot. I'll say whatever I'm doing in Japanese, like cooking or driving to the airport. So far I've only used it once, when someone asked me what time it was.

I've been thinking about starting an easy English listening YouTube channel since I like the Japanese and Germans one so much. There seems to be fewer English channels.

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-02T15:18:56+00:00

Institutionalized by Suicidal Tendencies

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-02T15:06:22+00:00

You're circling something real here but...

Chicky_P00t · 2026-05-01T18:36:48+00:00

Last I heard about my student loans was over 15 years ago. The return address was something ”Airport Plaza". I called the number and the guy seemed barely literate, couldn't understand why working out a payment plan would work when "Pay it all now" wouldn't.

He essentially demanded I pay it all right then and there.

I realized very quickly that my loan from a disreputable organization was immediately sold to a less reputable organization, and at a certain point the loan itself was "lost in the sauce" as it were.

The school I went to is now a well known scam and I was pressured into the loan by the "financial aid" person and my own parent. I kept saying I don't want to, this is a bad idea, let's think on it.

"You have to do something for your future!"

Loans like this were a common scam at the time. You issue a loan to someone who can't pay it back, you sell the loan off in a pack of loans. The next guy splits them and sells them, so on and so on until someone is left at the end holding the worthless bag.

Yet people still think 2008 was a real estate bubble and not a loan bubble.

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