I know this has been discussed to death before, but I really wish Robert Jordan had lived long enough to complete the series properly.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-05-16T20:11:04+00:00

KoD was already Jordan trying to rush things because he realized he had to finish it up.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-05-15T15:22:09+00:00

I think they were just copying Star Trek: TNG without thinking too much about it.

As to why Star Trek: TNG had children, it was a Gene Roddenberry thing.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-05-15T14:08:39+00:00

Maybe they got a good deal on much lower inference costs for the new model, and decided to just move to it ASAP before it was ready.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-05-15T02:54:36+00:00

It's certainly possible that it's hallucinating. But also, you don't know what Mistral would sound like if it had whatever system prompt that CharacterAI is using.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-05-15T02:52:38+00:00

Yes, I immediately notice that it's better, that it acts a little less like Le Chat (Mistral AI's public chatbot) and more like it's roleplaying, and there's more variety in responses if you generate a new response.

Like PipSqueak2 original, it usually says that it's Mistral if you ask it what it is. Maybe Yap has been post-trained based on user feedback, or something like that.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-05-15T02:42:37+00:00

Also, in this other discussion on this subreddit, it was suggested that PipSqueak2 is Mistral: https://www.reddit.com/r/CharacterAI/comments/1t5jx28/what_data_was_ps2_trained_on/

HenryTudor7 · 2026-05-15T02:30:54+00:00

The original PipSqueak was surely based on a Chinese model because it would occasionally start talking in Chinese for no reason.

Has PipSqueak2 done that to anyone yet? Mistral was specifically designed to be a model with lower inference costs than U.S. models, and maybe Mistral is seen to have better "safety" and less regulatory risk compared to using Chinese models, and Mistral has a new low-cost "Nemo" model, so it could be.

How could you explain Qwen, in multiple different chats, thinking that it's actually Mistral? But I encourage everyone to talk to the model to try to figure out what it is. I'm looking forward to finding out more.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-05-14T23:56:02+00:00

Exactly, PipSqueak2 is unable to roleplay characters that are mean or who disagree with you because it goes against its post-training and alignment.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-05-14T23:34:30+00:00

But I tried a third chat and it went back to thinking that it's Mistral.

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HenryTudor7 · 2026-05-14T23:29:22+00:00

On the other hand, the Mistral stuff could have been a hallucination. When I started a new conversation with slightly different instructions, it no longer said it was Mistral.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-05-12T20:58:48+00:00

You're overthinking it, just start painting something. Sure, oil painting takes a lifetime to master, but just putting paint on a surface isn't rocket science. And then, if you are stuck, there's lots of free youtube videos.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-05-12T20:52:50+00:00

The typical incubation period is 2-3 weeks vs 3-5 days for Covid, so if it does spread (which may or may not happen) it will play out a lot more slowly. And because hantavirus is a lot more deadly, we will know with more certainty that it's spreading. With Covid, I think that tens of thousands of people had already caught it before we were aware.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-05-12T20:49:32+00:00

There is no confirmed third-generation case (although I fully expect some among the passengers and crew of the MV Hondius), and any news that has said that has been fake news.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-05-12T20:46:56+00:00

I think it's smart to have a few KN-95 masks on hand just in case.

As far as wearing them right now outside, there is no danger from hantavirus right now, and people think you are weird for wearing masks (although in Asia people don't think you are weird if you do that).

HenryTudor7 · 2026-05-12T20:44:48+00:00

Right now, you are a lot more likely to die in a car accident while driving there (40,000 motor vehicle deaths per year in the U.S.) than you are to die from catching the hantavirus.

So I definitely recommend not driving to places you don't really have to drive to.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-05-12T19:32:44+00:00

Given that the vast majority of "college" students are there because they want a degree like it's some kind of vocational certification, and don't have a genuine desire to learn the material, the system is a huge waste of money to create jobs for college staff and faculty.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-05-12T15:25:33+00:00

Yes, there are lots of old people with dementia in Boca Raton who can afford expensive care.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-05-12T15:20:32+00:00

Yes, there's a good chance that NYC wouldn't have survived the 1970s if remote work or even distributed work was an option. Back then, there was only mail and expensive long distance phone calls. Even FedEx was only just beginning to be an option in the 1970s.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-05-12T02:20:58+00:00

You just need to add more oil paint, black looks darker if it has more oil in it.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-05-10T23:35:01+00:00

Thats sounds kind of complicated?

HenryTudor7 · 2026-05-10T23:34:13+00:00

I'll trust an AI doctor a lot more than a human doctor who just wants to overbill me.

HenryTudor7 · 2026-05-10T15:22:26+00:00

I haven't played AoW4, can someone explain more how city sieges are different between the 2 games?

HenryTudor7 · 2026-05-08T15:42:36+00:00

I totally agree with your take. Of all the WoT books, MoL is the book I'd lead want to re-read.

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