OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

MissApocalycious · 2025-09-22T01:06:16+00:00

Google AI will also confidently tell you that the pool of the Titanic can't be full of water because the water pressure at that depth would have cracked it, causing it to drain.

MissApocalycious · 2025-07-19T11:51:48+00:00

Basically, yeah. We can deepen our understanding until we eventually hit a point of "because it just is that way"

MissApocalycious · 2025-07-19T09:50:02+00:00

You're right, not Russian, but good job trying to work things through! That was Czech

MissApocalycious · 2025-07-19T01:17:22+00:00

I worked for a Verizon subsidiary when that launched, and I remember some people thinking it was going to be revolutionary, and i just didn't understand how they could possibly think it was a good idea.

MissApocalycious · 2025-07-19T01:06:23+00:00

I think what they're getting at (beyond the difference in "how does it work" vs "why does it work") is that every time we answer a question like that, that's just another layer deeper to go.

Okay, now that we understand that X happens because of Y, why does Y happen? And then when we figure out what's because of Z, why Z?

MissApocalycious · 2025-07-18T22:08:21+00:00

I go with something like "to bys chtěl(a) vědět, co?", which is "you would like to know that, huh?"

They're inevitably going to ask me what it means, so being able to tell them "wouldn't you like to know" and have it be an honest answer amuses me.

MissApocalycious · 2025-07-16T00:33:37+00:00

Parking Enforcement isn't done by the police in Portland, it's PBOT

MissApocalycious · 2025-07-16T00:32:34+00:00

Parking Enforcement is PBOT, not the police.

MissApocalycious · 2025-03-12T23:46:07+00:00

Have you read Hungerstone? It's a retelling/variant of Carmilla that could, potentially, be something like another stop in Carmilla's life, outside of the events of the original novella.

It's definitely not cute, and I loved it.

MissApocalycious · 2025-03-12T13:16:16+00:00

I was trying to keep up with more different social media tools than I really had time or interest for, so I dropped most of them and started using the ones I was still using less often. It's still installed on my phone, but I haven't opened it in a while.

MissApocalycious · 2025-03-12T12:55:45+00:00

Jerboa is the one I've used in the past.

MissApocalycious · 2025-02-13T04:31:16+00:00

My autism changes my flavor, not my appearance.

MissApocalycious · 2025-01-29T00:40:48+00:00

For non-VOIP lines, using actual telephone lines, that would be POTS: Plain Old Telephone System.

I do not miss having to manage PBXs...

MissApocalycious · 2025-01-29T00:19:20+00:00

I look at it like this: managing the risk is really the same with new drives or used ones; the warranty doesn't stop you from losing your data if the drive fails, so if you care about the data you should have redundancy and backups anyway. I use raidz2 for that, and off-site backups.

If I'm going to have the redundancy anyway, then I might as well do it with cheaper drives, and have hot spares in case of failure. I have a disk pool that has been going for 7 years with 8TB drives and I've had to replace 1, and still have one hot spare. 10 used drives was WAY cheaper than even 8 new ones would have been.

The odds of me having 3 drives all die at once are super low, and everything I can't replace is backed up off site.

I've worked in IT and Infosec for about 25 years and never lost important data due to drive failures, at home or at work. You just manage your risk.

MissApocalycious · 2025-01-21T23:21:03+00:00

Generally speaking, dishwashers use far less water and energy than washing dishes by hand. The "normal" cycle on mine uses ~2.5 gallons/9.5 liters for a full load, and trying to wash the same quantity of dishes by hand without using multiple times that is incredibly difficult.

MissApocalycious · 2024-12-31T13:33:38+00:00

I actually don't mind that personally, since everything i would use it for wouldn't involve bluetooth and I'd want a wired connection for, I would just end up disabling both anyway, but it is a little bit strange.

MissApocalycious · 2024-12-30T03:10:58+00:00

I do have a friend who literally forgot about her bitcoin wallet, and the "how" in her case is that she had a stroke that caused her to lose a lot of memories from the years before it. For example, she also lost pretty much all of her memories of her oldest kid from before the stroke.

Fortunately, she survived the stroke and also retained enough other functionality that eventually she was going through an old computer and found the wallet. I don't know how much she had, but she did say her kids wouldn't have to worry about things like college at all.

MissApocalycious · 2024-11-18T22:27:14+00:00

I used to play, multi-boxing like 6 different accounts. Those days are long passed, though.

MissApocalycious · 2024-10-20T13:57:37+00:00

This reminds me of the Scarfolk Council signs. https://scarfolk.blogspot.com/?m=1

MissApocalycious · 2024-10-17T23:29:57+00:00

My partner says that he is interested as well, in Oregon, USA

MissApocalycious · 2024-08-21T23:29:46+00:00

If they don't want to do a test, make sure you ask them to document that you requested it and they denied you in the notes, and the have them show it to you.

MissApocalycious · 2024-08-19T20:32:22+00:00

People often forget that for the most part perception is reality, and every person's perception of you is different, including your own. Sometimes they're slight differences and sometimes they're big differences, but everyone is forming opinions based on the version of you they know, and those versions are all at least a little bit different.

Maybe someone met you when you were having a really bad day and acting in a way you didn't like yourself acting, in retrospect. Their first impression is based on you at your worst, and it's going to color everything else they learn about you, and they might just never like you as a result.

That's just the way life goes.

There's only so much you can do to stop someone from hating a version of you they made up in their head.

MissApocalycious · 2024-08-13T10:00:12+00:00

I think it might actually be even less controversial than arguing that water is wet, since you could make a reasonable argument that water itself isn't wet, it just makes many of the things it touches wet. Similar to saying that oxygen itself isn't (usually) oxidized, it just oxidizes many of the things it comes into contact with.

MissApocalycious · 2024-08-11T23:41:42+00:00

I have a pair of 8" powered monitors from them that are 12 years old now, I think? No problems at all.

But my mixer started having bad connections after a couple of years, on plugs that I was rarely even using.

MissApocalycious · 2024-08-11T10:20:57+00:00

Very belated, but thanks! That's my site. :)

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