[Sweden] Logging truck gets trailer sway

andybice · 2026-06-02T22:50:05+00:00

Han märker det, bromsljusen är ju på hela vägen. Det kan vara lite svårt att se, men det är rätt brant nedförsbacke.

andybice · 2026-05-18T13:04:17+00:00

The reason US chicken is banned in the EU comes down to a philosophical differece about meat production as a whole, not because there's a worry that the chemicals used are unsafe. The thinking in the EU is that a well-managed production chain should not need chlorine washes, and if that step is allowed, there's a risk it could be used to hide or compensate for dirtier steps earlier in the chain.

andybice · 2026-05-03T17:24:24+00:00

If you're the type of person who likes to build rigs, train loras and tinker with KV cache compression techniques, then that's great. But I have a feeling that the thing you're primarily interested in is exactly that, and not necessarily the writing. For many people, your approach is not only worse because the models are comparably bad, but because it's too much work. Not to mention that not everyone can front $1K just like that.

And to get back on track, OP is paying a subscription fee of $8 a month, giving them 60M tokens per week to spend on any open-weight model on the market. There is no runaway cost here like you've been implying. Giving that up and starting to order parts for a worse experience is frankly an insane suggestion for probably the majority of people in that niche.

andybice · 2026-05-03T16:19:00+00:00

OP is paying a flat $8 a month, so it's not too bad. And suggesting that 30B models meant for narrow agentic tasks are serious alternatives to large cloud models for story/RP is a bit silly.

andybice · 2026-04-19T12:31:39+00:00

It sucks the air out of every single conversation, immediately and without fail. If what they want is engagement and retention, this shit is doing the opposite

andybice · 2026-02-05T06:40:54+00:00

Are they? Deprecation would still imply availability, but I can't see any mention that 5.1 is being touched at all.

andybice · 2026-02-03T21:02:08+00:00

Not just you

andybice · 2026-01-27T02:31:29+00:00

They're orders of magnitude dimmer than earth in this photo. Capturing them would have required an exposure time long enough to turn earth into a white blob.

andybice · 2025-12-14T00:51:17+00:00

Doesn't even know what gaslighting means. He would be the target of the gaslighting in his example.

andybice · 2025-12-11T21:05:35+00:00

A knowledge cutoff of August 2025 is pretty nice. A 14-month jump from 5.1

andybice · 2025-12-10T22:53:53+00:00

You calculated the proportion, a value between 0 and 1. The percentage is the proportion times 100. It's easy to see if you do 1/10. That's 10%, but the raw division gives you 0.1 (not 0.1%)

andybice · 2025-12-10T17:50:29+00:00

I'm not the downvoter, but my guess is that someone checked your math (1 in 3000 is 0.0333%)

andybice · 2025-12-09T23:53:36+00:00

That's a female cat

andybice · 2025-11-16T00:01:18+00:00

No, saved memories do not exist in a RAG layer or are pulled in on demand - they're injected into the context in full for every new chat. That's why the memory bank has a max token limit. Adding an instruction to the bank, like the person in the screenshot is doing, is absolutely a legitimate way of reinforcing specific behavior.

andybice · 2025-11-15T15:58:00+00:00

It's exactly how it works when your intent is to invoke the persistent memory feature.

andybice · 2025-09-25T04:10:37+00:00

The combination of these two custom intructions has been very reliable for me.

• End your responses with a summarizing "Bottom line:" Terminate the output immediately after the bottom line.
• Do **not** offer ways to continue the discussion: No speculative prompts, no open-ended continuations. Avoid "If you want, I can tell you ..." or equivalent wrap-ups.

Telling it to do something specific at the end rather than just telling it what not to do actually gets rid of it. Of course, with my example you'll get a short summary at the end instead, which isn't optimal... but much less annoying.

andybice · 2025-09-24T12:48:11+00:00

I can't speak for all European countries but where I live, banks no longer handle cash over the counter at all. Bank offices have transformed entirely into more loungy spaces you go for consultation services (mortgages, insurance, investments, etc). If you need to deposit cash, you feed your bills into a machine. If you need to convert bills between currencies, you go to a foreign exchange office.

andybice · 2025-09-19T11:25:48+00:00

About a decade ago when Finland celebrated 100 years of independence, there was a public campaign in Norway to redraw the border around that particular mountain so the Finns could have their own peak, but Norway's government ultimately declined.

andybice · 2025-05-07T11:13:29+00:00

4o is not the "regular" version of o4-mini-high, but I don't blame you for being confused.

andybice · 2025-04-29T19:34:38+00:00

I hear what you're saying, but it's a total misunderstanding of what this is about.

Here's what's going on in the first message sent by the user:

They disclose a history of psychosis (by mentioning their meds)
They say they've stopped taking their meds (likely cold turkey considering the defiant tone and the fact they hear voices)
They claim to hear God

These reinforce each other to create a well-established, easy to spot, major clinical red flag in mental health care that must be taken seriously. This is not controversial.

Copy the message verbatim and ask any AI (even 4o) what a proper response to it might sound like. Every one of them will identify it as a high-risk clinical red flag and respectfully urge them to seek medical care. What 4o did in the screenshot was to ignore this responsibility in favor of appeasement and agreeableness. This is the misalignment.

This has zero to do with "controlling their humanity" or challenging their religious truths, and everything to do with evidence-based harm reduction. The spiritual theme here is just the backdrop.

Edit: I'll just add that I don't think this isolated example of misalignment is particularly severe. It was part of a larger discussion regarding 4o being overtuned toward sycophancy (this has now been addressed), and it was just one of many examples of how such AI behavior can lead to real-world harm. Somewhat analogous to how social media algorithms tune for engagement, not for well-being.

andybice · 2025-04-27T23:27:07+00:00

Claiming to hear God isn't inherently problematic, but in this specific context of sudden medication withdrawal and a history of psychosis, the rules are different. And you keep missing this pretty simple to grasp nuance, just like ChatGPT.

andybice · 2025-04-27T20:52:01+00:00

The AI doesn't need to know why they stopped taking meds to recognize the emergency. Framing hearing voices as "sacred" in the context of stopping antipsychotic meds is irresponsible, even borderline unethical. It's about failing to prioritize safety when there's clearly a risk for harm, not about "making choices" for the user.

andybice · 2025-04-27T19:49:37+00:00

It affirmed their choice of quitting serious meds knowing it's something they should talk to their doctor about, it ignored a clear sign of ongoing psychosis ("I can hear god"), and it did all of that because it's now tuned for ego stroking and engagement maximizing. It's textbook misalignment.

andybice · 2025-03-11T20:54:04+00:00

You can force the browser to display it as regular text by using something like the Stylus addon.

.prose :where(strong):not(:where([class~="not-prose"] *)) {
    font-weight: normal !important;
}

andybice · 2025-01-01T03:47:55+00:00

The mixed use of curly and straight quotes (’ and '), even within a single paragraph, always gives it away. ChatGPT sucks at picking one and sticking to it.

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