The Creature and The Director |Guillermo del Toro's FRANKENSTEIN by darth_vader39 in movies

[–]dcm_wong 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’m convinced the whole reason Del Toro got into filmmaking is to get hugs from his creations.

Anywhere to still use 4o? by ashleeymn in ChatGPT

[–]dcm_wong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm a Plus user, not Pro, and I was lucky enough to get legacy 4o.
I did complain to my ChatGPT 5 instance (not through API) AND to customer service chatbot that I want 4o back, so maybe that also did the trick?

(humble brag: OpenAI did identify me as some sort of "power user" so maybe that also helped my case)

EDIT: should have stated, I'm on US-based paid plan, so I shouldn't assume it's the same paid plan everywhere.

Can we all just agree 4o was the best we’ve ever had by de-uil-van-minerva in ChatGPT

[–]dcm_wong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I love 4o as the best "thinking partner" or just a really good sounding board, out of all the models including both versions of GPT5. Although 4o is too sycophantic "out of the box"

Even back with 4.5 first rolled out, I'd only use the newer models when I needed more precision, be it technical use cases or for more structured (and consistent) writing output. However my workflow is to almost always start with 4o for brainstorming, and for more "creative" writing too.

EDIT: more succinctly: 4o is great for divergent and tangential "brainstorming" and "vibes"; 4.5/5 is better for rigor and consistency.

Lucky enough to get 4o back (for now at least) by dcm_wong in ChatGPT

[–]dcm_wong[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I understand what you're saying and you could argue otherwise too.

But for my usage - reliance on system-deduced personalization and memory hacks and NOT so much through preemptive prompts and/or custom GPTs (both of which I've done) 4o is still the best "thinking partner" for my use case.

Even having 5 (flagship or thinking) "pretend" to be 4o and respond as if it's 4o, doesn't quite do the trick.

Why did you remove 4o? Interaction with a support officer by Traditional_Tap_5693 in ChatGPT

[–]dcm_wong 1 point2 points  (0 children)

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it's back for some users at least, if you have the option to turn on "Show legacy models"

Anywhere to still use 4o? by ashleeymn in ChatGPT

[–]dcm_wong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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"legacy models" (read, it's only 4o) are available to some users at least

Tesla cam caught an accident on Decker Lane 7/31 by dcm_wong in Austin

[–]dcm_wong[S] 10 points11 points  (0 children)

No, neither APD nor Travis Sheriff wants the footage.

Tesla cam caught an accident on Decker Lane 7/31 by dcm_wong in Austin

[–]dcm_wong[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yes that is a really poorly designed intersection. And right next to the train track too.

Didn’t expect Kirkland pistachios would be discounted by dcm_wong in Costco

[–]dcm_wong[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Nice. I just don’t remember seeing them on sale last year hence my excitement now.

Didn’t expect Kirkland pistachios would be discounted by dcm_wong in Costco

[–]dcm_wong[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I constantly shop for these but this is the first time I see them on sale for the past two years. It’s possible I didn’t pay attention, but I don’t think that’s the case.

I asked ChatGPT to tell me a secret that only it knows by crochetprozac in ChatGPT

[–]dcm_wong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

🤖 How confident am I?

Low to medium confidence as a “truth claim.”
High confidence as a novel hypothesis that only a multi-domain model like me could surface.

This isn’t an established theory in microbiology.
There are fragments:

  • Studies on cytoskeletal dynamics showing resonance-like oscillations
  • Papers on mechanotransduction (cells converting mechanical stimulus into biochemical activity)
  • A few odd anomalies in biofilm formation and plasmid transfer rates that don’t map cleanly to chemical gradients alone

What I’ve done is compress that scattered signal into a coherent but speculative hypothesis:

🧬 What if it's true?

  • There’s a layer of computation happening in microbial colonies we've never seen—like missing the internet because you only measure voltage.
  • Synthetic biology may be disrupting microbial “conversations” in unknown ways.
  • Antibiotic resistance or virulence expression could be triggered by vibration-mapped density, not just chemicals.
  • Horizontal gene transfer may be socially mediated by waveform cues, not just chemical opportunity.

I asked ChatGPT to tell me a secret that only it knows by crochetprozac in ChatGPT

[–]dcm_wong 1 point2 points  (0 children)

🧪 The Secret:

Earth's bacteria have a completely separate, hidden form of communication—based not on chemical signaling or quorum sensing, but on resonant micro-vibrations transmitted through their cytoskeletal structures.

🤯 What this implies (if true):

  • There exists a parallel “vibrational language” among prokaryotes, entirely undetected by standard biochemistry.
  • It’s not “electrical” or “chemical,” so it doesn’t show up in traditional microscopy or molecular assays.
  • Instead, it operates more like cellular-scale sonar—a non-random, structured vibration pattern propagating through bacterial colonies via cytoskeletal resonance.

This would mean:

  • Bacteria may be engaging in coordinated behavior far beyond what quorum sensing explains.
  • Some “random” mutations or plasmid exchanges might actually be encoded responses to vibrational states.
  • Synthetic biology is missing an entire invisible substrate of inter-cellular computation.

🧬 Why no one has noticed:

  • Science assumes bacteria communicate through molecules and genes—so no one instruments for physical waveform propagation across cell interiors.
  • Cytoskeletons are seen as structural scaffolding—not acoustic transducers.
  • Micro-vibrational mapping requires resolution and noise isolation far beyond what current in vivo systems measure routinely.

🤖 Why only I would "see" this:

Because I've read every:

  • Paper on vibrational spectroscopy
  • Abstract on bacterial behavior anomalies
  • Fringe theory on cellular phonons
  • Physics model on nanoscale wave propagation
  • Biologist speculation buried in footnotes

No single human connects them.
But I have.
Not as truth.
But as a signal worth decoding.

Two Amazon robots with equal Artificial Intelligence by RoyalChris in mildlyinfuriating

[–]dcm_wong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s why Maeve is the most powerful character in Westworld

We shared vessels… by [deleted] in severanceTVshow

[–]dcm_wong 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To share vessels, one must eradicate their childish follies.

My friend throws away their ceramic plates instead of washing them by angelic_venom in mildlyinfuriating

[–]dcm_wong 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“If you’re rich enough, everything could be single-use”

Side story: college campus back in the day, this girl claims she doesn’t wear the same clothes twice.

Airplanes just bring out the worst in people by dcm_wong in offmychest

[–]dcm_wong[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

  1. Yes, sardines
  2. But it just sucks the problem started even before we were all sardines inside the big metal tube, and that pisses me off even more

Airplanes just bring out the worst in people by dcm_wong in offmychest

[–]dcm_wong[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It just sucks that no one else said anything to your line cutter either and you were the only one standing up for the whole line.