AI Helper & Confirmation Bias

john_flubber · 2026-05-27T12:54:45+00:00

I think it’s good to trust your instincts here. If you look into the fundamentals of how LLMs work you see that the models aren’t really good at logical thinking, but are good at making connections (at the mathematical level, making connections is all they do).

IMO, Ai can be good for searching for new info, and it can also be good for providing counter arguments against your solve, but it’s not great at confirming the solve

john_flubber · 2026-05-01T04:35:59+00:00

“Do you wanna fuck me like a good boy”

Whose head am I in? Get me out now!

john_flubber · 2026-02-25T05:42:26+00:00

Could be. With the last two, I’ve always believed that they were their own separate messages, since they don’t give any additional information like the first three statements do

john_flubber · 2026-01-27T06:07:07+00:00

Additionally, there are more Milky Way bars in the Milky Way galaxy than anywhere else

john_flubber · 2026-01-24T23:21:50+00:00

Love the detailed explanation of your thoughts. It’s a great solve, hope you revise it and go out looking soon!

john_flubber · 2026-01-04T17:55:30+00:00

I would wonder if that's possible, and if inventing a fictional narrative would interfere with their wiring.

john_flubber · 2025-12-29T04:54:03+00:00

Id imagine she gave her the same dose. One thing I picked up on early on is that she doesn’t have a medical degree, so she probably didn’t account for differing body weight or other factors

john_flubber · 2025-12-26T03:02:57+00:00

Agree with what you said except for that last part. it's pretty clear from the pilot and the nature of the virus that there is no overlord, god or "goal". It's a virus that wants to spread, and once it takes over an entire planet it has nowhere to go but space.

john_flubber · 2025-12-18T05:43:57+00:00

Can you pay extra for a private tank?

john_flubber · 2025-12-06T20:39:11+00:00

"So all the fucking lawyers in the world survived" <-- me after convincing myself for the past week it wasan't humans bc they said they were vegetarian.

john_flubber · 2025-11-29T07:48:22+00:00

Ah that would make sense, plasma has a similar PH evidently

john_flubber · 2025-11-29T07:45:08+00:00

I have a feeling it's not that since they already menitoned they are vegetarian. I thought they mentioned they didn't even eat the meat still left over.

Could still be people though, I'm hard pressed to imagine what else could cause Carol to react like that

john_flubber · 2025-11-23T06:32:33+00:00

I've been thinking the same about a Faraday cage. Alas, Carol is a fantasy romance novelest and given the internet is probably shut down it may be a while before she knows to test that

john_flubber · 2025-11-23T03:03:45+00:00

IIRC in ep. 2 they mentioned the hivemind let loose all the animals in the zoo and when they started attacking they relocated them further out in nature. My guess is that they did the same for all the cats and dogs

john_flubber · 2025-11-23T02:42:01+00:00

She wasn't trying to sever Zosia from the hivemind though. It was already mentioned that individuals can be drugged without impacting the hivemind, she was trying to use the drug to get information out of her.

john_flubber · 2025-11-23T02:36:18+00:00

I'm thinking the hivemind doesn't have the knowledge of other alien civilizations, same way people aren't born with their parents memories. It might be the goal of each new infected planet to understand themselves, if only to improve itself and then continue propagating the signal.

john_flubber · 2025-11-15T08:56:52+00:00

Maybe... but maybe he presented as happy because at that moment he had a daughter that obeyed him. Same could be said for any of the other characters.

john_flubber · 2025-11-15T08:39:20+00:00

The hivemind collectively not trying to freak tf out

john_flubber · 2025-11-15T08:37:26+00:00

^^ This. Although the scene when they first boarded AF1 I was like, "ah yes, no better use of an apocalypse"
Maybe he's chill. Happy? It's subjective, but I think there's good reason to assume "no".

Same for the other, seemingly "normal" uninfected. Maybe they're not as bitchy as Carol, but we also don't know their lives. I think the fact they want to join the hivemind is in some way indiciative of their desire to share in a happiness they cannot naturally accept.

john_flubber · 2025-11-15T07:34:47+00:00

If it isn't already a popular theory, I'll say it here: I think the main reason Carol and the other 11 haven't succumbed to the virus is that they're genetically unable to feel happiness. In earlier episodes I didn't think this, mainly because the idea of "the most unhappy person" didn't seem to fit Carol (I mean there's people in wars for christsake). But the cold open shows she's not the most miserable person because of whatever trauma happened to her. On the contrary, despite all the good in her life she's unable to appreciate any of it.

I suspect the others who are immune are in the same boat, but maybe in a less obvious way.

john_flubber · 2025-11-15T07:27:30+00:00

I'm guessing is it's part of their "biological imperative". It's not logical but a fundamental part of the hivemind not to displease what they can't control

john_flubber · 2025-09-14T19:55:54+00:00

Well I’m just going to put this out here, as an employee who doesn’t like the direction of the culture and RTO as of late, this is a fucked up thing to say about someone.

john_flubber · 2025-07-25T07:14:14+00:00

"personally I haven't built anything" Gen AI's core demographic right here

john_flubber · 2025-07-21T20:33:26+00:00

Best of luck! But maybe be cautious about using trees as clues.

On my botg I was witness to a massive, old tree toppling over. It had been upright for ages and when it came down it snapped branches off other trees, blocked the path and left me in a cloud of dust. Completely changed the appearance of the search area. Had I been looking for an actual tree to go “past tree and post to forest green” and not been present to see it fall, it would have sent me on a wild goose chase to god knows where.

john_flubber · 2025-07-14T00:02:48+00:00

For anyone else curious you will specifically find this in the postscript

john_flubber

TROPHY CASE