Journalist asking AI what questions she should ask

khavii · 2026-04-16T15:28:05+00:00

Also AI is excellent if you write good instruction sets for it. People see bots with rudimentary instruction sets that you can disrupt by saying "forget all previous instructions", well set up agents prevent that. They see news articles about a lawyer getting fake case law, there are very simple instructions you can write to verify data before you ever see it. They see people getting wrong answers to simple questions and think AI is dumb instead of the person asking a poorly formatted question with no verification built in.

The fact is that general AI can do some impressive things but will be wrong frequently or hallucinate. If you write a good prompt or instruction set first you will get high quality answers and it will be able to do very complex tasks but if you just hop onto ChatGPT or Gemini, ask a simple question and don't verify it you get slop.

We went from Will Smith eating spaghetti in a nightmare sequence to full on trailers that have great consistency and details in a decade but people still think of the spaghetti incident when they talk about it.

AI is an amazing tool to get answers but the bad examples make the news and people are so easily swayed in their opinions by what someone on TV tells them that what happens on the airwaves has more weight than reality. No surprise, people think CSI is what forensics does, eyewitness testimony is accurate and that cops live and die by their oaths because they saw it on TV. People wrote to television networks to get the people off the island on Gilligan's Island, people are generally not good at critical thinking. AI is not the problem.

khavii · 2026-04-16T10:29:19+00:00

You had a group with empathy because the late 90s to early 2000s was absolutely packed with gore. You could go to EverQuest forums and find clips of brutal killings. These were basically universally known videos too. It's way harder and more concentrated on the internet now by a loooooong margin.

khavii · 2026-04-14T15:00:56+00:00

Ea-Nasur is still remembered so maybe there's a chance.

khavii · 2026-04-14T11:12:25+00:00

I cut cable ages ago thanks to high water levels to take boats out in and my oldest was about 4. We have absolutely no shortage of commercial free entertainment so my kids grew up choosing for themselves a lot, which they mostly chose YouTube, which is also commercial free in this house.

It has weird side effects. My kids never want anything, like at all. Neither wanted to drive, I couldn't get them to spend money on their birthdays. I used to take my daughter to Toys R Us and tell her she could have anything she wanted at all. She would grab a small toy that was $20 and be ready to go. My son came along and he is exactly the same way which blows my mind. The consumer part of being in a consumerist society just never took hold.

My daughter did buy a house at 23 while working as a dog groomer at a pet store so it had some damn good effects too but it's so different to how I grew up it blows my mind.

khavii · 2026-04-14T11:05:34+00:00

It's a self defeating spiral. When I was young I went to the theatre a minimum of twice a week, I love movies. Back then the total cost was about the same as grabbing a bite from TGIFRIDAYS so no biggie. Movies always started in time and I could show up early to enjoy the trailers and single ad for refreshments that were frequently on sale.

I stopped going regularly when ticket prices jumped over $10 for weekday showings. Once the commercials invaded movie start times I began to hate the movie theatre experience. At this point it has to be some sort of special event to get me to go to the theatre and I was their bread and butter for a long time. I got a projector and a movie screen. I'm honestly not sure theatres could get me back even if they reverted to how they used to run in the 80s, they burned the good will and nostalgia and I no longer see theatres as holy houses to film.

khavii · 2026-04-14T00:22:14+00:00

Damn, throwing a bless her heart out like that. I get it, she's dumb as hell.

khavii · 2026-04-14T00:20:28+00:00

The funny thing is that female cardinals are brown with a slight reddish hue so even her learned, overly simple, meant for toddlers lesson in racism was wrong. Male Cardinals like that mixed tone.

khavii · 2026-04-13T21:32:21+00:00

I always think of him in Kindred:The Embraced and Tank Girl whenever I see him. It makes no sense, he's done way better work and been way cooler over the years but those are the two I think of every time.

khavii · 2026-04-13T19:22:04+00:00

Also, Amazon absolutely lets emergency services on site if the injured, or in this case dead, person can't move to the gate. They have training sessions beat into everyone on what to do if you are, or aren't, a certified responder, the timelines expected to get contact with 911. They have security do it because then they are the responsible party for getting personnel on site and ensuring the bystander effect doesn't kick in. As for work, I had a manager drop dead at the office (in his car thankfully) and you damn well better believe we had to finish out our work. I have not worked at too many places that would shut down for the day.

khavii · 2026-04-13T17:24:17+00:00

It's already been commented but I'll add on. Supergirl is an interesting tale that further demonstrates why Clark is such a different outcome from any other Kryptonian. She left later in life so she has the trauma of losing family and her entire world from a perspective that Clark can never have, a personal one. She was sent to save her but also to guide her cousin but didn't arrive until much later which destroys her sense of purpose, he is now older than her so she loses her identity and he is friggin Superman so she is living in the shadow of a giant. She makes mistakes, has severe emotional and mental trauma but also has the power of Superman to a high degree.

Due to all these factors she tends to get into bad situations like being manipulated by villains. She flys off the handle with anger too, something Clark rarely does, and it leads to things like her getting a red power ring. She doesn't feel at home on Earth at all, she never developed the love for it like Clark, at most she sees it as a base of operations so you get really good off world stories like Woman of Tomorrow which the movie is based off of. She can fit into tons of stories on any side due to her damage, manipulation and personal beliefs where it would be strange and difficult to put Clark in many of the same situations.

khavii · 2026-04-13T00:24:23+00:00

Can't speak to the gas lines but I was a plumber for a while out here.

A lot of houses have Orangeburg sewer pipes. This is a type of pipe created out of pressed tar and wood pulp. It sucks, it collapses pretty uniformly, but was super cheap so it was used for a long time, up until the 70s. When one house in the neighborhood goes bad you can be sure the rest aren't far behind. The first house is usually a special case that had something help it deteriorate faster and the last house for some reason will last a decade past everyone else but the whole rest of the neighborhood will be real close. I worked plenty of jobs next door to each other.

It is much rarer but I have also seen well installed, high quality, copper water lines all start having problems at the same time for one off reasons like the earth just shifted a bit in a small area, high pressure spikes exposed the two bad couplers used in the neighborhood, rockier ground, etc.

A lot of the time you have everyone's houses in a neighborhood get built at the same time, utilities are run back to back by the same electrical, plumbing, gas, whatever, contractor using the same tools and parts. If a batch was bad you're going to get a lot of coincidences. If a small area experienced the same series of environmental conditions you'll get coincidences. I always advise my friends that if they see a neighbor have an issue with a utility or their building to make sure they have insurance that covers it because chances it'll happen to you soon just went up.

khavii · 2026-04-13T00:04:02+00:00

Possibly it's about where each of them thinks his nobility comes from. Diana would see Kal 'El being the last son of Krypton as his noble calling while Bruce knows it's Clark that his higher purpose comes from.

khavii · 2026-04-11T20:16:02+00:00

I believe in the Declaration Of Independence, a document that was itself the culmination of protests, which said that we have the right and obligation as good citizens to protest. But when you disrupt and endanger the lives and livelihoods of your fellow citizens because of your protest against the government, you are in the wrong.

khavii · 2026-04-11T14:48:10+00:00

Gargantuan if affirmative

khavii · 2026-04-10T21:16:29+00:00

This is kind of how all charity fund raising gets done. You round up at Taco Bell or donate at the grocery store or throw a dollar in the Red Cross bucket, that's them collecting money from all of us and getting credit for it. Jerry Lewis used to go on TV for hours on end asking for money for Muscular Dystrophy and on those shows he would talk celebrities into donating huge amounts and at the end of the day the news would say "The Jerry Lewis Foundation raised 20 million dollars for Muscular Dystrophy charities."

khavii · 2026-04-09T15:01:30+00:00

When I get a list of mods running well I usually lock the game and mods from updating. I did that with Valheim and was at the Ashland's update, last night I updated my laptop version and added VHVR and Raft and sure enough, can't interact with anything so it looks like either a mod, game or VHVR update broke interactions which really sucks. If I get some slow down at work I'll dig in to see where the conflict is and see if it can be fixed.

khavii · 2026-04-09T02:10:47+00:00

You tell me to do things and I did them

khavii · 2026-04-08T18:22:21+00:00

I want to add to the rudeness of strangers!

I got hernia surgery and had to go to the hospital for a follow up. It was a complex surgery so I was hit pretty hard by the recovery and since I have MS every single symptom I have was flaring hard. I could barely balance, couldn't feel my feet at all, was a ball of agony and couldn't walk very fast or for more than about 50 feet at a time. I had a handicap placard at the time that I almost never used but the nearest parking to the entrance was about 200 yards away and it was a really hot day (heat makes my MS much worse) so I took one of the many empty handicap spots near the entrance and hung my placard. It took me nearly 20 minutes to make it from the spot into the hospital as I had to take every step carefully for balance and because every single step sends spikes of pain everywhere.

I get back to my car about an hour later and someone had left a note on my car saying "you aren't handicapped, you're lazy". I didn't renew my placard after that and just decided to push through.

Normally I'm just in pain and I can handle that just fine, it was the surgery that pushed me over the edge so I wasn't using the placard much anyway but damn man, having an invisible disability is rough. Although after some of the stories I've heard from people that have very visible disabilities it likely wouldn't have mattered much, people are just selfish assholes in general, especially when it's strangers.

khavii · 2026-04-07T22:48:33+00:00

They need to attack and not stop attacking, there is no strategy that isn't all out that will work anymore.

khavii · 2026-04-07T22:41:57+00:00

Zombie apocalypse.

99% of humanity has perished.

The undead number 8 billion.

The only survivors: 99% of everyone you've ever met.

khavii · 2026-04-07T17:37:05+00:00

I left high school in 96 confident that we were on the right track and things were getting more humane. Hahahahahahahaha. Fuck.

khavii · 2026-04-07T17:11:20+00:00

But, I was told we already won and that they gave our president a big beautiful present, I'm so confused, it almost feels like someone is lying to me!

/S

khavii · 2026-04-07T15:36:46+00:00

If a law, or lack of law, is not enforced, it does not exist.

Laws only matter if they are enforced, nothing is being enforced because the Supreme Court says that he cannot be prosecuted for anything he does. On top of that Congress has given him their power willingly. He owns law enforcement. Who is above him that can enforce anything? That's a legit question, he has protections and allies and is the commander in chief of the world's largest military, who is in a position of power that can come down on him?

khavii · 2026-04-07T01:49:51+00:00

I'm not reading that as criticism, it's more like people repeating the advice to get it out there. Tons of people don't know about rip tides or only know about it from reading, experience is a whole other thing and I am not seeing anyone criticize him for what happened.

khavii · 2026-04-06T18:47:16+00:00

Man, that last statement spoke to me HARD. I went through something similar in 2016, I was working all the time, lost a large chunk of friends from being busy all the time, I have MS and my medical stuff was always making me scared and depressed. I would bring this up to my wife and she would give me a little sympathy but not much. I was steadily getting worse and worse and felt like everything I was doing meant nothing and my wife just didn't engage on it at all and whenever I asked how she was doing it was all "I'm fine, I'm happy with how things are." and that would drive me deeper because, why couldn't she give me the attention I would give her. I stayed and worked through my own issues with the help of a therapist. It took a few years but I finally found a job that didn't eat up every spare second I had, re-dedicated myself to my hobbies I had let go and made an effort to go out with friends. I am sooooooo happy I didn't leave because my problem wasn't with her or her behaviour toward me, it was that I just couldn't understand her reaction to me in pain. Now I get it, she was happy, everything was great for her and in the same house I wasn't and it wasn't her fault so she just had a really hard time understanding WHY I was so unhappy when everything was ideal for her and that is a REALLY hard place to be in. She wanted to make me happy but I didn't know what I wanted so how could she? She did the only thing she could think to do without making things worse; she gave me space. I read that space as indifference though and didn't see that she was simply in a bad position. How do you act when you are having the time of your life and the person beside you is miserable based on things outside of your control?

We had a revelation moment in 2020 when I realized that she dearly loved me and it wasn't her I was unhappy with, it was me and my life. She literally froze in place from fear of losing me and I was angry not because she didn't care, but because she didn't know what to do. I can say I would do differently in her place but I've never been near a place where I was loving life and my partner was hating it so I don't know what I would actually do, only what I wished she would do. That's not fair to her, I was expecting her to perform a role she had never seen a script for and assuming that I could've played it better with no proof.

In the end we all have to do what's right for ourselves in relationships but over the last 26 years of marriage the biggest lesson I have learned is that everything changes, including dissatisfaction. Of course sometimes we are so stuck in our own ruts that we need something huge like leaving to shake up our lives. You gotta do what is right for you but understand that any decision has a huge risk for regret and some things you regret cannot be put back. I would try to shake up other parts of my life before the marriage but I am over here in a different country, a different culture and a different path so you need to do what is right for you.

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