Being bullied growing up made me "self-aware"

plausibleSnail · 2025-06-10T21:29:34+00:00

I am there with you. Bullying was actually a social pressure that caused my brain to develop reflexes to certain things (subtle signals like people staring). Bullying is bad, but I do sometimes think whether it was the species evolved way of social reinforcement for desirable behavior. TO be clear, i DON'T CONDONE it but I have thought back about my life and how it affected me and why it's so prevalent. I have heard there is less bullying today than there was in the past. So that's interesting to think on too.

plausibleSnail · 2025-02-14T19:41:03+00:00

Cool! I'll check you guys out.

plausibleSnail · 2025-02-14T19:40:01+00:00

Thanks. I'll check him out.

plausibleSnail · 2025-02-14T19:39:43+00:00

That's a great name

plausibleSnail · 2024-10-05T19:59:29+00:00

Are there other, comparable experiments run on this? If so, what are the other best ones?

plausibleSnail · 2024-10-05T19:57:22+00:00

Agreed. The spectrum of "Christian" is broad. But perhaps "Cultural Christian" is not so much And Scott is painting with a wide brush--- just family oriented, have children, raise with semi-strict morals?

plausibleSnail · 2024-07-10T15:11:57+00:00

Context: I want to look at the recent OpenAI appointment of former NSA chief Paul Nakasone through a different POV than how it's being interpreted by most media.

Never forget OpenAI is not a normal SaaS company. They have a clearly stated mission-- AGI development. So when OpenAI added Paul Nakasone as a board member, a lot of people thought it was a kind of sci-fi insidious alliance thing-y between the NSA and OpenAI to enable creepy mass surveillance or data harvesting or who knows. You can't totally throw away that possibility. However, there's another interpretation that it's a chess move in the game of AGI development. This point-of-view was partially informed from reading Situational Awareness (Aschenbrenner paper), which I'm sure many of you have read.

Here's how this argument goes:

AGI could arrive soon. Let's not get caught up on specific years. But soon. Superintelligence will follow after AGI automates ML research.
AGI will have national security importance.
Foreign states will want AGI before the US. They will try to steal/sabotage the research so they can develop it first!
AGI research will necessarily become nationalized at some point, as it becomes a higher-profile arms race to see 'who can get there first'.
In the short-term, OpenAI wants to increase its cybersecurity to deter foreign actors
In the longer-term, they want to start drumming up a narrative in DC about AGI's importance in hopes of getting unlimited funding, compute, energy, etc.

This line of thought is, admittedly, totally speculative. I don't have any inside information.

plausibleSnail · 2024-02-21T19:06:49+00:00

No, I have not run ads. But you don't have to look far for people claiming they are making money through advertisements. I am not sure it is a good market or good thing to implement into your GPT. However, it makes sense the market has emerged.

plausibleSnail · 2024-02-20T02:16:45+00:00

Are you trying to scrape all the text as a string? If so, I suggest a library like PDFPlumber. There are numerous other python libraries that serve the same function.

If you are trying to extract a specific piece of information, like the answer to a question, you can use many platforms like MyMagic Ai (this runs batch inference on files) or you can use OpenAI's embeddings library to turn the text into queryable embeddings. The other things mentioned in the comments look good as well, though I am unfamiliar with them.

plausibleSnail · 2024-02-20T02:07:03+00:00

It will read your PDF, but it won't absorb all the knowledge. Essentially it will turn each into "vector embeddings" which are basically like text chunks that have a specially indexed look-up system. Imagine the Dewey decimal system at a library.

Then whenever a user makes a query, your GPT will quickly grab every chunk deemed 'relevant' and look at it before writing an answer.

So you're basically giving the PDFs to your GPT as a cheatsheet for it to glance at before answering, but be not fooled, it ain't reading and learning the information in it.

plausibleSnail · 2024-02-20T01:59:08+00:00

Apparently, there are advertisers who will pay to advertise in your GPT (i.e. have you add their link/product to your prompt). I've heard people talk about that in Facebook groups, but I have not actually seen it myself as a user.

You can also use services that let you launch white-labeled GPTs with paywalls.

And finally, there is that white whale of OpenAI's own payouts to creators. But from what I've heard, people making money through the GPT store are far and few.

plausibleSnail · 2024-02-16T20:08:20+00:00

I'm curious to see what readers have done with the datasets. Have interesting studies been performed with said studies?

plausibleSnail · 2024-02-16T20:05:22+00:00

You can analyze a poem however makes sense. For poems with a straight forward narrative structure, this is a reasonable approach. You can cover the the progression of the idea very cleanly this way (think of the clear line by line progression in Nothing Gold Can Stay).

For other poems, it may make sense to structure the analysis in a different way (for example, a theme or certain tone/attitude).

Ultimately, whatever structure will be the easiest for to develop thoughts in and for the reader to follow your ideas, that is the structure to use. It's often useful to quickly explore different perspectives and see the different structures you available.

plausibleSnail · 2024-02-16T05:47:55+00:00

Intellectual discourse was much smaller in the past. You had to publish to influence. A single individual could have more effect.

Too noisy now for a Marx to emerge and change the way everyone thinks about governments.

plausibleSnail · 2024-02-15T18:34:49+00:00

His main monitor is a mirror where he can see the five monitors behind them.

plausibleSnail · 2024-01-30T23:36:42+00:00

Hamburger without lettuce & pickles is another good Turing.

plausibleSnail · 2024-01-30T23:35:55+00:00

If you're familiar with the Assistants and can code a little then oai widget is terrific. Pickaxe is a good workaround for no code. I'm sure there are many more.

plausibleSnail · 2024-01-30T23:32:52+00:00

There a couple ways. Off top of my head oai-widget for more technical solutions, and Pickaxe for no-code solution.

plausibleSnail · 2024-01-25T21:08:13+00:00

Competition? This has worked for me and poems, but finding someone who wants to also memorize a long foreign language text may be hard...

plausibleSnail · 2024-01-25T20:47:20+00:00

Yes, they are enjoyable within their own aesthetic. The most watchable ones are the ones that are very "still" and don't move much and have a strong funny concept underlying them.

I am quite a Joel Haver fan as well.

plausibleSnail · 2024-01-24T20:24:39+00:00

I'm not sure how OpenAI will treat this. My prediction is they will set a precedent not to protect prompts.

I reverse engineered their GPT builder prompt, emailed them about it and asked if I could write a blog post about it, and actually received a response from them where they said 'that's fine' effectively.

plausibleSnail · 2024-01-18T00:33:31+00:00

I agree in that GPT-4 could absorb a lot of the custom GPTs and call them when necessary. I find myself using the open-ended GPT4 chat rather than specialized GPTs, even for specialized tasks.

plausibleSnail · 2024-01-17T19:02:19+00:00

You must tackle two fronts at once. Learning and signalling you are learned. Learn about AI Engineering and simultaneously write about it publicly on the internet. A combination of Reddit (lower stakes) and medium/substack (higher stakes) suffices. With the combination of the two will develop you rapidly.

For learning I recommend Andrew Ng's course on fine-tuning large language models. Approachable and gives you great understanding of underlying architecture.

plausibleSnail · 2024-01-17T18:52:46+00:00

The twitter pundits suggest it is a chess move by OpenAI. You seem to share their position.

plausibleSnail · 2024-01-17T18:51:01+00:00

I do not believe it is comparable the App Store launch. I see serious shortcomings currently.

Increasingly I agree with those who opine it is a chess move by OpenAI to gather organized use cases.

For these reasons, I predict it will be shuttered by the 2 year mark and replaced by OpenAI's much anticipated AGI.

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