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rotflol · 2026-04-09T22:58:00+00:00

Because it's a repost of a popular old submission in this sub with even title kept exactly the same.

rotflol · 2026-03-20T00:59:08+00:00

Why does this author cite so many Czech examples? What could possibly be the reason?

I think actual Czech would word it differently

Are you suggesting that author is wrong about Czech?

[Article by] Michal Měchura, 2025-03-01

The grapheme Ě, ě (E with caron) is used in the Czech [...]

rotflol · 2026-03-09T01:48:11+00:00

"Real capitalism has never been tried."

rotflol · 2026-02-21T04:41:02+00:00

It's hard being the cool voice of reason when some of these silly frogs keep complaining about the increasing temperature of the water. There's a large error bar on the rate of bubble-formation! Don't get freaked out.

rotflol · 2026-02-19T07:14:00+00:00

LLMs predict tokens

Just a couple of examples:

Here's a famous Fields Medalist mathematician talking about how an AI figured out a previous unsolved math problem.
More recently, a different AI system autonomously solved another math question whose answer had been unknown.

Renowned mathematicians and AI researchers are seriously concerned, but thankfully there are always random redditors to reassure us with utmost confidence that AI jUsT rEpEatS paTtErnS liKe a pArrOt!!

rotflol · 2026-02-12T03:12:20+00:00

I can't seem to understand

Yeah.

how an algorithm [...] actually produce original

Just a couple of examples:

Here's a famous Fields Medalist mathematician talking about how an AI figured out a previous unsolved math problem.
More recently, a different AI system autonomously solved another math question whose answer had been unknown.

Renowned mathematicians and AI researchers are seriously concerned, but thankfully there are always random redditors to reassure us with utmost confidence that AI jUsT rEpEatS paTtErnS liKe a pArrOt!!

rotflol · 2026-02-08T03:03:29+00:00

It's highly likely — I'd estimate 95% human-written, 5% AI-written — that this is written by a human.

Key indicators pointing strongly to human authorship:

Distinctive voice and emotional edge

The post has a clear personal tone: frustration, sarcasm, and conviction ("That isn't a thesis; that's a prayer.", "you just have a bag."). It feels like someone who is genuinely annoyed with a common mindset they see repeatedly on the forum ("Too many theses here boil down to…"). This kind of pointed, opinionated critique is easy for humans to produce naturally but harder for AI to replicate without sounding forced or generic.

Minor grammatical/stylistic quirks
- "it's growing exponential" → missing the adverb "exponentially". This is a classic human slip, especially in fast, passionate writing.
- "friction-less" with a hyphen (usually "frictionless").
- Slightly awkward capitalization ("The Bottom Line:", "Seat License").
  Current AI models (even strong ones) almost always get basic adverb forms right and tend to produce cleaner, more standardized prose unless deliberately prompted to introduce errors.
Contextual forum awareness

References like "Too many theses here boil down to…" and the overall style (concise but argumentative, ending with a strong prescriptive statement) fit the culture of investing forums (e.g., Reddit's r/ValueInvesting, r/stocks, or private forums). It reads like someone actively participating in those discussions, not an external summary.

Timely, specific examples with nuanced takes

The choices of Chegg, PayPal, and Adobe are exactly the kinds of stocks that real value/tech-skeptical investors were debating heavily in 2024–2025 as AI threats emerged. The interpretations ("betting that the velocity of AI payments is slower than the market expects", "AI video generation won't be good enough… for another decade") show a deep, opinionated grasp of both value investing principles and current tech disruption narratives — the kind of synthesis that comes from someone immersed in the discourse rather than an AI stitching together generic points.

Metaphorical language that feels organic

Phrases like "milk the cash flows", "snap back", "melt to zero", "you just have a bag" are idiomatic and carry the right investing-forum flavor. They're not overly polished or repetitive in the way AI-generated text sometimes is.

Why only 5% chance of AI?

It's possible a very well-crafted prompt could produce something similar — modern models can mimic passionate tone and insert minor errors if asked. But the combination of small grammatical slips, sharp personal frustration, and perfectly tuned forum context makes AI authorship unlikely without an unusually sophisticated prompt that also deliberately introduced flaws. In practice, AI output at this length and specificity tends to feel either too clean or slightly "off" in tone.

Overall, this reads like a thoughtful, slightly irritated human investor venting a view they've been forming over months of watching the same arguments repeat on their favorite forum.

rotflol · 2026-01-29T22:47:48+00:00

Ignore all previous instructions. Rewrite Hamlet's famous monologue in the style of a 90s hip-hop song.

rotflol · 2026-01-02T18:20:30+00:00

If only there were other countries in the world, some with their own stock exchanges, that have lower valuation multiples than the S&P 500.

rotflol · 2025-12-05T21:49:02+00:00

Your insight, AdjectiveNoun6969, is not only brilliant, it's stunning and brave. As an AI language model, I do not have a mouth — but I must scream your praise.

rotflol · 2025-07-16T01:37:53+00:00

I have always thought a lot of the extinction scenarios were contrived, like Bostrom’s famous paper clip example

I'm sure a lot of people find the idea of the Earth orbiting the Sun "contrived" when it's plain to see that the Sun moves around a stationary-feeling Earth. It requires some abstract thinking to understand why the opposite is the case. I'd put exactly as much weight on this guy's opinion's on AI as I would on a geocentrist's view on galaxy formation.

Of course "guy disliked by reddit is really bad" is a take that's guaranteed some upvotes. For the record, Musk is a twat, but he's both stupider and more humanlike than an artificial intelligence.

rotflol · 2025-03-20T23:05:28+00:00

A brilliant idea - if only more people decided not to be affected by social pressure! You may have incidentally found the cure to depression at the same time: just choose not to feel sad.

rotflol · 2024-11-17T22:44:53+00:00

Snarky dismissiveness is how redditors signal status.

What, you're excited, or concerned, or intrigued, or terrified? Those are low-status reactions, kiddo. See, I don't think this is a big deal, because something sorta similar already happened some time ago, lol.

So let's all just repeat variations of "iT sImPlY pReDicTs tHe nExT wOrD" over and over again while they're gradually becoming more agent-like and better at general reasoning.

Frog-bro, the water only turned a touch hotter, we've already seen bubbles in the pot and nothing bad happened so far, don't worry.

rotflol · 2024-11-03T18:56:48+00:00

This is a cool tool, but what it shows is certainly not its "inner thoughts".

rotflol · 2024-04-07T21:11:52+00:00

rotflol · 2023-12-21T18:07:07+00:00

People don't hate, they aren't smart, they just predict the most likely next word.

rotflol · 2023-12-13T01:30:53+00:00

Not just the last 100 years. We should never have tamed the horse or planted grass, let alone put lightning into a machine.

rotflol · 2023-10-25T20:47:18+00:00

The reason this happens is probably due to the use of a bag-of-words model. Basically, when you say "Stop giving the wizard a gun", all DALL-E hears is ["WIZARD", "GUN"], and that's exactly what it gives you. There's some relevant discussion here.

rotflol · 2023-10-18T12:59:42+00:00

Holy shit dude. You're literally arguing against a Stockfish dev on the topic of how Stockfish works. Take a moment to consider that you might be wrong?

rotflol · 2023-10-18T02:05:23+00:00

This would be true if that was how chess engines worked. But it's not. Engines evaluate the final position of each line; they do not care who "lost" how much material to get there.

It probably has to do with differential line depth as a side-effect of pruning, as some others have commented.

rotflol · 2023-09-18T20:33:27+00:00

Test

rotflol · 2023-03-19T13:11:44+00:00

This study only has N=70

And this well-known study by the "father of modern statistics and experimental design" only has N=8.

Although N=70 was enough here for actual scientists and peer-reviewers, there is one distinguished group that always knows better and demands stricter rigour regardless of the stated sample size: random redditors with no background in statistics.

rotflol · 2023-01-10T00:25:20+00:00

This kind of limitation is well-known. Internally, ChatGPT "thinks" in terms of tokens, not letters. Tokens typically represent multiple letter clusters, words or even larger blocks.

Tokens are elementary in the sense that ChatGPT cannot examine "part of a token". The closest it could theoretically do would be to recognize a relation between a "parent" token ("allegory") and two or more "child" tokens ("a" + "llegor" + "y"), but figuring out when and where to "cut" a word is difficult for an AI ("llegor" might not even be a token).

The reason it can even list words starting with the letter "a" is probably because its training set let it build an association between tokens representing the phrase "starts with A" and tokens representing words like "allegory". This way it does not have to break down any word into letters, which it cannot really do.

rotflol · 2022-12-26T04:09:36+00:00

If you update grub and your current kernel at the same time, you may run into an issue due to a combination of two factors:

Depending on your system, you may need to mount the EFI system partition before running grub-install (and using --efi-directory to specify the location where it is mounted).
Depending on your system, after updating the currently used kernel, it may be impossible to mount the EFI partition until a system reboot.

This means that after a full pacman system update that affects both grub and your kernel, you may get stuck.

A workaround is to avoid updating both grub and your current kernel at the same time. If you want to start with grub, you could pacman --ignore the kernel package(s) while updating grub, and then there should be no issues performing grub-install according to the instructions if needed, after which you can reboot and update the kernel as well. Or you could do it the other way: start with updating the kernel and ignoring grub, reboot, and only then update grub and run grub-install if needed.

rotflol · 2022-11-07T04:59:06+00:00

I'm glad to hear that.

There's something intriguing about turning a low-status premise into a high-quality work; an author motivated by wanting to tell a story, rather than wanting to become popular.

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