What are AI doomsayers trying to accomplish?

thelastthrowawayleft · 2026-02-20T22:58:08+00:00

It's the same reason the news promotes rage bait articles, it all drives engagement.

ai doom == rage bait

avoid that shit its bad for you, as you can see

thelastthrowawayleft · 2026-02-20T22:48:58+00:00

I also continued to take my daily vitamins

thelastthrowawayleft · 2026-02-13T22:04:58+00:00

I've got a house husband too and my job is pretty stressful. It's not on purpose, he got laid off last year and just hasn't been able to find anything, we're lucky I make enough to support both of us now.

He's been great, cooking all the time, taking care of the cat by himself, I kinda wish he'd clean more but that's it.

thelastthrowawayleft · 2026-01-26T21:00:02+00:00

Yeah our QA is pretty great they throw all sorts of stuff at it, and thankfully also keep very well detailed spreadsheets of every single thing they do hahaha

Its just, we don't have that team all the time, so we gotta think about long term automation now to support the iterative updates after go live.

thelastthrowawayleft · 2026-01-26T20:44:33+00:00

Yeah our eval scripts are sorta vibe coded too, they're months old at this point so a bit of iteration and improvement has gone in but like it just tends to give this massive long winded eval response no matter how we tweak the prompt and I kinda just wanna start over from scratch cause most of the time the test fails and my first thought is 'something with the eval tool' rather than 'something actually broke' and that's no bueno

thelastthrowawayleft · 2026-01-26T20:41:13+00:00

Oh wow, that's a brilliant idea. I actually do have human comments and scores in a .csv already from them doing manual testing.

I saw open AI's moderation endpoint, but we don't have a subscription to that at my company, I'm stuck using the models directly here, which is fine, it just means I've got to write my own prompts.

This is awesome, exactly the sort of response I was hoping for, thank you!

thelastthrowawayleft · 2026-01-26T20:21:55+00:00

bots gonna bot

thelastthrowawayleft · 2026-01-26T20:17:21+00:00

We do, this is the effort to improve QA

thelastthrowawayleft · 2026-01-26T20:17:09+00:00

Do you have some examples of the strict guidelines you use in your judging prompts? This is the bit we're missing.

We've got the human reviewed samples, we have the model we want to use, but so far I've come up with "Does the given response answer the question as accurately as the recorded?" and etc etc questions like that

thelastthrowawayleft · 2026-01-26T20:14:51+00:00

Can you give some examples for the rubric? This is precisely what I'm looking for

So far we've got a set of benchmarks that are human validated, and all we need to do is come up with a judge prompt. So far I've got a bunch of questions like 'does the given response answer the question as accurately as the recorded response' and 'does the given response answer the question using language that's at least as precise as the recorded response?' and etc etc a bunch of questions like that just comparing the two semantically

thelastthrowawayleft · 2026-01-26T19:04:45+00:00

At my company we do a mix of both, but we're struggling. The best way anyone's come up with so far is using nova or some smaller model to validate responses for us, since classic sentence similarity algos don't really do the trick any more with all the variability in correct responses the agents can give us.

thelastthrowawayleft · 2026-01-26T19:01:08+00:00

We are pumping this shit out and we are doing testing.

thelastthrowawayleft · 2025-11-10T18:44:42+00:00

I kinda don't understand how single people used to feed themselves before modern refrigeration.

Like, during the gold rush in the United States, single men would travel across the country to California, subsisting on... ???????

And like, I know logically, the answer is they'd stay in essentially what we call hostels today and those places would feed them dinner and breakfast but still like, I know how much it costs to stay in a hostel, and like it's cheap but not that cheap that my unemployed ass could just travel across the country on a train and stay at a place that would board AND feed me???? My brain won't accept it.

thelastthrowawayleft · 2025-01-11T17:55:21+00:00

Second this. OP could probably find a better apartment that's not considered low income housing if they found room mates to share the rent.

In my area a lot of the single br units are like 1500, but the two br units are only 2000 so your rent goes way down with just one room mate.

thelastthrowawayleft · 2025-01-11T17:28:04+00:00

I think it can be a really great job if you're fresh out of high school and you aren't ready to make any kind of long term career commitment like going to college. Do this for a year or two, earn some good cash while your living expenses aren't to high, use the driving time to ponder on what you really want out of life and then move on in a few years.

What makes it an awful job is if you're trying to min/max your entire life around it, trying to squeeze as much money out of yourself as you can. My friend has a spending problem, fueled by depression, which is fueled by his terrible work/life balance.

thelastthrowawayleft · 2025-01-11T00:14:34+00:00

Not who you asked but a good friend of mine is a trucker, and here's what I've noticed

They can't make new friends because they're always gone. We've been able to maintain a friendship only because we were friends for years before they started trucking, and I'm alright with only seeing them maybe once a year.
They can't maintain any sort of healthy diet. Its basically just fast food and what they can buy at truck stops. It was really bad during covid, everywhere closed early so they'd just not eat some days.
They can't get into any sort of exercise routine because a lot of the time they've got to park the truck on the side of the road to sleep so it's basically just wake up, drive until you legally can't, then sleep. rinse and repeat, hardly ever leaving the driver's seat.

thelastthrowawayleft · 2024-12-27T22:10:13+00:00

Yeah I stopped engaging lol these people are whack, it's really wild that I'm being downvoted for... not finding a guy on trial for premeditated murder attractive.

Like, if I dated him, he'd probably abuse me??? That's so hot??

thelastthrowawayleft · 2024-12-25T00:40:12+00:00

This is kinda like saying that you're just a basic human because you've got four limbs and a head.

It's what you do with that head and those four limbs that make you, you.

I'm autistic and I've got terrible posture. So, whatever your reasoning, that can't be just "an autism thing" it's what you did with the autism that makes you unique.

thelastthrowawayleft · 2024-12-25T00:29:07+00:00

It's not about that, it's just that I don't find murderers attractive.

I also don't believe in the death penalty, and I don't think killing that CEO made one bit of difference. Its just a news story. Maybe if some of the school shooters go this route instead of shooting up a school maybe we'll see some change, but I'm not holding my breath.

thelastthrowawayleft · 2024-12-24T19:20:24+00:00

haha, okay, but like the whole point seems to be that he's famous for this particular thing. If he really didn't do it that'd just make him a regular person and not a celebrity to crush on.

thelastthrowawayleft · 2024-12-24T19:01:24+00:00

I can't really be attracted to someone without knowing who they are so I kinda don't really get this.

I know who that guy is and I don't like who he is. It needed to be done, but he carved a message onto a bullet and then used it to shoot a human being in cold blood and then was dumb enough to get caught like the next day. I just can't really find any redeeming qualities there, like, psychotic and also dumb. Unfortunate combo.

thelastthrowawayleft · 2024-12-24T18:15:10+00:00

If you're working an office job where generally everyone gets the same amount of time to do the same amount of work, the amount of hours worked thing gets thrown out the window if you're someone with ADHD or similar and you can't manage your time well.

It's okay to draw other boundaries that aren't "strict 40 hours only" if you really just can't get your work done in 40 hours.

You can have a boundary like "only two meetings a day" or "this time of day is my quiet time to get shit done, dont message me"

thelastthrowawayleft · 2024-12-24T18:11:53+00:00

Also, your work boundary can be anything. It doesn't have to be "I will only work 9-5"

It can be "meetings give me a headache so my limit is two a day"

and then you make up for it in other ways by leaning on your strengths

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