if you are using contemporary LLMs, you want prompts that amount to linguistic one-way functions. they should generate output that would otherwise be difficult or annoying or time-consuming to produce, but is trivial to verify.

don't you just want to unlock new features?

@arclight good point.

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do we love our apps?

I have been told things you would never believe.

Back the blue!*

* As long as they ignore our crimes, but beat the crap out of them for theirs.

Ovid superintends his exile.

A sculpture of Ovid surveils Piata Ovidiu (Ovidiu Square) in Constanța, Romania. A sculpture of Ovid surveils Piata Ovidiu (Ovidiu Square) in Constanța, Romania.

“Too many limits on national policy autonomy can also produce a backlash against the global economy. One consequence of the erosion of national sovereignty under hyper-globalization was an increase in economic anxiety and the sense of a loss of control among many citizens. These are circumstances that exacerbate xenophobia and out-group hostility.” @drodrik project-syndicate.org/commenta

Kind of an aside, but Dems getting tough on Pharma's rape of the public purse would help defang some social issues. Both anti-vax and anti-trans activists lean on claims that what they deride as quack, harmful medicine is, with Dem's political contrivance, pushed on the public for Pharma Profit$.

These arguments would be less plausible if Democrats were plainly not on the side of Pharma Profit$.

see @pluralistic on Dem's latest, unpersuasive, version of "getting tough". pluralistic.net/2023/06/09/com

@JoshuaHolland @GottaLaff it’s only masking that can really hurt you.

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@DetroitDan (thanks!)

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@failedLyndonLaRouchite i wasn’t criticizing (your post or really endorsing it either). just rephrasing the Barr-endorsing tweet in an attempt at mild humor…

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@failedLyndonLaRouchite even Satan agreed this was over the line.

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@HamonWry it used to be VR was going to be a place for fantasy. now it’s going to be a place for normalcy.

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much of superstition is just reading reality like a novel.

on private equity, reviewing two recent books that both aptly characterize the industry as *plunder* prospect.org/culture/books/202

Got to love the coalition. rawstory.com/new-college-flori ht @GreenSkyOverMe @fawfulfan

some people can never die, will be forever young. chicagotribune.com/entertainme

Rooftops, Brașov.

orange tile rooftops of Brașov, plus a view if Biserica Neagra (“the Black Church”) under blue, partly cloudy sky. orange tile rooftops of Brașov, plus a view if Biserica Neagra (“the Black Church”) under blue, partly cloudy sky.

@CoolerPseudonym i don’t know! i should read (or better yet see) it!

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