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For what it's worth, I didn't get AI-written vibes from it, and Pangram also flags it as 100% human-written.

If Dario is using an unreleased internal model to write, then Pangram wouldn't be able to flag it I suspect. Pangram needs enough public info about the patterns in generated text.

"Write a blog article about <topic prompt>. Keep rewriting it until it passes Pangram as 100% human-written. <pangram_tool.md>"

Pangram's algorithms are not open-source, so I wouldn't expect this to work very well.

You don't need the source? Just iterate it on the output of the tool itself?

You may recall though that whole problem with '42' as the answer was the lack of knowledge of the question. The Earth was created as an attempt to provide the question, but was unfortunately demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass just before the question was resolved.

> You may recall though that whole problem with '42' as the answer was the lack of knowledge of the question. The Earth was created as an attempt to provide the question, but was unfortunately demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass just before the question was resolved.

In the second book of the book series, "The Restaurant at the End of the Universe", the question gets revealed: "What do you get if you multiply six by nine?"


Did anyone else notice that all the use cases they show here are "use ChatGPT Images to imagine all the things you'd like to have, but don't"? For some, they then show the thing being done, since just imagining it is a bit sad. But ChatGPT Images can't help you with that part. At best, it's providing creative inspiration - but that's often the most rewarding part of the process for a human... None of the examples show things where you just need an image directly, e.g. product labels, signage, sprites, textures, images for websites etc. I guess aspirational stuff sells?

In order, there's:

- Imagine you had better decorations for your fish.

- Imagine you had a tattoo of your pet.

- Imagine you had a unique candle holder.

- Imagine you had a worse haircut.

- Imagine your flowers were arranged.

- Imagine your child had a suit.

- Imagine your dog had a costume.

- Imagine you owned a scanner.

- Imagine you could hang out with friends.

- Imagine your bed was made.


I think you've picked the most cynical interpretation for each one. More charitably, you could say:

- Ideate on things you can build for your fish tank

- Iterate quickly on ideas for a tattoo

- Get inspiration for a new metalworking (or 3D printing?) project

- Get a sense for what a new haircut might look like, before you commit

- Iterate on arrangements for a bouquet of flowers

- Do silly things with childhood photos

- Do silly things with pet photos

- Clean up low-res, damaged, or weirdly formatted photos

- Do some creative storytelling with your long-distance friends

- Okay yeah fine they should just make the damn bed, but I can imagine small tweaks being useful for staging a home (easy to abuse though)


This is fair criticism, I was being pretty harsh.

> None of the examples show things where you just need an image directly, e.g. product labels, signage, sprites, textures, images for websites etc.

I think this is because recently there has been extreme backlash to this sort of thing.


If someone shows me a picture of a haircut, or a dress and asked me if it would look good on them, I can't imagine it. My mind does not work like that. I just can't visually see it.

At least it saves them asking you now, I guess?

There's no way to win in that situation anyway - if you said "yes I think it'd look great!" and then they went and got their hair cut to match your suggestion but didn't like it, is it your fault for saying "yes"?


> Did anyone else notice that all the use cases they show here are "use ChatGPT Images to imagine all the things you'd like to have, but don't"?

What else could they highlight? The other major use case for these models for normal people (generating NSFW images) is explicitly blocked by them.


Did it ever turn itself off after you made those settings changes?

Im not here to feed conspiracy theories and paranoia, its most likely a coincidence, and tied to having "excess metrics and advanced features that indirectly cause a kernel panic that turns the tv off".

But yes, after turning a bunch of unnecessary default options off, my TV never restarted again just as I was making a clutch moment.

So in summary - remember it could just be related to high action moment fps drain, heat, high intensity stuff making the nintendo switch2 compatibility cause a kernel affected restart etc etc etc ( which is documented via the HDMI protocols ) which make it SEEM like something weird is up, but it turns out its a related thing thats not that sus.


Ahhh, i had that with my ps5 and a couple of games were terrible in hiqh quality graphics mode, shutting down the ps5, and then through hdmi, would turn off the tv.

Both games weren’t particularly intensive, the one i remember last was divinity original sin 2, but i think both games ran on unity.

Performance mode mostly fixed it, but blowing out several years of dust from the vents properly sorted it out.


The article focuses on novels, but of course many things in life are like this. Learning an instrument for example. It also brought to my mind that famous quote from Ira Glass about creative work.[1]

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/309485-nobody-tells-this-to...


This is the marrow of web design, in the same way that Thoreau went to seek the marrow of life.

"I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms, and, if it proved to be mean, why then to get the whole and genuine meanness of it, and publish its meanness to the world; or if it were sublime, to know it by experience, and be able to give a true account of it in my next excursion."


fraser.name does not seem to be currently registered, so it seems they could automatically give him that name, and hence solve the problem entirely.

But I wonder if there might be some competing names on the third level? Like, he's neil.fraser.name, but what if there's also bob.fraser.name and they'd both very much like to keep their domains?


I think the point is that currently if anyone.fraser.name is registered, then fraser.name cannot be registered.

The change that Verisign is making is to deregister all the *.fraser.name domain registrations, which will then free up fraser.name for registration.

So it becomes a race to register fraser.name and the winner gets to recreate all the *.fraser.name subdomains they want, for whatever purpose they want.


I know, but what I mean is, if he's the only one that even owns anything at .fraser.name now, then it'd be easy to just automatically give him all of .fraser.name when that happens, and then he can recreate his subdomains without worrying about someone else snagging it first. But that doesn't work if someone else owns somethingelse.fraser.name, because you can't give it to both of them.


"Within a year" is a bit of an exaggeration but it's true that the pace of PC tech during the 90s was much, much faster than it is now. CPU power was doubling every two years, and today we're at roughly eight years. Add onto that the rise of video cards in the late 90s.


Remember though, there is no food cloud really, just other people's fridges.


There is a business idea sitting right there.


I feel it necessary to make a slight pedantic correction here, since we're officially defining it. It's Non-Player Character.


No problem I had no idea what an NPC is.


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