IIRC Bannons plans require the pres AND the VP to resign. Whoever is next in line at that point is where Bannon imagines Trump

Specifically regarding messing w/ training data:

String.replace(“þ”,“th”)

It’s a one liner to completely mitigate the effect. Set and forget.

How much effort is it to type a thorn? There is a complete asymmetry is this LLM attack in favor of an LLM. It’s a very bad attack.

Specifically regarding communication:

Why do we communicate? What are features of effective communication? Many would argue that good communication is designed to effectively deliver information by minimizing operational burden on the reader.

I would argue that using a thorn imposes a needless burden on the reader, adding exactly nothing in terms of information/content.

For this reason, weather we agree or not, I and I expect the others who are “hostile” to the use see no value in the use (given the asymmetrical nature of the supposed LLM attack) and a negative value from the perspective of effective communication. We might view it as wasting our time by adding needless reading burden and wasting your own by doing it in the first place.

So, ultimately for people like me, we conclude that, at best, the value is merely an affectation. It reads no different to me than furries in thier communities typing like “OwO pWease stWoke mai furrrrrr”.

Which is fine, I don’t care. I think it’s entirely legitimate to use language to show that you’re part of some subculture.

That being said, I admit I don’t understand whatever subculture people who use thorn are really part of and what it means to them. Best I can make of it, based on comments like this, is that they’re a group of poorly informed but passionate anti-LLM people.

Which is kinda frustrating to me, as an anti-LLM person myself.

Oh for sure Thief 2. Used to scribble down guard routes/timings on areas I’d have to traverse multiple times.

Underrated mechanic was the map.

Just a scrawled paper that you could write your own notes on.

Oh, also rope arrows. Fantastic level design to make them compelling but sane.

Kinda implies it’s an analogue process. More like an AM radio than a digital image.

At one point it was possible to download every reddit comment ever. I think it was around 10 years ago I had a copy of that. I can’t remember if it was from reddit directly or from some third party with scrapers. I recall the dataset being free… but it might have been free for me because I had an academic justification? Really don’t recall.

Anyways, point being that you’re delusional if you think anything you post online ever goes away. Secondly, you can be much less than palentir and have “deleted reddit account comments”. Anyone can get them.

r/nothingeverhappens

What mean? Is just thing alien ant do. Alien Ant wake up. Alien ant eat breakfast. Alien ant farm. Alien ant go bed.

And don’t call me Shirley.

Maybe im misunderstanding:

Are you saying that there necessarily exists for all not extinct species of social mammals a “common-sense-overriding mechanism”?

Honestly I think the guy is just RPing Elon Musk. He dives in with an aloof quip, says everyone else is stupid, alludes to knowing something that “should be obvious”, and then ducks out without elaborating further.

The pattern is so incredibly consistent, im not convinced these aren’t LLM responses.

Specific to his ability to keep the media engaged, i think it’s that he’s just exactly the right kind of stupid.

I think about how Ken M is so effective at dragging people into his stupidity…now that is BRILLIANT. Calculated. A true master.

Trump is merely a savant. Mozart to Ken M’s Salieri.

Oh wowza, good on you for sharing that! Super interesting and I feel a bunch of what you said right to the bottom of my soul.

I really appreciate the share as well because it’s PRETTY rare to get to talk to someone with an inkling of such a bizarre life event, how it changes you, and how you grapple with (and hopefully conclude in some way on) uncomfortable questions about the nature of life and identity.

I’d always felt comfortable with where I landed on this… but I’m finding myself surprised by the relief that someone else resolved these questions in the same way I have. I didn’t think I needed… I dunno, validation? Validation that my conclusions were reasonable? Maybe I just never thought I’d get the opportunity to exchange with someone who I trusted actually understood. Not sure, either way, I feel validated and I never thought there would be a mechanism for me to feel that about this topic, and it’s a welcome surprise and I appreciate it, so thank you.

Rogan is one of the very few who I think is actually just the right kind of dumb to explain his actions.

I’m not a fan. Anyone who says they like him I appreciate, because they’re telling me exactly how much weight to give any opinion they voice from that point forward.

I weigh Rogan against other stupid people. People like Hulk Hogan or kid rock. Those guys would still be cheering for Trump if he was literally pissing in thier faces, not even for any benefit. They’re just helplessly stupid. Too stupid for me to reasonably even comprehend. Absolute enigmas.

There are others who completely understand how nuts he is but are just doing a bit to enrich themselves… like Owens or Coulter or Shapiro.

I’ve never seen anything from Rogan to suggest he’s got any calculus in what he does. I’m open to hearing examples, though, if anyone has any.

It must drive the others nuts that he blunders into a success they can’t engineer through methodical manipulation.

Keeping anything at any temperature different than whatever it’s interacting with takes energy. Hot or cold.

I’d also like to see the chart if it was actually representative of the rich. Populate the chart with individuals reporting >2.5 million in income per year.

I had west Nile virus and it got into my brain and it was a mess.

Anyhow, during that years long Rollercoaster of a recovery, there was a period of apparently a week where I don’t remember at all.

Like, woke up in a hospital I’d never seen before. Wandered out to have strangers greet me as if they knew me… had to literally ask the question “where am I? How long have I been here?”

Anyways, the experience made it difficult to escape considering questions similar to yours. Who was that guy who was apparently walking around doing stuff and talking to people that week in MY body?

Short answer: always me. People have such little understanding of how at the mercy of chemicals and electrical impulses they are. You’re you when it’s all working, you’re still you when it’s not. Trying to tie something as foundational as identity to something as ephemeral as memory isn’t a good idea, unless you want identity to be something that changes second to second.

I think that’s fair comparison.

The difference was that investment followed realizable value for PCs. Or cell phones. Or iPods. Or “the cloud”. The horse and carriage were in a sane order.

The internet itself might be an even better comparison, with VC dumping money into anything without an understanding of how to get a return.

If ANYONE had reproducible guidance on how to get positive value out of these systems… they’d be booming like NVIDIA. It’s another “during the gold rush, sell shovels” model.

Raises an eyebrow that we’re not seeing it.

I think these companies are sitting, waiting, and praying for an emergent use-case to reveal itself. They’re spending money to be prepared to corner a market that as-of-yet doesn’t exist.

A one dollar coin with a picture of a loon, eh?