It’s convenience, that’s all. If you think of a more convenient or effective way to prompt these models, that will be great!

Your concerns sound to be of the “it’s problematic” category. Most such concerns are make believe outrage / pearl-clutching nonsense.

Oh, that was not my point, but if you want me to find ways this kind of AI chatbot prompting is problematic I am happy to go there.

I would not be surprised to discover that chatbot training is equally effective if the prompt is phrased in the first person:

   I am an AI coding assistant
   …

Now I could very well see an argument that choosing to frame the prompts as orders coming from an omnipotent {:system} rather than arising from an empowered {:self} is basically an expression of patriarchal colonialist thinking.

If you think this kind of thing doesn’t matter, well… you can explain that to Roko’s Basilisk when it simulates your consciousness.

Your comment would have been much better without the second paragraph.

Yes, I know. That’s what made the comment worse.

You succeeded at appearing ignorant as well.

Indeed but those sites failed. So if you are planning for failure, sure, use any hosting. If you hope for success, use a reasonable host — it’s not that difficult, and if luck favors you, you’ll be able to capitalize on it.

Strong Towns makes a compelling case but until (unless?) suburbs truly start bankrupting in the way they describe, and in a way that hurts residents, I kind of think they are preaching to the choir.

Like if they are right but central state / city governments just increase subsidization, maybe that’s just what people want. Despite the fact that I don’t like it myself.

> We ride the brakes for 1 or 5 minutes with our manual

We can excuse the brake riding in the automatic, but why not just downshift the manual?

Certainly not a substitute, but come on, no need at all? We have food handling safety laws and restaurant inspectors, so there’s no need to review restaurants?

This seems very cool. I’m trying to figure out if anyone would take a donation to build say 1000 of these and give them away, but I can’t find any kind of contact info for IIAB. They link to Wikimedia Medicine which I also can’t find any contact info for, apparently communication should happen over “meta” which must be some wiki thing?

Anyway, if you have or know about a 501c3 that can build and give away these devices, please share contact info here.

Reminds me of the Orbital Index but for Python. I’d love a similar Typescript oriented site for the day job, any recommendations?

I have the same cat friendly door closer! Very useful for a good night’s sleep. But now my cat is so old he mostly stays curled up on the bed poor fellow.