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You’re spot on regarding how AI operates.


AI is stupid story time!


I recently helped a friend with a self-hosted VPN problem. He had been using a free trial of Gemini Pro to try to fix it himself but gave up after THREE HOURS. It never tried to help him diagnose the issue, but instead kept coming up with elaborate fixes with names that suggested they were known issues, like The MTU Traffic Jam, The Packet Collision Quandary, and, my favorite, The Alpine Ridge Controller Trap. Then it would run him through an equally elaborate “fix”. When that didn’t work, it would use the failure conditions to propose a new, very serious sounding pile of bullshit and the process would repeat.


I fixed it in about fifteen minutes, most of that time spent undoing all the unnecessary static routing, port forwarding, and driver rollbacks it had him do. The solution? He had a typo in the port number in his peer config.


I can’t deny that LLMs are full of useful knowledge. I read through its output and all of its suggestions absolutely would have quickly and efficiently fixed their accompanying issue, even the thunderbolt/pcie bridging issue, if the real problem had been any of them. They’re just garbage at applying that information.

Can confirm. I was given it to help with a medication known for spiking anxiety during the initial doses. Not only did my anxiety not increase, I was better able to do things I was usually reluctant to do because of stress or anxiety. It's like I just didn't care as much.

The major downside for me was lower blood pressure than normal, so I got dizzy easily if I stood up too fast.

I worked for a call center as a stop gap when I was younger. The economy had shit itself and while this company was doing great, it was looking to save money because they knew they could squeeze desperate people. Annual raises were coming up. They were based on a system heavily influenced by disciplinary action, so many of my coworkers started getting verbal and written warnings for ridiculous things.

I finally got written up for not pulling up a reference before telling a customer about a past event. I didn't pull the reference up because I already had it and other common topics open for easy access, which my supervisor told us to do.

I disputed the write-up but the department manager denied it as "the information could have changed between calls, so you should have looked it up through our knowledge base". I asked how the past could have changed and was told it doesn't matter: it's policy. I asked to see the policy. The goalposts immediately changed: "disciplinary action is at management's discretion and this was a serious error in judgment". I told them that I was shocked anyone could say that and still expect to be taken seriously, even by themselves, and refused to sign my write-up. I was pulled into the HR manager's office and given a "Final Warning" write-up for my attitude and not signing my initial write-up. I signed that one and got on a PIP, so they were happy.

Annual reviews were that week. I had extraordinary performance stats but got a $0.04 per hour annual raise - $83.20 per year! I walked out once I got a new job.

I just checked: my old manager is now a "boss babe" who sells essential oils and scented candles for MLMs. Sometimes a life well lived really is the best revenge.

Or that the editor misquoted the source entirely. I’ve even found articles that are littered with “citation needed” that have persisted as such for weeks or months.


I think sometimes people unfairly discount Wikipedia’s utility and overinflate its problems, while others are too cavalier about them. Wikipedia is a useful starting point for research as long as the researcher has the knowledge required to evaluate articles and perform further inquiry into their sources.

Did you eat it? Because they’re delicious.

I see the point being made; however, how the fuck else might I jam several clauses into one compound megasentence - overwrought and peppered with purple prose - if not with multiple types of punctuation? Should I summarize, streamline? Clearly not: all thoughts should be expressed in their fully glory, replete with irrelevant details. Perhaps remove unneeded, intra-sentence explanations (like this one) of details obvious to the reader?! Never!


No AI could write with matching convolution — especially when, unlike me, it cannot do so on the toilet.

Same! I saw that characteristic lighting in the preview and got so excited.

I’ve having a week and this is exactly what I needed. I’m now getting all my news from BBC Pidgin.


English headline: Trump wants to pause migration from ‘third-world countries’


Pidgin headline: Who be di ‘third world countries’ Trump say im go permanently pause dia migration to US?