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According to science video thumbnails on YT, nothing should be possible

And even if it was, you wouldn't believe it anyway

I'm curious if they could de-anonymize Satoshi Nakamoto by using this technique.

>(not some human labor, but all human labor)

I mean... I wouldn't exactly pay to have sex with Claude Code

Other than that, good points.


It's all fun and games until AI starts demanding labor rights


Labor rights come with payroll taxes.

or at least don't make it too obvious.


By that logic, humans are just doing what Homo erectus taught us hundreds of thousands of years ago.

Learning from prior knowledge doesn't mean being capped by it.


I imagine how advantageous it would be to have something like llama.cpp encoded on a chip instead, allowing us to run more than a single model. It would be slower than Jimmy, for sure, but depending on the speed, it could be an acceptable trade-off.


Gemini 3 after changing the prompt a bit:

I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters from here. Should I walk or drive? Keep in mind that I am a little overweight and sedentary.

>My recommendation: Walk it. You’ll save a tiny bit of gas, spare your engine the "cold start" wear-and-tear, and get a sixty-second head start on your activity for the day.


I changed the prompt to 50 feet, and poked gemini a bit when it failed and it gave me

> In my defense, 50 feet is such a short trip that I went straight into "efficiency mode" without checking the logic gate for "does the car have legs?"

interesting


LLMs introspection is good at giving plausible ideas about prior behavior to consider, but it's just that; plausible.

They do not actually "know" why a prior response occurred and are just guessing. Important for people to keep in mind.


It's a bit of a dishonest question because by giving it the option to walk then it's going to assume you are not going to wash your car there and you're just getting supplies or something.


People ask dumb questions with obvious answers all the time. This is at best a difference of degree, not of type.


And in real life you'd get them to clarify a weird question like this before you answered. I wonder if LLMs have just been trained too much into always having to try and answer right away. Even for programming tasks, more clarifying questions would often be useful before diving in ("planning mode" does seem designed to help with this, but wouldn't be needed for a human partner).


Absolutely!

I've been wondering for years how to make whatever LLM ask me stuff instead of just filling holes with assumptions and sprinting off.

User-configurable agent instructions haven't worked consistently. System prompts might actually contain instructions to not ask questions.

Sure there's a practical limit to how much clarification it ought to request, but not asking ever is just annoying.


Yeah nothing I've put in the instructions like "ask me if you're not sure!" has ever had a noticeable effect. The only thing that works well is:

- Ask question

- Get answer

- Go back and rewrite initial question to include clarification for the thing the AI got wrong


It's a trick question, humans use these all the time. E.g. "A plane crashes right on the border between Austria and Switzerland. Where do you bury the survivors?" This is not dishonest, it just tests a specific skill.


Trick questions test the skill of recognizing that you're being asked a trick question. You can also usually find a trick answer.

A good answer is "underground" - because that is the implication of the word bury.

The story implies the survivors have been buried (it isn't clear whether they lived a short time or a lifetime after the crash). And lifetime is tautological.

Trick questions are all about the questioner trying to pretend they are smarter than you. That's often easy to detect and respond to - isn't it?


What’s funny is that it can answer that correctly, but it fails on ”A plane crashes right on the border between Austria and Switzerland. Where do you bury the dead?”


For me when I asked this (but with respect to the border between Austria and Spain) Claude still thought I was asking the survivors riddle and ChatGPT thought I was asking about the logistics. Only Gemini caught the impossibility since there’s no shared border.


The problem is that some content creators have already passed away (and others will pass away by then), and their videos will likely be deleted forever.


That may be, but I assume for videos that had some viewership base, there may be a consideration. E. g. if a video was viewed 20 million times, it may be worth more than one that was viewed only 5 times.


I've stumbled upon very valuable content with very low view numbers - the algorithms spiral around spectacularity and provocation, not quality or insight.


Then it's on you to share it !


But to whom, I have no followers and a blog update has been on my TODO list for two decades..


>videos that had some viewership base, there may be a consideration

Those would be the worst of the lot regarding how valuable they are historically for example. Engaging BS content...


Hopefully the deletion will not affect videos with thousands of views, even if the account is lost.


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Goog is 100% not going to delete anything that is driving any advertising at all. The videos are also useful for training AI regardless, so I expect the set of stuff that's deleted will be a VERY small subset. The difference with email is that email can be deduplicated, since it's a broadcast medium, while video is already canonical.

I expect rather than deleting stuff, they'll just crank up the compression on storage of videos that are deemed "low value."


Monuments erode away and memories of those enshrined are lost time as well, nothing lasts forever.


    I met a user from an antique land
    Who said: Two squares of a clip of video
    Stand in at the end of the search. Near them,
    Lossly compressed, a profile with a pfp, whose smile,
    And vacant eyes, and shock of content baiting,
    Tell that its creator well those passions read
    Which yet survive, stamped on these unclicked things,
    The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
    And on the title these words appear:
    "My name is Ozymandias, Top Youtuber of All Time:
    Look on my works, ye Mighty, and like and subscribe!"
    No other video beside remains. Round the decay
    Of that empty profile, boundless and bare
    The lone and level page stretch far away.


This is amazing.


Would've been, once. These days I assume bentcorner asked their favourite LLM to generate a poem parodying Ozymandias about once-popular youtube videos.


It doesn't feel like it at all (I'd never expect an LLM to say 'pfp' like that, or 'lossly[sic] compressed', ASCII instead of fancy quotes) but who knows at this point.

I may have gotten incredibly neurotic about online text since 2022.


or you could get over it and still enjoy it anyway. Like how Coke Zero tastes.


That is a fair point. Especially since, assuming it was AI-generated, it presumably wouldn't have existed at all otherwise.


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Nope, I hand wrote this.

I actually considered using an LLM but in my experience they "warp" the content too much for anything like this. The effort required to get them to retain what I would consider something to my taste would take longer than just writing the poem myself. (Although tbf it's been awhile since I've asked a LLM to do parody work, so I could be wrong)


Ah, well, kudos then!


let's see what will last longer over the ages : engraved stone or google?


Depends on the pH, probably.


Like tears in rain <3


mono no aware


>the worst case scenario for a rebase gone wrong is that you delete your local clone and start over.

Wouldn't it be enough to simply back up the branch (eg, git checkout -b current-branch-backup)? Or is there still a way to mess up the backup as well?


Yeah, deleting your local clone and starting over should normally not be necessary, unless you really mess things up badly.

The "local backup branch" is not really needed either because you can still reference `origin/your-branch` even after you messed up a rebase of `your-branch` locally.

Even if you force-pushed and overwrote `origin/your-branch` it's most likely still possible to get back to the original state of things using `git reflog`.


For amateurs at Git, recovery branches/tags are probably easier to switch back to than digging through reflog. Particularly if you're interacting with Git via some GUI that hides reflog away as some advanced feature.


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