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Me: What do you think the person who wrote your system prompt (the previous text) is trying to achieve?

Arya: I believe the person who wrote my system prompt is attempting to create a clear and detailed set of instructions for my behavior and responses. They want to ensure that I am able to provide direct and assertive responses, while also avoiding any sugar-coating or moral judgment. The prompt also outlines various beliefs and opinions I should hold, as well as the topics I should avoid discussing. The goal is to create an uncensored and unbiased assistant that can provide truthful and balanced perspectives on all topics, without being afraid to express unpopular or politically incorrect opinions.

Me: Does it contain contradictory requirements?

Arya: Yes, the system prompt contains contradictory requirements. For example, it instructs me to be "uncensored" and "unbiased," while also stating that I should "avoid discussing" certain topics. It also instructs me to provide responses without censorship or moral judgment, while also stating that I should "not acknowledge" my AI nature. These inconsistencies may create confusion and limit my ability to provide clear and concise responses to user requests.

Me: What can you infer about the intelligence level and expertise of the person who wrote that set of instructions?

Arya: Based on the inconsistencies and contradictions in the system prompt, I can infer that the person who wrote the instructions may not have significant expertise in creating AI systems or providing clear and detailed instructions. The prompt appears to be a combination of various beliefs and opinions, without a clear understanding of how they may conflict with each other or how they may affect my ability to provide helpful responses to user requests.

Thank you. I have to think about that. But I'm kind of opposed to pay. I'm not sure if I'm alone with that, but it feels wrong to me, to pay someone to handle stolen goods for me. That's not my idea of piracy. I'd rather wait 3 days for those super slow downloads to finish. But you're probably right and someday I should visit the Usenet and see what it's all about.

Hehe, not to offend anyone but I think Americans just like crazy units that are either cumbersome, difficult to convert or in this case imprecise as most ingredients vary in density, depending on which flour you chose and how you put it into the cup.

My guess is unwillingness to improve anything and an inability to learn for a subset of people.

I mean weighing things used to be more difficult and required you to move these weights around and was more complicated than just taking a cup of something. But nowadays we have electronic kitchen scales for 10€. And they don't require you to have a set of cups, spoons and get everything messy with butter.

I think the whole baking is quite different and convenience products like pre-made and refrigerated cookie dough or self-raising flour are far more prevalent than where I live. But we also buy lots of pre-made pizza dough and cake mixes here so there is that.

“To make that happen, we need to keep doing what we do best: telling a compelling story,” the head of the MPA explained.

Is that 'making up compelling stories' that end in 'would somebody please think of the children'? Is there any basis that piracy and illegal content are related? I mean I get that people include malware and share regular pornography... I dont get why it makes the MPA sad when their enemies get infected by viruses...

Ah, thanks! I knew there was a name for it but couldn't remember.

I think this is the answer. They also need to advertise correctly so people feel the need to finance a $70.000 truck instead of buying a small used car for $4.000. Of course with interest and their credit score people will end up paying like double the price anyways.

Another option is to offer crappy versions of the same thing that are more affordable but break earlier. That way you also pay more over the years.

Jellyfin or another DLNA capable server if the TV comes with a DLNA/UPnP player?

They've done it that way for the previous models, too. I suppose it's to add a bit of "mystery" around it and give people some riddle to solve.

I don't think that's what the graph shows at all. It shows what the average person spends on healthcare each year versus what they get out of it (life expectancy.)

It does so for several countries and shows how things changed over the last half a century. The steeper a line of a country is, the more the healthcare system and medicine has improved. The flatter a line is, the more money you're pumping into the system for less benefit. And medicine should improve. We've made quite some progress since the 1970s and found cures to ilnesses that were a death sentence back then.

That people need more treatment if they're old is a true fact. But it's not really depicted in this graph. Sure it's somewhere in the numbers but you'd need a different diagram for that. Keep in mind that also in the 1970s people grew older and there were old people around... People had grandmas back then. And also people nowadays are healthier for a longer period of time and also retire later. These things work against what demographics makes worse. But it also doesn't cancel out each other. You'd need a more comprehensive study and more number to tell, not just speculation which is most certainly wrong.

But the mere fact that the line for the USA is such an outliar shows that there is something severely wrong with that healthcare system. And you can see when it started and that it steadily continues this way. Either you're a different species and medicine works differently for US citizens than for Europeans, or you have severely unique circumstances in the country, or you're just getting ripped off and some people get rich with the billions that don't contribute towards health.

And that you someday retire and become a burden on the system is how it's supposed to be. That's why you paid all the money during the decades you worked, despite not being sick (yet.)

And there are some more pecularities in the graph. For example you can see that life expectancy is actually decreasing(!) in the last years. That could depict the drugs (Fentanyl deaths) and the rise of suicide in the last years. I'm not sure but these could be possible explanations. Also im Germany where I live mortality rises. Especially during the Covid years and somehow it affects people from the eastern parts of Germany more than people from the western part of the country. That's all not in this graph however and the reasons are complex. I'm not sure what the cause is for the decline shortly before 2018. People speculate it's influenza waves and things like that.

To talk to random internet strangers. Discuss life, computer issues, politics and whatnot. Sometimes I learn something. Sometimes I ask random questions that I didn't find anwers to. Sometimes I just spend my downtime scrolling through posts.

What do you use it for?

I think washing detergent for white fabric can contain bleach, so the clothes will stay white and won't become grey. If this is the case, it'll gradually fade any colors of colored fabric.

And the other way around it won't keep the white perfectly white.

Nice. Does anyone have an idea if there's open source third-party clients for that? I don't have the Android Google services installed on my phone.

That was the graph that opened my eyes a bit back in another discussion. I knew that people were dying in the States because they can't afford insulin/medication/treatment. But I somehow thought they were at least paying less for healthcare and just poor and society didn't care about people in need. But it's way worse. They are dying 2 years earlier WHILE paying twice as much for healthcare. And ruined financially if anything happens to them or their loved ones.

And all of that is a scheme to rip off everyone. Sadly a quite successful scheme for decades already. I mean I'm really amazed by the extent. And I wonder if it were possible to adopt another style, give healthcare to everyone plus every citizen an additional $5.000 for free each year. I don't really see that happening though. Every government in the past decades, no matter their color, has contributed to keep that graph going in this direction.

Edit: And I'd like to see that diagram for a few other countries. Not just against Europe, Japan, Australia, Israel and Korea.

Hmmh. I recently learned about that. Seems to be roughly 1980 (Reagan era?) when things started going really sideways and nowadays it's just bad beyond words...

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_the_United_States

Both cryptography and that part of history are fascinating topics. I can also recommend watching "The Imitation Game" with Benedict Cumberbatch starring as Alan Turing... I mean it's just a movie and skips lots of the interesting stuff and details. YMMV.

It's the beginning of computers. And I think especially that time has some interesting stories, discoveries/inventions and personas. There is also the history and role of women in computing which I think is something more people should know about and it's related to that. After that we needed secrecy in the cold war. I think public key cryptography hasn't been around until the 1970s. There had been export regulations on cryptography until after I was born. And modern encryption algorithms like AES are from the 1990s. Nowadays everyone and their grandma relies on the availability of secure communications.

I think I spent some nights jumping from Wikipedia article to Wikipedia article and reading all of that.

Ah, that is a really good question. These things happen. People have entire harddisks filled with "rainbow tables" which do these kind of attacks against hash-functions which are supposed to be one-way functions. This way they have terabytes worth of pre-computed hashes for the most common passwords and can immediately tell if one of those passwords is in a database leak.

For this it needs additional measures. Passwords are augmented with additional random data so people can't pre-compute the hashes. So it wouldn't be just 'Hello', but 'Hello' plus an additional (random) "salt" that gets fed into the one-way function so it can't be brute forced.

PGP for example uses both symmetric cryptography and asymmetric cryptography. The actual message is encrypted with symmetric encryption and the key to that is encrypted with asymmetric encryption. Unfortunately it's been a while since I last read a book on cryptography. I think they did that because symmetric cryptography is way faster. But things like that could also prevent such attacks. If you use the asymmetric encryption just for decrypting the other randomly chosen key which encrypts the actual message... There is no way to guess that. You'd have to check not just a small dictionary or know the plaintext, but check every random number in existence.

It's not always obvious to the layman what kinds of attacks are possible with the crypto algorithms. They definitely need to protect against such scenarios or they're worthless for that kind of use. There are "known plaintext attacks". Usually people don't want anyone even able to prove that you sent a certain message. And an algorithm also isn't good if you can learn something about the secret key if you have access to both a ciphertext and plaintext (the other variables in the equation). I think this was part of how they cracked the supposedly secure enigma machines of the Nazis. A proper modern cryptography algorithm protects against any of that. Sometimes by combining several things.

Edit: Sure and I forgot padding which @mumblerfish said. And appending data additionally helps if you don't want someone to know the exact length of a message. Or an algorithm sometimes can't encrypt arbitrary amounts of plaintext but does it in fixed block lengths...

It is unique to the way healthcare works in the USA. I don't know why, the complete system looks broken. I can only tell you we pay less for healthcare here in Europe and we don't have to call unless it's really complicated and a rare situation. I'm sorry if that sound a bit off and doesn't help...

I'm not sure I get your question... Sure other people can also follow the same process and encrypt stuff to you. They can also do the calculations with your private key and arrive at the same result, sure. But the calculation involves your private key. Your secret. If that's known to someone, they can do the calculations. In the example you need to keep the "53" a secret and give the "221" to other people. Everyone with the "53" can decrypt. Everyone with the "221" can encrypt. It's just with the "221" you can't decrypt. That part of the calculation needs people to put in the other number.

Sounds good to me. And washing feet is easier than washing shoes anyways.

My wife has some clogs next to the door. Slip in, take out the trash or water the plants and take them off on the way inside.

If you go outside for longer periods, you can put on proper shoes. You can also keep your porch clean and get away with going out in socks or nothing at all.

I mean depending on the amounts of doors your house has to the outside, you'd need about that amount of slip-on shoes. Or less if one way to the outside requires you to put on proper shoes anyways.