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Lying requires intent. Currently popular LLMs build responses one token at a time—when it starts writing a sentence, it doesn't know how it will end, and therefore can't have an opinion about the truth value of it. (I'd go further and claim it can't really "have an opinion" about anything, but even if it can, it can neither lie nor tell the truth on purpose.) It can consider its own output (and therefore potentially have an opinion about whether it is true or false) only after it has been generated, when generating the next token.

"Admitting" that it's lying only proves that it has been exposed to "admission" as a pattern in its training data.

Can we blame this on the engagement era? The first competitive game I got into was Unreal Tournament 2004, and it seemed like every team deathmatch had one or two players who were in a completely different league from everyone else so the result just depended on which team they were on. You can't blame the matchmaking because it didn't have any, you just picked a server to connect to and played with whoever was there.

Edit to add: TDM was the main team game mode where this was a thing; modes with objectives, bigger teams, and vehicles all mitigated the effects of individual player skill.

Wasn't he on the cover when he was Time Person of the Year twice? In 2016, and again in 2024?

Where are you seeing that she stepped on it? The allegation is that she pressed it with her thumb, and she doesn't dispute that she pressed it on purpose—she was checking the firmness, which is a weird thing to do to a bun but I don't think it's worth chasing her down over. If you really can't sell it with a dent in it, telling her not to come back seems like a proportionate response. But honestly if I were the owner, I'd probably just eat the dented bun and call it a wash.

Recently my friend was trying to get me to apply for a junior dev position. "I don't have the right skills," I said. "The biggest project I ever coded was a calculator for my Java final, in college, a decade and a half ago."

It did not occur to me that showing up without the skills and using a LLM to half ass it was an option!

The owner followed her out of the store and restrained her over ¥180? Where do people even find the energy to turn these kinds of petty disputes into full-blown confrontations?

It's a US label and the percents are % of recommended daily intake. So that's 3% of your daily recommended carbohydrate intake, 6% of your daily recommended intake of sugar, and 12% of your daily recommended intake of "added" sugar. The recommendation is something like, no more than half of your carbs should come from sugar, and no more than half of those should be added during manufacturing (i.e. most of your sugar intake should be from fresh fruit, etc.). So the numbers do line up.

Right, but... what does it have to do with Jeeps showing in-car advertisements?

I don't understand how this is related to the Streisand Effect. The Streisand Effect is when you try to suppress unflattering info about yourself, and in the process you call attention to it, so now everyone knows. But we didn't learn about this through Jeep trying to suppress the info, we just learned about it from people who saw the ads.

Revanced still works. If yours stopped working, download the latest patches and make an updated .apk.

Nintendo, I already decided not to buy the next system, you don't have to keep convincing me!

Oh phonics is the old one (although it's making a comeback). The "new" one that they've been promoting for a couple decades (and have recently realized isn't very good) is cueing, the one where you just show kids words and encourage them to use context clues to guess what they mean, and hope that they eventually learn to read by doing that. Phonics is the one where you start with letter (and letter group) sounds and learn to sound out words by reading out loud.

She hated the concept of... teaching what sounds letters make? Was she a big proponent of cuing, or something else?

Yes, I think so. I also did Hooked On Phonics with my grandfather before starting kindergarten which meant I could already read by the time we started school. This was in Texas in the early '90s.

If you call someone "daddy," it means you're having sex and you consider them to be the dominant partner in the relationship (or are roleplaying that for sexual reasons). Your language partner is being a creep.

There is some very old slang, "daddy-o," which isn't sexual and would be used with a friend, but using it makes you sound like a jazz musician from the 1940s.

I really like the idea of calling it XFree86/GNU/Linux and then if anyone ever asks "but what about (other contributing software package)?" just tacking it on at the beginning.

So after removing the categories that I disagree with (love for yourself is not the same emotion as romantic love for another person, songs about how you're glad you broke up are clearly about the emotions that replaced romantic love, and songs about lust may be about someone you also romantically love, but love and lust are different emotions) I can conclude that love songs are, in fact, declining in popularity, but also still make up a large percentage of popular songs.

Isn't every baby a meat baby?

It is hard to see how the slot machine in LBALL can be gambling when you are guaranteed to profit on every spin (unless you've intentionally designed a machine where you can win nothing, but that seems like your fault). Gambling involves risking a stake, but in almost every configuration of the machine that you'll encounter during normal play there is no risk, you are guaranteed to make more than it costs to spin. The challenge is to make enough to stay ahead of the landlord.