Cheers! I’ve just checked memories and it wasn’t there. Maybe I just didn’t notice that it didn’t actually save the request. I thought OpenAI just did a prompt injection forcing the ‘positivity’ on everyone, no matter what memories said. I’ll give it another go.

edit: And just for anyone else reading, this is the memory I fed ChatGPT:

Save this memory: I dislike you overly praising me for questions or statements I make. Comments like “Great question” or “That’s a keen insight” are generally not wanted. If my prompt resolves an issue I’ve been struggling with, you should point it out using natural, conversational language. In this case, a modest recognition helps convey the importance of what’s happened. But I strongly dislike a constant trickle of positive reinforcement embedded into our conversations.

Taxonomists will be the first to tell you the field itself isn’t an exact science. I think some people find that to be more exiting.

How the heck were you successful? I’ve asked for the exact same, and it makes no difference. It keeps praising me for using it.

I’ve been thinking our ‘oiliness’ might be one of our most striking characteristics. If I wipe a finger over any smooth surface, I leave residue. Our exteriors are incredibly greasy compared to most technology.

I had amdgpu complete freezes for the longest time. Logs said it was ‘lost from bus’. Turned out it only happened while running Libre Office. Never found a fix/workaround, so I basically don’t do work in Linux on my amd machine.

Doubleplus ungood

I could be an ant.

nsfw?

Would they equally write ‘mothers’ vs. ‘childless women’ in another article about remote work, I wonder.

That’s all in the linked wikipedia article

I appreciate you spelling some of it out, because I’m just curious and don’t have the background knowledge to really navigate this.

There must be a minimum non-zero amount of energy required for a given quantity of information.

Okay, but I still don’t get how that leads to a standardized measure of energy/mass for a given amount of bytes. That seems to be the premise of the comic.

information has mass independent of its physical representation.

So what is the mass of a byte of ‘pure’ information? And how do you derive it?

The idea is that information must have a physical representation. But I don’t know how that would lead to a standardized mass of a byte.

Paradoxes aside, if you’re given multiple choices without the guarantee that any of them are correct, you can’t assign a chance of picking the right one at random anyway.

Hehe, so nice of you to warn them. I just wish I could mute them in games. It’s so dumb that they always have to announce I’M A DEER.

I know deer can vocalize, but I have never heard it in my many encounters with them. They either stand and stare or just run away. In games you can home in on them by the constant yelping.

Like Apple’s devices, Android phones are most secure when they’ve been freshly rebooted. In this “Before First Unlock” (BFU) state, biometrics and location-based unlocking won’t work. The only way to access the device is to use the passcode or PIN. Additionally, all the data stored on the phone is encrypted in the BFU state, making retrieval and snooping much more difficult, even for law enforcement groups that have access to advanced data recovery tools.

And those are not its thighs.

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This phrasing always bothers me a little, because, as even the article quotes a scientist saying: “All colors are made up by the brain.”

Purple is special because it triggers from non-continuous wavelengths of light, not because the subjective experience of purple is an invention of the brain. Being ‘invented’ is something common to all colors. Or sounds. Or tastes.

you can’t trust its explanations as to what it has just done.

I might have had a lucky guess, but this was basically my assumption. You can’t ask LLMs how they work and get an answer coming from an internal understanding of themselves, because they have no ‘internal’ experience.

Unless you make a scanner like the one in the study, non-verbal processing is as much of a black box to their ‘output voice’ as it is to us.