and to be clear, that doesn’t include the various people out there struggling to use it “enough” due to the desires of “leadership”

My realization of the last couple weeks is: in the future, being an AI toucher will be a source of intense social stigma. Whenever I see it in the wild I think “good job”.

https://www.verysane.ai/p/alignment-is-proven-to-be-tractable – apparently we have gone stepwise from zero steps to one step in terms of “alignment”, and that step is writing a markdown file with declarative statements asking to be addressed in a particular way

I have a Kobo Sage and it’s nice, I exclusively sideload epubs/kepubs onto it. I have installed KOreader in case I want to read PDFs.

went to look at their github issues tracker and this one made me cackle. Poe status undetermined but it delighted me so much:

https://github.com/xai-org/grok-prompts/issues/16

Subject: Why are the prompts not written in Lojban?

Is Grok incapable of logic in order to use the Lojban logical language?

in the past I have worked in the product cycle at a silicon valley company a little bit and I just can’t imagine anyone I met ever getting to the next step being “tell the customers the new product is marginally better at 15-30x the current price” and then actually doing that instead of cancelling releases, fire-drill meetings all week to change paths as soon as possible, etc. unless they already did that?

“bonkers” is right.