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Epistemic status: sharing an interesting thing I've discovered and my opinion of it. AI use: research for additional context, grammar, and light phrasing. I stumbled upon this case a couple of months ago and have been fascinated by it since. It has significantly changed how I perceive the abilities of LLMs. I didn't expect an LLM to understand prompt injection and try to use it.None of the people in my social circle knew about this (but I am not very connected with AI folks, so this may be my local

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We're always being told that we should make peace with how we look; but why? We never chose our bodies and nor should we necessarily be forced to identify with them. They're like a random taxi we were shoved into at birth. We've been forced to play the facial lottery and most of us are deeply unhappy with the results - and should in our own ways be allowed to be.Uploaded 06-05-20FURTHER READINGYou can read more on this and other subjects here: https://bit.ly/3ckaeVK"A characteristic emotion on

The 6 Dangerous People Psychology Says You Must AvoidUploaded 05-10-26In this video we break down six of these people and the research behind each one: the common-enemy friend (Jennifer Bosson), the spiral partner (Amanda Rose's work on co-rumination), the warm underminer (Michelle Duffy), the permanent victim (Rahav Gabay and Arie Nadler), the anchor (the Michelangelo phenomenon from Stephen Drigotas and Caryl Rusbult), and the quiet scorekeeper (Abraham Tesser and Jonathan Smith). You'll also get

As a brash but anxious young programmer in the before-time, I affected a standoffish attitude on the topic of games. Why would I learn to play a game as a human, I said, when I could just write a program to do it? When an office chess game got started at my workplace, I wrote a chess engine (a standard minimax search with α–β pruning) rather than learn anything about strategy or tactics. When my insufficiently requited love started hosting a meetup to play Zendo—a deduction game in which one player