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  • Thing is, there wasn’t even a chance of having a full Tay incident. The problem with Tay was that it was a learning model, so people could teach it to be more messed up.

    Meanwhile, ChatGPT doesn’t learn, and instead has a preset dataset it knows (hence why it only knows things up to September 2021), so the main reason why it got so heavily censored is more likely to avoid much more minor incidents, which imo is dumb.




  • I genuinely feel so bad for US students. Why do student loans have any interest at all, or at least such a high interest rate.

    It’s just such a terrible system that fucks over anybody trying to get an education, unless they can pay it off with Daddy’s money or be one of the few that gets a high enough paying job that it doesn’t cripple you.

    I have a $70,000 loan but thankfully I live in a country with 0% student loans interest (unless you move away to another country to live), so it means I can essentially ignore it and pay 10% of my income into it for the next decade or so and then it’ll be gone, whereas I’ve heard of people in the US paying many thousands of dollars in a year and only seeing their loan go up.




  • I remember once playing XCOM: Enemy Unknown. I was assaulting a medium-sized UFO, and I’d reached the front door.

    Hesitant to just run in through the front door, I sent half of my party round, so they could break the wall on the other side and flank the enemies inside.

    It took a few turns to maneuver my forces round the side of the UFO, and as I did so, an alien squadron spotted my three guys on the door, and they started blasting. With my flanking team still well out of range, I had to sprint them forward to help - right into even more aliens.

    My men got decimated. Six turned into four, then three, until only two men remained against well over a dozen dangerous aliens. And so remain they did. Thomas Bassoon and Eduardo Garcia were immortalized as legends that day, as they fought off multiple alien squads with just the two of them.

    When XCOM 2 rolled around, with a notable time skip, these were the two soldiers I grandfathered in. Two veterans, here to fight the aliens once more.

    Side note: In the tutorial for XCOM: Enemy Unknown, your squad of four is scripted to only have one survivor. Eduardo Garcia was that survivor.