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Does Bing Chat give reliable answers to math and physics questions? If not is it possible to make it more reliable?

I realize and understand the criticisms of ChatGPT and I have personally seem how bad it can be. Once I asked to count the number of days till a random date giving the present date and it failed miserably, again and again. Trust me! I get the criticism. But, what about Bing Chat Bot?...

CanadaPlus,

Yeah. They may learn other stuff in the process, but at the end of the day all they are doing is predicting the next word/token.

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So is NA consuming a lot of the remaining 20%, or do we just suck?

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Put away the pitchforks… sort of.

This happened in the 80s. It’s just that it’s getting an apology now that there’s scrutiny.

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See, Yemen is a bad place where bad things are allowed to happen. By Western logic stuff only becomes real if it enters our imaginary bubble of perpetual safety. That’s also why 9/11 and the Ukraine invasion got such a big reaction.

To be clear, the bubble is not real, it can all happen here.

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I hope you’re right. They sure have been breaking from the pattern lately, I guess it’s a logical explanation…

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It appears to be pretty stable through history and prehistory around the world, so it’s probably biological. Occasionally cultures allow limited exceptions but they’re usually one-sided. This lines up with my personal experience, which is that some people are capable of being poly, but most people just aren’t.

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First world urbanites for sure, but as far as I can tell there’s many that are pretty poor by that standard, as queer people often are. I guess I know less about the circumstances of their birth.

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Cultural polyandry is also worth mentioning for completeness, but it’s less common and almost always involves two brothers.

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Ah yes, that’s true. It’s pretty common among monogamous birds too.

As I understand it, they’re still mono because they couldn’t stand it if their partner was doing the same thing.

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It’ll probably be a factor, but then you could do the same with roommates, and the historical pattern is of course multi-generational homes. That’s what I see happening more and more in real life - it’s becoming less unusual to live with parents as an adult.

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Man I have so many hopes for that nation. Big challenges, big potential.

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Well, here’s the Wikipedia. To be clear, I’m counting a society where elite men might have multiple wives as still monogamous, since that’s not representative of an average member of the population and the wives themselves are still bound to a single partner. Maybe that’s a terminology error but for the sake of this question I think it’s clearest.

And yeah, as someone pointed out there’s an amount of infidelity in every human society, but it’s generally neither endorsed by the legitimate partner or society at large, at least not as an actual relationship.

CanadaPlus,

I should do some reading about EFF. It really does seem like both SA and Zimbabwe chose the wrong strategy to righting colonial inequalities. Something in between, like just a tax on white-owned businesses while they’re disproportionately powerful, could be good.

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That’s exactly what I’ve heard too. Eventually they have to fall; ending apartheid was huge but even the most traditional public won’t remember forever.

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You’re going to get two answers here, corresponding to the two kinds of socialists: “My kind of socialism doesn’t exist” and “Yes I’d immigrate to the secretly highly-developed and free nation of North Korea”

It looks like you’ve got a lot of people that call their version of capitalism “socialism” as well.

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Which seems kind of unfair. I think I represented their stance accurately, and without saying it’s good or bad.

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How to to voting even is a big question. The really representative systems tend to end up with razor thin coalitions full of smallish parties that play brinkmanship. There’s got to be a way to discourage that, but I don’t know what it is yet.

More controversially, it should probably address economic inequality in some way.

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Are you aware that’s literally what the fediverse is?

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Ah, so get more stuff on the fediverse. Good choice.

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We just need to get rid of that thing.

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Good for you!

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That’s pretty high risk, though, since the admins could notice at any time.

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There is in no way an equivalence between the USSR and the Nazis. Hunka fought because he thought his ethnicity might come out on top, just like the German SS members. The Soviets fought to stop the Nazis from killing and enslaving them all.

If he personally committed atrocities is important, but even if he somehow avoided it he was working with and for people who openly thought atrocities were cool.

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This is true, the USSR’s atrocities killed more people.

Factually incorrect. Unless you count all the deaths outside of death camps as just oopsies the Nazis killed 90 million-ish people in the space of a few years, and would have gladly kept going. USSR dumbassery killed a few million at most over 70 years, although it’s hard to get a firm number, both due to further dumbassery and the fact Russia always had a certain unnatural death rate. Most people survived in the USSR just fine, if with a questionable standard of living.

People didn’t become Nazis solely because they hated Jews and wanted to be the master race. Some did, sure. Others joined the Nazi party because otherwise they couldn’t have a job, or because all their buddies were doing it, or because Stalin was looming in the east and nobody else was around that could oppose him.

Ditto for Stalin’s people, except the underlying motivation was to build a communist utopia as opposed to killing all the subhumans, which is at least well-intentioned. Hunka volunteered, though, it wasn’t like he just went along with it (not that that’s a great excuse anyway).

People in eastern Europe were stuck trying to figure out which “side” was more likely to end up putting them and their family in a ditch, with no benefit of historical hindsight to know which one would come out on top and get to write the history books afterward.

Lack of education is kind of an interesting point, and why historians tend to avoid making value judgements at all. But, for the sake of who should get clapped in parliament today…

How should the history books be written differently? We’ve interacted enough I’ll be kind of surprised if you’re a “da joos” guy.

Indeed, they really hated the competition.

Again, factually inaccurate.

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Oh, I guess I was wrong. Silly me. The USSR were the good guys by a few-million-less-than 20 megadeath margin.

Goddamn it. 70 years. Fixed.

They literally had a secret pre-war treaty that divided up the conquering rights to Eastern Europe, the Molotov–Ribbentrop Pact.

Sure, Stalin saw a good deal for him and took it, and made good use of it in preparation for fighting Hitler. You’ll note that Poland was not emptied out the way the Nazis had planned by their eventual Soviet overlords.

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As a non-German volunteer.

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Joining the Waffen-SS in 1943 is also up there.

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I’m not sure how relevant this is, but yeah “we defeated the Nazis” is the new Russian “national myth”, and they’re pretty comfortable stripping out any nuance to the Nazis beside the fact they attacked the USSR.

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Yeah, exactly. Anything people can’t find an alternative for is bound to cause “creativity” when it disappears.

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I feel like this might be a giant gaping security risk.

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Agreed. This is especially bad, though, because if it’s compromised they basically have hardware-level access to your machine. Unless you’re using encrypted swap, and I’m not sure how standard that is.

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Is that what this would take? Then yeah, you’d hope somewhere in the process you consider this.

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If your kernel isn’t using 90% of your CPU resources, are you really even using it to it’s full potential? /s

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The speed of light, so 50ms or so assuming locations on Earth. In practice a bit more because you have to go around it rather than through the core. Servers already have to make retroactive calls, which is why it looks like you hit but then you didn’t sometimes.

Interestingly enough, Starlink has lower latency than wire despite the longer path because light travels slower than c through glass fiber.

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Milliseconds. That’s roughly the diameter of the Earth divided by the speed of light.

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I’m going to guess land is cheaper in Indonesia too, but I’m not sure.

Why is that? You’d expect that labour requirement would scale with track length just as land requirement does. Or do you just mean the engineers?

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I’ve seen people told to “get help” for a lot of things, though. Delusional idiocy is in the eye of the beholder. I’d really prefer it if we didn’t attach a new stigma for when situations come up where help actually is available and needed.

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Really. On the Ukraine war subreddit “launch nukes” is like the majority opinion. I guess it’s easy to be bloodthirsty from behind a keyboard.

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I think you have your wires crossed - Yeltsin died in office left in terrible health. You could use Gorbachev, but then you’re going back to the Soviet era that was completely different, if also not democratic. It’s also not unique to Russia. Autocrats everywhere make enemies while at the top, and retiring in peace is rare.

I guess it’s possible they could opt to ignore a direct attack and just take one for the team, as could the US if China invaded, but in both cases I think it’s more likely the threat is credible. Heck, by that logic, they could launch a limited nuclear strike on the US using the logic that the US wouldn’t escalate next, and win that way.

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Oops, I read that wrong when I looked up his exact death date. He was pretty sick already though - the dude drank like a fish - and Putin was his chosen successor.

I think the rest stands.

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It kind of feels like engineers look for simple solutions to what are ultimately complicated psychological questions sometimes.

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Namely, the first one. Next you’re going to ask about thingySixtyNine or thingyOneHundredTwentyTwo, I suppose?

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When people don’t understand WTF you’re talking about, it’s just cause they’re dumb. Communication is for the weak.

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CanadaPlus,

So would there be a happy medium between C and C++? A C+, if you will.

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I’m going to go ahead and say that’s not really a superset of C. But, yes, that’s the way everything is going in practice.

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Thanks! I figured someone must have tried it.

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I, for one, welcome our new mammoth-hunting overlords.

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In Germany terms we might already be in like the 80’s, so that’s nice.

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