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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • The original hallucination:

    threat assessment score, deportation priority level, case number

    The new hallucination (also rule of 3):

    surveillance, license plate readers, and cross-referenced databases

    “Surveillance” and “databases” (what does cross-referenced even mean or add? LLMs like to output word salad) could be applicable, but only because they’re so damn vague. Yes, of course the government uses SQL.

    License plate readers, sure they were involved…except that wasn’t even one of the original points. Find a model with better context length…lol. They also have nothing to do with self-hosting. What are you gonna do, run your own license plate issuing server?

    Please, you can just say you used an LLM because English isn’t your first language or something. I’m literally giving you an out. It would be way less embarrassing than whatever you’re trying to accomplish.




  • You forgot one more tell that this post is riddled with - “not x, but y”. The rule of 3 is also seen in general sentence structure as well as bullet points. Example:

    A woman was reduced to a data point in a database - threat assessment score, deportation priority level, case number - and then she was killed. Not by some rogue actor, but by a system functioning exactly as designed.

    Em-dash (probably), into rule of 3, into em-dash, into not x but y. That sentence is what made me suspicious but there are plenty of other examples.

    Well, that and…this killing had nothing to do with any of those points. The sentence sounds flashy but is completely wrong on closer examination. Almost like a…hallucination…ahem.








  • Air pollution from coal and oil is estimated to kill 5 million people every year. That’s more than every nuclear disaster combined, and not to mention the signifcant safety advances that have been made since those disasters.

    All nuclear waste ever produced can fit in one football field. It’s stored in containers so thick you can go up and hug them safely, and so strong you can ram them with a train without doing significant damage. And if need be, we have the means to bury it deep underground.

    Renewables are fine, but they don’t deliver consistently, so they need backup power. Nuclear provides that at much lower environmental cost than, say, giant lithium batteries.