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Yeah. And Biden looked weak, which is like the killer flaw in all of American politics from which there is no recovery. From Reagan to Clinton to Trump, the US electorate has been full throatedly behind "you can take away all my rights and ruin my economy and collaborate with my enemies all you want, as long as you look charming while you do it bby" like a domestic abusee who doesn't want to call the cops. But they will never forgive a politician for looking like a chump (in a way that they readily will for committing random felonies or attempted murders or massive corruption or treason.)

I am buoyed by the unanimity of the downvotes

I actually think it’s 100% true that Biden did a shitty job at the debate, exposing in painfully vivid fashion some flaws we already knew he had. On the other hand, so did Trump. And it’s weird that one side of that equation is getting such a shriekingly loud level of coverage and the other side is getting more or less nothing.

The couple of polls on 538 since the debate apparently show not much change in people’s sentiment (certainly not any kind of catastrophe that the news is trying to create with its self fulfilling prophecy coverage).

Keep posting the bullshit guys. I won’t say it won’t work, but at least from what I’ve seen people are mostly downvoting it when it is getting posted here.

I think he said in the last book, in the little notes under some selected strips, that Steve Dallas was his alter ego.

OTOH this agrees with you and I think I was basing that just off that one-off statement and so maybe I am wrong

It is funnier knowing that Steve Dallas was Berke Breathed’s alter ego that he inserted into the strip to make fun of himself

This wasn't an intentional feature; they're actually trying to train it with fine-tuning to add this as an ability. It's one area that highlights the difference between it imitating the text it's been seeing, instead of actually understanding what it's saying -- since most of its training data is of the form "(ask a question) (response to question)" overwhelmingly more often than "(ask a question) (say you don't know, the end)", it is trying to be a good imitator and do the same, and come up with some plausible nonsense even if it doesn't know the answer.

Sickness, Puking, and Debt

Sounds about right

It’s bananas from start to finish

I can’t recommend it highly enough

If "hey look at this poll of left handed middle income women in swing states, Trump is ahead 86 points" is bullshit

Then "this one focus group of 8 Hispanic voters thought Biden did great, time to stop worrying" is also bullshit

Wait to see the polls. I am anticipating them showing some loss for Biden because the average American would rather have a vigorous insurrectionist running the country, than a visibly old person with good policy ideas. I would love to be shown proof that I am wrong in that but this isn't it. I think Biden's great, but he does still have to win the election, and the debate wasn't a good showing for him, and one little focus group doesn't change that and doesn't justify the broad sweeping headline here.

Why would you hurt me this way

I took the phone to do a video chat with someone’s central Asian friend and he immediately said “Aw, shit, big fake American smile.” I sort of checked myself like yeah he’s right I do have a big fake bullshit meeting-someone smile on my face. Well now I feel like a dummy.

It gave me some cultural perspective.

GPT-4 generally doesn’t need fine tuning or anything no

100% right; unless you are using it a ton the API pricing is likely to be cheaper