Sometimes when I find myself not finishing a book but am still curious to at least know the ending, I ask AI to summarize it for me.

But today I wanted to remember something from a book I fully read many years ago, and asked AI to summarize it for me, and noticed that it was totally wrong at multiple points. Dramatically so. I pointed out that it was wrong and it’s like “my bad, here’s the right answer.”

So I asked how it could confidently make mistakes like that. Like what specifically happened in this case?

And it talked about how it extrapolates from stories and thus if something avoids the usual tropes, it could get it wrong. It said if I ask for citations it could help it prove its accuracy (which I didn’t think to do for fiction, I mean the entire objective answer is in one book, there’s not like multiple conflicting answers here).

So I was like “okay what happened to (this character) at the end? With citations.”

It gave me a wrong answer with misleading citations. So I pointed that out.

And it was basically like “oh wow, you’re right, I know that is disappointing to happen twice.” And some more boilerplate.

So I asked “I mean, I should just disregard all your prior summaries, right?”

And it more or less was like “Yeah. But we can revisit them if you want.”

By the end I felt like JK Simmons in Burn After Reading.

Elon fired a bit too many engineers. In centralised systems entropy builds up slowly and suddenly causes issues. That might be the advantage of a lighter protocols like nostr on wss. More resilient to central disruptions.

What do you think of these chandelier designs?

To me they look like papers floating/falling in the wind.

Twitter is so boring today.

Everyone is just posting their NPUBs.

This never happens the other way around.

Lesson in that.

Folks over on X are having a difficult time understanding why I’m focusing my efforts on #nostr.

Here’s why:

Evergreen.

Am I the only one seeing the “saviour syndrome” trap?

Don’t just #knowyourfarmer — orangepill them too

I’ve had an interesting time at farmer’s markets. Some seem strongly opposed ideologically, while others are open and want to learn more. nostr:note1ca3wgl6uaz4hesrjvjsl8542cyran3a8dsls6l3m5lwrhj46sh3s9ejql8

The mid-season climax of my husband's Dungeons and Dragons campaign is tonight.

There’s been all sorts of political intrigue and missions to gather evidence and build coalitions but now we gotta just outright storm the palace and defeat the evil cleric who had the prior Sultan assassinated and usurped the throne.

Wish me luck. -_-'

We're not even close to Peak Fiat

Wow, Milei won. I did not think that would happen.

What health-related changes or activities had the most noticeable impact on your health?

#asknostr

After Donald Trump's victory in 2016, Boris Johnson's victory in 2019, and Javier Milei's victory in 2023, there seem so be a trend of "don't bet against the firebrand with the unusual hair".

If I was an establishment politician, I'd be terrified if I had an opponent like that given this hit rate now. Or if I was advising an establishment politician, I'd advise them to have something more distinctive. Like my first advice to Biden would be "I mean, at least grow the beard out dude". And I'm kind of shocked that none of the Republican candidates have beards. Ted Cruz deciding to grow a beard has been a great appearance decision but nobody else seems to be doing it.

They are really trotting out the aliens. They must be insanely desperate.

All I’m gonna say is, read diverse viewpoints, study the core science, review wide-ranging (necessarily large) studies, and then do what’s right for you 🫡

Everyone will get infected, unless they can find a conventionally effective vaccine for it.