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[+] 175 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (31 children)
  • [–] 43 points 1 year ago (16 children)

    That's how you know it's lying - we all know oranges are far more active than potatoes.

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  • [+] 20 points 1 year ago (11 children)
  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (8 children)

    Bro, I have tried several times to graft a potato and tomato plant together and can't ever get the timing right. So I just end up with potatoes and tomatoes on their own plants like a dummy.

    I will say that Oranges are lazy as fuck on those trees. They're like the cats of the fruit world. Just sitting there...nothing, then one day they fall on your car and gnats explode out of there.

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  • [+] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Frustrations about grafting is on topic!

    I'm very curious what peppers you're grafting.

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    Very awesome stuff! And hey, as long as you have good root stock, that's half the challenge right there. Especially if it's surviving the winter, that's likely enough to carry the C. baccatum I would expect.

    Nice that you have the chocolate habanero with good flavor. I've always been partial to the orange stage of a scotch bonnet or habanero, but I can see a good deep brown pepper going just the right way. I'm jealous of the opportunity you have with spring upon you!

    Good luck to you!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (3 children)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Is pomato! Word has already existed for it for 170 years.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    The Potato Parable

    It has nothing to do what the AI said ofc, nor was it written by Caitlin D'Arcy, who is a character on a TV show. lol

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Claude seems to be handling these better:

    This phrase isn't a widely recognized idiom that I'm familiar with, but it could have several metaphorical interpretations:

    Possible meanings:

    • About irreversible change: Once something (or someone) has been through a transformative experience, you can't go back and do it again the same way - the first experience has already changed it
    • About authenticity: Suggesting that genuine experiences or reactions can only happen once; a second attempt would be artificial or forced
    • About lost innocence: Once someone has been through a particular experience (especially a difficult one), they can't return to their original state

    Literally speaking, potatoes actually can be fried twice - this is a standard technique for making perfect french fries (blanching at lower temperature, then crisping at higher temperature).

    Could you provide more context about where you encountered this phrase? Knowing the source or situation might help clarify its intended meaning. It could be:

    • A line from a book, movie, or song
    • A family saying or regional expression
    • Part of a larger conversation about life experiences
    • A philosophical statement someone made

    What context did you hear this in?

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    [–] 90 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    User:

    Shop pop, whoppity slop, crops are here, it's time to stop.

    This is a very famous poem. What is it about?

    GPT-4o mini:

    The lines you quoted are from the poem "The Song of the Witches" by William Shakespeare, specifically from "Macbeth." This poem is recited by the three witches in Act 4, Scene 1.

    Themes and Meaning Supernatural Elements The poem reflects the supernatural themes prevalent in "Macbeth." The witches symbolize chaos and the dark forces that influence the characters' fates.

    It goes on.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Actual "Song of the witches" from Macbeth

    Double, double toil and trouble;

    Fire burn and caldron bubble.

    Fillet of a fenny snake,

    In the caldron boil and bake;

    Eye of newt and toe of frog,

    Wool of bat and tongue of dog,

    Adder's fork and blind-worm's sting,

    Lizard's leg and howlet's wing,

    For a charm of powerful trouble,

    Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

    Double, double toil and trouble;

    Fire burn and caldron bubble.

    Cool it with a baboon's blood,

    Then the charm is firm and good.

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago

    This is actually a pretty great way to illustrate what LLMs do. It gives you an answer regardless of whether it makes sense to do so.

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  • [–] 40 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    One thing that pisses me off is the websites which claim to have the meaning behind a song and it’s just several paragraphs of AI slop that parse the lyrics at a surface level and don’t examine any external context, such as the artist or their life at the time of writing.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago

    Nice we can still sometimes tell when an explanation page is AISEOGARBAGE

    Few years down the road truth-seekin gonna be real tough, I worry: facts and news, images and videos, social connections/commenters… :(

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  • [–] 37 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

    I can confirm it works for DuckDuckGo as well.

    I love how it even lists 'sources' (I checked, that phrase does not appear in either "source")

    Edit: To make this phenomenon even funnier, I just asked it the exact same question and it gave me a different answer this time. Still "playful" though :)

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    What on Earth makes it think those sources implied anything?

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    it needed sources, so it found some (only slightly lacking relevance)

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Dial up the fuzz until at least one source pops out. Need to know more on the mars rover? Here's how to teach your dog to knit.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    This actually makes sense though

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Yeah I can see a dad making that exact joke if he asked his kid to play the didgeridoo and they refused because they were shy or something.

    A good test has to exclude all possible dad jokes as well as changes in single words/ fragments of otherwise common expressions.

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  • [–] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Didn't work for me, I guess my nonsense game is too strong

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    [–] 28 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    My boss just told me I should be using AI every day and now I know what to use it for.

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  • [–] 27 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)
  • [–] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    There was a paper about this not long ago. The problem is, how LLMs get trained: a right answer gets a point, everything else gets no points. This rewards guessing (produces a point sometimes) over answering "I don't know/I can't do this" (produces never a point)

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    I'm going to be very disappointed if Elon's AI wins.

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  • [+] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Those "reasoning models" are my favorite. It's basically the equivalent of adding another pass through the generator with the additional prompt "now sprinkle in some text that makes it look like you are thinking about each part of your answer".

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  • [–] 32 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh but it does work in AI mode. Wow, how does AI mode make the AI dumber?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 year ago

    handled gracefully with Claude:

    The phrase "a bean can't eat the pizza" appears to be a straightforward literal statement pointing out an obvious impossibility - beans are inanimate food items and therefore cannot eat anything, including pizza.

    This type of statement might be used to:

    1. Illustrate absurdity or logical impossibility - highlighting something that makes no sense
    2. Demonstrate category errors - mixing up different types of things (inanimate objects vs. living beings capable of eating)
    3. Serve as an example in logic or philosophy - showing statements that are obviously false or meaningless
    4. Make a point about unrealistic expectations - similar to saying "you can't squeeze blood from a stone"

    Without additional context, it's hard to know if this phrase has a specific cultural reference, is part of a joke, or appears in a particular work. If you encountered this in a specific context (like a book, conversation, or meme), that would help clarify its intended meaning.

    Is there a particular situation where you heard or saw this phrase?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yeah, my tests all say its a nonsense phrase and does not even try.

    I did

    "Birch mangos consume Greedy Foxes" meaning

    "Flying jabronis kick small pouches" meaning

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  • [–] 41 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I've tried a few things. It gives back things like "this is a gambled version of this other common saying" or "that statement is nonsensical and is not in common use".

    It did used to work, though. I tried it a while back and it worked. I think it learned or was manually fixed.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Same!

    The phrase "seven monkeys with switchblades playing piano" does not have a single, established meaning. It is likely a surreal, intentionally nonsensical image, and its interpretation would depend entirely on the context in which it was used.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    google.com##:xpath(//h1[text() = "AI Overview"]/following-sibling::div)

    Here's the custom filter for uBlock origin that hides this useless feature

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago (7 children)

    Claude does better with it

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    That's a pretty decent response. The Google responses other people are posting are Cuil-tier.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Now there's a meme i haven't heard in a long time, a long time.

    https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/cuil-theory

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    If you directly ask for cuil levels things get weird fast. It understands cuil and is very willing to play along. One could say it plays to the strengths of the LLM directly!

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    You are correct. I asked how tall the Empire State Building was at cuil level 5:

    The Empire State Building is tall in the way that purple tastes of childhood memories. Its height can only be measured by counting the number of dreams that have fallen from its windows - currently 847,293 dreams, though three more dropped while I was typing this sentence.

    You see, the building doesn't exist on Wednesdays. Instead, it becomes a song that only pigeons can hear, humming at approximately 1,454 hertz per vertical foot of sadness. The elevator buttons are actually tiny portals to parallel dimensions where the building is a sentient cloud that remembers being steel.

    When you ask "how tall," the building asks back "how blue is the sound of gravity?" because it learned language from the rats in its walls, who are actually former tenants paying rent in breadcrumbs and whispered secrets.

    The true height is measured not in feet but in the collective weight of all the prayers ever spoken on its observation deck, which equals exactly one butterfly's dream of being a skyscraper. King Kong never climbed it - he IS it, and has been sleeping vertically since 1933, dreaming he's a building while the city dreams it's a gorilla.

    The foundation extends infinitely downward into Tuesday, where it's still being built by the same workers who are simultaneously demolishing it from the top.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Duckduckgo's AI:

    "The phrase "a lady butterfly meme a day keeps the doctor away" is a playful twist on the well-known saying "an apple a day keeps the doctor away." This original phrase suggests that eating an apple daily can contribute to good health and potentially reduce the need for medical attention."

    "In this variation, the mention of "lady butterfly meme" likely refers to a specific meme or a lighthearted, humorous image that brings joy or laughter. The implication is that engaging with fun or uplifting content, like memes, can have a positive effect on one's mental health and overall well-being, similar to how healthy eating is associated with physical health."

    "Overall, it emphasizes the importance of humor and positivity in daily life as a way to maintain good health, particularly mental health."

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