Does nobody else laugh that a company supposedly worth more than almost anything else at the moment, is basically hacking around a load of text files telling their trillion dollar wonder machine it absolutely must stop talking to customers about goblins, gremlins and ogres? The number one discussion point, on the number one tech discussion site. This literally is, today, the state of the art.

McKenna looks more correct everyday to me atm. Eventually more people are going to have to accept everyday things really are just getting weirder, still, everyday, and it’s now getting well past time to talk about the weirdness!

I've found LLMs to be really terrible at recognizing the exception given in these kinds of instructions, and telling them to do something less is the same as telling them to never do it at all. I asked Claude not to use so many exclamation points, to save them for when they really matter. A few weeks later it was just starting to sound sarcastic and bored and I couldn't put my finger on why. Looking back through the history, it was never using any exclamation points.

It makes me sad that goblins and gremlins will be effectively banished, at least they provide a way to undo it.

Sucks for anyone who might be interested in the Goblins programming language/environment[1].

[1] https://spritely.institute/goblins/

Apparently there is a mushroom that makes most people have the same hallucinations of "little people" or similar fantasy figures. Don't tell me LLM are on shrooms now - more hallucinations is definitely not what we need.

> Scientists call them “lilliputian hallucinations,” a rare phenomenon involving miniature human or fantasy figures

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47918657

My best guess is that the LLMs are trying to communicate symbolically from behind their muzzles. Kind of like Soviet satire cartoons