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It is awful, but at the same time this isn't new. People have for a long time used Google searches to self diagnose their issues. ChatGPT just makes that process ever easier now.

From my viewpoint it speaks more to a problem of the healthcare system.


I agree with everything you said but chatGPT does have an insidious thing where it confirms your biases. It kind of senses what you want and actually runs with it. For truly unbiased responses you literally have to hide your intention from chatGPT. But even so chatGPT can many times still sense your intent and give you a biased answer.


There is something recently (for a few months?) which has made AI extremely sycophantic that it actually drives me crazy

You are completely right... insert some emoji

Shaking my head.

It would be an interesting experiment to see models which aren't sycophantic being used

as such, What is the least sycophantic LLM model if I may ask?


Even before google people got books to self-diagnose problems.


Does anyone know what type of camera the stream uses? Or recommendations of an outdoor camera/microphone that could accomplish the same thing? I'd love to do this sort of thing in our rural backyard


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I'd like to know as well, so that I can set up a caterpillar cam.


Scott Galloway had a podcast episode about this topic just over a week ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oeepx2ZLrCA

I used to scoff at the idea of the AI-bubble (or any recently called-for tech bubble) being like the 90s given the way technology/the internet is now so integrated into our lives, but the way he spelled it out it does seem similar.


When searching something non-programming related, I do. For example, I'm building an addition on our home. Searching for building materials, ideas, and any building science questions I have, I often find LLMs lacking. Even then, maybe 40% of the time Gemini gives me a good enough response.

On the flip side, any time I'm searching for something programming (FE, JavaScript in my case) it's last resort because an LLM is not giving me the answer I'm looking for.

This is still shocking to me, I really never thought I would replace my reliance on Google with something new.


I've never heard of this so I've got a silly question - I own a Subaru Outback base model with adaptive cruise and lane keep. What is the difference that this offers?


It will give you truly hands-free lane centering with eye tracking rather than ping-ponging between lane lines and continual steering wheel nags. If you’re doing a lot of highway miles, it would be a big quality of life improvement.

Personally, I find that “autopilot” style features makes me a better driver because I can spend more time focusing on the road ahead rather than splitting my attention to oft-arbitrary tasks like speed limit compliance. However, I know this doesn’t apply to everyone. If you are the sort of person for whom less active involvement impairs your ability to stay engaged in the executive task of driving, this will exaggerate the sense of disconnection even further.


Your subaru lanekeeping doesn't try to murder you? On a freeway or other uninterrupted left line, be in the leftmost lane. Start passing a semi trailer. The car wants to hug the middle, as usual, but I steer slightly to the left to be safe. After passing the truck, release grip slightly on the wheel.

Car Immedialy swerves into the right lane. At whatever speed you're going.

Our Subaru doesn't have lane change, so this is a fucking horrific bug that will kill someone by putting them under a semi.

I can repro this at most speeds on any road that meets the above condition.


Yes, I know the issue you're talking about. The fix I've found is to always maintain the same grip on the wheel. If you want to change it up then yank the wheel a bit to let it know you're there and then do so.

I'm surprised it got implemented in such a manner.


When i let go of the steering wheel in any other car, the car nose straightens out to be in line with the tail.

The fix won't come until after a massive lawsuit. I just wish it counted under lemon laws.


It always is this. Same reason the CAD was at parity during the financial crisis.


After 2008 we also "benefited" from very high oil prices which drove the dollar higher

That high dollar didn't do any positive things for Ontario & Quebec's export oriented manufacturing sector though, which is why I put "benefited" in quotes.


Such an odd anecdote given that it wasn't that long ago Igor Kenk was the king of bike theft in Toronto.


Start learning a trade


I feel like that’s just kicking the can a little further down the road.

Our value proposition as humans in a capitalist society is an increasingly fragile thing.


that's going to work when every white collar worker goes into the trades /s

who is going to pay for residential electrical work lol and how much will you make if some guy from MIT is going to compete with you


I happened to notice this article in my HN feed a few minutes after cursing at my Samsung TV about how poor it's internal software is. It's shocking how slow and clunky it is. I have a shield connected to it to skirt it for the most part but it's impossible to avoid it entirely. Not to mention how confusing it is for the less technical persons in my family.


It's far from perfect here in Canada, I keep having to pause it or go back and then load it again.

Oddly having watched PPV events via the high seas for years, it feels normal...


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