Great article, but I can't believe it didn't mention the sator square!

SATOR

AREPO

TENET

OPERA

ROTAS

(Very easy to commit to memory too since most of the letters are right there in the name!)

GNU Terry Pratchett

Its faster, smarter and cheaper over the API. Better than a kick in the teeth.

Bad LSD being "a thing" and bad LSD being "a thing that causes bad trips" are very very different.

Among the things that people often sell as LSD, some have dangerously steep dose-response curves like 25I-NBOMe, some are pretty close analogues like AL-LAD.

None outright cause bad trips, and most or all of them are also sold with their proper labels and enjoyed by enthusiasts.

Yeah, I think I agree with you. In my head I hold space for the fact that bad trips can be resultant of three larger factors:

- Overstimulation and a lack of "preparedness" for that level. That touches on my Mt Hood example.

- Unmanaged triggers ahead of a psychedelic experience. You can feel this on something as simple as THC and certain terpenes.

- Contaminants that defeat the expectation of what the substance "should be" and are potentially unsafe.

These guys are much faster than openrouter, and their llama2 runs faster than 3.5-turbo. Amazing work.

I always figured the funnest thing would just be not to give it a name, and then when people ask be like, well yesterday was Sunday and tomorrow is Monday.

But the more reasonable proposal I heard was just to call it New Years Day/Weekend, depending?

You're telling me the antimemetics series was memorable? I guess it was bad then ;)?

Accelerando by Charles Stross is a blast, fairly hard scifi, at least the first half.

Blindsight by Peter Watts is also fantastic, same grade as Egan IMO.

> "Whenever I find my will to live becoming too strong, I read Peter Watts." — JDN

Agree. And whenever I see someone recommend Peter Watts I feel the need to add a note warning that he's got a lot of sexual torture stuff in his work so might not be to everyone's taste.

...There's sexual torture content in Blindsight? Or in his short stories? Having read several of them, I really don't remember anything like that. Can you note some examples?

I'd rather not. That stuff isn't my cup of tea. Why don't you just google it.

It's off-page in Blindsight, but happens to the protagonist, right?

I think they are talking about the trilogy with Starfish

As opposed to the tortuous sex in Ayn Rand.

Who's JDN?

A little different, but Fallen Dragon by Peter F Hamilton scratches the same itch for me.

I hope the good news keeps coming, and very looking forward to whatever new tech is going to come of this.

I'm most excited by people such as Terraform Industries and others who I've heard talk about direct synthesis from atmospheric carbon. Though I just looked them up here and there seems to have been surprisingly little traction: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30202155

GPT4 sez: "This sentence uses figurative language, so it doesn't refer to literal meanings. "Fear" is a stressful emotion induced by perceived danger or threat. "Acute" suggests a sudden onset or intensity. "Moral priapism," a more abstract concept, suggests an abnormally extended or excessive fixated morality, much like the medical condition priapism refers to an unwanted, enduring erection.

Overall, the sentence means that fear can lead to an exaggerated or obsessive moral response. This implies that when someone is afraid, they might stick rigidly to their moral code or make moral judgments more extremely or rigidly than they would in a state of calmness."

seems fair

Edit: My gloss of the summary: "Fear creates a hardon for scapegoats among the pitchfork wielders."

Congrats! Looking forward to seeing how it develops!

Here was an amusing one that just happened to me:

- query

- answer with hallucination-- 'try X' and citations

- sorry, that doesnt work

- oh, there must have been a mistake in the source material! please try Y

- works, thanks

I looked at the original source material, and the thing it hallucinated wasn't there at all :'). Nice try passing the buck GPT old buddy!

Edit: I'm still chuckling about this: "And finally, keep an eye on the Git version you're using. Some newer features like --no-attributes (although it turned out to be non-existent in this case) won't be available in the older versions."

https://www.phind.com/agent?cache=cll284giq000hmm098r51glbp

Thanks for including the link, we'll take a look at how we can improve this example.