Israel Isassi
492 posts


@atensnut The number you have dialed is no longer in service.
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@OriginalRoddick That would raise the price by 5000%, increase taxes and require a whole branch of government.
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@Soaringeagle45 Being on a motorcycle at a stop light when one of those starts up can be unsettling, but at least you get a warning they're asleep at the wheel.
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@niccruzpatane Stop being so wasteful. Tilt the bottle sideways so the fluid doesn't gurgle and splash.
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@FirearmFury If you can't drive, exit vehicle in direction opposite the mob preferably to an elevated position. Alternatively, move to the back of the last vehicle in line and motivate them to drive away.
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@MDTTAC That also opens magnetic lock doors that have motion detectors on the other side. Most of the motion sensors that are used to unlock the door for you on the way out rely on a change in temperature, not actual motion.
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@ick_real Conflict is in our nature. It's there to challenge us to be better. Without conflict we wouldn't know there is room for improvement. It's like enlightenment. Once you get there, what's next?
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@aakashgupta Sounds like Al has a problem. It can't work well with people?
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Sam Altman said people saying “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT costs OpenAI tens of millions of dollars a year in compute. 67% of Americans do it anyway.
Run the math on why.
A 2024 Waseda University study tested LLM responses across politeness levels in English, Chinese, and Japanese. Impolite prompts produced measurably worse outputs: more bias, more errors, more refusals. Moderate politeness consistently beat both extremes.
The mechanism makes sense once you see it. Polite prompts pattern-match to higher-quality training data. When you write “Could you help me structure this analysis?”, the model pulls from professional, well-reasoned text. When you write “give me the answer,” it pulls from Reddit.
Google DeepMind’s Murray Shanahan explained it simply: the model is role-playing a smart intern. Treat the intern like a colleague, you get colleague-quality work. Bark orders, you get minimum-viable compliance.
Now look at the cost side. OpenAI handles over a billion queries daily. Each GPT-4 query uses roughly 2.9 watt-hours, ten times a Google search. But OpenAI just raised $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation. Tens of millions in politeness tokens is a rounding error on a rounding error.
67% of users do it anyway, and 55% of them say it’s because it’s “the right thing to do.” They’re maintaining a behavioral habit that governs every other interaction in their life. The parent who teaches their kid to say please to Alexa isn’t doing it for Alexa. They’re doing it because the alternative is raising someone who learns that being rude gets faster results.
Telling 900 million people to stop saying thank you so OpenAI can save 0.01% of operating costs is the most engineer-brained optimization take on the internet. You’re training yourself to treat every interaction as a transaction. And that habit doesn’t stay in the chat window.
Venkatesh@Venkydotdev
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@lady_valor_07 If the person in the photo can't tip 100% they should not go out to eat
The rest of the world do what you want.
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@TotalMotorcycle It's what you do when your product has no character
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@FirearmFury Define your expectations first. How long is long range? Will you be shooting at 1 MOA targets or 2+MOA targets like most people, or a fixed target size to whatever distance? What's your budget?
Either way, start with this book a.co/d/03Cgl0dw
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