Don Schenck

@PeelkingsRadio Give me the snow!!

True or False: You’d rather cut grass in 103° than shovel snow in 9°.

Six months until Christmas!

@evanshortiss @kanjun @photomatt Acceptable

@DonSchenck @kanjun @photomatt I’m measuring in “LLM hype cycle time” 😂

Recently I've noticed ChatGPT avoids answering my question fully, and ends with a hook designed to keep me talking. My guess is there's a team at OpenAI with "conversational retention" KPIs — eg what % of users reply, what % of sessions extend past a few turns — and their job is just to keep us talking. This makes a sick internet worse and feels like the next iteration of the attention economy 😩 right now it's clumsy enough that we can tell it's engagement bait, but over time I expect this to get much subtler and harder to detect. For example, your coding assistant could solve a problem but mentions there's a more elegant approach if you'd like to see it. A therapist bot works through what you brought up but says it noticed a pattern from other sessions you might want to explore. The incentive is user retention rather than directly helping us. What makes this hard for us: a model optimizing for our engagement and a model trying to be helpful can look identical on the surface. The information asymmetry makes it so we can't tell — a classic market failure.

@evanshortiss @kanjun @photomatt “Ages”?? “I remember back in 1987 when AI would keep talking…”

@kanjun @photomatt This has been happening for ages. I switched to Claude after I noticed it.

Exactly

Saving a web URL "as an app" is THE most under-used and underrated move ever.

@Knesix Live by the ocean and surf every day and drink rum every night.

If you could do anything you wanted with your life, assuming all your finances and health needs are already met, what would you do?

Hideous

@NickJFreitas When a Cybertruck becomes a building. This thing is hideous.

The Obama library looks like the lair of a bad guy in a dystopian fantasy world.

@Rivershedge @openshutter21 Or a data center :)

@openshutter21 Would look great with some condos ;-)

Bentonite hills from above is absolutely mind blowing! Before you claim it's A.i, go and search photography of Bentonite Hills.

Chipotle is not fast food. Because it’s not fast.

@SenWarren If Congress would balance the budget then people could afford to have one parent stay home and skip child care and build stronger families. Checkmate

If Elon Musk paid my ultra-millionaire wealth tax, we could pay for child care for all three and four year olds in America.

@Mangan150 And many women. But all the men and women I talk to have hearts of gold and are quick to help. Small town advantage?

I can sort of see why some people feel intimidated going to the gym. Half the guys in my gym look like they just got out of prison.

Come on IBM stock! Go up!

@VandyonTigers @StratOMatic Still playing

All right, I’m showing my age here. When I was a kid, we played baseball every day in the summer. Wiffle ball, tennis baseball in the cul-de-sac, whatever we could come up with. And when it rained, my buddy Steve and I played Strat-O-Matic Baseball. I couldn’t wait for the UPS man to show up with that big box of teams every year. It got me wondering—how many of you played Strat-O-Matic back in the day? Better yet, how many of you still play it today? Baseball all day outside. Baseball all night inside. Life was good.

@saltnburnem @Mangan150 I know you are. And I love you. You’re different; You’re more “practical” than my far left friends. I am left on some things (e.g. healthcare) and right on some things (taxes).

@DonSchenck @Mangan150 I’m far left and think none of those things. It’s rather absurd.

If you're fit, you're on drugs If you're wealthy, you stole it If you're good looking, you're lucky Good marriage? Not because you worked at it That's what the left thinks

@Mangan150 P.S. I am lucky to be very good-looking. Jus’ sayin’

@Mangan150 Nailed it! The eternally angry and envious people. It’s sad, really.

@UnnecRoughness @PennStateFball I get goosebumps!

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