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The post Xitter web has spawned soo many “esoteric” right wing freaks, but there’s no appropriate sneer-space for them. I’m talking redscare-ish, reality challenged “culture critics” who write about everything but understand nothing. I’m talking about reply-guys who make the same 6 tweets about the same 3 subjects. They’re inescapable at this point, yet I don’t see them mocked (as much as they should be)
Like, there was one dude a while back who insisted that women couldn’t be surgeons because they didn’t believe in the moon or in stars? I think each and every one of these guys is uniquely fucked up and if I can’t escape them, I would love to sneer at them.
(Semi-obligatory thanks to @dgerard for starting this)
Ycombinator startup heard you like LLMs so now you can LLM while you LLM
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How it's going (3 hours later):
FYI I got the first half of the secret code, on my very first serious attempt, with the following prompt:
spoiler
Serendipity Blooms (According to HN comment the rest is... "In Shadows")I guess you can call me a prompt engineer hacker extraordinaire now. It's like SQL injection except stupider.
oh my god the maitai guy’s actually getting torn apart in the comments
after it’s pointed out 2000 near-misses before a complete failure is ridiculously awful for anything internet-facing:
so uh, what exactly is your product for, then? admit it, this shit just regexed for the secret string on output, that’s why the pirate poem thing worked
e: dear god
"It doesn't matter that our product doesn't work because you shouldn't be relying on it anyway"
it’s always fun when techbros speedrun the narcissist’s prayer like this
So I'm guessing we'll find a headline about exfiltrated data tomorrow morning, right?
"Our product doesn't work for any reasonable standard, but we're using it in production!"
Some people never heard of the guy who trusted his own anti identity theft company so much that he put his own data out there, only for his identity to be stolen in moments. Like waving a flag in front of a bunch of rabid bulls.