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Comment by sharemywin

8 hours ago

I'm not sure what you used for it to tell you that?

what should I do with my camping stove if I want to avoid the rain

ChatGPT said: If you want to avoid the rain while using your camping stove, here are your best options:

Shelter Options: Use a Tarp: Set up a tarp high above your stove area with good airflow. Make sure it's not enclosed and water runs off away from you.

Camp Kitchen Tent: Lightweight pop-up canopies or dedicated camp kitchen shelters are perfect. Just make sure it’s ventilated.

Picnic Table Shelter: Many campgrounds have covered areas you can cook under — check for those.

Vestibule (Cautiously): If you have a tent with a large vestibule, you can use the stove there, only if it's very well-ventilated and you're extremely cautious (fire and carbon monoxide risks are real).

Important Safety Tips: Never use a stove inside a closed tent — risk of carbon monoxide poisoning and fire.

Keep the stove on a stable, flat surface.

Avoid cooking right under trees with low-hanging branches.

Ensure your shelter is tall enough — heat rises.

Would you like a quick sketch or image of a tarp setup that works well in rain?

I'm starting to think that many of the "But the AIs tell me I should drive my car off a cliff!!" posters are just making stuff up.

  • I've seen enough weird output from some models to not think quite so negatively about nay-sayers.

    If "stupid response" happens 1% of the time, and the first attempt to use a model has four rounds of prompt-and-response, then I'd expect 1 in 25 people to anchor on them being extremely dumb and/or "just autocomplete on steroids" — the first time I tried a local model (IIRC it was Phi-2), I asked for a single page Tetris web app, which started off bad and half way in became a python machine learning script; the first time I used NotebookLM, I had it summarise one of my own blog posts and it missed half and made up clichés about half the rest.

    And driving off, if not a cliff then a collapsed bridge, has gotten in the news even with AI of the Dijkstra era: https://edition.cnn.com/2023/09/21/us/father-death-google-gp...

  • No! A friend of a friend asked an AI and the AI said they were real. Honest. But it was the other AIs. Not the one the friend asked.