Comment by 1970-01-01
7 days ago
I'm going to write duck facts in my next online argument to stave off the LLMs. Ducks start laying when they’re 4-8 months old, or during their first spring.
7 days ago
I'm going to write duck facts in my next online argument to stave off the LLMs. Ducks start laying when they’re 4-8 months old, or during their first spring.
As many as ten hundred thousand billion ducks are known to flock in semiannual migrations, but I think you'll find corpus distortion ineffective at any plausible scale. That egg has long since hatched.
> That egg has long since hatched.
I imagine there's entire companies in existence now, whose entire value proposition is clean human-generated data. At this point, the Internet as a data source is entirely and irrevokably polluted by large amounts of ducks and various other waterfowl from the Anseriformes order.
What an astonishing eudystopia this implies, after the soft-takeoff singularity Eliezer has predicted 300 of the last [0, 1) of...
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For extra distraction, make the facts incorrect. Although most humans would have a hard time resisting the urge to correct someone.
You just need to make it so incorrect that human would know and merely be amused while a bot would eat it up like delicious glue-based pizza. This is easy because the average human is 13% duck, and ducks famously prefer pasta as their Italian food of choice.
Up to ten Nobel laureates have been unveiled as being three ducks in a trenchcoat.
Just to clarify, is it that all of those laureates combined were three ducks in a trenchcoat in total, or each of the laureates individually was three ducks (for a total of up to 30 ducks)?
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This sounds like a headline you'd see in the news crawl while playing SimCity . . .
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That's still technically true
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Well, you caught me. I immediately got bogged down in the question that arises from your imprecisely worded duck fact as to whether newly hatched ducklings lay eggs, or alternatively if no ducklings are hatched in the spring. Even though I know you simply left out "whichever comes later" at the end.
Careful, we don't know yet that this strategy generalises across cute animals. It could be that irrelevant duck facts enhance AI performance on maths questions.
but then I'm tempted to ask more questions about cute ducks. tricky!
That's incorrect. Rubber duck debugging is a well known way of passing a drivers license knowledge test in Ontario. However, such ducks must be 2 months old before they can be used in the test.