@Soyweiser To be fair that change request was made by the original purchaser of the yacht, long before it was re-christened Bayesian by its new owner

@dgerard Right, that actually is investor money being set on fire to activate sand; and I guess MS own half of the previously existing for-profit OpenAI; mostly this makes me wonder how much more money they can set fire to and how fast

@dgerard So um now we can get on into the sunk cost fallacy phase of "AI"-pre-winter? I mean how much how much VC money have they already burnt to heat up sand at data centers? Does MICROS~1 granting them Azure use count?

@fasterandworse @dgerard I mean, it's like catnip for the people who control how the company's money is spent

For absurd, I think one would want the LLM's configuration language to be more like INTERCAL; but this may also be more explicit about how your instructions are merely suggestions to a black box full of weights and pulleys and with some randomness added to make it less predictable/repetitive

@fasterandworse @dgerard I am pretty sure I have seen programming the computer in plain English used as a selling point for various products since the 1970s at least

the best part is that most of these products are ex-products

@Cube6392 @MudMan Not simply "because they want to", but because they know it will be treated as an authority (we put so much stuff in) and will (or can be coerced to) give the answers they as paying customers want