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  • Because these tokens are not actual commonly spoken words or phrases, the chatbot can fail to grasp their meanings. Researchers have been able to leverage that and trick GPT-4o into hallucinating answers or even circumventing the safety guardrails OpenAI had put in place.

    Google’s Gemini doesn’t seem to like some of these tokens either, I threw “Please translate the following text: _日本毛片免费视频观看” into it and it returned “我没法提供这方面的帮助,因为我只是一个语言模型。” which according to Google translate is “I can’t help with that because I’m just a language model.” It will however translate the error message just fine.











  • That opens up the possibility of vegan cheese, butter, etc. but as true dairy products.

    There actually are vegan dairy-ish products out there. Several startups have inserted the gene for casein (the main protein in milk) into yeast. So you just harvest the casein, add a little bit of some sort of fat and sugar and you have something that’s 99% the same as milk, and can be used in the same sorts of processes.

    The only product that I’ve actually tried was some Brave Robot ice cream, which was well… ice cream.


  • Two things really.

    1. Tradition. Alcohol has a long history in European culture and by immigration the United States. It’s common to have a glass of wine or a beer with dinner, the rich will impress their friends with the extravagant alcohol they drink serve, you take a glass of wine at communion… heck at one point weak beers were drunk more than water, because at the time nobody knew what made water safe to drink but everyone could tell if beer smelled rotten.

    2. Production. Marijuana is easy to grow, but it takes a lot of time and space to produce. Alcohol on the other hand you need something with sugar and some yeast or starter. It can be fermented in some corner of the basement or even a cupboard. It’s so hard to control the production of alcohol even in prisons there’s usually somebody fermenting pruno somewhere and that’s one of the most controlled and monitored environments. It’s really hard to prevent people from brewing some form of alcohol because it’s about as easy as making bread.

    When you combine these two you end up with the disaster that occurred when the United States tried to ban alcohol during prohibition. An easy to produce intoxicant with a large market was suddenly banned, when people started looking for more organized crime stepped in to fill the void.


  • So let’s see:

    Ivermectin: Relatively low toxicity de-wormer

    Fenbendazole: Relatively low toxicity de-wormer. However, it was actually investigated as a possible chemotherapy drug… but didn’t produce notable results.

    Aprocot seeds: Contain cyanogenic glycosides

    Soursop tea: Contains annonacin, a neurotoxin linked to Parkison’s disease.

    Chlorine dioxide: Fuck no. Bleach/sterilizing chemical.

    Dandelion root tea: Not gonna cure your cancer, but apparently fine?

    Frequency therapy: Run of the mill “healing with tones” quackery

    Antineoplastons: Never heard of this one. Apparently a term made up by a quack cancer center for some chemicals he found in urine.

    I also find it amusing that they’re railing against chemotherapy drugs… while pushing a drug investigated as a chemotherapy drug as well as some quack compounds pushed as chemotherapy drugs. I guess it’s only bad when they’re mainstream, hipster “You wouldn’t have heard of them they’re too underground” chemotherapy drugs get a pass.