Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft

Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by dalore on Monday November 20, 2023 @06:39AM (#38346596)

Anthropic safety is overboard. I tried the classic question of "how many holes does a straw have?" And it refused to talk about the topic. I'm assuming because it thought holes was sexual.

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by JBiserkov on Monday November 20, 2023 @06:55AM (#38346750)

Given what AIs "know" about humanity, I think it's safe to assume that they "think" every word is sexual. For example straw could be short for strawman, which is a man, which is sexual. Or it can be innuendo for... you know.

As for your actual question, it seems to me that a straw is topologically equivalent to a torus, so it has 1 hole, right?

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by TeMPOraL on Monday November 20, 2023 @08:03AM (#38347381)

> it seems to me that a straw is topologically equivalent to a torus, so it has 1 hole, right?

For a mathematician, yes. For everyone else, it obviously has two, because when you plug one end, only then it has one.

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by visarga on Monday November 20, 2023 @07:29AM (#38347037)

When did you last try that? I checked right now and it says

> A straw has one hole that runs through its entire length.

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by dalore on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @07:44AM (#38362893)

Now follow up with: how many holes do trousers have?

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Re:Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft by PH95VuimJjqBqy on Monday November 20, 2023 @10:55AM (#38349727)

that sentence makes no sense to me, what is a straw here?

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