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I was about to correct you on that but I looked it up and you’re more correct than me.

I thought groceries were more like packaged goods and not necessarily edible.

Like here in Australia if I went to a super market and bought steak and veggies I wouldn’t say “I’m just out buying some groceries”.

Another example, “I buy my veggies from the veggie shop, steak from the butcher, and then other groceries from the super market”.

I guess it is a somewhat old term. becoming less popular I suppose.

Here in Australia, most of the inflation we encountered in 2024 was due to large retailers simply increasing their prices because everyone expected everything to be more expensive.

Here’s an example usage from cambridge dictionary:

Is he a pretentious postmodern dilettante barely concealing his limitations behind mannered overwrought wordplay and the needless over-ornamentation of derivative rock songs and genre pastiches?

God I can’t wait to be able to send the kids to get a kebab or pizza.

They’re only 2 now. Another 13 years or so and they can go fetch things on their bikes or scooters I guess.

I’ve had pizza delivered by the guys who work for the store, but never a delivery service.

I feel like people are somehow stupider.

In Australia in the 80s there was very strong opposition to the introduction of tax file numbers, similar to a social security number I guess - merely a unique identifier for tax paying citizens. It was considered an over reach by the government, and an unnecessary way to track and monitor citizens.

Now 45 years later those same people who were resistant to this type of identifier, like my parents, are nodding along with the conservatives who are trying to implement AI surveillance everywhere saying how necessary it is to protect us all from evil crime doers.

Yeah right. I guess if you process it so it’s just calcium or something rather than living tissue.

I don’t know the answer and I don’t know anything about how LLMs are tuned but I think the answer is probably partially yes.

My supposition is:

Instead of providing manual answers to specific questions, you modify the bot’s approach to answering different types of questions.

For example, if you ask “what color are bananas” the bot answers this by looking for discussions about the color of different fruits and selects the word that seems to be provided most often.

Alternatively, if you ask “what is two plus two”, when the bot parses the question it recognises that it’s a math question, so instead of looking for text discussions of math, it converts it to an equation and returns the solution.

Previously, I guess bots were answering the “how many r’s” question in the text based kind of way, and the fix made the bot interpret it in a more mechanical / mathematic kind of way.

It’s a pretty salient demonstration of a bot’s inability to reason. They’re good at making sentences, but they can only emulate reasoning.

I find this really hard to believe.

I’m sure that unauthorised organ harvesting has occurred in isolated circumstances.

But I’m incredulous that it could happen on an industrial scale.

I didn’t realise that this was a thing.

I guess your body just kind of tolerates bone for some reason? Usually for transplants you need meds to suppress your immune system forever.