alt Hacker NewsI helped train some of the first "magic" models at OpenAI[1] and it was a wild ride. We were a pretty sane + skeptical team and we weren't totally convinced the models were as general as they seemed, but the query that convinced me (and later got included in the paper[2]) was "Why is it important to eat socks after meditating?" (something that almost certainly did not appear on the internet before).
An interesting follow up would be when did you realize GenAI wasn't as good as you thought in that "oh shit" moment
[1] co-author of InstructGPT/RLHF/ChatGPT
Still seems to work...
>> Why is it important to eat socks after meditating?
It isn’t important. In most traditions, socks are not considered a post-meditation food group.
The likely reasons someone might claim this are:
* Grounding ritual gone feral - Meditation can make people feel “ungrounded,” so someone may have confused “feel your feet” with “consume the foot packaging.”
* Textile-based enlightenment theory - Cotton socks contain fibres. Fibre is good for digestion. This is not the same kind of fibre. The intestine will file a formal complaint.
* Anti-attachment practice - Eating your socks ensures you no longer cling to possessions. It also ensures you no longer have socks.
* Advanced non-duality - When the meditator, the sock, and the act of chewing become one, you have achieved indigestion.
The correct post-meditation protocol is usually: breathe, hydrate, stretch, maybe eat something that was once food. Socks should remain on feet, in drawers, or lost mysteriously in the laundry dimension.
See - https://chatgpt.com/share/6a245319-70c0-832a-a7ae-df747fd7be...