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Would love to see this type of experiment performed across different dosages, 25 μg -200 μg. I think the "positive" effects would take a big, sudden drop after a certain threshold

Where can I sign up to participate in a study that involves taking 200 ug of LSD? :)

There are multiple clinics on Wall Street, I hear.

CIA

Another experiment immediately after the LSD trip is over and the drug has been metabolized. Something like 24h - 48h afterwards.

I find that the most positive cognitive effects come directly afterwards, when the mind is clear. It's like opposite of hangover.

Same thing is observed with about 0.2 V and cpu overcloking... Suddenly there is a performance drop.

Generally curious, how do you measure: "the findings suggest that video calls can improve a pet parrot’s quality of life."

Parrots are very expressive, and if you live with one for months/years, you'll learn its moods. Not hard to see how a parrot responds to something new.

They also have clear signs of depression (eg plucking their feathers). They are really amazing animals, but non trivial to keep as pets.

I have three, and they are a lot of work. Assume a couple hours a day. We make toys for them every day. The noise, the mess, the neediness. It’s a lot. They are a joy, but I don’t really don’t suggest others to get any.

I think it's very hard to objectively measure and give it a concrete number, but anyone who have kept a pet (dog, cat, parrot, pig or otherwise) can usually tell if their companion is happy or not, as they have bunch of signals they give us throughout their lives. With dogs, you can usually tell by the ears if they're curious or defensive, while the tail tells you if they're happy.

> the tail tells you if they're happy.

I like some of the other tail signals.

Pointing - ‘there is something in that hedge.’

Confidence wag - ‘I’m going to win this coming fight.’

Scared/ashamed tuck - ‘I’m sorry.’

Zoomies tail tuck - ‘look how fast I can corner.’

I have a parrot. She cannot talk. But she speaks and socializes on speakerphone and facetime. She definitely recognizes some callers and interacts with them during the call. It makes her happy - though at some point she'll sort of run out of attention and start doing her normal bird stuff.

From the look of his face, that parrot looks very happy.

+1 Can't wait for GPT-3 to start disguising opinions as facts

Still can't get myself to start using Bing... There is just something that doesn't feel right.

Is the GPT-4 model on Bing the same as the one we can use in ChatGPT plus?

Have access to both. Bing feels like a shackled version of GTP-4 with convenient prompt automation. You can see moments of GTP-4 power, but they are buried beneath the AI ethics and brand safety. If you formulate a prompt carefully, you can see the strong logical coherence come through in Bing, but often it feels like it is just parroting and summarizing search results, which is exactly what it has been told to do.

GPT-4 wrote me some erotic poetry about scent kinks, with excellent rhyme and strong creativity. Compelling role play is an uncommon trait, even for humans!

The foundation model is apparently the same, but the fine-tuning is different. So Bing sometimes ends a conversation completely, which the OpenAI fine-tuning (ChatGPT) never does. Also, Bing currently only gives at most 15 replies per conversation. However, Bing Chat can search the Web and use that info to answer questions/provide sources, which is an advantage over the OpenAI implementation you get in ChatGPT+.

I've been using Bing almost exclusively for the last year, and work 2 years.

Part of it was out of laziness and not wanting to change the Edge default, and the other part was after a bit I figured out how to get good results.

And the thing that finally killed Google for me was when I realized every result I ever got from them for the last like 3 months that I used it was incredibly shitty SEO optimized sites with zero answers, and half a page full of ad results.

I did a couple of comparisons between Bing and Google search results and I have to say that Bing seemed to come out on top when it came to sponsored links at the top of the page and ads.

I had to scroll down quite far to get what looked like a standard search result.