OneMoreFarang

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Large Language Model ChatGPT is one of them. Large language model - Wikipedia

That's what I want to see. What do others think? What are their opinions? AI is a great topic for that. Opinions about that subject are all over the place.

I am less agreeable than that. And I don't consider that as negative. The 5 traits show the differences in people. It doesn't mean people with higher or lower scores are better, they are just different. From Jordan B Peterson - UnderstandMyself.com "People high in agreeableness are nice: compliant, nurturing, kind, naively trusting and conciliatory. However, because of their tendency to avoid conflict, they often dissemble and hide what they think. People low in agreeableness are not so nice: stubborn, dominant, harsh, skeptical, competitive and, in the extreme, even predatory. However, they tend to be straightforward, even blunt, so you know where they stand."

Imagine you do what you describe above, and then one day someone would tell you that there wasn't any human involved. You wrote 100 posts and no human ever read it. Just AI. How would you feel about that? I think this forum resembles the real world. In real life I talk sometimes with serious and competent people, and sometimes with people who just talk and don't know much. And then there are also tolls out there. In real life we filter what we listen and react to. And here we do the same. Here we even have an Ignore button to switch off unwanted "people" completely.

If those people can't express what they think, or their thinking is so poorly, then it's good when that is obvious - not enhanced.

How can the AI know what you thought and maybe intended to write? It doesn't! The AI can only add things or rewrite things. And maybe that makes it sound good. But it's not the original thought. If I want to communicate with an AI I know where to find it. If I write in a forum like this, I don't want to communicate with humans and (not clearly marked) AI at the same time.

I want to know if it is news or fiction. If I want the news, then I prefer authentic information, that means mostly no AI. If I want fiction, then I like to enjoy that. If AI makes it better, then that is fine with me. It's fiction.

Maybe I would read more. But if I see rubbish, then I don't read it. If I see AI enhanced rubbish, then maybe it will be a little longer before I stop reading. So, I wasted more time. I don't want to waste my time.

Maybe I am wrong, but I prefer a bad written original post compared to an AI enhanced post. Because the AI might enhance it, and make it sound better, and add some details, but all of that is not authentic. The original information might be from someone who was in a fire of a big building. With few information. Put that in an LLM and that will be able to add additional information which the LLM found on the internet. This information might be right, or it might be wrong. We don't know. I know we won't read all accurate information from real people in an anonymous forum. But we can/do filter what we read. That is more difficult after AI "enhanced" whatever was originally written.

I think some of those AI enhanced posts don't make much sense. Let's say an idiot has a stupid thought. And then he uses AI (LLM) to make that stupid idea sound somehow better. It doesn't work. If an intelligent person writes something, maybe in a foreign language, then I am sure AI can help to make this sound better. That's ok. Today I read an interesting article about the Turing Test and the ability of humans to spot if an answer was written by a human. It seems what they have to do now is to make the AI response more stupid. There are just not many people who can answer everything with a reasonable competent answer. AI is on the way to be able to do that. So, a good interactive way to spot an AI is to ask lots of complicated questions. If the AI has good answers to everything, then most likely it is an AI. In this forum I like to communicate with real people in the way they are - not AI enhanced version of those people.

Are you familiar with working with natural wood? I read a long article about many details of such wood and all the headache which you can have with it. So just in case you are not familiar with possible problem, then better educate yourself first or maybe try with cheaper wood at the beginning. I also remember I saw some interesting YouTube videos about that.

I also ordered MDF and other not natural wood on Lazada, no problem. But I guess if you want "real wood", then you better look at things.

Woodstreet, you can find it on Google Maps.

No foreigner who wants to stay in Thailand for years should work without work permit. If they allow their employers to get away with that then they only have themselves to blame. Or obviously they are not qualified for a work permit. We can't really blame Thailand for that.

555! When I need another of those yearly checks I go to a clinic, and they take a little blood. It doesn't even take 5min. And then I come back the next day and get a document. That's it. Years ago, I also had a short conversation with a doctor. The type of: Are you feeling alright? Yes? Ok, done. Maybe this test is more difficult for certain jobs like maybe a chef or so. But for ordinary jobs the health test is a joke.

Does any farang really try to do that by themselves? Use an agent, problem solved. Because an experienced agent knows all the details and can check all the documents up front.

Sure, I understand why you have ads. But lots of websites have ads. And I don't remember any other website which has even half as many ads as this one. It seems most companies understand that there is a compromise between showing ads and making money and on the other hand keeping the users happy. I don't mind ads, I know you need them, but how about you reduce them to an amount like any other website? That will improve the user experience from anybody who wants to use this site. I didn't know that AN offers an ad free version. Is that fact advertised anywhere? But it's not only about me. I am sure you like to have new users. And do you really think you will get many new users if they don't see the content of your site but only ads? Sometimes more is better. Maybe rethink your strategy.

Mostly I am able to avoid most of those problematic types.

Over many years I had several of them and my customers used them. I remember only one problem with any of them - a bad hinge. I bought the last one a couple of years ago including 3 years warranty. The warranty even includes if I drop it. I paid a little extra for that extended warranty, but it was really only a little extra.

She can't really be worse than another relative of Thaksin.

I read your rules, especially this one, and I will not complain about the individual ads. 37. You will not post negative comments concerning advertisements on ASEAN NOW or our sponsors. What I like to complain about are the amount of ads and the usability of the forum. I have a large desktop screen. And I like to look at the newest posts by looking at the list to the right. Now see how much of the screen is information, and how much is ads. And you even make it impossible to read the list on the right without removing the adds. Is that the kind of user experience which you want to give us? This is the ad to information ratio. This is what I actually see.

Lenovo might be good, or not so good. If you want a good one, buy a ThinkPad made for business, i.e. the T series. They are about as good as it gets.

You want to buy a laptop for 20k. You won't find a good new laptop for that kind of money. This is why I recommended buying a used one. But I won't spend my time to look for one for you. I recommended a ThinkPad, now it's time for you to look at the details - at least if you want to do that.