Making status calculations at all times is a choice you have the right to make, but in my opinion it's a bad one.
4What's your motivation to spend a lot of effort to write up your arguments? If you're right, both the post and your efforts to debunk it are quickly forgotten, but if you're wrong, then the post remains standing/popular/upvoted and your embarrassing comment is left for everyone to see.
If you're right, the author and those who read the comments gain a better understanding; if you're wrong, you do. I think framing criticism as a status contest hurts your motivation to comment more than it helps, here.
I suspect the models' output tokens become input tokens when the conversation proceeds to the next turn; certainly my API statistics show several times as many input tokens as output despite the fact that my responses are invariably shorter than the models'.
1I just saw How to use hypnagogic hallucinations as biofeedback to relieve insomnia in the feed the other day, and it seems like quite a convenient option if it works; could be worth a try, though I haven't tested it myself.
No, actually; the mindset implied by repeating that text as a meme is quite different than the mindset implied by unironically generating it.
The bio is an edited meme, not an original; it mostly communicates that they're a heavy user of the internet. Example from a year ago
Personally I can run for one (1) minute before I'm too out of breath to continue; a quarter-mile is short enough that walking for a majority of the time would still finish it in under ten minutes, but I'd certainly struggle to run it.
In-book it's explicitly partly about inherited wealth; the passage wherein Vimes formulates his theory is preceded by a section about how the very richest people, like Lady Sybil, can afford to live as though poor in some ways (wearing her mother's hand-me-downs, etc) and is immediately followed by this:
The point was that Sybil Ramkin hardly ever had to buy anything. The mansion was full of this big, solid furniture, bought by her ancestors. It never wore out. She had whole boxes full of jewelery which just seemed to have accumulated over the centuries. Vimes had seen a wine cellar that a regiment of speleologists could get so happily drunk in that they wouldn’t mind that they’d got lost without trace.
Lady Sybil Ramkin lived quite comfortably from day to day by spending, Vimes estimated, about half as much as he did.
Gwern's made some suggestions along similar lines.