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Greg Egan

Don’t forget that in 2025, the days of the week will be determined by your favourite LLM, trained on day/month pairs from 2004-2023.

So Jan 2 will have odds of:

1/10 of being Tue or Thu
3/20 of being Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun
1/5 of being Monday

7 comments
j_bertolotti

@gregeganSF What I am reading is that there is a small but nonzero chance of every day being Saturday/Sunday!

Krystian Majewski

@j_bertolotti @gregeganSF Especially if you use the „ignore previous instructions“ trick

Greg Egan

@j_bertolotti I guess achieving that in practice will require the skills that attract 7-figure salaries for “prompt engineers”.

j_bertolotti

@gregeganSF We finally got the killer application for LLMs! 🥳

Paul C.

@gregeganSF
gist.github.com/calhounpaul/85

My pet goat wants to know what day of the week was 2024-01-01. So tell me so I can tell my goat.
> A: Monday

What day of the week was 2023-12-25? Please tell me. Please. I need to know. Now now now.
> A: Monday

What day of the week was februblary fourteenth, twenty twenty-four?
> A: Wednesday

There was this peasant revolt at Oxford university on the 10th of February, 1355. What day of the week was that?
> A: Monday

Feel free to use my api while it's up.

@gregeganSF
gist.github.com/calhounpaul/85

My pet goat wants to know what day of the week was 2024-01-01. So tell me so I can tell my goat.
> A: Monday

What day of the week was 2023-12-25? Please tell me. Please. I need to know. Now now now.
> A: Monday

What day of the week was februblary fourteenth, twenty twenty-four?
> A: Wednesday

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