I’ve stitched together a video — from publicly available clips collected from Threads and Douyin — of what happened on AirAsia’s D7809 🇨🇳 Chongqing to 🇲🇾 Kuala Lumpur flight on Apr 22…
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Sam Altman said people saying “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT costs OpenAI tens of millions of dollars a year in compute. 67% of Americans do it anyway.
Run the math on why.
A 2024 Waseda University study tested LLM responses across politeness levels in English, Chinese, and Japanese. Impolite prompts produced measurably worse outputs: more bias, more errors, more refusals. Moderate politeness consistently beat both extremes.
The mechanism makes sense once you see it. Polite prompts pattern-match to higher-quality training data. When you write “Could you help me structure this analysis?”, the model pulls from professional, well-reasoned text. When you write “give me the answer,” it pulls from Reddit.
Google DeepMind’s Murray Shanahan explained it simply: the model is role-playing a smart intern. Treat the intern like a colleague, you get colleague-quality work. Bark orders, you get minimum-viable compliance.
Now look at the cost side. OpenAI handles over a billion queries daily. Each GPT-4 query uses roughly 2.9 watt-hours, ten times a Google search. But OpenAI just raised $40 billion at a $300 billion valuation. Tens of millions in politeness tokens is a rounding error on a rounding error.
67% of users do it anyway, and 55% of them say it’s because it’s “the right thing to do.” They’re maintaining a behavioral habit that governs every other interaction in their life. The parent who teaches their kid to say please to Alexa isn’t doing it for Alexa. They’re doing it because the alternative is raising someone who learns that being rude gets faster results.
Telling 900 million people to stop saying thank you so OpenAI can save 0.01% of operating costs is the most engineer-brained optimization take on the internet. You’re training yourself to treat every interaction as a transaction. And that habit doesn’t stay in the chat window.
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Spain removes ambassador to Israel at Iran's request.
Iran had announced that any country that removes the Israeli ambassador from their country will grant their ships free passage through the Strait of Hormuz.
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@theofficialadli Ayahnya mungkin dah bekerja keras waktu muda dan duit tu cukup² ikut makan pakai minum untuk isteri dan anak²
Parents jangan terlalu mengharapkan anak untuk tanggung hidup watu tua.
Anak² pula jangan terlalu berkira untuk bantu mak ayah tapi ikut kemampuan masing²
@theofficialadli Agree je anak bukan retirement plan. Tidak menyusahkan anak². Dah tu kalau Allah dah kata rezeki itu sahaja, sudah usaha penat lelah masa muda tapi masih disitu, takkan anak² taknak hulur sedikit ringankan beban mak ayah?
Kena ingat, tak semua orang lahir² terus kaya bang
Benak ubi, acah terpaling tahu. Tapi bodoh sombong. Port yg aku sendiri handle, kau tanya orang lain. Umpama sepatutnya kau tanya orang audit, tapi kau tanya dekat finance. Benak ubi. Butoh