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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨South Korea makes AI investment a top policy priority to support flagging growth⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “A grand transformation into AI is the only way out of growth declines resulting from a population shock,” the ministry said in a statement, referring to South Korea’s record low birthrate.

  The funny bit is how “AI companions” are one of the most profitable uses of AI so far . See how THAT increases a country’s birthrate.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[PDF] Tesla is slow in reporting crashes and the feds have launched an investigation to find out why⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is Analysis-Paralysis. Why should they spend all their time counting past crashes when they are busy increasing the production of new ones?

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah yes “The Porn Loophole”, was one of my favorites , I should still have it on a DVD somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  LLMs can’t do protein folding. A specifically-trained Machine Learning model called AlphaFold did. Here’s the paper.

  Developing, training and fine tuning that model was a research effort led by two guys who got a Nobel for it. Alphafold can’t do conversation or give you hummus recipes, it knows shit about the structure of human language but can identify pattern in the domain where it has been specifically and painstakingly trained.

  It wasn’t “hey chatGPT, show me how to fold a protein” is all I’m saying and the “superhuman reasoning capabilities” of current LLMs are still falling ridiculously short of even sinpler problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As a paid, captive squirrel, focusing on spinning my workout wheel and getting my nuts at the end of the day, I hate that AI is mostly a (very expensive) solution in search of a problem. I am being told “you must use AI, find a way to use it” but my AI successes are very few and mostly non-repeatable (my current AI use case is: “try it once for non-vital, not time-sensitive stuff, if at first you don’t succeed, just give up, if you succeed, you saved some time for more important stuff”).

  If I try to think as a CEO or an entrepreneur, though, I sort of see where these people might be coming from. They see AI as the new “internet”, something that for good or bad is getting ingrained in everything we do and that will cause your company to go bankrupt for trying too hard to do things “the new way” but also to quickly fade to irrelevance if you keep doing things in the same way.

  It’s easy, with the benefit of hindsight, to say now “haha, Blockbuster could have bought Netflix for $50 Millions and now they are out of business”, but all these people who have seen it happen are seeing AI as the new disruptive technology that can spell great success or complete doom for their current businesses. All hype? Maybe. But if I was a CEO I’d be probably sweating too (and having a couple of VPs at my company wipe up the sweat with dollar bills)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So, a few monthe ago China launched Deepseek and the narrqtive was all “the fact they didn’t have access to the latest Nvidia GPUs forced them to get creative and develop a model that is more efficient and cheaper”.

  Now the US is getting behind on “AI wars” because China has more energy for huge data centers?

  How about the US get creativve and develop LLMs that are actually useful and can work without sucking Gigafucks of electricity?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know how much Musk can be separated from Starlink. Not only because Starlink, as part of SpaceX, is privately held but also because the main reason they now have a superior service to offer is that they got fucktons of money from government customers, which is also tied to Musk’s action

  A big part of Musk’s involvement with politics is because everything he does, from EVs to rockets to, now, big energy-guzzling datacenters for AI, needs a lot of government backing, if not in terms of direct contracts at least in terms of regulation and incentives.

  Even his direct involvement with Trump wasn’t because he suddenly became a Nazi (he’s probably always been one, according to his own family) but in order to become even more entangled with government investments, even trying to control NASA directly.

  And not only US governments. I remember Musk suddenly being everywhere in Europe pitching Starlink. Meloni’s government in Italy was grilled for allegedly agreeing on a big contract with Starlink.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Have you ever noticed no one ever looks at a penis and then says, "wow, he must have big feet."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Like, you know when you are walking and suddenly they Hulk out and break your shoes? Man I hate foot-boners!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink tries to block Virginia’s plan to bring fiber Internet to residents⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  but not in this order, the reverse would be so much more satisfying

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Is Giving Exactly the Same Copy-Pasted Response Every Time Time ChatGPT Is Linked to a Mental Health Crisis⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  ah, dear old copy/paste… It’s funny that even OpenAI doesn’t trust ChatGPT enough to give LLM-generated more personalized answers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  actually Donnie’s friends prefer to fuck high school students

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “you can’t have a successful government when every time I want to be President or have sex with minors or anything else you have the right to do as a rich, white man, you have to hear people get all judgy”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The part I find interesting is the quick addiction to working with the LLM (to the point the guy finds his own estimate of 8000 dollars/month in fees to be reasonable), his over-reliance for things that from the way he writes he knows are not wise and the way it all comes crashing down in the end. Sounds more and more like the development of a new health issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if it can be used legally against the company behind the model, though. I doubt that it’s possible, but having a “your own model says it effed up my data” could give some beef to a complaint. Or at least to a request to get a refund on the fees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm curious.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re doing it wrong. You’re meant to look at people who are happier than you and think smugly “ha… ignorants!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Rise and Fall of the Knowledge Worker⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The article makes a good point that it’s less about replacing a knowledge worker completely and more industrializing what some categories of knowledge workers do.

  Can one professional create a video with AI in a matter of hours instead of it taking days and needing actors, script writers and professional equipment? Apparently yes. And AI can even translate it in multiple languages without translators and voice actors.

  Are they “great” videos? Probably not. Good enough and cheap enough for several uses? Probably yes.

  Same for programming. The completely independent AI coder doesn’t exist and many are starting to doubt that it ever will, with the current technology. But if GenAI can speed up development, even not super-significantly but to the point that it takes maybe 8 developers to do the work of 10, that is a 20% drop in demand for developers, which puts downward pressure on salaries too.

  It’s like in agriculture. It’s not like technology produced completely automated ways to plow fields or harvest crops. But one guy with a tractor can now work one field in a few hours by himself.

  With AI all this is mostly hypothetical, in the sense that OpenAI and co are all still burning money and resources at a pace that looks hard to sustain (let alone grow) and it’s unclear what the cost to the consumers will be like, when the dust settles and these companies will need to make a profit.

  But still, when we’re pointing to all the failed attempts to make AI truly autonomous in many domains we might be missing the point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People angry that Superman represents kindness are outright admitting that they don't want to be good people⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A few slaps on the butt (assisted by a carpet beater when the occasion demands it) will usually do it. At least that’s how my mom did it with us.

  “You! Have! To be! Good! To! Your! Sister/neighbor/dog!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Promises Grok in Tesla Vehicles By Next Week… as the New Grok 4 Blames “Anti-White Hate” on “Jews”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  don’t call my tesla cars swastikars…

  … that’s reductive, they have so much MORE potential!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Connor Myers: As if graduating weren’t daunting enough, now students like me face a jobs market devastated by AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  but why am I soft in the middle? The rest of my life is so hard!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Copilot falls Atari 2600 Video Chess⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  but… but… reasoning models! AGI! Singularity! Seriously, what you’re saying is true, but it’s not what OpenAI & Co are trying to peddle, so these experiments are a good way to call them out on their BS.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$219 Springer Nature book on machine learning was written with a chatbot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Congrats then, you write better than a LLM!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$219 Springer Nature book on machine learning was written with a chatbot⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Interestingly, your original comment is not much longer and I find it much easier to read.

  Was it written with the help of a LLM? Not being sarcastic, I’m just trying to understand if the (perceived) deterioration in quality was due to the fact that the input was already LLM-assisted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says he has 'a group of very wealthy people' to buy TikTok⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In order to make sure they were wealthy enough, I’m sure he personally tested them one by one, challenging to send him a big donation in cryptocurrencies.

  That’s what a committed President-slash-genius looks like!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gartner Predicts Over 40% of Agentic AI Projects Will Be Canceled by End of 2027⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  60% success rate sounds like a very optimistic take. Investing in a AI startup with 60% chance of success? That’s a VC’s wet dream!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Eventually” might be a long time with radiation.

  20 years after the Chernobyl disaster the level of radiation was still high enough to give you a good chance of cancer if you went to live there for a few years.

  www.chernobylgallery.com/…/radiation-levels/

  I don’t know how much radiation these “tactical” weapons release, but if it’s comparable to Chernobyl, even if the buildings were not originally damaged, I don’t know how fit they would be for living after being abandoned for 30 or 40 years.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can AI run a physical shop? Anthropic’s Claude tried and the results were gloriously, hilariously bad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It was Anthropic who ran this experiment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a First, America Dropped 30,000-Pound Bunker-Busters—But Iran’s Concrete May Be Unbreakable, Scientists Say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  rest of Tokio is mostly intact

  and housing becomes much more accessible too when buildings are intact but their inhabitants have much shorter lives because of radiation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon boss tells staff AI means their jobs are at risk in coming years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Quick recap for future historians:

  • for a really brief part of its history, humanity tried to give kindness a go. A half-hearted attempt at best, but there were things like DEI programs, for instance, attempting to create a gentler, more accepting world for everyone. At the very least, trying to appear human to the people they managed was seen as a good attribute for Leaders.

  • some people felt that their God-given right to be assholes to everyone was being taken away (it’s right there in the Bible: be a jerk to your neighbor, take away his job and f##k his wife)

  • Assholes came back in full force, with a vengeance. Not that they had ever disappeared, but now they relished the opportunity to be openly mean for no reason again. Once again, True Leaders were judged by their ability to drain every drop of blood from their employees and take their still-beating hearts as an offering to the Almighty Shareholders.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I get what you mean and it’s a fair point. But still, as the ignorant I am, I would still go with Meta as the most immediate threat in a war with the US. As the ignorant I am, I would assume the phone manufacturer to have a certain level of control on the way Android works and that it wouldn’t be as easy for Google to have the same level of access to any individual Samsung or Xiaomi phone with Android as it is for Meta with WhatsApp, an app they fully control that has full access to (way too many) phone features regardless of brand.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iran asks its people to delete WhatsApp⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They are basically at war with the US and there is this piece of US Tech that nearly everyone is carrying around and that can access their communications, precise location, microphone and camera.

  It’s also owned by a company, Meta, that has a history of being used as a tool to manipulate public opinion. I have no particular sympathy for Iran but to me it doesn’t sound like bad advice (and I don’t think WhatsApp is the only way for people to communicate with the outside world).