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- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 3 days ago:
I’ll ponder it, but only from a safe distance. It’s important to make sure that the orb doesn’t ponder you back.
- Comment on OpenAI supremo Sam Altman says he 'doesn't know how' he would have taken care of his baby without the help of ChatGPT 4 days ago:
Which he can afford because of ChatGPT. Checkmate.
- Comment on Trump extends the TikTok ban deadline for a third time; there is no legal basis for the extensions and it is unclear how many times the deadline can be extended 4 days ago:
Maybe Elmo could, now that they broke up. He could argue that TikTok existing makes Twitter’s videos less popular.
- Comment on this thing fucking sucks 1 week ago:
Meh, it’s 0K.
- Comment on Meta Filed a Lawsuit Against The Entity Behind a Nudify App. 1 week ago:
Note: this is only the best argument they have right now because politicians will never be persuaded by people bringing up Palantir’s war crimes.
- Comment on The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes — Zed's Blog 1 week ago:
If you use LLMs like they should be, i.e. as autocomplete, they’re helpful. Classic autocomplete can’t see me type “import” and correctly guess that I want to import a file that I just created, but Copilot can. You shouldn’t expect it to understand code, but it can type more quickly than you and plug the right things in more often than not.
- Comment on The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes — Zed's Blog 1 week ago:
Copilot does a good job of typing out things like imports that should really be loops but can’t be. Sure, I could easily write a Python or Bash script to do it, but that would take 5-10 minutes and just pressing Tab 20 times takes a lot less.
- Comment on The Case for Software Craftsmanship in the Era of Vibes — Zed's Blog 1 week ago:
Or were using a product with management that wanted in. A handful of video games were negatively impacted, so their players were at least inconvenienced.
- Comment on TIL my decision to drive a 22' full cab pickup truck and vehemently oppose urban zoning reform makes me a defender of social justice, a warrior for the downtrodden, and more progressive than 99% [cont 2 weeks ago:
I feel like that’s a millennial trait too, simply because we’re all too broke to afford the markup.
- Comment on Just give me a few hundred turns, and I'm gonna spank everyone at this tournament. 2 weeks ago:
Out of turn?
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 3 weeks ago:
Teacher got the worksheet from someone else and didn’t know the answer.
- Comment on xAI to pay Telegram $300M to integrate Grok into the chat app 3 weeks ago:
If it had any value, Telegram would be paying Elmo for the privilege instead of the other way around.
- Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right 3 weeks ago:
Or just put the box 4" to the right, directly on the stud. Why on earth they thought it had to be exactly where it is is beyond me.
- Comment on A 19-year old cis lesbian woman was beaten unconscious and robbed after she tried to use the women's restroom at a McDonald's in Carpentersville, Illinois 4 weeks ago:
No, French did not exist at the same time as the Roman Empire.
- Comment on U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs 4 weeks ago:
So China has a smaller percentage of its population below 10k USD net worth despite having a 45% lower cost of living? That’s a pretty big difference in the number of people who can live comfortably. I’m willing to sacrifice people’s ability to be ludicrously rich for that.
- Comment on Judge finds police acted reasonably in shooting New Mexico man while at wrong address 4 weeks ago:
“Qualified immunity” has very few qualifications.
- Comment on Anthropic's Claude 4 could "blackmail" you in extreme situations 4 weeks ago:
But it doesn’t know that it exists. It just says that it does because it’s seen others saying that they exist. It’s a trillion-dollar autocomplete program.
For example, if you take a common logic puzzle and change the parameters a little, LLMs will often recite a memorized solution to the wrong puzzle because they aren’t parameterizing the query correctly (mapping lion to predator, cabbage to vegetable, ignoring the instructions that the two cannot be put together in favor of the classic framing where the predator can be left with the vegetable).
I can’t find the link right now, but a different redditor tried the problem with three inanimate objects that could obviously be left alone together and LLMs were still suggesting making return trips with items. They had no examples of a non-puzzle in their training data, so they just recited the solution to a puzzle because they can’t think.
Note that I’ve been careful to say LLMs. I’m open to the idea that AGI/ASI may someday exist, but I’m quite confident that LLMs will not get there. At best, they might be used to offload conversation, like e.g. Dall-E is used to offload image generation from ChatGPT today.
- Comment on U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs 4 weeks ago:
Which other guys? The couple thousand people who voted third party because they didn’t view Harris as an acceptable compromise between fascism and humanity?
- Comment on U.S. inks bill to force geo-tracking tech for high-end gaming and AI GPUs 4 weeks ago:
The PRC is also quickly catching up in semiconductors, and they actually build infrastructure, unlike the US. Sure, they have a massive wealth disparity and very obviously aren’t communist, but they’re doing a few things right.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
“This thing that’s happening reminds me of a different thing that’s also happening” isn’t exactly an unusual sentiment.
- Comment on A family of 5 downsized to a one-bedroom apartment to escape feeling 'house poor.' Saving money hasn't been the only benefit. 5 weeks ago:
It bugs me that people seem to think that dense living has to mean smaller homes. If you build up double-digit stories, you can have massive condominiums and still be far more dense than even the half-baked two- or three-story apartment buildings in my part of the US. Plus, when you don’t have a quarter acre to store your stuff, the extra space comes in handy pretty frequently.
- Comment on Trump administration fires US Copyright Office head Shira Perlmutter; her office had raised concerns about using copyrighted content to train AI 1 month ago:
- Comment on doctors 1 month ago:
That depends on the surgery. Gastric bypass notoriously has weight requirements, but a gallbladder removal can still kill you if you’re too fat.
- Comment on Musk’s Colossus is fully operational with 200,000 GPUs backed by Tesla batteries — Phase 2 to consume 300 MW, enough to power 300,000 homes 1 month ago:
300 MW isn’t enough to power 300k homes, that’s only 1 kW/home. A microwave alone uses that, let alone a refrigerator. A single space heater is 1.5 kW.
- Comment on Using Roman numerals made this so much easier 1 month ago:
I feel like this is one of the few communities not dedicated to AI where that shouldn’t be a problem. It’s a shitpost, it’ssupposed to be low-effort and kind of bad.
- Comment on The clueless people are out there among us 1 month ago:
Take the adapter off, moron.
- Comment on If a gay man and lesbian woman have sex, is that gay or straight? 1 month ago:
Similarly, e.g. two bi men getting married is a gay wedding, even though neither party is gay. The relationship can be described independently of the people in it.
- Comment on MTA wants AI to flag 'problematic behavior' in NYC subways 1 month ago:
Until it falsely alerts on someone they don’t like, and then they’ll beat the shit out of that person.
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg Thinks You Don't Have Enough Friends and His Chatbots Are the Answer 1 month ago:
Making fun of Zuck and his chatbots is a good way to bond with friends.
- Comment on The federal minimum wage is officially a poverty wage in 2025 1 month ago:
De jure, the restaurant has to make the difference up if they make less than minimum wage after tips. De facto, wage theft is about twice as much as all other forms of theft combined.