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- Comment on Who knew genocide wasn't a winning strategy 14 hours ago:
That’s cumulative deaths, so the graph is definitely trailing off. The deaths aren’t, but the graph is of confirmed deaths, which require hospitals to confirm them, and there aren’t any hospitals left.
- Comment on Who knew genocide wasn't a winning strategy 1 day ago:
It’s only trailing off because they can’t count the dead anymore. The toll is estimated to be 7-8x the confirmed number.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms it made $27 billion after laying off 9,000 people, and its CEO physically cannot stop talking about AI 5 days ago:
Oh, it’s fucking horrible at writing entire codebases. I’m talking about specifically tab completion. You still have to read what it’s suggesting, just like with IntelliSense and other pre-LLM autocomplete tools, but it sometimes finishes your thoughts and saves you some typing.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms it made $27 billion after laying off 9,000 people, and its CEO physically cannot stop talking about AI 5 days ago:
I’ve found it better than the weighted dictionary for prose, and way better for code. Code autocompletion was always really limited, but now every couple dozen lines it suggests exactly what I was going to type anyway. Never on anything particularly clever, mind you, but it saves some tedium.
- Comment on Microsoft confirms it made $27 billion after laying off 9,000 people, and its CEO physically cannot stop talking about AI 6 days ago:
LLMs are actually really good at a handful of specific tasks, like autocomplete. The problem arises when people think that they’re on the path to AGI and treat them like they know things.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
The 7G4 is on par in speed with the 888, but it uses a lot less power. And with decent software updates, a Snapdragon 820 is still fast enough for most people (including me).
- Comment on akshully it's "epheboiatrist" 1 week ago:
And hopefully they know the difference between podiatry and pediatric medicine.
- Comment on Corporate inadequacy has rendered my favorite rediscovered gadget useless 3 weeks ago:
That wouldn’t change anything in this specific case, since you can’t buy the whole anymore either.
- Comment on Corporate inadequacy has rendered my favorite rediscovered gadget useless 3 weeks ago:
How would you even start to enforce those laws against a company that no longer exists? It’s one thing to prevent the AI companies from selling a product that relies on continual support in the first place, but these earbuds will work until the batteries degrade (and theoretically longer if you can manage to replace them without destroying the things) with or without the company’s existence. The fact that the user lost the case with no company to replace it doesn’t seem to me to be the kind of thing that you can really address legally, unless you make the companies put a certain stock of parts in escrow or something, which seems potentially clear more wasteful than the status quo.
- Comment on USA 🇺🇸 USA 🇺🇸 USA 3 weeks ago:
This is because “vegetable” is purely a culinary term. There’s no botanical definition of a vegetable. Tomatoes are berries, which is a type of fruit, from a botanical standpoint. So are cucumbers. They’re both vegetables from a culinary standpoint. Lettuce is a leaf. Broccoli is a flower. Carrots are roots. Celery is a stalk. All vegetables culinarily.
- Comment on The havoc is often trigger happy 3 weeks ago:
It’s called gunplay!
- Comment on two wolves 5 weeks ago:
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 month ago:
Meh, it’s 0K.
- Comment on Meta Filed a Lawsuit Against The Entity Behind a Nudify App. 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 1 month 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. 1 month ago:
Out of turn?
- Comment on Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
“Qualified immunity” has very few qualifications.
- Comment on Anthropic's Claude 4 could "blackmail" you in extreme situations 2 months 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 2 months 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?