hansolo

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The kid asks a great question⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  In 1282 AD, an accord followed the disaster later recounted as the Pied Piper of Hamelin myth, in which a warg working with the demonic entity we now call the “Tooth Fairy” walked 200 children off a cliff simply to collect their fresh teeth to fuel their evil orgies. Duke Albert II of Saxony hired a shaman and witch to force a détant with the demon as a response. After some haggling, which cost one advisor his jaw, the demon agreed to effectively scavenge from the local townspeople in the night in exchange for a ceremonial pittance, often a handful of grain or a piece of fruit.

  The demon, now overwhelmed by the sheer volume of teeth lost on a daily basis by 7.5 billion people, is doing great 750 years later, playing the long game to success.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Technichally-wrong community. Here here, peepostin' lyka pro⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Also taking gas station pills full of burdock root because you think you might have a drug test.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All this AI nonsense is an attempt to capitalize on the mere act of human thinking⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a moderate user for code. LLMs are not smart, they’re pattern machines. Anyone who cedes critical thinking to them without due diligence, gets what they deserve, and likely didn’t really have much in the way of critical thought in the first place.

  These companies are all trying to figure out how to monetize their latest juked benchmark stat and create something with task value equivalent to the billions in investment they’ve thrown into processing. The industry is awash in startups dong the same thing 90000 ways. Human lust for money and power is the most nefarious thing about it all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple just proved AI "reasoning" models like Claude, DeepSeek-R1, and o3-mini don't actually reason at all.⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Because it’s a fear-mongering angle that still sells. AI has been a vehicle for scifi for so long that trying to convince Boomers that of won’t kill us all is the hard part.

  I’m a moderate user for code and skeptic of LLM abilities, but 5 years from now when we are leveraging ML models for groundbreaking science and haven’t been nuked by SkyNet, all of this will look quaint and silly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't have⁩ ⁨⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  My condolences.

  Can I offer you some egg stew in these cold and trying times?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We don't have⁩ ⁨⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Because suddenly everyone can shed clothing and be more social. The oppression of winter is over, and the promise of having food and plenty later in the summer is there. Makes sense to me.