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Agreed. There’s nothing toxic about a light crush as long as you keep it light and don’t make it the other’s problem. Of course context is everything but it’s a normal thing to happen between adults, right?

Yeah nobody did. I’ve heard this kind of talk since the Patriot act went into effect but it wasn’t really a problem as long as the US weren’t overtly hostile to our institutions.

Right now a lot of people are scrambling to alternatives, at least in certain circles. Personally ive been gearing up a “de-americanization” service I plan to go to market in early 2026. It’s gonna be great cause for the first time in my career I can go all in on communicating my opinions to potential customers \o/

you know the best memory I have of my grandma before she tragically passed away? How she would sing decryption keys to me while I feel asleep 🥰

I’ve never heard it used by a man to refer to another man, so I was under the impression that it was more like “dear” or “babe”. Is that a common use of the word?

Imagine if you will a browser with infinite attack surface 💀

Honestly I’m pretty bullish on ai but that’s the step too far. I had the same when they released warp (ai enhanced terminal). I finished installing it then before even starting it once I realized I was about to give an ai access to my dotfiles etc… that was the fastest I ever uninstalled something.

I have this but explaining business situations with analogies to history

The problem with being a pragmatic LLM user is that you have on one side corporate America shoe-horning the tech in mediocre products none wants, and on the other side a large portion of the internet who loathe it but don’t use it and don’t even know what it does. Those conversations never go anywhere man. You’re talking to someone who thinks accuracy of 57% on SpreadsheetBench means the model gives wrong answers 42% of the time.

Hate to agree with Microsoft but yeah, Excel is probably a great place to introduce an LLM. It’s in that sweet spot between natural language and light programming, in an environment with math baked in so you don’t really care about the model’s accuracy or exact recall. All the data is here, and the model only has to manipulates cell numbers and writes formulas in this dumbed down language.

I’m sure you can get away with pretty small models too. It doesn’t need super human knowledge to implement 90% of common Excel use cases, and i suspect in real world scenarios the accuracy must be pretty interesting.

Actually no, they have some sort of “circuits” that approximate math, which is even more interesting imo. Still not reliable in the slightest, of course.

When I learned that MacGyver was American, knowing full well I saw him speak French in every episode, it made me very angry for some reason.

I don’t think I could cause I lack strategic thinking and would get easily outmaneuvered by some other faction

At uni our US literature professor kept referring to that Flannery O’Connor book as “a hard man is good to find” and I found her hilarious for that

And if it bugs you, you can bug Jack Barron about it

Right now there’s probably someone making killer music and posting to YT or peertube with like 3 views because everyone just accepts the algo slop and no one looks for the gems

Respectfully, i think this is the wrong conclusion. There are more sophisticated listeners today than there have ever been and sub-genre communities are great at spotting new gems. But while the number of listeners grew linearly, the number of bands has grown exponentially, making discoverability very difficult to achieve. That’s not anyone’s fault unless you consider musicians are at fault for creating so many good bands.

I can’t speculate to the motivations of random internet users but yeah, committing your identity to a catastrophe of any kind is some serious dysfunction. It’s like they have just discovered that the universe is unfair so their naivety demands that it leads to cosmic retribution.

Funny, I would propose the exact opposite. OpenAI is doomed, they are committed to spending more money than they can ever hope to earn, and already have a hard time raising anything covering their operating expenses, let alone the training of new innovative models. Their life will only keep getting harder and they’ll never have it as good as they did in 2023.

On the other hand, alternative models get better every day and have tokens that cost a fraction of those from large model makers. Some of what you call ChatGPT “wrappers” actually have solid and healthy business models and are burning reasonable amounts of cash (reasonable for VC backed businesses anyway). They’ll just switch to cheaper models when price pressure tells them to and they’ll be fine.

That is Apex internet thank you my good sir

As I commented elsewhere, a lot of people in our generation are masking deep seated suicidal fantasies and convincing themselves that they are a valid response to the world around them. That’s obviously not good for anybody and makes them just as volatile as the other death cults currently in existence.

It definitely is. It’s a mental health problem, not a valid environmental or political take.

He’s pretty explicit in that regard. He even added an interesting point at the start of the article : most people he knows who actually work with AI and know shit about it are not boosters. It’s an important distinction that Ed doesn’t ignore.

He is against the over hype of “AGI” and skeptical of the hundreds of billions that have been poured into it for sinister reasons. He’s not denying that the tech has uses, but rather confronting the value of those uses with their actual, non subsidized cost.

Back when I lived in Mexico there was this restaurant (I think the name was califa or something) who made “costra”. Basically they took the meat they’d normally put in a taco, but mixed it with a lot of cheese and grilled that on the comal until it developed a crust (costra in Spanish). It was so fucking good 🤌