I will provide a contrary opinion. The internet has made available a wide array of facts. And combined with needing to double-check the frequently incorrect hallucinations of AI, this set of facts has a devastating,…
I am indifferent to whether or not my message is well-received. It is true. And also because the people making the arguments for why they should force people to pay for their jobs are indifferent as well. I take joy in…
Are those statistics I provided invalid? Is it not the case there's an entire (ascendant in some spots) political party based upon this phenomenon of the highly-credentialed yet downwardly mobile? If, as you call it,…
I don't know. Is it irrelevant? Is it interesting that all these "democracies" around the world have persistent speech bans? When someone says something they don't like? I seem to have a recollection of flipping through…
> Democracy is a broad term describing all forms of government where power is granted by the people No. It's not. I encourage you to read the quite enlightening treatment of democracies in the Federalist Papers. And…
John Adams wrote that as a reason why the United States is not a democracy. It's a Constitutional Republic. It's a consistent theme throughout the Federalist Papers. Individual States and localities have elements of…
Have you not been present in our recent two-decade credentialed make-believe economy? The one that puts government in the place of a father? https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelletravis/2026/01/29/women... Edit: "Based…
One day, AI will be able to provide midwit analyses like this. Until that day, we can just say what we all know: 1) AI will absolutely decimate white-collar office jobs in the future, 2) composition of the workplace…
I suspect bailouts will be off the table. Simply because the people who support OpenAI and the tech industry are on the same side of the political aisle as the people protesting data centers. "Big Tech" as a pejorative…
Agreed. Specs are more important than ever. Constraints: types, contracts, protocols, schemas, APIs and such are what ground the boundaries of systems. Without them, code drift is a guarantee. Does anyone trust that a…
What happens when the AI god doesn't appear, and these models plateau in regimes supportable with high-end laptops?
It is. A predictable reset schedule with refinancing ("valuations"). Loose money leading to debt obligations to be paid in the future. Circular financing. And what's funny, is it's precisely the off-book debt that will…
Ah. But which decisionmakers? Would it be the ones that tried to backdoor SSL and encryption in the 90s? Would it be the ones who argued for censoring speech on social platforms? Do those individuals in both cases share…
" - The highest tier Chinese models are not more economical than US frontier models. Try GLM 5.2 and see how much it costs to do real work. I did, and it was more expensive than GPT 5.6." This is a flatly false…
When I see Chinese (open source) emerging AI dominance... what I see is a chronically corrupt set of Bay Area companies who stole open source software, pretended there was an AI god around the corner, and wanted to be…
I think this is actually a perfect case of an impressive thing being done exactly by mimicry. Why do LLMs still have trouble on floating point math without forking out to a tool, but they can perform symbolic…
Wouldn't it be wild if there were real-world penalties for being wrong? And people who follow bad advice will get bad results, and people who follow good advice will get good results? I wonder if this will impact the…
Babies sleep better when their head is near their mother's heart. This seems to be the obvious reason for the left-handed cradling bias [1]. If a baby sleeps better, it cries less. If it cries less, it attracts fewer…
There is also a bias for how babies are held [1]. It holds even with left-handers. Holding a baby's head near the mother's heart helps the baby get to sleep. Which means the baby doesn't cry (and attract predators) and…
I'm definitely not aware that the credibility of the US DOJ has been destroyed. And I question why a 501c3 charity would need "field informants" and to launder money through shell corporations. Especially to leaders of…
My sole comment is that people who use verbiage like this are mentally ill. Not "mentally ill" like I'm calling them an epithet. But like, actually mentally ill. There are things that are simply not pedagogically useful…
Amazing that choice of curricula for elementary schoolchildren draws such a reaction. Kids can read whatever they and their parents want. Schools don't have to teach it.
All of which is confirming my point. The Iranians are a beautiful people and a beautiful culture that is still run by maniacs. The original person's implication that the "antagonism" towards the IRGC is novel to America…
"antagonistic" They are a theocratic regime which is not supported by 80% of its population. Being gay is punishable by death. They employ surveillance from China to ensure hijabs are worn by women at all times. They…
Whatever the epithets, the truth of the matter is those urban areas are closer to what Canada aspires to be (and currently is). Whereas the parts of Canada she cares about are alive and well in the US (and used to be…
I will provide a contrary opinion. The internet has made available a wide array of facts. And combined with needing to double-check the frequently incorrect hallucinations of AI, this set of facts has a devastating,…
I am indifferent to whether or not my message is well-received. It is true. And also because the people making the arguments for why they should force people to pay for their jobs are indifferent as well. I take joy in…
Are those statistics I provided invalid? Is it not the case there's an entire (ascendant in some spots) political party based upon this phenomenon of the highly-credentialed yet downwardly mobile? If, as you call it,…
I don't know. Is it irrelevant? Is it interesting that all these "democracies" around the world have persistent speech bans? When someone says something they don't like? I seem to have a recollection of flipping through…
> Democracy is a broad term describing all forms of government where power is granted by the people No. It's not. I encourage you to read the quite enlightening treatment of democracies in the Federalist Papers. And…
John Adams wrote that as a reason why the United States is not a democracy. It's a Constitutional Republic. It's a consistent theme throughout the Federalist Papers. Individual States and localities have elements of…
Have you not been present in our recent two-decade credentialed make-believe economy? The one that puts government in the place of a father? https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelletravis/2026/01/29/women... Edit: "Based…
One day, AI will be able to provide midwit analyses like this. Until that day, we can just say what we all know: 1) AI will absolutely decimate white-collar office jobs in the future, 2) composition of the workplace…
I suspect bailouts will be off the table. Simply because the people who support OpenAI and the tech industry are on the same side of the political aisle as the people protesting data centers. "Big Tech" as a pejorative…
Agreed. Specs are more important than ever. Constraints: types, contracts, protocols, schemas, APIs and such are what ground the boundaries of systems. Without them, code drift is a guarantee. Does anyone trust that a…
What happens when the AI god doesn't appear, and these models plateau in regimes supportable with high-end laptops?
It is. A predictable reset schedule with refinancing ("valuations"). Loose money leading to debt obligations to be paid in the future. Circular financing. And what's funny, is it's precisely the off-book debt that will…
Ah. But which decisionmakers? Would it be the ones that tried to backdoor SSL and encryption in the 90s? Would it be the ones who argued for censoring speech on social platforms? Do those individuals in both cases share…
" - The highest tier Chinese models are not more economical than US frontier models. Try GLM 5.2 and see how much it costs to do real work. I did, and it was more expensive than GPT 5.6." This is a flatly false…
When I see Chinese (open source) emerging AI dominance... what I see is a chronically corrupt set of Bay Area companies who stole open source software, pretended there was an AI god around the corner, and wanted to be…
I think this is actually a perfect case of an impressive thing being done exactly by mimicry. Why do LLMs still have trouble on floating point math without forking out to a tool, but they can perform symbolic…
Wouldn't it be wild if there were real-world penalties for being wrong? And people who follow bad advice will get bad results, and people who follow good advice will get good results? I wonder if this will impact the…
Babies sleep better when their head is near their mother's heart. This seems to be the obvious reason for the left-handed cradling bias [1]. If a baby sleeps better, it cries less. If it cries less, it attracts fewer…
There is also a bias for how babies are held [1]. It holds even with left-handers. Holding a baby's head near the mother's heart helps the baby get to sleep. Which means the baby doesn't cry (and attract predators) and…
I'm definitely not aware that the credibility of the US DOJ has been destroyed. And I question why a 501c3 charity would need "field informants" and to launder money through shell corporations. Especially to leaders of…
My sole comment is that people who use verbiage like this are mentally ill. Not "mentally ill" like I'm calling them an epithet. But like, actually mentally ill. There are things that are simply not pedagogically useful…
Amazing that choice of curricula for elementary schoolchildren draws such a reaction. Kids can read whatever they and their parents want. Schools don't have to teach it.
All of which is confirming my point. The Iranians are a beautiful people and a beautiful culture that is still run by maniacs. The original person's implication that the "antagonism" towards the IRGC is novel to America…
"antagonistic" They are a theocratic regime which is not supported by 80% of its population. Being gay is punishable by death. They employ surveillance from China to ensure hijabs are worn by women at all times. They…
Whatever the epithets, the truth of the matter is those urban areas are closer to what Canada aspires to be (and currently is). Whereas the parts of Canada she cares about are alive and well in the US (and used to be…