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…
> It is not possible one of their extraordinarily high paid engineers did not know how to deploy an airgapped environment for the models to run in. It is, in fact, possible. Do you not remember 2022-2023 when the air…
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…
The entirety of "agents" and tool calls is a process of combining LLMs to get better results. Is it the same LLM in many cases? Yes. But it doesn't have to be. It's the natural move that happened after people realized…
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…
They don't. "Emergence" is some ridiculous hype that a bunch of kids with money peddled to get valuations. And yes, if "emergence" and the "there's something else going in there!" ridiculousness was true, there would be…
" - 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…
I am not confused. Because herein these forums, I predicted everything that was going to happen years ago. And the "insane inefficiency" of deep learning is fully to be expected from how it works. As well, there are…
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…
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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…
> THe government shouldn't be raising anyone's children, that's what parents are for. The government does raise children. It's called the public school system.
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…
> It is not possible one of their extraordinarily high paid engineers did not know how to deploy an airgapped environment for the models to run in. It is, in fact, possible. Do you not remember 2022-2023 when the air…
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…
The entirety of "agents" and tool calls is a process of combining LLMs to get better results. Is it the same LLM in many cases? Yes. But it doesn't have to be. It's the natural move that happened after people realized…
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…
They don't. "Emergence" is some ridiculous hype that a bunch of kids with money peddled to get valuations. And yes, if "emergence" and the "there's something else going in there!" ridiculousness was true, there would be…
" - 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…
I am not confused. Because herein these forums, I predicted everything that was going to happen years ago. And the "insane inefficiency" of deep learning is fully to be expected from how it works. As well, there are…
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…
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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…
> THe government shouldn't be raising anyone's children, that's what parents are for. The government does raise children. It's called the public school system.