Gareth321

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by Gareth321 1mo ago
> It's not a coincidence that homelessness only skyrocketed at the same time housing price took off to the point even professionals are spending half of their salary on rent. But this is also highly correlated with a skyrocketing op
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
I agree with the thesis. Development is moving towards intent and alignment and clear understanding of needs. These have always been important but in a future where code is almost free, customers will be more demanding about having their
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
The fediverse is 90% left wing authoritarians who won't hesitate to send death threats if you disagree with Russia's actions in Ukraine, or China's actions re ethnic cleansing and Uyghurs. I love the idea of the fediverse and
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
It is important to remember that combatting bots isn't a binary state. Every effort to reduce bots results in a linear reduction in the proportion of bots, but never a complete eradication. There will always be people who are suffici
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
Bluesky's community is more toxic than X has ever been. I'd rather hang out on 4chan.
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
There are solid, cheap options like xAI, z.AI, MiniMax, Kimi, DeepSeek, and Alibaba. Heck, I can run a coding agent on my 32GB MacBook Pro M1 right now and it's actually pretty good (just slow). No one is forced to keep paying OpenAI a
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
Supply rumours are next year we see an M7 AI-focused chip with large inference performance upgrades. It's unlikely we'll see heavy upgrades in other areas. If you care about AI, it's worth waiting. If you don't, pull the
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
Plus remote work is getting easier and easier. There are so few instances when I'm not able to get online. If we lived in a world where hardware were getting cheaper, it might make sense to splurge. In this environment I think the Neo
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
People don't like to entertain the idea that determinism could exist. Specifically, the idea that some people are just born bad, mean, or unintelligent. When people commit crimes there is endless hand-wringing about how "society&q
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
Grok 4.6 XHigh uses 2.52x fewer tokens per task than Fable Max. It's much more efficient. It also has low market penetration, which is why SpaceX is selling so much of their compute to Anthropic et al. From a business perspective, they
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
Thankfully you have a domain you can switch. I feel bad for people with Gmail addresses who are really fucked when they're banned.
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
I think the AI dystopia will save us from the SaaS dystopia and ultimately win. Dark patterns? AI doesn't care about dark patterns. It will instantly navigate around them. 10% annual price increases for absolutely no reason? No problem
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
I attribute intent. These are for-profit companies with more leveraged capex than any other industry in history. They have enormous pressure to optimise their limited compute. Especially Anthropic, which is far more limited than OpenAI. Of
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by Gareth321 1mo ago
RIGHT!? The data suggests this isn't true but every fibre of my being is convinced that Opus 5 High was EXCELLENT at launch and has been lobotomised since then. My benchmark is Sol High. I've been using both consistently and eithe
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by Gareth321 2mo ago
I have compared Opus 5 High and Sol High for legal advice and I consider the advice infinitely better with Sol. Far fewer hallucinations (zero, in fact, with Sol and the right prompt). The suggested text and responses also felt much less li
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by Gareth321 2mo ago
I'm currently going through the difficult process of weaning myself off Reddit. That's my doom scroll drug of choice, and it's terrible for me. So I'm building my own news aggregator. The value of this process has been s
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by Gareth321 2mo ago
I tried it on my M1 MacBook Pro. It's slow but surprisingly smart as a general purpose LLM. Maybe GPT-5.3 level. I gave it a bunch of tools and it can search the internet, make product recommendations, document, code, etc.
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by Gareth321 2mo ago
Yeah I guess I'm AI because I like it.
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by Gareth321 2mo ago
I strongly agree. Is a human in a vegetative state sentient? What about when they're asleep? What about someone with brain damage? What about someone with an IQ of 20? Ray Kurzweil argues sentience is a philosophical question, and does
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by Gareth321 2mo ago
> The "something deeply wrong" part about AI, that even most technology enthusiasts evidently do not seem to grasp, is that it is still fundamentally a statistical model — an algorithmic construct Isn't this how human brai
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by Gareth321 2mo ago
I am not a lawyer. 1. Intent matters. If you give the password to a Customs and Border Protection agent which deletes all the data, your intent was to deceive them and either delete evidence, or at least fail to comply with their request. C
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by Gareth321 2mo ago
I also see $5 API credits. I would also like to know if this is part of my $10 subscription each month. Edit: this is a one-time promotional credit. One must pay for credits thereafter, in addition to their subscription.
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by Gareth321 2mo ago
I wish there were a way to use my Kagi subscription with ChatGPT/Claude. I can't switch completely to Kagi Assistant right now as it doesn't have feature parity and the subscriptions with OpenAI/Claude are good value. Pa
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by Gareth321 2mo ago
I agree, and my experiences acho yours. I was put onto SSRIs at age six, which is highly unusual - especially at the time. It was not an easy hole to climb out of.
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by Gareth321 2mo ago
I strongly agree. I am not bragging (it's not even really impressive) when I say I have an IQ of around 125-130, depending on the test. We often get professional psychometric tests here in Denmark while we're interviewing for cogn
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by Gareth321 2mo ago
Worms were such great games. I just had a look at what Team 17 is up to now and [they're doing surprisingly well.]( https://www.team17.com/ ) Some great games in their portfolio. Epic also did really well changing with
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by Gareth321 2mo ago
85% of women eventually have at least one child. So there are older folks out there without kids, but it's a relatively small group. I'm sorry to hear you never wanted kids. I guess it's more complicated if you were sure be
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by Gareth321 2mo ago
I think you did not understand my comment, and that is perhaps my fault. To be explicit: 1. Universal health care reduces the total cost of healthcare across the nation. If the bill is $x now, the total cost would be $x-0.2 (or whatever). 2
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by Gareth321 2mo ago
I agree. Poor communication is one of the most expensive and frustrating things about life and society and business and development. LLMs are helping people better structure their thoughts and that's fantastic. Sure, it can feel impers
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by Gareth321 2mo ago
I think they were trying to scare us into not having sex. Or at least having protected sex. Either way, they made all the kids watch videos about teen pregnancy and how it would ruin our lives. They also repeated it frequently in sex educat

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