Libidinalecon

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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
We are in a bad situation. Some of our biggest and best companies went from being "capex lite" to "capex light money on fire" and caused a capex light money on fire social contagion. The money is from debt financing. Th
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
I just had 5.1 do something incredibly brain dead in "extended thinking" mode because I know what I asked it is not in the training data. So it just fudged and made things up because thinking is exactly what it can not do. It seem
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
It is really hard to compare broccoli to a powerful, rather new peptide that causes profound behavioral changes. Usually you don't get a free lunch with such a compound.
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
Sam Bankman-Fried isn't in jail right now because of a lack of IQ. There are all these social dynamics at play that cause really smart people to do really stupid things sometimes.
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
I do agree humans don't have a world model. It is really more than that. We exist in the world. We don't need a world model because we exist in the world. It is like saying a fish has a water model. It makes no sense when the fish
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
I was prepared to be totally underwhelmed but after just a few questions I can tell that 5.1 Thinking is all I am going to ever use. Maybe it is just the newness but I quite like how it responded to my standard list of prompts that I pretty
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
It is almost like there is a book by Heidegger called "The Question Concerning Technology" that basically talks about all the things mentioned in the article.
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
You have to be completely insane to think China is not an adversary. Personally, I think we are in WW3 right now and we have already lost. Americans are just too lazy and insular to read anything involving Chinese military strategy. I can&#
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
I am probably at 50k-60k image generations from various models. It is just very hard to make any generalizations because any single prompt will lead to so many different types of images. The only thing I would really say to generalize is ev
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
I don't totally disagree but there is large part of the US military machine that the point of war is to deplete the weapons inventory so that we need to replenish the inventory. If you take that as a large variable then all the US wars
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
I think this is because of the protestant work ethic + probability/statistics instead of deterministic chaos. Deterministic chaos in the sense of "fixed, non-random rules producing outcomes that are unpredictable in the long term
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
This is the great tragedy of 21st century western life. When you are 25 with a thousand dollars in realized wealth it is so hard to understand the incredible value of the deep out of the money call option you hold on life. While the 95 year
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
What is missing in all this is testosterone levels, especially diminishing as you age. I have lifted weights for 35 years now and just reached the point that I can not lift, recover and cut calories. I can only recover from a very light ful
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
So much depends if you work remote or not. Before covid, I would hit 10k steps with just a 30 minute walk after work because the office involved so many cumulative steps. Since going remote, it is very difficult with a 60 minute walk. Walk
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
It isn't a bad deal for shareholders. In the grand scheme of things though it is very much a "let them eat cake" moment in the history of neoliberalism. It is just such a total absurdity. I even read the words "equitable
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
I know I am not. I am such a luddite that I just can't understand solving the triviality of flipping a light switch. It seems like something for bored, married people.
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
This is just not true at all. It is always in my self interest to automate my job as much as possible. Nothing looks better for moving up than this. Even more so, nothing makes me happier than automating a business process. There are always
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
Not only was it a bubble but we actually had the internet. We didn't have to use our imaginations and build for the technology yet to be invented and we still had a massive damaging bubble. Even beyond that, the Soviet Union had just c
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
In other words, "It's different this time!"
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
The best thing I have ever read is von Neumann's ridiculous ideas and predictions about the weather. It is the ultimate example of always having to be on guard against argumentum ad verecundiam.
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
It is the wrong category error. The proper category error in the context of the discussion would be to say the photocopier is drawing a picture. It doesn't matter how well or not the photocopier recreates an image. To say the photocopi
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
This is complete nonsense. If you do math in your head or math with a pencil/paper or math with a pocket calculator or with a spreadsheet or in a programming language, it is all the same thing. The only difference with LLMs is the ant
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
Even more so where is the model that is beating GPT-5? This level that fell flat should have been easy to jump over if the scaling narratives were holding.
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
That makes no sense. I started my career just past the peak of the dot com bubble and got absolutely crushed. It was probably the most demoralizing experience of my life. It was so damaging but no one is going to come out unscathed on the
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
I don't know, this coming month will be the first time that my subscription is going to lapse. I have got incredible value from ChatGPT up to this point but I have been using it less and less. What I have mostly extracted from it is a
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
I think we had been primed for so long by science fiction that the talking computer was always going to put us in this state of mass stupidity. The fun part is to go back now and listen to Blake Lemoine interviews from summer 2022. That for
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
Paradox of Choice is a book by Barry Schwartz. It is not the same at all as analysis paralysis. It is a much more pernicious idea. Barry gives the example of salad dressing. If you have the choice between 100 salad dressings, no matter what
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
Anything I was into in 2005 is so played out that I would never listen to it now. I am really the opposite of all this in that I routinely delete my entire music collection to intentionally start over. It forces me to find what is new and
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
It was even called cyberspace. I feel like cyberspace was never meant to use your real name and identity. The entire point was that you were free from the constraints of the real world to be something else. Cyberspace is still alive and wel
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by Libidinalecon 11mo ago
I got into following the markets around the time of the housing bubble and everything I read at the time said their was a housing bubble. I think the properties of a true bubble mean that it is not irrational to invest in the bubble and tha

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