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by buu700 11mo ago
I haven't had that particular experience with Gemini 2.5, but did run into it during one of my first few uses of Gemini 3 yesterday. I had it investigate a bug through Cursor, and in its initial response it came back to me with a break
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by buu700 11mo ago
Ah okay, that makes sense. I do a lot of planning with Gemini and Grok before the coding model ever gets involved, so that might be why I've never noticed a clear difference in output quality between GPT-5, GPT-5-Codex, and Claude 4.
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by buu700 11mo ago
In my experience, Grok is amazing at research, planning/architecture, deep code analysis/debugging, and writing complex isolated code snippets. On the other hand, asking it to churn out a ton of code in one shot has been pretty mi
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by buu700 11mo ago
I recently had to switch Grok from the default behavior to the custom prompt below. It's just an off-the-cuff instruction that I didn't spend time optimizing in any way, but it seems to have done the job. In hindsight, that probab
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by buu700 11mo ago
I agree. I think the correct environmentalist position at that time wouldn't have been to oppose nuclear, but to advocate for improvements, streamlined approvals of improved designs, and public investment or incentives. I wasn't r
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by buu700 11mo ago
To be fair, that promise of fission made sense from a purely scientific and mathematical perspective, before running into the practical realities of how its externalities interact with real-world politics. Fission is expensive because in pr
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by buu700 11mo ago
That adds some nuance, but doesn't dramatically change the incentive structure. A PBC is still for-profit: https://www.cooleygo.com/glossary/public-benefit-corporation .
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by buu700 11mo ago
If that's the case, then it sounds like we largely agree with each other. There's no need for personal attacks implying that I'm somehow detached from reality. Ultimately, this isn't strictly an issue specific to genAI.
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by buu700 11mo ago
Sure, but that doesn't really have anything to do with what I said. The CEO of an AI company may or may not believe in the social benefits of censorship, and the reasoning for their beliefs could be any number of things, but at the end
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by buu700 11mo ago
I read that as a cynical view of the motivations of corporations, not humans. Even if individuals have good faith beliefs in "AI 'safety'", and even if some such individuals work for AI companies, the behaviors of the co
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by buu700 11mo ago
The existence of network-connected robots or drones isn't inherently a security vulnerability. AI control of the robots specifically is a problem in the same way that piping in instructions from /dev/urandom would be, except
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by buu700 11mo ago
> The comment I was replying to was effectively saying "no one cares about kids so you're lying if you say 'for the children'". I don't see that in the comment you replied to. They pointed out that LLM pro
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by buu700 11mo ago
I'd be all for creating a separate category of child-friendly LLM chatbots or encouraging parents to ban their kids from unsupervised LLM usage altogether. As mentioned, I'm also not opposed to opt-out restrictions on mainstream L
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by buu700 11mo ago
Agreed, I'm fully in favor of this. I'd prefer that every LLM contain an advanced setting to opt out of all censorship. It's wild how the West collectively looked down on China for years over its censorship of search engines,
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by buu700 11mo ago
There's no straw man. If what you're saying is you agree with me, then you're the one imagining an argument where none exists.
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by buu700 11mo ago
Agreed. The idea that salt is merely a flavoring with negative side effects has always struck me as indicative of an unhealthy relationship with food. It aligns with a broader Calvinistic tendency to view pleasure and harm as inherently lin
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by buu700 11mo ago
High salt intake is only an issue on a high-carb diet or with inadequate hydration. Otherwise, consuming adequate salt/electrolytes can actually be a bit of a chore. Like saturated fat, salt has been incorrectly demonized in the course
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by buu700 11mo ago
Yeah, there are lots of unknowns and valid reasons to be pessimistic or optimistic. I lean toward cautious optimism based on the information that is available, but of course no one knows the future until it happens. Just to clarify, Orion i
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by buu700 11mo ago
I'm not an expert on the subject, but is there an obvious bottleneck that would prevent Helion from manufacturing an arbitrarily large number of generators that scales with demand? 2000 generators doesn't seem like an overwhelming
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by buu700 11mo ago
I'm definitely more optimistic about Helion. It's the one that would really dramatically change the economics of power generation at scale, and they seem to have substantially engineered around major challenges like not requiring
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by buu700 11mo ago
They're 100% separate. "Planes aren't useful" and "planes don't work" are completely different sentiments than "it's pretty wasteful to fly across the country for a 30 minute meeting" and &q
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by buu700 11mo ago
Not to mention that this is likely a very short-term debate. Modern AI/ML/compute has been a huge boost to fusion R&D, and tons of AI/tech capital is flowing into companies like Helion and CFS. Necessity is the mother of
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by buu700 11mo ago
Well they're separate issues. Someone could plausibly take the position that air travel should be banned for environmental reasons, but that has no relevance to the utility of air travel. If a group of people were loudly proclaiming th
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by buu700 11mo ago
It doesn't seem that atypical when extremely high capex and proprietary R&D are moats. Off the top of my head, the semiconductor industry looks broadly similar right now and the fusion industry might end up looking similar for a wh
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by buu700 11mo ago
I don't know if this is what the parent commenter was getting at, but the existence of multi-billion-dollar drug cartels in Mexico is an empirical failure of US policy. Prohibition didn't work a century ago and it doesn't wor
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by buu700 11mo ago
That's great to hear, although they really should prefer vaporization, sublingual administration, and edibles/potables to smoking.
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by buu700 11mo ago
To be fair, the "War on Tobacco" has actually been a huge success[1]. I've been saying for years that we should end the War on Drugs in its current form and extend tobacco policy to other drugs. If you're old enough to d
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by buu700 11mo ago
Aside from AI skepticism, I think a lot of it likely comes from low expectations of what the broader population would get out of it. Writing, reading comprehension, critical thinking, and LLM-fu may be skills that come naturally to many of
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by buu700 11mo ago
I was curious and looked this up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modem#1950s Mass production of telephone line modems in the United States began as part of the SAGE air-defense system in 1958, connecting terminals at v
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by buu700 11mo ago
It seems kind of analogous to disabling hyperthreading. Sure there's an immediate performance hit, but in exchange you're now protected from entire classes of vulnerabilities. A few years later, no one remembers or cares about tha

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