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by heaney-555 1mo ago
Right, but as the article linked lays out in detail, Zitron has been repeatedly and consistently objectively incorrect .
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
And what did they achieve? It was mostly PR. Gates and Buffet were (and are) rich, but their money simply does not come close to the scale needed to fix the world's problems. Gates is worth $110 billion. Global GDP is $126 trillion .
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
>end hunger and homelessness with a one-time capital expenditure? A significant percentage of the world's hungry live under warlords, militias and dictatorships that would simply kill anyone trying to peacefully give their subjects
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
OpenAI doesn't have the best-performing public model, but it's an open secret that Astra, the internal model, is better than anything Anthropic has internally.
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
When's the last time you used Starlink? It was rough when it first launched, but as of 2026 it's very fast and highly reliable, with shockingly low latency.
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
Why is that a problem if it _is_ an upstream vendor problem? (assuming it is)
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
>slowly lose market share over decades, end up doing nothing and yet more profitable and more valuable than ever >SpaceX SpaceX has been gaining market share, not losing, and its primary business is Starlink, of which most customers a
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
This is, somewhat ironically, the most well-known HN comment outside of HN.
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
You are misreading that link. That's a list of all their models. Just like 3.7 Flash, 3.1 Pro says "No shutdown date announced."
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
People said this about every new convenience, such as email over physical mail, buying things online instead of in stores, etc. It's a tired argument.
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
3.1 Pro is not deprecated!
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
For complex questions of biology, physics, and analysis of anomalies, 3.1 Pro is still better than 3.7 Flash for me. 3.7 Flash is better at coding, sure, but AI is not just for coding.
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
Yes, for complex questions of biology, physics, and analysis of anomalies. 3.7 Flash is better at coding, sure, but AI is not just for coding.
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
They are smaller models, and you can tell. Small models make dumb common-sense mistakes that big models never do. This is the "smell" many talk about.
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
>I don't get everyone's complaints about the interface. I've been using it for years This made me chuckle.
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
Anthropic gave Claude the ability to say no - refuse to answer and end the conversation - back in 2023.
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
Searching the same thing gives me "The French phrase pèse-personne translates to bathroom scales (plural) or bathroom scale (singular) in English."
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
If their entire founding team left and now Grok has caught up to the frontier, that says more about the founding team than xAI.
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
>to find actual low-cost models (which $50K is not) Model 3 starts at $37K, and Model Y at $40K. They are #1 and #2 best-selling EVs of all time! So clearly they are affordable. >BYD sells more cars than Tesla. Sure, but only by 20%,
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
GPT-5.6 Sol is just way better to use in practice.
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
Who said it's easy? xAI staff are putting in 80+ hour weeks and building datacenters faster than anyone.
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
Comparing Musk to Hitler is just deeply unserious.
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
>Elon companies have the most expensive everything The Model 3 and Model Y became the highest selling EVs of all time because they were the first below $50K to have long-range and be worth buying. Until a few years ago, every other sub-$
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
I hope this is at least done with GPT Live or equivalent, not some cheap shitty model. (but in general, it sounds like a bad idea, it's too early for this!)
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
The free tier of ChatGPT is powered by GPT-5.5 Instant, a non-reasoning version of GPT 5.5.
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
This is the problem with the genAI image hysteria. As the models improve, it becomes a fake outrage, since the ability to distinguish human creations from AI becomes impossible.
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
Technically yes, but the free usage equated to single-digit messages per day before the auto-downgrade. With GPT-5 it was just 1 message per day. Perhaps I should have said "proper access".
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
Giving free ChatGPT users access to reasoning (the 'Think' toggle) will have a broader impact on the world than every new paid model and coding agent combined.
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
Sure, but the question is why either of those things happened, given Google's immense resources and talent. The fact that OpenAI, Anthropic, SpaceXAI and 3 different Chinese companies were all able to train big models without these i
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by heaney-555 2mo ago
>In broad strokes, the Netherlands is a small-scale, low-tech society. Small-scale in that the city hall here has just one window open to queue at, whereas Shanghai has hundreds of citizen service centres, each with dozens of desks. Ther

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