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AI slop enjoyers want to delegate every single aspects of their lives to AI. For them cooking is an insult to their intellect, writing a personal message to someone is a waste of time, &c. Why bother with cookbooks when you can cook the
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When people tell me they can see things in their mind I usually ask something like: "imagine a ball, can you see it?" "yes" "ok what color is it? " I never heard anyone say anything other than a variation of &q
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1y ago
How do you explain that not even 5% of users are on paid subscriptions?
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1y ago
800m users, 25m paying subscribers LLMs have been commodified... Why would I pay for chatgpt when I can rotate free accounts on all providers and essentially never run out of tokens?
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We managed to convince my almost 70 years old father in law, he dropped 30+ kilos in two years. He could barely walk without getting out of breath, now he walks 20-30k steps a day, every day. We got rid of his cardiologist who kept telling
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1y ago
When 50% of the words are bold you know you're in for a treat
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1y ago
imho if you don't exercise regularly and don't eat clean you're asking for troubles and simply can't complain about your health. The vast majority of people seem not to care until they get a serious diagnostic, by that t
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I have a feeling these things will spend 99% of their processing time reading other LLMs outputs. Resumes written by LLMs and read by LLMs PR summaries written by LLMs and read by LLMs Emails written by LLMs and read by LLMs ... Everything
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> This feels like the exact opposite of disconnected? > This is cost-comparable and a task no one wants to spend time on. It's a robot that will be mostly remote controlled by a wage slave to pick up your dirty socks, this is bla
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1y ago
Nope, you just need an health insurance, which you'll have if you worked
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> This feels like a very naïve viewpoint It's just an European viewpoint... I know for americans it's like a sci fi movie but it's very real here lol In France you get ~67% of your salary for 36 months, after that it'
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> I don't think most people wouldn't be able to, financially. Pretty sure you'd be covered in a lot of western countries, and if not you have relatively cheap insurances that cover these things.
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Personally it's the part where some rich dude in SV tells me he's building what sci fi says will save us time to focus on real things The irony and complete disconnection from the reality of 99% of people is quite mind blowing ind
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I love the FAQ that for some reason tells you this thing cannot cook but it doesn't tell you what it can actually do
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> because among 20T+ tokens trained on it still generates 0 novel output. Try asking for ASP.NET Core .MapOpenAPI() instead of the pre .net9 swashbuckle version. You get nothing. It's not in the training data. The best part is that
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1y ago
Which means that given enough time an LLM powered vending machine would be classified as AGI... interesting
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> Yes. Some ai skeptical people ... think gpt5 is AGI. It's a reverse Turing test at this point: "If you get tricked by an LLM to the point of believing it is AGI you're a clown"
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Meh, it depends a lot on the dataset, which are heavily skewed towards the main languages. For example they almost always confuse Czech and Slovak and often swap one for the other in middle of chats
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> If OpenAI cracks AGI, like they seem to believe they will before 2032, I bet we won't even have fully self driving cars by then lmao, "2 more years guys, just gib me $7 trillion I promise I'll let you play with skynet wh
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These two dudes can train the next generation, you know, like we've been doing since humans exist... instead of relying on some centralised point of failure somewhere thousands of km away which might or might not break your company whe
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Point 1 isn't a "might happen", it's a "will happen"
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The best part is that they write the PR summaries in bullet points and then feed them to an LLM to dilute the content over 10x the length of text... waste of time and compute power that generates literally nothing of value
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> I think many software engineers overlook how many companies have huge (billion dollar) processes run through Excel. So they can fire the two dudes that take care of it, lose 15 years of in house knowledge to save 200k a year and cry in
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Actually as a "consumer" you shouldn't know the difference, you'll be a better "consumer" that way. As an informed human being who happens to buy things from time to time you should definitely know the differen
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My youtube experience: - open video - 2 unskippable ads - click somewhere in the video to skip the creator's sponsor section (more ads) - 2 more unskippable ads - video plays, the original audio was automagically replaced by a dogshit
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For every employee using LLM for productivity you have 50 who use it to bullshit their way up the ladder, generate overly verbose emails, reports, bug reports, &c. My wife's team spent 20+ man hours analyzing and trying to fufil th
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Having worked with people from all around the world what you think is respectful and normal might be seen as batshit insane to others.
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> because of a common, innate fascination with guns Your brain after 200+ years of american propaganda... it's innate in the sense that you're bathed in it from birth through movies and games, and that a good chunk of your econ
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Most of my running friends had painful knees until I told them to stop heel striking so bad and over stride, they had minor calf pain for two weeks and never complained again. I have no data but I think most people simply don't know ho
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Yet I have to wait 2 months (literally) to have an orthopedic doctor look at my broken foot, by that time whatever could have been improved will be long fucked, or I have to go private and pay 100% out of my pocket. I don't own a car,
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