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I love that the site has a banner that says 'the future of architecture is human' and every photo on that page is of corporate soul destroying misery.

Indie game devs cant deliver the kind of more cinematic experiences that Bioware could, or that Square-Enix can with Final Fantasy, at least not graphics-wise. Maybe if AI further matures smaller studios can do that too eventually, but right now AAA-studios have AAA-budgets that are required.

Well you can watch 178 episodes of Star Trek and have to actually deal with episodes that force you to think and take the perspective of others, or you can doomscroll TikTok where alt-right influencers tell you all your problems are caused by women having bank accounts or whatever the manosphere is raging about this week.

Every model has done this. And sometimes the makers go the other way to compensate, and then you get Opus 5 who answered like it was possessed by the ghost of stack overflow.

It's also not the magical thing that will solve all diseases like some people who are starting to think we're going to enter the singularity soon seem to think.

I was one of them. Now I got a good salary I use it to actually buy games. So in a way piracy led me to keep up my game enjoyment into adulthood. Doesn’t make it legal of course but with a delayed effect the games industry is getting their money from me.

So its clearly trained on Stackoverflow.

> I'm an engineer, my job is to deal with and reduce complexity not accept it blindly without soberly weighing all the pros and cons after building a solid understanding.

But LLMs dont prevent you from doing this? If it does it probably is an organisational issue.

> The problem with this dystopia is that there would be no way for the rich to make money if nobody could buy things.

It all turns into virtual currency. Kinda like the stock market already is. It's both real and unreal at the same time. So maybe the future is AI's trading virtual stuff with other AI's and that decides your net worth. Complete bonkers of course, but well, we've build a wordwide economy on non-existing money already so why not push that principle even further.

> In this regard I am consistently disappointed with the commentary that mathematicians have been producing lately.

For all the arrogance the hard sciences have, in the end they are just as human as their humanities counterparts. They just thought they were above becoming worthless because science was elevated above the softer sciences.

It’s not really AI slop, it’s how most modern SAAS websites look like.

I’m glad my colleagues and I are all mediocre , because if the alternative is having someone with your arrogance around then no thanks.

The resources per prompt aren’t that much .

Also I hope you don’t have children, eat meat, travel, have a car, run AC, buy things in other countries and such. Those things all take way way way more natural resources.

Can’t wait to get my hands on yet another model that’s only good coding, because clearly that’s what the world needs.

I still miss the days of Sonnet 4.5 and 4o, those models were actually good at creating stories and writing text that was actually readable by a human being.

Opus 5.5 feels like yet another massive increase. I've got it at my job and it's basically one shotting quite large refactors that would have taken me at least a day if i had to do it by hand. Now i let Opus do the refactor in ten minutes and i go through it by hand to clean it up for an hour and it's done.

Its quite worrisome honestly and i feel like that 'im in danger' Simpsons meme more and more. Right now i still have a lot of domain expertise which helps in knowing which questions to ask and which problems to solve, but well, i wonder how long that is going to save my job.

Honestly this is me with almost everything the Ai companies release. I just don’t seem to have any problems that AI could solve in my personal life.

So what do you propose? We stop any research into anything that isnt math because it fails to adhere to the methods of math? Becasue biology and medicine clearly are soft sciences, and physics and chemistry are just applied math so why bother.

And well, math is just applied philosophy and suddenly we're back to the ancient Greeks i guess.

Why should someone put effort in rebutting his nonsense? He is the one who posits some outrageous claims without any proof.

A surplus means nothing if they are in the wrong location.

So a tank is problematic, but a slaughter house is fine?

The 4.5 models were the last Anthropic models that were actually pleasant to read. Especially Sonnet 4.5 was really fun to use for non-coding purposes. I liked having it generate silly short stories while waiting for deployments to finish. Haiku 4.5 still has a small bit of that charm, but 4.6 and later models are all unbearable unless you want a simple 'this is the answer' to a question.

As a Dutch person i find Afrikaans always interesting whenever i happen to encounter it in the wild. As if a common ancestor took a very different evolutionary path.

I don’t disagree, but unfortunately a not insignificant part of humanity seems to think that their happiness primarily depends on knowing that other people are suffering harder than they are. So that’s perhaps not the right thing to optimise for.

Plenty of male-led businesses also turned out to be scams, and yet no one goes 'that guy looks sharp, but he is male so seems suspicious'. Which only proofs how deep sexism is rooted.

Knowledgable people can confirm what the AI produces is correct. I could make ChatGPT produce a result on an open question and I would have zero way to verify its actual correctness.

Which is less interesting work. And you probably need to do the hard grunt work by hand first to develop the skills and intuition to be able to verify an AI-generated result. So you can’t outsource everything to AI without loss of skill.

It’s not apathy. It’s the fact that almost nobody can really understand what these results mean.

I’m not a mathematician so I have zero clue what “ New upper bounds on sphere-packing density down to the Cohn–Elkies thresholds” means.

Well guess I have committed many crimes against humanity because I’ve definitely dumped many cheap paperbacks I bought for holiday reading into the paper recycling container.

My product owner does the same. Every ticket she makes is multiple paragraphs now. It drives me up the wall, especially as some tickets are so simple I need two clear lines to know what I need to do. But no, I get 15 lines written by Claude with sometimes conflicting instructions.

Reading your comment I had to think of that tweet about someone taking a part of a Monet painting and claimed it was AI generated, and people immediately started calling it horrible and soulless and smelling like AI.

And yet most reviewers praise it. So either they are all wrong, or you move in very snobbish circles. Because 'an embarrassment' is extremely strong language that should be reserved for very bad movies and im quite sure this isn't.

I didnt care for Tenet at all, which i thought wasted a good concept, but i would never call the movie an embarrassment because it was clearly very well made. I just didn't like it.

But he dared take on The Odyssey, so suddenly everyone is a classical scholar who read it in the original language and has enough knowledge of ancient greek and pre-greek societies to adequately judge it. Because clearly showing disdain for a reinterpretation of a good work makes you a sophisticated person.