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When something is brought into the world through human intention, it has the possibility of being art. A human must stand next to it and say "This is mine."

The human role in the creation of art is non-negotiable.

Give us a PDF App we can use to scribble a signature and we're mostly good, ya?

Great point about the value of knowing the deep stuff.

I am in a similar position. My son is a talented high school programmer considering colleges. He has expressed Anti AI sentiment to me. This article gives us a useful lens and I appreciated it a lot.

Society just doesn’t expect it of people any longer. I know many young people who just don’t want kids, and they are empowered to make that decision.

At some level, the beauty of having a family has ceased to be communicated.

I have a model year 2025 car and it's astounding to switch the media system over to FM and flip between the stations. Instantaneous. We never get that feeling any more.

I do quite a bit of coding with Claude but am perfectly fine on the $20/mo plan. You people who just let agents go for hours on end... I'm not sure you're doing it right.

It's heartbreaking to see a child with severe autism. In many cases it does seem to emerge after a regression in a child's development. I don't doubt parents that describe this. We must be sensitive to what these people have experienced. They want to understand what happened. For any of you on the site that have been through this, I'm truly sorry and I hope that some day you get some answers.

I like the sentiment, but when I hear these big public facing AI guys speak, I always run it through the filter of "How does this make me look?". In LeCun's case, he publicly admonished LLMs and went in a radically different direction. When he says LLMs won't lead to a doomsday scenario, I can't help but think that saying otherwise would invalidate his decision to abandon the paradigm.

This sounds like a legit use case for DLSS 5.

These types of “how to” posts from the source lose some credibility when they don’t factor in how to efficiently spend tokens. When they say “have it fire up agents” without recognition that it’s expensive, I stop listening.

They are the only company I would trust with this kind of personal information because they make a lot of money selling hardware. The incentives line up for them to support privacy.

Zuckerberg: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard

Zuckerberg: Just ask

Zuckerberg: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS

[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?

Zuckerberg: People just submitted it.

Zuckerberg: I don't know why.

Zuckerberg: They "trust me"

Zuckerberg: Dumb fucks

I live in Vermont. This is the first I've heard of this. But I like it!

I can totally see them nerfing their public models.

Just beat the current winner by enough to own the spotlight for a bit, then start prepping for the next go round.

The article says the primary motivation of the AI CEOs is to retain talent by parroting the correct talking points for their employees. For OpenAI that is "Our shit is so powerful, we are scared of it... We need regulation!" For Anthropic it is "This shit is crazy! It might get out of hand! We are the good guys, and you want a good guy with a gun in this fight".

But I think they both are thinking the same thing which is... "We are gonna run out of money at this pace."

However! If one of them blinks and turns off the money faucet before the other, they might fall behind. Falling behind is to forever lose. And if there's one thing that a CEO hates, it's losing to a rival CEO.

So what they want is to get someone, anyone, to put the brakes on their rivals and them at the same time so they can both Not Lose, and Stay Alive. Under those new rules, they are confident they can win. And by win, I mean beat the other AI CEO.

That's it. It's always about personal incentives. Get out of here with that safety BS. These guys just want to win.

These guys are so full of crap.

In this moment there are a million ways to do things wrong. But there are also some ways, maybe less than a million, to do things right.

Here's an anecdote about a way to do this wrong.

I have found with AI coding methods that there's a line where it becomes a hail-mary (in the American Football sense).

A hail-mary is when you throw the ball to the end zone and just pray someone catches it. This is almost always at the end of the game.

This moment with AI code is indicative that you can't put together a coherent plan so you just tell the agent to "make it good". It used to be that the results here would suck, but now the agents are really competent, so the results might be good.

But at that moment, that's your cue to back up. Because as soon as you take a solution that's so far detached from your understanding, you're underwater. The hail mary is not part of a larger game plan. It's the last play of the game. There's nothing after.

So as soon as you reach that moment in your coding, you're signaling that you're done understanding not just the code, but even the way it works at a high level. If you're still going to work with this code after, then back up and work with the AI to get more understanding of the problem.

Yeah if you write a program and then use it to hack a system, you are liable. Are we supposed to believe they didn’t write these programs? Is that the real argument to have?

It used to be that we only needed so many smart people. What we needed were strong people, and lots of them.

Then only in the very most recent times did being smart become a characteristic that had a near endless market for human expression. Computer programming and the need for more programs was the apex. The rich nerd was familiar to everyone.

It feels like we're nearing the end of that era, at least in it's pure form.

What's beyond strong and smart?

Yeah if they can't handle what they're making then they should be disciplined, if not shut down. It's like defective bombs accidentally exploding in storage. You would be like... hey bomb manufacturer! You cannot make bombs any more! We need bombs that only go off when we say! No more!

I mean, not that AI is like a bomb. That's not what I'm saying. Even though it makes a lot of sense. That's not the point. That it's like a bomb.

I'm not that doomer about what you are referring to. I think a lot of kids are wising up to the echo chamber.

Nah to me it's more about a loss of connection with the physical world, les slowing down, less being bored. Without that, it's a different reality and I think studying requires that kind of brain. Otherwise you're just flitting this way and that and never really focusing.

Where I live in the US there is a movement to A) Prohibit phones from being used in schools B) use textbooks again instead of digital texts C) use handwriting and notebooks instead of Chromebooks for in-class note taking.

While this might help, and I agree with all these steps, I'm concerned that the root of the problem is simply that the online experience has rewired our kids. Not screens per se, but the feeling of a constantly moving social space which demands their attention.

I think Plan mode is very useful when building something that needs step by step validation, but also needs a broad strategy before starting.

For instance, in games where I work, we often need to manually test work out by playing or by using tools in ways that aren't feasible for the AI to do. In that case, getting the human in the loop between steps is an organized process when it's following a staged plan.

Pretty much!

Now all they have to do is solve the incentives problem, which seems far more difficult.

I'd encourage anyone with chronic pain to explore the work of Dr. John Sarno.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_E._Sarno

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tension_myositis_syndrome

These ideas and methods cured my back pain.

It would be awesome if data that a site like Linkedin calls the “profile” could be containerized and encrypted in such a way that each individual user holds a key to a box with every piece of identifiable information, and can revoke the right for any 3rd party to access it.

That would make it “yours”

They are daring us to make choices instead of having everything. Zero sum thinking.

Top that China!

There are so many other ways to self medicate now! Why be a lonely drunk when you can be a social media trolling energy drink swilling porn addicted sports gambler