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I think that Unicode should have been limited to only depicting existing writing systems. Anything else is imo out of scope for a text encoding format.

> it's uncanny that stochastic generation of language yields a form of recognizable intelligence.

It most certainly does not. It's obvious to anyone who critically examines LLMs, without letting the hype override sense, that there's zero intelligence there.

For one, people need to feel like they have something meaningful to contribute. Work is an important part of that. For two, people need to be able to make a living, and work is an important part of that.

It's all well and good to say that people shouldn't have to do menial labor. But unless you have something to fill the void, it's going to be a bad time for everyone involved.

I've never understood why people give Jobs so much credit. He didn't make anything. He was a salesman. Now, as a salesman, he was phenomenal, one of the best in history. But without the engineers who actually made things, he would've been nothing.

Models go off the rails in programming all the time too. Despite the hype, they still very much suck at programming.

No it wasn't. GPT-4 was indistinguishable from 3.5.

Goodhart's law is that the measured thing increases, not improves. Increasing may in fact be worsening.

Also, Anthropic is known to lie through their teeth to make themselves look better, so any claims that they make a profit on inference should be treated as false until proven otherwise.

If the justification for the valuation is "they sell intelligence", then their valuation should be $0. Because their product isn't the least bit intelligent, and routinely gets beaten by humans.

> One thing strikes me however, as perhaps revealing my own naïveté...

On the contrary: whenever I see someone accuse a work of antisemitism because it has greedy bankers, I think that says a lot more about the accuser than it does the work in question. It is not normal to look at a fictional banker sect and assume that they are meant to be Jews, or a reflection on Jews.

But it does mean that the thing isn't "unloved and unwanted".

It's always been the software. Apple has always made, and continues to make, pretty unremarkable hardware compared to their competitors. It's nice, but not uniquely so.

a) it's not a race.

b) being left behind is a good thing if your counterparts are headed in the wrong direction. I think projects which lean into LLMs are going to find they have a hot mess a year or two from now, whereas projects that eschewed them will be in a good place.

But it is the case you were leaving the comment on, which is why anyone reading it will assume you meant to apply it to this case.

That's a very indefensible claim you have made. If making international relations the focal point of the discussion is not political, then nothing is.

Tech is not, and never has been, political. Just because some people are obsessed with politics and feel the need to insert it into every facet of their life, does not mean we all do. Most of us just want to discuss cool computer stuff, not have fights about politics.

People who want accurate information are using search manually.

Kagi is awesome, it's what Google used to be. I tried to switch to DDG, but I found that I had to use the !g option more often than not to get good results. With Kagi, I've never had to do that.

There's nothing great about this site. It should give you a succinct summary of the vulnerability right up front, so you can determine if it applies to you. The history lesson is not relevant to the vast majority of visitors.

$1600? They must be out of their minds. There's no way on God's green earth that I will ever spend $1000 or more on a phone. Even $500 is pushing it considering how little phones are good for.

Cross platform is not an actual achievable goal if you wish to have a pleasant UX. One size does not, in fact, fit all.

> Consistent UI and control.

Neither of which is actually good for your users. Look like other apps on the platform, FFS.

I mean, they were always able to. They just were too lazy to do it and didn't care about doing a good job enough to overcome that laziness.

I think it's pretty trivial to imagine ways in which they could've done better. For example, if you genuinely believe some tech has a 10% chance to destroy everyone alive, stop fucking developing it. There is no scenario where it is remotely acceptable to pursue such a risky goal. Amodei is either too stupid to see that, in which case he can't be trusted with anything sharper than a butter knife, or he's too evil to care about the risk, in which case he can't be trusted with anything at all. Or, more likely, he's lying to hype up his company, in which case he's a fraudster.

It's similarly easy to come up with "what Altman should do better". The dude is a genuine sociopath in charge of a company trying to make everyone's lives worse off in order to enrich him and his investors. It doesn't get much worse behaved than that.

> Vibe-coding is the norm now

Not among anyone with a shred of competence, it isn't.

No. That isn't engineering, that is slop.

None whatsoever. The boosters are, frankly, lying to themselves and/or to others.

> You could only possibly be doubting the time savings if you simply haven't used agentic development, whether Claude Code or other.

I've used Claude Code. It produces no time savings.

There is no way on earth that you've done more in two years than in 18 years before that. It's not even a remotely believable claim.

It's not even particularly good, let alone perfect. Shelters, in my experience, are the poster children for "the perfect is the enemy of the good". They would do a lot more good for the animals in their care by relaxing their standards.