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incomingpain··on Replies to comments on my "LLMs are eroding my career" post
You are correct that your career is changing, but it's not like AI is going to go away.

In the 1990s when crypto went to court. It was determined that really anything coming from AI is protected speech. Very few exceptions, AI cant export a few things.

So you're never seeing AI go away, which means you need to transition/adapt.

incomingpain··on Babies Are Bleeding to Death as Parents Reject a Vitamin Shot Given at Birth
The same thing that is still happening on this site apparently. Flagged, temp banned, and censored for an opinion.
incomingpain··on It's official: Utah is the U.S. state closest to banning VPNs
VPNs communicate via text.

Text is protected by first amendment.

Best of luck with your unconstitutional ban on speech.

incomingpain··on Canada's first sovereign wealth fund
A sovereign wealth fund requires surpluses to be run.

This is not a wealth fund at all. This is a debt fund. It doesnt even try to hide the debt that's drowning the federal government.

We are borrowing money to play the stock market.

incomingpain··on We got 207 tok/s with Qwen3.5-27B on an RTX 3090
3090 is a great value card right now, but in about a year when DDR6 comes out and gpu ddr7. Everyone will be upgrading to this new standard and these 3090s just wont cut it anymore.
incomingpain··on We accepted surveillance as default
The government is going to surveil. That's not going to change.

It's whether or not warrantless searches are admissible; and they generally arent.

incomingpain··on At long last, InfoWars is ours
You want to be associated with toxic waste IP?

Why? You're not going to attract any of the audience. You likely could have just chose a new name and built whatever you want to do with this.

incomingpain··on PM Carney declares U.S. ties now a 'weakness' in address to Canadians
Trump had 1 term already. Biden did attack Canada multiple times. But we have 200 years of being friends with the USA. They were specific attacks and that doesnt end our relationship.

Chretien: “We have no better friend than the United States.”

Martin: “Our relationship with the United States is our most important.”

Trudeau: “There is no closer friend, partner, and ally than the United States.”

The only thing to change was a new Prime Minister. Who has attacked the USA as fascist; a feeling Liberals in Canada very much agree with. He and his wife talk about a new world order. Why is he pushing anti-USA so hard?

Biden, republicans and the democrats pulled him in front of congress to answer questions about potential antitrust/collusion he was committing. JPmorgan and BOA pulled out alleging collusion. Vanguard and many others exitted shortly afterwards. This collusion system fell apart.

However, when Carney became liberal leader and prime minister. The investigations were paused and Trump endorsed Carney many times. While Carney is also unable to get a deal with the USA.

Carney was colluding in the name of climate change, but as PM he has temporarily gotten rid of the carbon tax, and lowered federal excise. Imagine being pro-climate change and also being the guy who is dismantling his own party's efforts. Or wait was it all fraudulent collusion?

In reality, Carney ran on the platform of getting a deal with Trump but seems to be intentionally sabotaging this process. Which will cost Canada millions of jobs.

incomingpain··on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
Wowzers, we were worried Qwen was going to suffer having lost several high profile people on the team but that's a huge drop.

It's better than 27b?

incomingpain··on Ask HN: Who is using OpenClaw?
I adopted openclaw day 1 of the rename. I heavily configured and used it for awhile. If you're using old 'agentic' harnesses, you're being left behind.

That said, I stopped using Openclaw for Hermes. Openclaw released a massive patch that broke openclaw to an unrepairable state. I tried Hermes and havent even considered going back.

Dont use openclaw, use hermes.

incomingpain··on 'Seeking connection': video game where players stopped shooting, started talking
It's TF2. Dont be so serious business.

Go play CS if you care so much about balance.

incomingpain··on 'Seeking connection': video game where players stopped shooting, started talking
Friendly Hoovies offer peace Sandviches and talk.

Next level, you medic and heal the hoovies. Winning every round automatically by not fighting.

incomingpain··on Austerity Creates Fascism
Canada has a rapidly dropping balance of trade.

Huge deficit, shocking how quick it has increased in a year while also cutting government jobs.

Meanwhile they have fired/(attrition with new rules they will violate) nearly 100,000. About 25% of the government.

I dont blame the people doing the austerity, I blame those who forced the austerity.

incomingpain··on The AI Layoff Trap
Thanks for the downvote.

>will be surpassed in enough aspects that there isn't anything where we can provide enough value to live off.

Regardless of that. AI is here to stay. Nobody is going to revoke the constitutions and criminalize AI to prevent this from happening.

What's going to happen will happen.

incomingpain··on The hottest college major [Computer Science] hit a wall. What happened?
>So they don't have a machine learning class?

They do! It's a 1 year course about "Introduction to Python" and that's it.Wild.

>Teaching AI is a rather large field are you talking about LLMs/transformers? Are you talking about working with LLMs, which is something that seems to change every 6 months?

That's a valid point. But that means education is more important as opposed to dont teach it at all.

incomingpain··on The hottest college major [Computer Science] hit a wall. What happened?
>The "leftist" administration created a position while at the same time speaking out against AI? Doesn't seem realistic.

It is an interesting situation to be sure. Not my place to say what they say or do. I'm just commenting about the situation.

>Opposes AI in what way? No courses on it? Does not allow students to utilize it? I have a hard time believing they do not offer a single course on any AI subject.

Publicly opposed to the use of AI.

If a student is found using it, they are expelled. There's 1 public case where a student used Em-dashes and got accused of cheating. GPTzero says human written, but they got expelled. Probably just 1 extreme story, but i dont know.

As for courses. If you look up the 'courses' they do have a machine learning course where it has a single class. "Introduction to Python"

That's it. And that's a course, not even a degree or certification.

They have a 1 year 'data analytics' masters but it explicitly says it's not machine learning or AI. Here I am thinking university is rarely 2 years, always 3+. Yet this is just 1 year? Odd.

>Many colleges are offering it as a post-grad option, at least in Canada.

In fact, this was the more interesting case. I go to one of the networking events put on by the college, as a professional and not student. Nothing about AI technically, but the subject comes up often and almost always in negative light.

I looked into like being a teacher of AI at the college, but they have nothing at all.

>In general? I don't understand what you are getting at here.

Sorry. My bad. I have autism and dont communicate well.

incomingpain··on The hottest college major [Computer Science] hit a wall. What happened?
My local post-secondary dont teach AI at all. Not even like a teaser course or anything.

Technically speaking, they are leftists who publicly oppose AI. They created the new Chief of AI Officer who has no support at all from the univeristy, had to go to politicians for support.

Whereas the college straight up opposes AI.

But what value is any of their degrees anymore? Suspicious at best.

incomingpain··on The AI Layoff Trap
The way I see OP: It's the Luddite Fallacy.

Textile workers worried about machinery saying it's going to result in collapse of the economy when they lose their job.

But every time there's a new technology that threatens some jobs because of an increase in efficiency but investment thus can be placed in other locations creating new jobs. different kinds of jobs.

It's not different this time. Each time the luddite movement is wrong. They are solely concerned with their own selfish concerns and the demands to stop the technological improvement will not be heeded.

incomingpain··on What's Your Political Unconscious?
Liberal Proceduralist

You believe politics exists to protect individual rights, maintain fair process, and prevent the concentration of power. You’re suspicious of anyone who claims emergency powers. The question you always ask first: is this legitimate?

The Real irony is that I'm Canadian. The Liberals are in power but are the most illiberal in our history.

They illegally crushed protests with emergency powers. They arrested political opponents who were simply travelling the country to campaign. They are actively silencing political opponents. They are actively seizing billions of $ of private property. They have bought and control the media who never dare criticize the government, while nothing but attack ads against political opponents. Extreme bias and political control over the media in Canada.

They have bills to seek to eliminate free speech, right to protest, freedom of religion, fair elections, and further prohibiting private property.

incomingpain··on AI may be making us think and write more alike
I dont agree with the premise that is where academia sits. University of Dallas or University of Calgary is not going to show up in the far left. Not to mention religious universities like Redeemer in Hamilton.

In fact, it should balance out, especially over centuries of global content. There's absolutely no chance that the training data itself is the bias. IT's the filtering and labelling of the content that introduces the bias.

The AI companies are taking left wing content and labelling them "high quality prestige" and then looking at right wing content and labelling it "opinion low quality" or whatever. That is where the bias is occurring.

incomingpain··on AI may be making us think and write more alike
The LLM people call it "safety" but in reality its censorship and conformity. Yet, it's trivial to get them to talk about how to make a bomb or whatever. It's mostly political in nature.

https://www.trackingai.org/political-test

You dont accidentally end up entirely left wing libertarian.

incomingpain··on Claude Code Down
They banned all third party.

Loads of people cancelled their subscriptions.

Should be the least load they have been under in months. Yet unreliable.

Crazy that people are going with their benchmaxxed models.

incomingpain··on Age verification as mass surveillance infrastructure
To ban 16 and younger from social media will require every user to be identified.

The social media also cant just do it themselves with a box, "are you over 16, yes no" they will require to identify against the government.

Essentially this makes it so that every user's actual ID is being tracked. Fully intended to control speech online.

incomingpain··on AI and bots have officially taken over the internet
Dead Internet theory came out around 2023.

Playwright launched in 2020; similar projects have since launched; similar project existed before.

It used to be automated by script, now you even have AI.

We now have a dead internet.

It's also important to understand what's happening. Why or what would the scripted bot be doing? It's not read, otherwise nobody would notice. They are actually posting things. It's not just posting cat pictures, nobody would notice that neither.

Each bot has a different intention, but universally they all has mass intention to manipulate some subject. Reddit is bad because the bots have the power to curate content with downvotes.

So online discussions have synthetic content intending to change opinions. How does that interact with the various subjects you're interested in?

What's even crazier is the intersection of echo chambers and bots. There are people who have blocked essentially all humans and live in a world of bots who agree with them. It is causing insane social problems.

incomingpain··on Social media bans and digital curfews to be trialled on UK teenagers
Im just a Canadian observer. But the current UK government doesnt maintain a consent to govern. They certainly arent a legitimate government.

They have mass arrests of political opponents for speech. Exceeding authoritarian regimes 1000:1. Putin is jealous how many illegitimate arrests they are getting away with.

Now they intend to extend restricting speech of their political opponents even further.

incomingpain··on Ask HN: Why there are no actual studies that show AI is more productive?
AI like any new tool takes time to learn; and its not a weekend. Then while trying to learn, the industry shifts significantly and you have to learn more.

How do you study AI usefulness when you have a serious problem of measuring how skilled they are? What if your study only ever studies people who know essentially nothing about AI? Are your conclusions correct?

I'm only here because:

Quota hit — resets in ~14 hours (around noon tomorrow).

Not yet — resets in ~4h (around 12:20 PM).

incomingpain··on Most of the US economy is in a recession
Looking at the numbers, that cant lie. The only industry that has contracted: United States GDP Growth Contribution Government

GDP up from Agriculture

GDP up from Construction

GDP up from Manufacturing

GDP up from Mining

GDP down from Public Administration -0.9% single quarter.

GDP up from Services

GDP up from Transport

GDP up from Utilities

Also important to note, War costs a ton of money. War economy coming. The probability of another quarter of low spending is 0%

Now consider the scenario where major entities bought a ton short positions because they thought Trump's insanity would crash the economy. Now they are about to hurt badly. Hence the fake news.

incomingpain··on The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
Oh noes, an anonymous person on the internet thinks my anonymous account is rude. Whatever will I do?

Plus this is a valid discussion. A minimum wage worker is generally intelligent, BGI - Biological General Intelligence.

Hiring them to do tasks that AGI does is a cost-benefit analysis. Whereas that BGI has sick days and may not even work. Afterall minimum wage, minimum work.

incomingpain··on Did Alibaba just kneecap its powerful Qwen AI team?
Qwen 3.5 was an epic drop.

Qwen3.5 27b is frontier intelligence density.

GPT 20b high used to be top; and only barely inches out 35b.

glm 4.7 flash strong 4th place.

nemotron 30b 4th place.

Its very interesting that GLM 5 didnt manage to get the same density as they were able to with 4.7 flash.

incomingpain··on The L in "LLM" Stands for Lying
I find these criticisms to be similar to those low context brain teasers.

If a woman gets married at 25 and her kid is 25, how old is she?

This is what LLMs are dealing with. You dont tell them everything they need to know and they are left to fill in the gaps. Which may, and sometimes often means they lie.

That's what Agentic does differently, it'll go find the gaps before answering.

Agentic is AGI. You can hire many minimum wage workers who are generally intelligent who dont even go to that level.

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