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This is assuming the AI doesn't refuse after the next update.

This drives me nuts. I love LISP but refuse to pretend writing `)))))))` is reasonable.

Is your implication that progress is always generally positive for the average person?

I tend to think it's going to turn out to be something along the lines of a perpetual motion machine. In the sense it seems very possible on paper but the subtle facts of reality prevent it.

People will make things that look a lot like self-improving machines but on closer inspection that won't truly be the case.

I suspect this violates the Labor Theory of Value in the same way that perpetual motion violates the laws of physics.

It's fine if people don't care about the federated aspect but I don't think we can rely on a corporation to solve this problem. Even a small one. Federation solves a real technical problem whether end users care or not.

Claude Code is essentially the pinnacle of over engineering. Agentic harnesses are simply just not nearly as complicated as Anthropic seems dedicated to making them.

I'm really happy with Pi agent harness and last time I checked I could do everything CC can with my set of Chinese flash model coded Pi extensions.

You should see a lot of slugs if you go into the forest. They are out there!

FWIW they invalidated my key in the middle of a session this morning.

I'm literally begging people to start using the Fediverse at this point.

I essentially only use DeepSeek. Almost always the flash variant. I've found that I don't really need frontier models if I'm doing most of the thinking myself and just using the agent to output code quickly.

I don't think this is a problem that's going to be solved by aligning everyone ethically.

You say this as if recursive self improvement is inevitable.

Til my local harness was set up via "self replication". I didn't realize how terrifying this was when I asked DeepSeek to set up pi harness for me and connect to LMStudio.

Are poor people worse parents?

People who have not used DeepSeek massively under estimate it's capability and how little it costs to run.

I think the entire thing here is that these solutions _are_ inherently interpolations of existing work in the field. That's the "super power" that LLMs have. To interpolate mass amounts of multi-dimensional data.

IIRC the universe is a pretty non-unifrom shape.

I promise you this doesn't work. Might help but not a lot.

I bet if you look back, you were using a lot less effort in the past than what you see the LLM doing now. They are pretty bad at taking a straight line to the solution.

I mean what can you do? The market is forcing you to raise rent. Your hands are tied.

I don't know if this is more obvious to you than you let on but in case it's not, your software at first glance seems potentially harmful to children and is very clearly biased towards a conservative viewpoint.

It shouldn't be a suprise to end up with the user base you did when you are intentionally (or possibly unintentionally) biasing your filter the way you do.

With all due respect, the filter list reads like a list of things a drunk uncle would complain about at the family BBQ. I mean really chatGPT girlfriends???

To give some constructive criticism, I think you need to take a step back and decide if you are building a politically motivated tool or not. I want to be clear that what you have here is not representative of the moral status quo in the United States. It can be easily to think it is depending on the circles you frequent but it's statistically just not.

Consulting with someone to help eliminate politically bias in the filtering could go a long way to improve your potential customer base. Most parents I know would take one look at this and run.

In a very general sense I think your site feels too technical. Are people who can't control their children's computer usage really reading patch notes and switching website themes from a drop down?

Sorry if this sounds harsh. I originally intended to just write about the last point but after looking more into the site it became clear that there are bigger problems here.

Edit: As has been pointed out it's not so much about what you included as it is what you left out. You could potentially eliminate the bias just by balancing this list considerably. At what point do you just make an allow-list though lol?

Can you elaborate on this idea? It seems like a pretty controversial statement.

Nothing actually moves according to Zeno's paradox.

Yeah this article seems sensational to the point of being deliberately misleading.

Anecdotally I know a lot of people who work full time in the US and make well under 30k a year.

Can you talk about how this is funded / how it pays for itself?

I would love to do something like this as well (for fun) but I'm worried about the cost getting out of control.

It seems like you're using "autistic" as an insult here. If that's not your intention you might want to edit this comment to use different verbage.

I don't think that your phrasing is helpful or appropriate.

The comments here so far seem to be jumping to conclusions. Commenters are being quick to defend the professor. I'm not sure that the full situation is being understood.

It seems there are three important points being overlooked.

- It seems that the phrase he said was not directly related to the course material.

- He was politely asked to stop saying it.

- He was likely not even pronouncing the phrase correctly and the correct pronunciation does is not easily confused with a racial slur.

> The students said some of them had voiced their concern to Patton during his lecture, but that he’d used the word in following class sections anyway. They also said they’d reached out to fellow Chinese students, who “confirmed that the pronunciation of this word is much different than what Professor Patton described in class. The word is most commonly used with a pause in between both syllables.”

This seems to me that there is an underlying problem/tension between this professor and his students who are people of color.

This happens to me a lot, but my use case is "watching" full music albums all day. Usually halfway through every other album it will pause and ask I'm "still watching".

I usually just use the media controls on my keyboard to un-pause it without actually clicking the modal.