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Here's one using gpt-oss:20b - https://x.com/esetresearch/status/1960365364300087724

Yes, literally the first thing I thought of was "oh, another government LLM use case." Exactly the same crap doge was doing.

Whatever contractor is working on this is probably salivating at the opportunity to refine capabilities. I still think at some point this is going to be used to field questions like "ok, show me the top 10 citizens in this area who regularly engage in X online behavior."

Yes, exactly.

Yeah just tradeoffs I guess. I mean at one point you could get a kill and buy a mac-10 first round if you were lucky enough.

I mean there are apps now that realistically declothe people. No amount of legislation is going to stop digitally naked people from existing lol.

I still don't get how dust2 became more popular than the original dust.

It's pretty bad. I've also been very interested in the non-organic way certain topics get introduced. It's often chains of non-organic posts/replies that will seed topics in a way that makes it seem like opinion 1 is proposed then someone else will come in and make some obvious fallacy in a counter-argument, then another post will respond calling them out in some inflammatory way. This kicks off a cycle of user engagement either defending or attacking one of the participants. However the entire initial chain of 3-4 back and forth is all bots just subtly guiding topics.

I haven't had anything alcoholic in nearly two decades. Even when I was drinking it never got me any closer to getting laid. I quit because only stupid shit happened when I was drunk or around drunk friends. If anything nicotine acts as a superior social lubricant. These days I just drop acid, drink espresso, and consume the occasional nicotine pouch. Have never missed alcohol one bit.

I've played with it on and off for years from 1mg up to 10mg a day. It's a drug I definitely 'feel' when I'm not saturated. I initially became interested in it due to this -> "Since vitamin B12 and folate also affect mood-associated parameters, the stimulation of the transport of these vitamins into brain cells by lithium may be cited as yet another mechanism of the anti-depressive, mood-elevating and anti-aggressive actions of lithium at nutritional dosage levels.” (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11838882/)

It does reach a point of diminishing returns for me and I become too sedated. I now take it irregularly.

AI and GLP-1 Receptor Agonists.

I think it's more like the managerial capture of technology. So both OP and you are correct IMO.

Chinese manufacturing quality isn't great though. They make a lot of stuff incredibly cheap, but they don't hold up great in combat situations where they are exposed to mud, dirt, rain, get thrown around, etc.

My grandma is in hospice right now. Her son (my uncle) and myself continually visit and are involved in decisions surrounding her care. My uncle is being willed her estate. My uncle has no children. I have no children. At some point relatively soon there is going to be a lot of assets locked up with a geriatric population with no heirs.

Maybe security FUD will save us all from the AI job apocalypse?

I liked the game before Luclin and the bazaar the most. It started to lose its organic appeal for me after that. Stuff like everyone just choosing to hawk goods in the commonlands was so charming.

Just read his Gray Mirror posts or watch a podcast with him. If you really want to get the full experience you need to go back to his unqualified reservations stuff but it can be VERY tedious.

Same currently. This is actually a risk in itself though. /Some/ of your devs are going to circumvent policy and use an AI assistant. It is better at this point to have a tool available where you have a business level agreement vs. burying your head in the sand and believing that everyone is going to follow the org policy of 'no AI'.

It's interesting, I talk to a lot of vendors and suddenly I'm noticing a still small but growing reticence to share too many details about features unless there is an NDA in place. Things previously that vendors would gladly share in order to drive interest. Ideas themselves are a very real currency when implementation becomes increasingly trivial. I believe there is a growing awareness that moats are shrinking.

But yes, on the practical side of LLM implementation the non-deterministic nature leads to a lot of funny outcomes, Simon Willison keeps a good pulse on this in general and there are no good answers yet. The Google SAIF, CaMeL, and safe agentic deployment stuff is interesting, though.

I see this in an enterprise setting also. There is a /massive/ gulf between individuals that are building with the technology and see it as a piece of the stack and the individuals that are consuming the outputs with no knowledge of what makes it work. It is quite astounding.

Julian Jaynes' theory is always interesting to think about. I self-diagnosed myself as schizophrenic in my late teens and I still stand by my diagnosis 20 years later. I do believe it is a spectrum though and the degree to which one is schizophrenic is not static, and I don't think it's even necessarily a bad thing.

I mean, when I was young I would often think in terms of whatever philosopher I was currently reading. Brains are plastic AF and adopt very quickly. Just keep your inputs more diverse than literally just chatgpt and you will be fine.

What should be used instead?

Very cool. Since Veo 3 launched with the audio generation stuff it is now the norm to spend ~30 minutes making videos with my niece and nephew when I see them which is relatively often. My niece in particular understood prompting immediately.

Get them on caffeine, stat.

Yeah but an LLM is doing it so the outcome is different every time ;)

It's not really MCP that is 'this', MCP is just the glue that makes the NLP as frontend easy to conceptualize in terms of application. Everyone is getting excited because it's now relatively obvious how you can go from talking to LLM -> large orchestration happening, even though you could do this already with langchain or whatever.

MCP is basically just a protocol you can bring into the context window, do your LLM coding magic, then start up your MCP server and test your tool chain for your NLP as frontend stuff. The only difference is now it's not deterministic so stuff will get randomly fucked up.

I mean the fact that I can bring an API spec, MCP protocol spec, and MCP SDK spec into context and say "make me an MCP server where each route equals a tool" and have that bootstrapped in <5 minutes as a starting point is pretty nice. Then you can just start chaining stuff together.

CS2 is basically the only game I play any more. Just the other day I was playing with a guy who had just dropped 3k on a knife skin.

Or for spitefulness. Imagine having all of your decisions made by equations, sounds like hell. There would be a significant amount of people that do the exact opposite out of willfulness and spite.

I encourage everyone to stop doing stimulants for awhile and see how it effects their habits in this area. I stopped drinking caffeine and literally became a different person in terms of being able to just randomly start conversations and keep them going.