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Yes, I know this is not Reddit but Clarkson’s “Oh no! Anyway…” is the perfect, and most fitting, reaction to this. Nothing else to say

Don’t know much about how distillation works so please enlighten me here.

what are large language models but the distillation of all of the knowledge on the open Internet, scraped by the frontier labs and distilled into the models

If it’s as easy as that why do they choose to distill another model and not distill the knowledge on the open Internet from scratch?

We will be able to afford RAM and SSD again

Or you can go full Reddit and just block anything that seems even remotely suspicious.

Your sibling, roommate, neighbor that uses your internet, previous IP owner, posts too much? You get blocked too.

Using VPN? Blocked.

Your iPhone is too old, blocked.

Your screen brightness too low? Believe or not, blocked.

moron

What are the dystopian parts then? You didn’t explain..?

Actually Brave New World was a utopia, not dystopia. Many confuse it with 1984.

Every need of the common people was met and their happiness was catered for. And those who were unusually independent, intellectually curious, creative or couldn’t fit in were “exiled”, to a place with their equals, where their were free to continue their studies, art, etc.

Imagine a world where the MAGAs are happy and content instead of angry.

Right. The uber rich are sure to share the wealth. Thanks for the laugh.

Americans are fucked. European on the other hand may start bring out the guillotines again.

This generation is f*cked, just like that generation was. The new jobs are for the next generation.

For personal use I don't care if I get access to it. Tokens are becoming too expensive.

How is this a rational argument?

Are you so self centered that you only care about government decisions that affect ONLY the present you?

“I don’t care that the government made prescription glasses illegal, I can see fine without them”

When was the last time you place or received a call to/from PSTN?

clearly ethically wrong

Ethics are subjective. That’s why we have courts judge based on the law and not ethics

Cough.. cough.. Uber.. cough cough AirBNB

The US spent decades transferring manufacturing, capital, and know-how to China, while Chinese students trained, and excelled, at elite Western universities. Why are people surprised that China eventually became capable of competing with the US?

Are companies allowed to make “Show HN” posts?

How is this different than X company saying we build Y, when they literally paid people to do it for them?

Isn't this basically admitting you had nothing to do with this project

No. They had nothing to do with the code. The project is not only the code.

and anyone else could pay an ai to make the same thing easily?

This assumes that the difficult part is typing code, but in reality the most difficult part is to know what to build, specify it, evaluate and iterate on it.

If it were truly as easy as asking an AI once, then everyone would already be shipping successful products daily.

AI just lowers the bar to entry.

CEOs laid people off to replace them with AI, but turns out AI is more expensive and does a worse job.

If I made a blunder of that scale, would I or would I not be put on a PIP?

Musk found a perfect market hack, buy a company at 10x their revenue and sell it in the stock market at 100x

“ai-x”? Elon? You know that you are not allowed to in this forum. It’s only for adults. Go back to Twitter and play with the other kids.

I don't know how you simplify things so much... Do you want 94% tax on stocks? Why stop at stocks? How about property? Your house's net worth?

The social equality shouldn't be based on how much poorer we are in comparison to Musk, but can the poorest of us afford food, shelter, education and healthcare?

Can they afford it by having a decent work/life balance?

Our economic system creates billionaires as a side effect, but is there any other out there that is better and doesn't create billionaires?

At the end of the day, is our average citizen today better off than when they were in 1944?

If you want people to listen that are the questions you should ask and how you should market "socialism". Not "eat the rich" bullshit.

That's different than chanting "Ban Billionaires"

Safe to say they wouldn't agree here

Maybe because they do not like to blindly follow the "leader", but instead prefer to judge for themselves?

Democrats don't want "bad" immigration as much as you do. No-one wants criminals or people who are unwilling to follow the law.

I am not an immigration expert, but blanket rules and blanket statements are seldom giving good results.

When the right says ban immigrants they sounds as stupid as when the left says ban billionaires.

One of the main reasons I fell in love with computers was determinism. I always felt weird seeing people get upset and curse at the C++ compiler. In my mind, the “computer” will always give you the same output for the same input. Therefore, you must be doing something wrong if you’re fighting the compiler. The answer to your problems is in the source code.

This is something LLMs took away from me. I can’t just look at the source code and figure out why a prompt didn’t produce the expected outcome. I have to go with my gut feeling, and with the little I know about LLMs.

On the other hand, LLMs have enabled me to code prototypes that I would have only dreamed about a few years ago.

Do you want your own fancy terminal emulator? Done. A couple of weekends’ worth of work.

How about your own Linux windowing system, running Firefox and a terminal? Done. A couple more weekends.

You always hated KiCad routing, but never had time to go through the code and change it to meet your requirements? No worries. A day’s work.

Of course, none of this is production quality, but it gets you started very fast. And I’m sure you can turn it into a solid, production-quality product in much less time than it would take without using an LLM.

Thank you. I stand corrected.

I am going to stand more on the “the key is not exploitation but empathy. What do users really want?“

I’m sorry Mr Graham, but that’s not what empathy is.

A casino understands what its “users” want. So does a drug dealer.

Empathy is caring about how your actions affect other people as well, and caring about those effects.

Let’s not encourage the dilution of the word empathy.

"trust me bro"

How can you make such bold and generic claims without some data backing it?

Based on their actions, not their words, my reading is that they just don't have the compute capacity to rollout Mythos or Fable.

At the moment codex/gpt5.5 runs cycles around claude/opus. Fable is stupidly expansive, and Mythos is just a myth.

I don't find any reason to switch back to Anthropic, and they seem to be find with it...

Disillusioned CEOs convincing themselves they have the mandate and right to define morality for everyone else. They get to decide what is right, wrong, permissible, or dangerous from the top, in the name of "safety". This is corporate nannying.