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Democratization of information, but Sam Altman gets a $100B net worth and I'm still broke :)
I would prefer some sort of democratiziation of the money made from the democratization of information as well
My parents put in countless hours and tens of thousands of dollars into raising me to the point where I could write an answer on StackOverflow
And OpenAI scraped and distilled that answer and gave me nothing
Viper was one of the top players even back then
I'm also in my 30s. You could've played this game at 12 and still been playing it without turning 40
The most insane part of AOE2 is that I was a young teenager when I first played the game and the dominant players then are STILL the dominant players now - 27 years later
This should really be illegal
A prompt went viral recently where people were sharing their pictures and asking chatgpt to visualise what their looksmatched partner would look like
The result was always someone extremely good looking
There’s going to be an entirely new class of mental disorders that will emerge from people being deluded by AI
Wild that we all lived exactly the same way before AI
Really changed so little in my life. I just use chatgpt instead of Google search now
It's being marketed as some ground breaking revolutionary change when all it is is a better widget
Remove it and the worst that will happen is that I'll go back to writing my emails and my code by hand - something I've done for the last 20 years anyway
The public has been apathetic about every single thing and will just continue scrolling their TikToks
Public anger is a very pre-smartphone thing. You don’t worry about those sort of things when you’ve hyperoptimized the circus and made the bread cheap enough
They think they’re immune. Even after Luigi, they still think they’re immune
Replace you with AI, and when the AI math falls apart, use your tax money to bail out AI
And they’ll get away with it too
Most of the AI hate largely springs from Dario popping up everywhere with threats of mass unemployment
Like what am I supposed to do if AI is going to take my job?
Dario can reverse this by going on the podcast circuit again and threatening everyone with 75% job losses due to (his) AI this time
Ramp the number up to 85% if that doesn’t work
If it still doesn’t work, go nuclear and target 100% job losses language
A major turnoff for me has been the American AI labs’ marketing
It’s either constant fear mongering (Anthropic), regulatory threats and corporate chicanery (OAI), low quality sloppification (xAI), or ‘ummm we have AI too guys’ (Gemini)
The worst culprit is Anthropic. Every two weeks he pops up on some random podcast with dire predictions of AI killing 50% of all jobs. It’s the constant “us our AI or else…” rhetoric that’s made the regular guy really hate AI
There is almost no positive sum outcome rhetoric from these labs
And I hate that
So I'm supposed to hate this because of what China MIGHT do in a future neither you nor I can predict?
Ironically, the people who can afford to have in-house help to handle things like cooking and folding clothes - the rich - also tend to be fitter and more active
Maybe if you can shave an hour every day from chores, you will actually have the energy to enjoy physical activities
Every single thing that’s come out of China in the entire AI/Robotics space lately has been a massive net positive for the world
Open Source is a good thing, regardless of where it comes from
The entire debate about distilled vs not distilled is just academic. As an end user, I don’t give a crap how the model was trained as long as it does the job affordably enough
I see all of AI as theft anyway so it makes no ontological difference if the theft was from a human or from another AI
Damn fun and challenging
Congrats! This looks like a daily one for me
You just end up creating a doom loop where everyone is using the same tools to create similar content and eventually, no one really cares about the content because all of it is the same
I’ve already seen this in my own behavior where anything even remotely AI-generated makes me tune out completely
It’s creating this weird flatness everywhere where people are using it to create things that don’t matter (LinkedIn posts, dull corporate presentations). But because everyone is also using it for the exact same purposes, the same things now matter even less
LinkedIn posts never really mattered. But because everyone is now using broadly the same tools and prompts to create LinkedIn posts, the posts matter even less now
Sure, its very useful. I’m not denying its utility.
I just wonder if the utility merits the resources allocated to it
I constantly wonder what is the societal benefits of AI
It’s really hard to build a coherent pro-AI argument
Opus 4.8 is genuinely one of the most frustrating models in casual use. It has a tendency to completely lose context in the middle of a conversation. It’s also too pedantic and nitpicky, and relies on language that’s way too specific to get any work done. I always end up being frustrated with it and revert to opus 4.6
I mentally switch off the moment I see an AI vibecoded landing page or article or video
I don't care what your offer is - if you can't even be bothered to even dress up your stuff for me, a human, I'm not going to consume it
Kimi 2.6 has been my workhorse now. It's as good as Opus 4.6, which, to me, was the last "useful" Claude model.
The newer models are smarter but really ficklle and hard to get meaningful work out of
4.6 was a workhorse
It's also such a recursive problem - there aren't enough kids, so your kids don't have enough kids to play with, so you don't have more kids
I remember almost never sitting inside my house after school. I had two elder siblings and we had probably 30 odd kids in my locality. We would all be out all the time. Safety wasn't an issue because there were some older kids in the group too who could be counted on to keep things in line
Now my daughter has just 3-5 kids of her age in my locality, and because they don't have any older siblings, they always have to be accompanied by adults
It’s a problem for capitalists, not the people themselves
The people want cheaper prices, affordable housing, affordable healthcare
Capitalism has decided that these problems aren’t worth solving. Instead, we must optimize for spam and slop (and call it “distribution”)
OpenRouter’s founder jumping from NFTs to AI has to be studied. Seriously the goat of sector rotation
it was also astonishingly lazy. Would just ask me to write test scripts. I asked it to create simple UI buttons for testing some basic functions so I could share it with a client, and it gave me curl commands instead - and then defended it by saying that the UI is wasted work
Frustrating because if I have a tool, I expect a tool to do what I tell it to do. Tools shouldn't have any opinions on how they should be used
I think 4.7 was an awful model in actual use. I never got anything out of it and it was frustratingly weird. This feels more like an attempt to course correct and isn't a real bump