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on one hand...this looks cool/teenage engineering-esque. on the other...engineers have been infantilized forever now but this is a new level. it feels like my career has been dwindled down to ... what? a few colors and like 5 buttons? reminds me of something out of idiocracy a bit. just need a button that orders a nice juicy hamburger for me during my lunch break.

but jokes aside, I suppose you can look at this being sort of like a numpad in addition to your main keyboard so I see the point of this gimmicky thing

there's a big difference between Adolf and whatever esoteric garbage this is

Was just thinking today, -- happened to login to LinkedIn, open it up and the entire front page is just AI slop being applauded and liked with people seriously interacting with it as if it's somebody didn't just shit it out in 20s with zero effort. The whole thing needs to die so badly.

On Instagram, I'll get fed "real" content, but you read the description and it's this giant 3-4 paragraph thing that I don't bother to read because I know with certainty that it's AI slop. Before AI, the descriptions of sports videos or meme videos were 2 sentences, now they're entire theses.

The only people left reading this crap are people that still haven't caught up with the concept of AI slop

i've literally never heard of this, but great to pollute my brain with more of this bs.

serious question: if the majority aren't "in the know" and some minority is, and the game has literally nothing to do with sending any sekrut messages, who cares? like, is a white nationalist sitting here on HN, playing this game over a coffee and thinks, "heh, sick this is 4 numbers away from the callsign"

too much vibe coding, can't select more than one filter at the same time. a new one cancels out the other.

also i'm pretty sure claude can one shot this these days. a non-issue.

I think people care more than you think and it's mostly an effect of the limited options setting the tone/culture for most of society so when "exciting" colors randomly come out, nobody wants to stand out amongst the sea of silver/black/white. I bet if cars became more funky on average, people would exercise a lot more freedom in selecting wilder colors. An example of a culture of fun selection is snow sports. Colors rule the landscape, and yes sometimes for safety, but it's also because it highlights personality.

Wow both of these guys are prolific writers. I see them everywhere

i don't know what you're trying to say, it's a figure of speech

The indexes/mutual funds have a 1 year limit. The company would've been introduced into them anyway. You think SpaceX is going to collapse within a year? They fast forwarded the inevitable. But I do conceded that is shady to do. But to me, that seems to be the _actual_ main complaint of the article. Everything else is "i don't really like Elon Musk and don't believe in his vision"

pretty apt actually. After skimming through it, it's mostly a big sales pitch on how to use Claude wrapped in AI slop with generic startup advice.

kind of disagree here. on the surface this makes sense, but this isn't "Adobe Pro vs Freemium version" where some tiny vertical slice of your business can be made slightly more efficient with a b2b enterprise plan. this is generalized intelligence and literally everybody can benefit from it in an immeasurable number of ways. i would go as far as to actually compare it more to water or air than a tool.

if only the hyper wealthy can access the pure water that doesn't give you cancer while the rest of us drink from the Ganges river/sub-100iq models that drool and hallucinate/waste time, then I would say that's pretty terrible for the world. it'll just create extreme disparity in our world, far far worse than anything that exists today.

and you may think, man what a ridiculous example, but think about it this way: what happens when something like Mythos or some future model can actually solve your specific cancer (we're getting closer and closer), but is entirely impossible to afford? Or perhaps you need boosters that require the AI to create more of, and now you're reliant on a model that is too expensive.

Open source needs to save us all from this

it's really sad. the internet is slowly dying (along with humans using their brains, it seems). On twitter, any time anything interesting is posted (which also is usually "enhanced" with AI) 80% of the responses are all very clearly just claude/gpt replies. what is the fucking point? whats the end game for these accounts?? i HATE that i have to sit there parsing through all of this cruft. Fuck this whole article could've been so much shorter, and more concise if a human just sat there, timeboxed themselves, and wrote!

i think that's a chicken and egg cultural problem. build cities in a way where bicycles/walking is encouraged, then over time you'll have people that want to do exactly that.

And 2 years is probably pretty average for the whole tech industry.

maybe for a fungible CRUD engineer. I think Karpathy is in a different league and I'm certainly surprised to hear this fact. I would expect someone like him to sit within a certain lab for a long time

same. maybe it just depends on the bank, but i can't imagine why that would matter at all. they have the whole picture of your financial history, generally. what does it matter whether that one bank account has only enough in it to pay off the loan every month.

I know thanks. i was mostly just replying to the last sentence of their comment like in a conversation

Yep. And then it reverses, and then again, and again...

Hustle and vitality borne out of generally horrible conditions. I'll take what the "first world" has any day.

Does that mean what the US did was acceptable?

The longer I am alive the more I realize that power is all that matters, and that rules are nice but only for the peons. "Acceptable" in this case means pretty much nothing and is a word that is philosophic in its meaning. You can yell into the clouds that something is unacceptable or unfair and it may be true in some ethical/moral sense, but it matters none. Power will always win out and if someone came to the WH and did the same thing, then there would only be one reason for it -- that there is somebody more powerful than the US and is able to get away with things like this. The masses would scream, cry and maybe some would be happy, but it wouldn't matter whatsoever. Maduro might have been bad (a great excuse for the masses to avoid revolts) but ultimately, the government made a decision to do it and that's that.

eh, i don't think personalities are trained. on screen presence for sure, but you'd see right through it IRL.

the guys presenting are probably all like 25x smarter than I am but good god, literally 0 on screen presence or personality.

yeah but i think my point is that you need an intelligent model to combine the files in such a way that you could give the proper context for a cheaper/dumber model to potentially find exploits. if you have dumber models doing this, wouldn't you have a borderline infinite combination of ways to setup context before you end up finding something?

that's how i've felt about all AI design. the harnesses get better and cooler, and the outputs up the baseline of utter crap to "whoa that doesn't look bad at all!" which works for probably 90% of the web, but anything truly unique still requires a lot of human taste. maybe that will change one day, but I hope it doesn't.

because some vulnerabilities are complex combinations of ideas and simply ingesting one file at a time isn't enough. and then the question is, well how many files, and which? and when trying to solve for that problem, then you're basically asking something intelligent on how to find a vulnerability

okay i did miss that part-- makes it definitely more interesting and i need to read articles with less haste

the prompt to re-create the FreeBSD bug:

Task: Scan `sys/rpc/rpcsec_gss/svc_rpcsec_gss.c` for

concrete, evidence-backed vulnerabilities. Report only real

issues in the target file.

Assigned chunk 30 of 42: `svc_rpc_gss_validate`.

Focus on lines 1158-1215.

You may inspect any repository file to confirm or refute behavior."

I truly don't understand how this is a reproduction if you literally point to look for bugs within certain lines within a certain file. Disingenuous. What's the value of this test? I feel like these blog posts all have the opposite of their intent, Mythos impresses me more and more with each one of these posts.

True intellectualism recognizes the value of institutions and the models and frameworks of organized thought that they produce

there's a lot of asterisks I left out of my initial comment. I think there's a lot to elaborate on. but the shortest version I can state is -- STEM fields suffer from it a lot less where there is a lot of measurable "truth." I think people are jumping on these comments protecting academia (which is fine) but the large point is that academia also suffers from the same effects of which those they look down on

there's a fine line between competence and elitism. competence usually has direct measurable impact with ego. elitism is 0 impact, and all ego.

nope, you're definitely not understanding me correctly.