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AI design isn't even good from what I have tried.

The dot com bubble was a financial bubble.

We are in something more like an AI mass delusion.

It was so much more hyped than that. They made it sound like Hollywood was in big trouble. It is going to have the same problems as Midjourney. You just don't have that much control of the scene. The process is to make thousands of random variations and cherry pick the good stuff because you can't do anything else.

You obviously never actually used Sora.

These are hand selected from thousands of prompts. The person who doesn't use these tools thinks that you prompt the video like you are Scorsese directing a film. That is exactly what AI video is not.

More like you write a prompt and then try try try to get something that vaguely does what you wanted it to do. Most of the time though it doesn't even get close. The best video is usually stuff you didn't even intend. It is great for demo reals but that is about it.

They already made such a big deal about Sora 1 for months before it came out then what have you seen from it after it actually released? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

Honestly, Midjourney blows away what I seen in this video as far as being pretty but Midjourney video is the same problem. Your imagination is filling in all these AI video features that don't exist.

No, the average person just doesn't have a creative bone in their body. They will be impressed when they get Super Hero movie #1899 but this time by AI , woo hoo!

Now that will be progress!

You obviously have never actually tried to make anything in AI video. It is a parlor trick.Maybe this is a big advance but the current state of AI video is a joke. It is only impressive if you don't actually make anything. It is impressive in a marketing release that is quickly forgot about.

Will Smith eating spaghetti is the dumbest most uncreative thing. You are impressed by it because it is a meme. It is stupid.

It is not even just the errors. These video models are really impressive as long as you don't actually have something in your head you want to make. Then the laughable limitations are on full display.

I will believe it when I see because Sora 1 is probably the most disappointing technology given what I thought it was going to be that I can even think of. I waited forever for it and then barely used it because it sucks.

To me, it really depends if the post is a well reasoned criticism with something unique to add to the conversation or the standard, completely pointless, anti-AI rant that I have already read a 1000 times.

From Nassim Taleb

"Unless you have confidence in the ruler’s reliability, if you use a ruler to measure a table you may also be using the table to measure the ruler."

Seems like that is exactly what we are doing.

This all depends on how you define "better".

I am an amateur programmer and tried to port a python 2.7 library to python 3 with GPT5 a few weeks ago.

After a few tries, I realized both myself and the model missed that a large part of the library is based on another library that was never ported to 3 either.

That doesn't stop GPT5 from trying to write the code as best it can with a library that doesn't exist for python 3.

That is the part we have made absolutely no progress on.

Of course, it can do a much better react crud app than in Sept 2023.

In one sense, LLMs are so amazing and impressive and quite fugazi in another sense.

It is so outrageous to value Tiktok USA at $14 billion.

Forget Meta's market cap, does anyone think Zuckerberg wouldn't have paid 20 billion for Tiktok USA ?

Just so corrupt and to even call it a sweetheart deal is outrageous.

I thought it should just be banned in the US. The idea we are basically strong arming a whole nation and stealing a company at a bullshit valuation is completely insane.

It is great but of course people are going to shit on it because what fun would it be without being negative.

I completely agree but most people aren't that interested in some kind of socratic online dialogue.

I don't expect to learn much at all from internet discussion at this point. It serves a minimal socialization purpose and then my actual learning is from books and language models.

I used mine everyday for about 2 months but eventually reached the boredom stage.

There is just shockingly so little going on in VR.

There is also the issue that it is like a drug that the first few times are so mind blowing but your tolerance builds so fast. Then there is nothing stronger to up the dosage.

I have never heard of this but cannabis has a powerful effect on ghrelin.

It wouldn't be shocking that at extreme use ghrelin stops acting without stimulation from cannabis.

The problem with discussion on these things is everything is dose dependent.

If you drink a glass of wine once a month the state of the extreme alcoholic is not going to line up with your experience from "drinking alcohol."

I have never found a study that supports this.

The research is pretty clear this is from ghrelin stimulating appetite and at the same time altering levels of leptin so a person feels less full.

It is not from a blood sugar crash.

While some studies link lower BMI, meta analysis shows cannabis is kind of a disaster if you are trying to lose weight.

It is hard to make generalizations though because it is so different if you smoke once a month, once a week or once a day.

Exactly. The problem is the students and parents.

It would not matter what school you sent me to, I did not care about learning or intellectual pursuits when I was 15.

I would have had to be raised by completely different parents with different values in a different time and place.

I went into the office for the first time 2 months ago. The worst part was how massively distracting it was.

The people who like going into the office at my work, go in to socialize.

They are bored at home. It literally has nothing to do with being productive.

I am sure this is all a matter of scale though. My place is really small. At the scale of Microsoft I am sure there are thousands of people really gaming the system badly.

What is even the point in having this argument?

At this point, one is gaining with each model release or they are not.

Lets see in 2035 who was right and who was wrong. My bet is the people who are not gaining right now are not going to like the situation in 2035.

You obviously have absolutely no idea what you are talking about when it comes to music.

Coltrane is so respected because he use to fall asleep with his saxophone in his mouth because that is the level he would practice.

He represents the ultimate dedication to mastering an instrument.

You should really try making some friends with black people that like jazz so you can understand what a clueless thought this is.

I would love this. From day 1 with 3.5 I have always assumed something like this was inevitable. I imagine if we get to a place that jobs are requesting LLM certifications from OpenAI, it would almost be an absurdity to not be linked to your chatGPT chats.

You say this as if humans do not collude all the time. The pejorative idea of a "Conspiracy theory" is such a great modern tool for those who want to collude to hide their collusion in plain view.

Somehow it has become a heuristic that if caste in, the collusion is instantly dismissed as fiction. Even better that the person who thinks collusion is happening must have a lower IQ than those who don't. How convenient for those who are colluding.

I do wonder if this is really the same type of alienation that Arendt refers to.

I can understand how if you are afraid the neighbor is going to be an informant, you stop interacting. Public discourse breaks down and ideology takes hold.

This seems quite different to me than the type of alienation we are talking about in 2025 from online interactions. I am not sure alienation is really the right word in terms of isolation from a group. If anything the problems from social media are from too much interaction and too much political discourse.

I would say that is completely opposite to what Arendt was talking about.

I think it is the way "boredom" has quite a different meaning today than in 1990. While you can still be bored in 2025, I don't feel boredom the same way as in 1990 when none of my friends answered the phone and there was nothing on tv. 2025 boredom is more the lack of hyper stimulation and hyper novelty as opposed to the 1990 version of going through your "junk drawer" to find something again novel because you can't think of anything else to do. I can't even remember the last time I had junk drawer to even go through.

I am certain it has much to do with being in the training data or not.

I have loved GPT5 but the other day I was trying to implement a rather novel idea that would be a rather small function and GPT5 goes from a genius to an idiot.

I think HN has devolved into random conversations based on a random % of problems being in the training data or not. People really are having such different experiences with the models based on the novelty of the problems that are being solved.

At this point it is getting boring to read.

The problem is the video models are only impressive in news stories about the video models. When you actually try to use them you can see how the marketing is playing to people's imagination because they are such a massive disappointment.

Taste isn't static over time either.

My favorite thing is to rediscover something I thought in the past was terrible only to now find I love it.

No rap before Hamilton is under exposure to NYC boom bap. Lin-Manuel Miranda is quite good but I am sure he wouldn't put himself on the level of Big Pun or Nas.

Miles Davis - Kind of Blue is the best selling jazz album of all time but it is still a specific sub genre of cool jazz that might put you to sleep.

Herbie Hancock - Head Hunters I think is the second best seller. I really don't know if I have ever read someone say Head Hunters sucks. It probably isn't what you expect in the same the way Hamilton sounded different to you.

I would go with those two and if you don't like either I wouldn't bother looking for more.

30 years ago only 4000 people went.

Burning Man is fine, the problem is I have jumped the shark and got too old and boring.

The powerball lottery is the greatest investment you can make also if you happen to win.

You have no point.

Yea I would sign up to win the lottery too.

I agree on the astounding nature of AI but there is also an astounding nature to valuations across the market right now.

WMT is a better example than NVDA.