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> When you use an LLM, [...] you get to pay the social tax: you converse and negotiate and convince and sometimes even get angry1 at the so-called tool. Might be a subjective opini…

It was a tongue-in-cheek comment, not really a perfect analogy to the situation. Still, the author expects teams with different priorities and design philosophies to follow a new s…

1. There are 5 competing standards. 2. This is clearly unacceptable, so we've created the one standard to unite them all™. 3. There are 6 competing standards.

Well, the Matrix did this. Badly. "Machines who have developed nuclear power are using human bodies as batteries"-level badly.

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"A rogue AI led to a serious security incident" is certainly a way to write "Someone vibe coded too hard and leaked data".

Now that there's widespread direct connectivity between agents and browser sessions, are CAPTCHAs even relevant anymore?

Casual threats of invasion don't build solid and lasting partnerships? Who knew.

More diversity in the LLM space is always good. In my experience though, speaking as a native speaker of one of the less-used European languages, Mistral's models already use it pr…

>(the water is thoroughly irradiated from a war that happened 200 years ago) This is what I always found grating about the writing in Bethesda Fallout games. Their writers think th…

For some reason it was very hard for the Victorians who pioneered archaeology to understand that ancient humans were actual human beings and not storytelling archetypes or moral ex…

The release day of Civilization n is always the best time to buy and play Civilization n-1.

> Perhaps one reason startups work so well is they are one of the few places that still let young people exert agency. So, who's the VC that will fund the 4-9 failed governments we…

Even if you absolutely have to use an LLM for some reason, there are already perfectly good LLMs for code generation that you can comfortably run on commodity hardware.

Please elaborate on how "maybe they don't need good infrastructure" can be taken positively. It is, at best, deeply patronizing.

Nice sentiments, but the problem with the Internet in Greece is a runaway oligopoly of three telco carriers and a "business-friendly"(one set of sarcasm quotes doesn't feel enough …

Cheese was, and to a degree still is, stored and distributed in wheels. As a retail buyer you rarely encounter an entire wheel, but it's definitely a common sight in wholesale.

"Many problems that would otherwise seem quite difficult yield to the method with hardly a line of calculation." This is the furthest from encyclopedic language you can possibly ge…

Which textbook is that? 1492 is Late Renaissance at the cusp of the Early Modern age.

Or, you know, people understand that their actions have consequences on others and living in an organized society is far better than the alternative. We're not endlessly settling a…

My workspace in Europe is also in some kind of (unannounced) Read-Only mode.

And it's also perfectly fine to point out the rest of the building's entirely true and factual history, without having to accept snide remarks like "byzantine fake news".

That is not even a good example of lying by omission. You directly altered the facts as I presented them by joining sentence fragments. In this case, the grandparent comment is rep…

What exactly is "false" or "fake news" about the parent comment? All three sentences look entirely factual to me: The Hagia Sophia was indeed a church. The Hagia Sophia was also in…

Which useful service have you been locked out of? We're several years into full GDPR enforcement. I've only been locked out of some US newspapers, which is trivially by-passable, a…