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I can see an extra shade of purple. I had essentially the same lens removal cataract surgery as Monet did. Like Monet, I can see slightly into the ultraviolet range, because the re…

I don’t find LLMs to be very good independent thinkers, but I wouldn’t over sell our own mentation either - it clearly arises from a large number of simpler entities. Yeah. I don't…

Did you reply to the right post? You quoted me, but you wrote "LLMs don't think" as if it was a rebuttal. It's puzzling, because I didn't say that they think, so it kinda seems lik…

When I see these sorts of debates about LLMs thinking, its rarely a disagreement about what LLMs do. Its almost always over how 'thinking' is defined and the two sides use differen…

This is true and it's barely even debatable. Whatever exact role language plays in our thought processes, it is most definitely nonzero. It's why I think "LLMs are only fancy autoc…

Giving a literal monkey the ability to press more keys faster doesn't get a good joke from it. To some extent, it's because making a joke isn't an iterative exercise with a verifia…

guess you are arguing that the models _now_ will be durably useful enough to commit the time to creating the ASIC? Objectively, the current frontier-ish models will be useful for s…

At a 50-100x speedup even a GPT-4o class model could perhaps compete with much newer models simply by thinking deeper, doing harness-controlled Ralph loops, etc. Sure, then it migh…

My iPod would be the culmination of my friendships Hey! You can bring this back in 2026! In a fit of random inspiration (possibly inspired by a glass of wine or two) I began a new …

Not parent poster but: I probably spend at least 2/3 of my tokens on code review & QA. At least at my workplace, that's the culture.

because they're smarter than everyone else and there is nothing of value to be learned from others Yeah. It's absolutely unreal how often this is seen in our industry. Especially s…

Yeah, there’s been a lot of debate about this on r/localllama — will there be a steady supply of new free/open models in the future? And if not, can we simply keep augmenting “stal…

It should have flatly refused. I disagree in the strongest possible terms. I think the LLM should advise you of risk and lack of feasability but should otherwise answer the questio…

Well, there's two issues really. 1. Store-bought tomatoes are nearly always bred for shippability and appearance over flavor 2. Store-bought tomatoes are picked when unripe, so the…

Now, wait just a minute. You presented an LLM with an obviously bonkers goal, the LLM told you it was a bad idea at multiple steps, and this is somehow... a shortcoming of the LLM?…

At a high level, the processes are extremely similar in many (not all) ways. They're obviously achieved in drastically different ways at a low enough level; LLMs obviously do not s…

It’s really one of the most flabbergasting things about discussing LLMs with the naysayers. There are a lot of extremely legitimate concerns, like the environmental impact and so o…

I’ll grant that most non-local tomatoes have always been bad by definition, because they’re picked while green so they don’t rot before reaching the store. Plum tomatoes absolutely…

Yes. I think convenience/utility explains a lot of these “depressingly homogenized experiences” far more than dopamine-seeking. My life is very, very full. I do not have enough hou…

The people are not fine with bad strawberries but they don't know good strawberries You most definitely get this phenomenon with tomatoes. There’s little demand for actually good t…

I have a friend who works in the flavor and fragrance industry and one of the things strawberry fragrance is used for is… (drum roll) actual strawberries. Yep, a light spritz of st…

I’m maybe going to blow some fucking minds here — learning this certainly blew my own mind —- BUT I have a friend who works in the “fragrance and flavor” industry. (Which is actual…

You're correct about some things but mostly wrong. Yes, a Mac with 128GB+ will let you load some pretty big models. However, you're still not going to be able to run them at usable…

I'm not the person you're replying to, but I wholeheartedly agree with them... Quick background: doing AI inference requires three things. Lots of memory, lots of memory bandwidth,…

would you be dissatisfied by Opus-4.6-level open-weight models, just because Opus 4.8 will be out? Well, I see what you mean, but two big concepts... 1A. Models get stale pretty qu…