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I think you missed the point of my message. Web browsing still happens by connecting to data centres, so why are consumer laptops so much more (unnecessarily) powerful today than t…

The trend over the past three decades of personal computing has been for devices to become exponentially more powerful regardless of the actual computing needs of users. The excess…

> That's fine. We need a fix for today's problems today. No, we don't. It is Anthropic, Google, OpenAI et al. who need a fix for those problems today. Let them deal with it.

It's not the net fart that kills your connection, it is the server smell.

So you're saying that four-day-workweek companies saw no decline in their productivity, in contrast to the Australian average productivity which went down overall‽ That means the f…

What a hollow dismissal of based on acrobatic leaps of semantics. The word 'study' is no sacred possession exclusive to the natural sciences, and there is nothing wrong with proper…

It sounds like Public Transport Baby Adoption is an evolution of the Cat Distribution System: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/cat-distribution-system

That's an insightful prediction! Agentic LLMs won't only replace the browser, they will also optimize and enhance the content that you should consume. Would you like us to go deepe…

> I’m genuinely confused as to why the speakers are baffled by the boos. Absolutely, I just made a similar comment before I saw yours. In fact, I would argue that the headline is a…

What I found surprising of the couple of video examples I've seen was not the students' reactions; those were completely predictable. Rather, what most stood out to me was the abso…

> Most games bought on steam will never be played, not even once. How did you gain access to my Steam library statistics?

In fact, I find your very comment as an example of the variety of visual experiences that exist that I hadn't even thought of. I mean when you say “ Like when you are exhausted you…

I have a similar intuition to yours. On many topics it isn't so much self-censorship, it is simply that for many people there is rightly no motivation to go around announcing their…

I am not impacted by this issue on either side, but I am in the "dehumanising" camp, so here are my opinions: > Is it dehumanizing to Filipinos that Filipinos probably now do their…

The quality of the content is not the issue here.

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And yet we are discussing this in the context of a reporter having been fired from Ars Technica for publishing an article which included inaccurate LLM-generated summaries in 2026.…

You can prompt LLMs to scan thousands of documents to generate text validating your hunches. In some cases those validated hunches may even be correct.

What a relief that it only applies to when they're using their computers! At first I thought it applied to all work at their desks: paperwork, typing, phonecalls, etc. That would h…

No, even if morphine were metabolically safer (I don't know), its addictive potential would outweigh the potential safety benefit. On the other hand, if in the early 2000s you were…

I agree that Purdue Pharma was probably the most significant factor, maybe enhanced by the relative ease of granular lobbying of private doctors as compared to the challenges it ma…

The LLMs didn't only talk about the disease when prompted by the neologism. They also brought it up when asked about the symptoms. From the article: > OpenAI’s ChatGPT was telling …

> This seems like a wasted effort when AI will primarily learn the majority consensus view and not one-off misinformation. We have evidence to the contrary. Two blog articles and t…

> The same people that shout "Capitalism sucks, free us from our labor" are the exact same types that hate AI. The exact machine that will free you from your labor, when harnessed …

I'll admit I am not an expert in the field, but the fact that "chain-of-thought" optimisations function by getting the model to extend its own context window with more language to …