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I am indifferent to whether or not my message is well-received. It is true. And also because the people making the arguments for why they should force people to pay for their jobs …

Are those statistics I provided invalid? Is it not the case there's an entire (ascendant in some spots) political party based upon this phenomenon of the highly-credentialed yet do…

I don't know. Is it irrelevant? Is it interesting that all these "democracies" around the world have persistent speech bans? When someone says something they don't like? I seem to …

> Democracy is a broad term describing all forms of government where power is granted by the people No. It's not. I encourage you to read the quite enlightening treatment of democr…

John Adams wrote that as a reason why the United States is not a democracy. It's a Constitutional Republic. It's a consistent theme throughout the Federalist Papers. Individual Sta…

Have you not been present in our recent two-decade credentialed make-believe economy? The one that puts government in the place of a father? https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelletr…

One day, AI will be able to provide midwit analyses like this. Until that day, we can just say what we all know: 1) AI will absolutely decimate white-collar office jobs in the futu…

> It is not possible one of their extraordinarily high paid engineers did not know how to deploy an airgapped environment for the models to run in. It is, in fact, possible. Do you…

I suspect bailouts will be off the table. Simply because the people who support OpenAI and the tech industry are on the same side of the political aisle as the people protesting da…

Agreed. Specs are more important than ever. Constraints: types, contracts, protocols, schemas, APIs and such are what ground the boundaries of systems. Without them, code drift is …

What happens when the AI god doesn't appear, and these models plateau in regimes supportable with high-end laptops?

It is. A predictable reset schedule with refinancing ("valuations"). Loose money leading to debt obligations to be paid in the future. Circular financing. And what's funny, is it's…

The entirety of "agents" and tool calls is a process of combining LLMs to get better results. Is it the same LLM in many cases? Yes. But it doesn't have to be. It's the natural mov…

Ah. But which decisionmakers? Would it be the ones that tried to backdoor SSL and encryption in the 90s? Would it be the ones who argued for censoring speech on social platforms? D…

"But what about criminals?! What about terrorists?! Won't someone please think of the children?!!!" Every argument against open source AI is moot. Outside of totalitarianism, you c…

They don't. "Emergence" is some ridiculous hype that a bunch of kids with money peddled to get valuations. And yes, if "emergence" and the "there's something else going in there!" …

Fair. Too strong a statement. But much like Ben's point that commoditization is a relatively novel concept to many in tech, it's not the consumer AI applications at risk of commodi…

" - The highest tier Chinese models are not more economical than US frontier models. Try GLM 5.2 and see how much it costs to do real work. I did, and it was more expensive than GP…

With what accuracy? And with how many intermediate tokens? We can replace multiplication with any class of problems which should go from 0->100% solution almost immediately if ther…

I am not confused. Because herein these forums, I predicted everything that was going to happen years ago. And the "insane inefficiency" of deep learning is fully to be expected fr…

When I see Chinese (open source) emerging AI dominance... what I see is a chronically corrupt set of Bay Area companies who stole open source software, pretended there was an AI go…

I think this is actually a perfect case of an impressive thing being done exactly by mimicry. Why do LLMs still have trouble on floating point math without forking out to a tool, b…

Wouldn't it be wild if there were real-world penalties for being wrong? And people who follow bad advice will get bad results, and people who follow good advice will get good resul…

Postmodernism is a hell of a drug. What discipline, outside academia, could position "nothing is neutral" as insightful and helpful commentary? So is doing nothing, consuming resou…

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