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In case this is useful for anyone, this study on high-risk HPV and medicinal mushrooms blew my mind: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25271984/ In 88% (36 out of 41) of patients wit…

Humor requires a sudden orthogonal leap from context. That's what a punchline is. I think you're saying that you can eventually train models to arrive at that destination by traini…

I had a related insight, but in the domain of humor [1]. LLMs are inherently probabilistic, and there's currently no mechanism for producing an orthogonal directional change in the…

There's value to hand-copying something. Hunter S. Thompson transcribed Hemingway to internalize the cadence of his writing. However, if you're serious about it, then why not hand-…

Where do you suppose the taco trucks procure their lettuce?

Intelligence doesn't require sentience. Think of it like this: if you can offload a task to an AI model that requires reasoning or representing a nonlinear system, you are offloadi…

It's funny to me that these models were created by effectively "distilling" all available content including the proprietary works of many other people, but now it's a problem that …

I think the author's choice of words is framing the discussion. They did build their own website, but they loved the look of the one they saw, so I'd think a better choice would be…

This was my first thought as well. Hunter S. Thompson used to copy Hemingway by hand to internalize his cadence.

The telemetry will tell the story, not the clickbait news headline based on preliminary information. I seriously doubt FSD would drive into a house.

> Until Tesla (or someone else) actually takes responsibility while the car drives itself Were you aware they're already doing exactly this in Austin and Dallas?

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Another factor I don't see mentioned: every Trump policy is inflationary. Deporting the labor base, deterring legal immigration, applying tariffs that were basically derived by tak…

> FSD is up to v14 and there is no sense in which it's "Full", or is likely to be "Full" any time soon. I think the SpaceX IPO is way overvalued, but have you actually tried FSD v1…

Which means more Grok degradation, more severe throttling, etc. I can't understand why xAI charges 50% more per month for Grok over competitors when it doesn't even gracefully down…

This is the exact analogy I use to explain how models work to laypersons as well.

I'm considering Anthropic. I think they will be one of the survivors if/when the AI bubble bursts. I was dubious about SpaceX (orbital data centers need to solve for extreme radiat…

I really want Spotify to follow. I feel cheated and deceived when I'm enjoying some music, then I realize that there's no bio for the artist and they released 7 albums in 2025. Use…

A while back, I discovered by accident that forcing ChatGPT to respond only in zalgotext and then using voice mode generated some really bizarre audio. Have uploaded the audio file…

My car drives itself. That's a $18T global market. Also $1T in data center investment makes sense when you realize that companies are racing to create virtual white collar workers.…

Exactly. It's a tangent, but clearly a pain point for enough users.

100%. I have to hold the floor by filling the space with "ummmmmmmm.... uhhhh...." which inevitably distracts me from my point altogether. Poor user experience.

Strongly agree, some of us like to choose our words more carefully when interacting with an LLM. I've tried to convey this to OpenAI through various available channels (dev forums,…

I agree with your categories. The majority of the usage for me is (1) and (3). (1) LLMs are basically Stack Overflow on steroids. No need to go look up examples or read the documen…