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Allow me to introduce you to Buddhism
Elaborate. Buddhism is going to have the same epistemological issues as anything, since its a human consciousness issue.
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Many people averted religion (which I can get behind with), but have never removed the dogmatic thinking that lay at its root. As so many things these days: It's a cult. I've used Claude for many months now. Since February I see a stark decline in the work I do with it. I've also tried to use it for GPU programming where it absolutely sucks at, with Sonnet, Opus 4.5 and 4.6 But if you share that sentiment, it's alway…
What is it that is dogma free? If one goes hardcore pyrrhonism, doubting that there is anything currently doubting as this statement is processed somehow, that is perfectly sound. At some point the is a need to have faith in some stable enough ground to be able to walk onto.
Who controls that need for you?
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Well, they can't subsidize forever. And, it is kinda expected?
Considering the propaganda value in controlling the inputs to the machine that answers peoples questions, I rather expect them to be subsidized forever.
Consider the propaganda value of a centrally-controlled apparatus like the iPhone, and then reflect on the 100%+ profit margins that product has enjoyed for the past decade.
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At a consistent amount of usage, datacenters are at least an order of magnitude more hardware efficient. I'm sure Nvidia and AMD would be fine fighting for B2C if it meant volume would be 10+x. Now, given they can't satisfy current volume, they are forced to settle for just having crazy margins.
The problem with B2C is that you need to have leverage of some kind (more demanding applications, planned obsolescence, ...) in order to get people to keep on buying your product. The average consumer may simply consider themselves satisfied with their old product they already own and only replace it when it breaks down. On the contrary, with the cloud you can keep people hooked on getting the latest product whether…
I think businesses running datacenters are much less likely to frivolously buy the latest GPUs with no functional incentive than general consumers are...
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Many people averted religion (which I can get behind with), but have never removed the dogmatic thinking that lay at its root. As so many things these days: It's a cult. I've used Claude for many months now. Since February I see a stark decline in the work I do with it. I've also tried to use it for GPU programming where it absolutely sucks at, with Sonnet, Opus 4.5 and 4.6 But if you share that sentiment, it's alway…
All people think dogmatically. The only difference is what the ontological commitments and methaphysical foundations are. Take out God and people will fit politics, sports teams, tools, whatever in there. Its inescapable.
All people think dogmatically, but religion does not prevent people from acting dogmatically in politics, sports, etc. It just doesn't. It never did.
Under normal circumstances I'd consider this a nit and decline to pick it, but the number of evangelists out there arguing the equivalent of "cure your alcohol addiction with crystal meth!" is too damn high.
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> I've used Claude for many months now. Since February I see a stark decline in the work I do with it. I find myself repeating the following pattern: I use an AI model to assist me with work, and after some time, I notice the quality doesn't justify the time investment. I decide to try a similar task with another provider. I try a few more tests, then decide to switch over for full time work, and it feels like it's a…
I wonder about this. I see two obvious possibilities (if we ignore bias): 1. The models are purposefully nerfed, before the release of the next model, similar to how Apple allegedly nerfed their older phones when the next model was out. 2. You are relying more and more on the models and are using your talent less and less. What you are observing is the ratio of your vs. the model’s work leaning more and more to the m…
Point 2 is so true, I definitely find myself spending more time reading code vs writing it. LLMs can teach you a lot, but it's never the same as actually sitting down and doing it yourself.
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#178Ok I find it funny that people compare models and are like, opus 4.7 is SOTA and is much better etc, but I have used glm 5.1 (I assume this comes form them training on both opus and codex) for things opus couldn't do and have seen it make better code, haven't tried the qwen max series but I have seen the local 122b model do smarter more correct things based on docs than opus so yes benchmarks are one thing but realit…
Benchmarking is grossly misleading. Claude’s subscription with Code would not score this high on the benchmarks because how they lobotomized agentic coding.
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#179I have the M3 Max MBP with 128 GB of memory and the 40 core GPU. What's the best local model I can run today for coding?
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#180Ok I find it funny that people compare models and are like, opus 4.7 is SOTA and is much better etc, but I have used glm 5.1 (I assume this comes form them training on both opus and codex) for things opus couldn't do and have seen it make better code, haven't tried the qwen max series but I have seen the local 122b model do smarter more correct things based on docs than opus so yes benchmarks are one thing but realit…
I tried GLM and Qwen last week for a day. And some issues it could solve, while some, on surface relatively easy, task it just could not solve after a few tries, that Opus oneshotted this morning with the same prompt. It’s a single example ofcourse, but I really wanted to give it a fair try. All it had to do was create a sortable list in Magento admin. But on the other hand, GLM did oneshot a phpstorm plugin
Do you use Opus through the API or with subscription? Did you use OpenCode or Code?