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Re: Claude can now search the web

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There is video of him doing a heart to the crowd thing. It's quite different from his nazi salute.

He said “My heart got out to all of you.”

If he had said “SIEG HEIL!” I would totally be on your side. But it was plain old American English, and it was about love.

Re: Claude can now search the web

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How do we determine who gets what job?

The idea behind UBI is that people do jobs that they want to do...

That's the most anti-social aspect of the UBI.

Historically, jobs or professions always existed around the intrinsic motivation of the person working and around the needs of the society around that person.

So you could become a poet, but if you do not write poems that people like you would starve. Or you could become a farmer and provide the best apples in your city and you will earn a more than deserve income.

That's why free economies have developed historically so much better than any centrally planned economy.

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We will very quickly enter a Kepler effect of information on the internet. All text on the internet will become AI slop being parsed by AI. Real information and human beings will be drowned out by the garbage. The internet will cease to be useful and we will retreat to corners of the web or to walled gardens. I'm seeing more and more online communities these days enforce invite only because there's just too much AI s…

Do you mean Kessler syndrome by any chance?

Yes! And I would edit my original comment if HN wasn't such a POS site!

Re: Claude can now search the web

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Grok's DeepSearch and DeeperSearch are also pretty good, and you can look at their stream of thought to see how it reaches its results. Not sure how OpenAIs version works, but grok's approach is to do multiple rounds of searches, each round more specific and informed by previous results

My disgust and hatred for Elon Musk prevents me from giving Grok a fair chance. I realize this is my psychological problem. I own it, but as far as I can tell, I'm not missing much.

Artificial intelligence is definitely better at avoiding voluntary biases such as this. Most people that are highly political/tribal demonstrate this bias very effectively. Examples such as this make a great case for AI being used for high level decisions and evaluations in high-noise, emotional, and political areas.

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Maybe we already have Universal Basic Income, you just need to have a pointless job to collect it.

One suggested weakness of UBI is a lack of purpose. I wonder if the "solution" is somewhat as you implied: jobs without a strict return on investment. You get your stipend, but you're keeping your block clean by sweeping and mulching. They're getting theirs in exchange for cranking out sourdough at cost for the neighbourhood. Someone else gardens for elderly residents.

Im sure I’m overidealizing, but I’ve wanted to live off grid, or maybe in a small community.

I watch these historical farm documentary tv shows, and they show how everyone in a town had a purpose and worked together, the blacksmith, the tile maker.

And I do often think the limiting factor to a life like this is the “market” so if you could create these communities, and could be an artist/artisan/builder, without strictly having to worry about making enough to live.

I met someone recently who lived in the Galapagos islands, and she seemed to sort of live this community oriented, trading anarchocapitalist lifestyle, and I think most people would be happier if they're small capitalist or socialist community involved direct interaction with people rather than dealing with soulless corpo's all the time.

Re: Claude can now search the web

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My disgust and hatred for Elon Musk prevents me from giving Grok a fair chance. I realize this is my psychological problem. I own it, but as far as I can tell, I'm not missing much.

Artificial intelligence is definitely better at avoiding voluntary biases such as this. Most people that are highly political/tribal demonstrate this bias very effectively. Examples such as this make a great case for AI being used for high level decisions and evaluations in high-noise, emotional, and political areas.

This sounds like something Elon twitters just before he alters the grok base prompt to make it talk positively about DOGE.

Re: Claude can now search the web

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It badly hallucinated in my test. I asked it "Rust crate to access Postgres with Arrow support" and it made up an arrow-postgres crate. It even gave sample Rust code using this fictional crate! Below is its response (code example omitted): I can recommend a Rust crate for accessing PostgreSQL with Arrow support. The primary crate you'll want to use is arrow-postgres, which combines the PostgreSQL connectivity of the…

That crate knowledge is probably from a proprietary private GitHub repo given to it by Microsoft

Re: Claude can now search the web

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No thank you, when I define a robots.txt file I expect all automated systems to respect it.

Think of the "searching" LLM as a peon of the user, the user asks, the peon performs. In that essence, searching by the LLM should be human-driven and must not be blocked. It's just an automated system doing the search not your personal peon.

Can't you make the same argument for a crawler? The user wants information, the peon (crawler) just compiles it for them.

Re: Claude can now search the web

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Searching the web is a great feature in theory, but every implementation I've used so far looks at the top X hits and then interprets it to be the correct answer. When you're talking to an LLM about popular topics or common errors, the top results are often just blogspam or unresolved forum posts, so the you never get an answer to your problem. More of an indicator that web search is more unusable than ever, but inte…

> web search is more unusable than ever I’m curious why I’m seeing a lot of people thinking this lately. Google definitely made the algorithm worse for customers and better for ads, but I’m almost always able to find what I’m looking for in the working day still. What are other people’s experiences?

AI results typically blow away Google results in both quality and definitely speed.

For example, when searching for product information, Google results in top 50 to 100 listed items titled “the 10 best …“ full of vapid articles that provide little to no insight beyond what is provided in a manufacturers product sheet. Many times I have to add “Reddit” to my search to try and find real opinions about a product or give up and go to Youtube review videos from trusted sources.

For technical searches like programming questions, AI is basically immediately nailing most basic questions while Google results require scanning numerous somewhat related results from technical discussion forums, many of which are outdated.

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