> Centillion is not some big scary government. It’s a private company, whose motto happens to be “Make things better!”
Haha, good shot at Big Tech. They always devolve to corporate profits over ethics.
ChatGPT Pulse
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#602Ken Liu has a story about what the Pulse will evolve into https://www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/the-perfect-match...
thanks!
(offtopic but the website could use some mobile CSS, it's hard to read on mobile by default)
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#603Earlier quoted context omitted.
Not who you asked, but I upgraded NextJS in a couple of repos by just telling Claude Code to do it. I've had it swap out and upgrade libraries successfully in one shot too. It will usually create good enough Page Objects for E2Es and scaffold out the test file, which speeds up the development process a bit. Same for upgrading Node versions in some Lambda projects, just tell it to go and come back later. Instruct it t…
> Personally, I think it really shines at doing the boring maintenance and tech debt work. It shines at doing the boring maintenance and tech debt work for web . My experiences with it, as a firmware dev, have been the diametric opposite of yours. The only model I've had any luck with as an agent is Sonnet 4 in reasoning mode. At an absolutely glacial pace, it will sometimes write some almost-correct unit tests. This…
Definitely agree that the stack matters.
If you're doing JS/Python/Ruby/Java, it's probably the best at that. But even with our stack (elixir), it's not as good as, say, React/NextJS, but it's definitely good enough to implement tons of stuff for us.
And with a handful of good CLAUDE.md or rules files that guide it in the right direction, it's almost as good as React/NextJS for us.
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Blockchain is essentially useless. You need legal systems to enforce trust in societies, not code. Otherwise you'll end up with endless $10 wrench attacks until we all agree to let someone else hold our personal wealth for us in a secure, easy-to-access place. We might call it a bank. The end state of crypto is always just a nightmarish dystopia. Wealth isn't created by hoarding digital currency, it's created by prod…
Humanities biggest ever wealth storing thing is literally a ROCK
Yeah, because rocks EXIST.
If gold loses its speculative value, you still have a very heavy, extremely conductive, corrosion resistant, malleable metal with substantial cultural importance.
When crypto collapses, you have literally nothing. It is supported entirely and exclusively by its value to speculators who only buy so that they can resell for profit and never intend to use it.
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We're not too far away from a smaller LLM that could be run locally that could do this, which would make it more privacy friendly. The plugging into my email seems like a great way to begin or complete a lethal trifecta and I don't have a good solution there, though.
Every iPhone, iPad, and Mac that either ships with or is upgraded to iOS 26, iPadOS 26 and macOS 26 has a 3-billion parameter LLM that’s available to developers and operates on-device. Mail, Notes, Reminders are already integrated.[1] [1]: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/286
I might be out of the loop, but if anyone else is confused about the version number:
> If you were expecting iOS 19 after iOS 18, you might be a little surprised to see Apple jump to iOS 26, but the new number reflects the 2025-2026 release season for the software update.
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#606I don't understand how anyone would entrust OpenAI with private data about their entire life. Do people not care about privacy at all? Is everybody OK with being advertising/targeting meat? This sort of thing might arguably be useful, but only with local data processing.
The benefit outweighs the lack of privacy. I just uploaded recent blood tests and other health info into ChatGPT and then had it analyze what I could do to improve my health, specifically cholesterol and sugar. Then asked it to red team its advice and provide me with one or two things that would generate 80% of the results. It's pretty awesome having a private doctor that's read every study out there and then can gen…
I don't mind uploading a blood test.
But I won't give it constant access to email, messages, calendar, notes, or anything else.
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I agree that it feels wrong, but I am increasingly unconvinced that it's a problem (or at least: I don't know what the problem exactly is). Life around the world keeps improving on most every metric, while all these mega corps keep growing. I am not saying they are the reason this is happening, or that it would be even better without them — I don't know in either case. What makes me suspicious: Is there a certain num…
This is so sad. I read this comment a few hours ago and keep thinking about it. You seem to be making a relatively good effort to understand but coming up short. Our society is so cooked, man. We don’t even realize how over it is, and even people genuinely trying to understand are not able to.
Well, why don't you try to explain (since you seem to give me credit for being interested)? Right now I am slightly confused about how this is the best response you came up with, after a few hours of thinking (on-and-off at best, I am sure) about it.
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GPT-4 got me seriously considering making a product for school-age kids w/ ADHD. It’d be a physical device (like a StarTrek communicator). That listens during your day and keeps track of a) things you say that you’ll do or b) tasks that other people ask you to do. Then it compiles those tasks and attempts to be basically a secretary. It can also plug into your email, texts & school assignments. The privacy implicatio…
Sure, the implications are horrifying, but tech companies have proven themselves quite trustworthy over the past few decades, so I'm sure it'd be fine. As someone with ADHD, I say: Please don't build this.
It could be built to use local models completely.
Open source transcription models are already good enough to do this, and with good context engineering, the base models might be good enough, too.
It wouldn't be trivial to implement, but I think it's possible already.
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#609In the beginning, I was really curious about ChatGPT—a tool that could save me from useless blogs, pushy products, and research roadblocks. Then it started asking follow-up questions, and I got a bit uneasy… where is this trying to take me? Now it feels like the goal is to pull me into a discussion, ultimately consulting me on what? Buy something? Think something? It’s sad to see something so promising turn into an a…
Ted Chiang has a great short story about a virtual assistant that slowly but methodically "nudges" all of its users over the course of years until everybody's lives are almost completely controlled by them and "escaping" becomes a near-impossible task. It's as if OpenAI saw that as an instruction manual, I really don't like the direction they're taking it.
Scott Alexander has a similar 1-page horror story from 2012 where an earing that gives advice consumes the user: https://gwern.net/doc/fiction/science-fiction/2012-10-03-yva...
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#610Earlier quoted context omitted.
I agree that it feels wrong, but I am increasingly unconvinced that it's a problem (or at least: I don't know what the problem exactly is). Life around the world keeps improving on most every metric, while all these mega corps keep growing. I am not saying they are the reason this is happening, or that it would be even better without them — I don't know in either case. What makes me suspicious: Is there a certain num…
'I don't know what the problem exactly is' the problem is that western civilisation is so far up their asses with capitalism that they think that some corporation cares about them (users).
They don't need to care. Nobody cares. That's not a special feature of corps though: Most employees to not care about the company they work for. They do not care about their employers. They do not care about the product they are building.
What I am asking to interview this viewpoint is: Why will it be a problem when a company reaches a certain size? If they have no other goal than making money, are the biggest assholes of all time, and make money through customers, unless you can actually simply extort customers (monopolies), they will continue to want to do stuff that makes customers want to give them more money. Why would that fail as soon as the company goes from 1 trillion to 2 trillion?
I completely agree: The amount of money that corps wield feels obscene. I am just looking for a clear explanation of what the necessary failure mode is at a certain size, because that is something that we generally just assume. Unequal distribution is the problem and it's always doom, but that clashes with ever improving living standards on any metric I think is interesting.
So I think it's a fair question how and when the collapse is going to happen, to understand if that was even a reasonable assumption to begin with. I have my doubts.