Everybody's Weirded Out by AI–Except the People Who Foist It on Us

No you won’t. You won’t eat your hat — but I’ve written quite a few substantive comments on quite a few subjects that didn’t have to do with self-promotion. The difference is that those comments actually contributed LESS to HN, because they involved random arguments that were ultimately forgotten.

Excuse me, for actually trying to build things instead of just bitching and then let people on HN know about them, or posting things that I believe in. According to you, I guess I should have spent more % of my posts being snarky and attacking things others have built, like our friend here.

I have contributed quite a bit — not i n the form of snark, but in the form of actual SOLUTIONS that I built and put on github as open source. If you don’t want to click or use it or even look at it, that says more about you than me.

And yet your next comment after this was, once again, self promotion, proving my point.

Safebots isn’t a contribution. You have just reinvented tools but bundled it with thousands of words of AI generated slop and terrible AI generated “ideas”. Everyone with Grok invents a new “computing substrate”. Yes, “substrate” is such a Grokism that I can immediately identify you use Grok for “thinking”.

If you spent just a little more time reading and a little less time self-promoting you would know that you are 12 months behind everyone else, human in the loop approval flows for tool execution are standard. The examples of LLMs doing destructive things are because users provided blanket approval.

https://ai-sdk.dev/docs/ai-sdk-core/tools-and-tool-calling#t...

“I have contributed quite a bit — not i n the form of snark, but in the form of actual SOLUTIONS that I built and put on github as open source.”

Code that nobody has ever used. HN is a discussion forum, you haven’t contributed to discussion. You have always been a slop merchant, quite impressive that you were slopping before LLMs, maybe you are an internet innovator after all.

You’re back to the grandiose claims. The most important set of solutions in AI? Just as intercoin was the most important solution for money and qbix was the most important solution for community. You’ve been doing the same shtick for 20 years. Yawn. A month / year / decade from now when you’re still doing the same grandiose shit with zero traction, refer back to this thread. You are clearly intelligent but wasting all your potential on churning out grandiose-but-garbage ideas that you would know are the wrong thing if you spent more time listening and less time broadcasting. You’ve been shouting into the void for so long, maybe it is time to reflect on why that is. But then I guess if you’re not nauseated and ashamed by your ChatGPT conversation you may be too far gone https://chatgpt.com/share/691a9edc-b5b8-800a-99a3-c32d9abccf...

I’ll give you a million dollars if safebot is ever mentioned by someone credible. You don’t seem to realize that you are 1 of millions of people doing exactly the same thing, I have read so many of these revolutionary safety ideas, the only thing worse are all the god awful “memory” solutions people keep “inventing”.

mRNA vaccines were developed in the 1990s, i.e. last century. None of the other things you mention come close, but I'll detail that at the end.

First, I want to point out how inconsistent you're being in mentioning "electricity with fusion power". We've had the ability to create fusion for almost 3/4 of a century. Most of the nuclear weapons in the world today are primarily fusion weapons (mostly with fission starters.) This is a technology that has killed nearly a quarter million people. But you're touting a variation of it as being one of the most amazing technological achievements this century.

That's fine, but then you have to recognize that you're distinguishing between the capabilities of the technology and its actual usages.

Now do the same thing with AI, and if you're intellectually honest about it, you'll be forced to change your position. The technology represents the greatest technological advance of anything we've seen this century. The political and economic forces surrounding its use are a separate question.

As for your list of technologies - the problem with it is that none of those items seemed like science fiction at the start of this century. Whereas, what LLMs can do now was essentially science fiction as little as five years ago.

In detail:

* mRNA vaccines were developed in the 1990s. There was little question that they could be made to work in humans, all that was needed was sufficient impetus, which was provided by COVID-19.

* Advancements in lithium ion batteries and solar cell technology are incremental enhancements to existing tech. No comparison here.

* Generated electricity with fusion power - that was first done in 1991 at the Joint European Torus (JET) facility. You may be thinking of the so-called "scientific breakeven" which was achieved in late 2022. That didn't actually generate electricity, just heat. It was also a rather arbitrary milestone that doesn't actually mean much, in practice. We're still orders of magnitude away from a true total system breakeven, where the total energy produced is greater than the energy consumed. The system that achieved scientific breakeven is not the kind of system that can be scaled up to address that gap. We're even further away from commercial power breakeven, where the value of the energy produced is greater than the cost of producing it. It's quite possible, even highly likely, that neither of the two goals I've just described will ever be achieved. There's no real breakthrough here, just marketing hype in a multi-decade effort to achieve something that may not even be possible.

* Traveled to Pluto - the Voyager spacecraft passed Pluto's average orbital distance in the early 1990s. Choosing to send a probe directly to Pluto is just a choice that would have been just as possible last century.

* The James Webb Space telescope - certainly a nice incremental advance, but not in the ballpark in terms of achieving something we didn't even know how to do before.

In short, if that's the best list you can come up with, it essentially confirms that LLMs are the greatest technological achievement of the 21st century so far.

I think it’s unlikely they made that typo deliberately. Similarly, I don’t think you were intentional in misspelling miscapitalization, I figured it was an honest mistake.

Is this deliberate miscapitalization thing a behavior you often encounter?