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Since openai is hiding the data it's impossible to know
Things can be good for you personally and still make the world a worse place.
Re:Netflix to Acquire Warner Bros on Friday December 05, 2025 @11:18PM (#46170644)
These numbers are rounding errors to Ellison. I give a higher percentage of my net worth every year than he has in total
Re:Advent of Code 2025 on Sunday November 30, 2025 @10:17AM (#46097292)
People like different things
Oh well if YOU do something then that's that
Re:What if you don't need MCP at all? on Sunday November 16, 2025 @10:43PM (#45950678)
Claude gives me a lengthy explanation of MCP with web search disabled
Re:AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering on Friday November 14, 2025 @01:22PM (#45929955)
Complaining about someone else using an "ism" during a literal "whataboutism" is rich
Re:Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race on Tuesday November 04, 2025 @11:16PM (#45818993)
> Zohran narrowly defeated Cuomo in the primary.

13% is not narrow

The competitors will either figure it out or run out of money and collapse (or, both)
and you think the competitors won't put ads in?
Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @06:30PM (#45740133)
Well then as long as the kids don't need housing or books or food or to pay the other fees they'll be set. Luckily those are all optional
Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @06:13PM (#45739944)
No I didn't, that is in state, it's right there on the page.

Directly from the page:

> Illinois Resident

> Tuition & Fees: $18,046-$23,426

> Food & Housing: $15,184

> Books & Supplies: $1,200

> Other Expenses: $2,500

> Total: $36,930-$42,310

I literally looked at the exact school you used in your example and you are just wrong

Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @06:05PM (#45739850)
Ok I will. This claims the cost of attendance is $36,930-$42,310 per year:

https://www.admissions.illinois.edu/invest/tuition

This claims $21k per semester:

https://cost.illinois.edu/Home/Cost/R/U/10KP0112BS/15/120258...

Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @05:59PM (#45739794)
I'm capable of understanding context.
Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @04:46PM (#45738928)
They are referring to the price that hospitals charge for aspirin, which is massively inflated, not the off the shelf cost of aspirin
Re:Using AI to negotiate a $195k hospital bill down to $33k on Tuesday October 28, 2025 @04:45PM (#45738910)
Not really. I went to a public land grant university 20 years ago and paid about $12k a year in state. That same university is now $44k per year.
Re:It's insulting to read your AI-generated blog post on Monday October 27, 2025 @02:37PM (#45724695)
If my neighbors let their dog poop in my yard and leave it I have a problem.

If a company builds an industrial poop delivery system that lets anyone with dog poop deliver it directly into my yard with the push of a button I have a much different and much bigger problem

Re:Replacement.ai on Sunday October 19, 2025 @01:03PM (#45635790)
Computers are not alive
He can if SCOTUS says he can
Re:They Don't Have the Money: OpenAI Edition on Friday October 10, 2025 @09:11PM (#45545591)
Elizabeth Holmes' favorite quote, fitting
Re:A deep dive into the RSS feed reader landscape on Wednesday October 08, 2025 @04:13PM (#45520092)
They also have a free tier for the hosted version that is pretty generous (64 sites). I used the free hosted version for years after Reader went away and only upgraded as a way to support software that I use and enjoy regularly.
Re:OpenAI Is Just Another Boring, Desperate AI Startup on Friday October 03, 2025 @02:12PM (#45465962)
Have they?

GOOG is at record highs, FB is at record highs, MSFT is at record highs

Re:Daniel Stenberg on 22 curl bugs found by AI and fixed on Friday October 03, 2025 @11:36AM (#45464165)
The current scale of poor reports was absolutely not the status quo before AI
Re:Y'all are over-complicating these AI-risk arguments on Friday October 03, 2025 @11:32AM (#45464127)
You're projecting an absolutely wild amount of stuff here
Re:OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss on Thursday October 02, 2025 @07:42PM (#45456920)
This just doesn't match with the claims that people are using it as a replacement for Google. If your facts are out of date you're useless as a search engine
Re:Meta will listen into AI conversations to personalize ads on Thursday October 02, 2025 @03:05PM (#45453964)
Slippery slope arguments are not always logical fallacies.

Just dismissing any argument about a slippery slope as a fallacy is lazy (as is quoting logical fallacies in any argument)

Re:Y'all are over-complicating these AI-risk arguments on Thursday October 02, 2025 @01:47PM (#45452959)
Because it is still relevant today: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zizians
Re:Y'all are over-complicating these AI-risk arguments on Thursday October 02, 2025 @01:25PM (#45452684)
So you agree that there is more than "a single person worr[ied] about AIs taking over humanity."

I was specifically pointing out how absurd the most ridiculous people in that category are

Re:Y'all are over-complicating these AI-risk arguments on Thursday October 02, 2025 @01:07PM (#45452398)
There's a group of people who have reinvented religion because they're afraid of an AI torturing them for eternity if they don't work on AI hard enough. It's very silly but there are many people who actually believe this is a risk: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roko's_basilisk
If anything people overestimate the amount of tracking since the average person still thinks their phones are giving them ads based on what they say

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