evilfred

banks have FDIC, magical token storage companies have nothing

because it is my hard drive and i will never use them

this is colloquially referred to as blood-and-soil...

lol it is 60 years old

this is way too overblown and deterministic a view. US history was one of many inspirations.

using React Native you end up having to drop into native code to do anything interesting or optimized, so it feels kind of pointless to not just use the platforms directly

by what mechanism do you believe LLMs verify truth? they are amoral token generators

LLMs have no sense of truth, they are just next token generators

good catch!

for the same reason I don't think a pinball machine or ATM is conscious

lol they are Microsoft, and the AI stuff has only multiplied usage like 2x, they haven't had sudden exponential growth

14x is barely an order of magnitude

no, stop giving the AI companies free marketing

the AI model has NOT solved Riemann

who do you expect to create pharmaceuticals other than pharmaceutical companies? sheesh

prep is great but i would really rather take a one-time vaccine than be expected to take an expensive pill forever that could mess up my liver

it's impossible to block injection 100% when the input and outer instructions are unified together.

SpaceX makes its revenue from renting out GPUs

I think US states aren't allowed to switch unless the feds decide to allow it

exactly, thank you

he has apparently translated one word according to the only documentation we have. "my untrained amateur friend with no experience in the field has solved a hundreds of years old puzzle. no, trust me!" gets old real quick.

who at Rutgers and Cambridge? did he just email some random linguistics profs? why not classics? and did they respond out of genuine interest or just trying to let an enthusiastic amateur down gently?

i am sorry but "crank" is the correct term for the many amateurs who routinely email mathematicians, physicists, and apparently linguists with their special theories without having any academic experience in the field. for every anecdote where it panned out there are thousands of cases where it did not.

of course we have no way to assess this claim as there is no public software or paper to review

the info provided is completely unverifiable.

/r/classics thinks this is bunk btw https://www.reddit.com/r/classics/s/wwiNTytNfA

i'm gonna write a blog post now about how my buddy discovered cold fusion and will have a paper out real soon now

this isn't an achievement, it's yet another amateur crank claiming he solved a famous puzzle, without a paper and without any critical review. many people have claimed to decode Linear A before. just because this guy used an LLM doesn't make it more credible

Shopify doesnt block selling Nazi merchandise so idk what control you think they exercise

vibe coding is only "more efficient" if you ignore the massive energy costs involved

I don't think China is forcing the US president to do crazy stuff every day