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Re:I'm Becoming AI-Blind on Saturday August 22, 2026 @12:38AM (#49396608)
First you need to prove that human cognitive function is also not fundamentally driven by statistical processes.

It's possible that "statistically driven prediction" is all we are.

Re:Sol Loves to Cheat on Friday August 21, 2026 @01:11AM (#49384049)
It's an open question whether they're different in a way that actually matters
Unsubstantiated? Maybe if you're living under a rock and haven't once experimented with frontier LLMs yourself.
You are confusing construction of data centers with their normal operation.

Data centers are silent in normal operation. It's the construction you're hearing about that is noisy, but that goes for any construction.

Re:What if the RAM/GPU shortage is deliberate? on Saturday July 25, 2026 @07:39PM (#49052964)
I think this misunderstands basic supply and demand.

If there's this much global demand for RAM, there is simply no need to speculate further about intent; all else being equal, prices would have risen naturally anyways.

Of course, the rise in prices is also incidentally convenient for those that have RAM, and would make it harder for others to compete, but whether this was intentional is beside the point.

Re:Does creatine make you smarter? on Thursday July 23, 2026 @06:36PM (#49028977)
No. Controlled breathwork has real effects and is not pseudoscience. You should read up on it.
Reads fine to me.
Re:The Kimi K3 Moment on Sunday July 19, 2026 @11:47PM (#48974146)
In a just world, copyright should be abolished with extreme prejudice should it's continued existence prevent humanity from developing aligned artificial super intelligence.
What a maladaptive perspective.
If you want to use LLMs effectively, everything OP said is true. It has been this way since the beginning. There will be a time when long context and compaction will be effective, but now isn't it.
That you would think to ask this shows how out of touch you are.

The vast majority of people wouldn't think twice if that was the trade-off to get connected.

We should be talking instead of governmental oversight, and whether it makes sense to restrict/regulate satellite constellations for science or culture activities.

I think there should be regulation, but clearly the people and the market wants this, so it's going to happen.

And there is regulation. SpaceX works with astronomers and their satellites are coated to reduce glare and use of sun visors for example.

I agree with you. I still stand by the statement because it was a neutral observation that should be stated.

Many people are too morally outraged to think straight anymore, as plainly demonstrated, but who can blame them. Hope they take it as a gentle nudge for them get out of the outrage cycle.

Billionaires are not responsible for this, we the people are. Market forces and society chose this.

You are emotionally disregulated and unable to think critically.

> a Chinese model it would not have gotten the same attention

Well, you would be wrong.

This was one of the most famous open graph theory problems lol. I am not a mathematician and even I ran into this when doing generative map design for game dev.

The only thing you've demonstrated here is some very funny confidently incorrect coping behavior.

Re:QuadRF can spot drones and see WiFi through my wall on Friday July 10, 2026 @10:33PM (#48868080)
It's RF vision, it let's you visualize RF sources as a coloured blob overlay in real time.
Re:Costco Is the Anti-Amazon on Friday July 03, 2026 @07:28PM (#48781210)
Do you really think families waste half of what they buy at Costco?

Come on now.

This has been known since VLMs were a thing, that more information can be encoded visually and token efficiency is increased. But it came with performance issues (more hallucinations, etc).

Also I don't think you realize how much dumb stuff is still left on the table. That the market is worth trillions is quite irrelevant here given the dynamism of the field.

It's not a uniquely France thing. It's called heat islands, it's a real thing that happens in dense metros.

Very funny to deride France education when you are the ignorant one here.

Had a Pro 48GB in my Amazon cart at ~$4k CAD, now it's ~$1k higher

Bummer

Re:OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @06:18PM (#48666288)
Wrong. Myself and colleagues know the subject and they are useful in FPGA design. You should stop hallucinating about topics you don't have experience in.
Re:Did my old job only exist because of fraud? on Sunday June 21, 2026 @09:49PM (#48624655)
You do what you can to do good within the confines of the parameters available to you.
Re:Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school on Saturday June 20, 2026 @07:34PM (#48614111)
Ok so you are using an llm without web search, ask it to give you links, and are confused why the links are hallucinated... ?

At this point it's just PEBKAC. You're holding it wrong brother.

Re:I Stored a Website in a Favicon on Saturday June 20, 2026 @02:47PM (#48611809)
There should be a pathology for thinking things must be LLM generated when it's simply not always the case.

People's ability to discern is completely fried.

Yeah you should really familiarize yourself with the history of scientific achievements, it will quickly disabuse you of this notion. What separates is often a thin line and dogged persistence, hardly the chasm you make it seem.
A society changes when enough individuals change. Network effects themselves change when enough individuals change.

This effect is exactly reciprocal--feedback loops as you say--so I'm not sure what is so difficult to understand.

Be the first cause.

Re:Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics on Friday June 19, 2026 @06:32PM (#48604060)
Most tasks are human tasks.
> this is a social problem.

A society is made up of individuals.

OP is right. One does what they can first.

> Just like how saying "well don't use social media!" doesn't work

Sometimes the answer really is that simple.

Re:How to Earn a Billion Dollars on Thursday June 18, 2026 @10:58AM (#48586438)
> That's really different

It's really not. I don't think you understand the role capital plays in our economy, like at all.

Re:John Carmack on Fabrice Bellard on Tuesday June 16, 2026 @11:27AM (#48556775)
Nuance is not your specialty, clearly

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