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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a puzzle with missing pieces be considered complete?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All very interesting thoughts, I went through basically that whole conflict myself the first time I decided to not finish a puzzle.

  Here’s how I look at it: a puzzle is fundamentally a challenge to see if you can solve it. (Maybe people will disagree with me on that, but in my mind, that’s what it is.) So as soon as I have finished enough of it that I can say “Yep, I’ve solved it. Only trivial moves are left. Even a baby could finish this puzzle.” it no longer is a puzzle to me. I’ve proven that I can do it, and that is the satisfying part to me.

  If someone else has a different goal for puzzles (eg. they want to view the unblemished art) then maybe that line of thinking doesn’t really follow. As with all games, you can decide how to play - do whatever brings you the most satisfaction.

  That actually brings me to another point. There is immense social pressure in games to play the games the “right” way. However, there is no wrong way to enjoy your recreation time (as long as you are not harming someone of course). Rule books are a suggestion, not a fact of life. Heck, there are more house rules in Monopoly than there are real rules.

  Anyway, sorry about the rant, your line of thought was very interesting to me, thank you for sharing!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can a puzzle with missing pieces be considered complete?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I like to build puzzles except for the last piece, just to prove to myself that finishing most tasks is a societal pressure, not an existential one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe management⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m aware! I’m not saying they are healthy in any way. I’m just correcting that specific misinformation, because truth is important.

  These companies are fucked if they keep operating the way they currently are, and I strongly suspect it’s going to pop like the dotcom bubble, but worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe management⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not saying they’re healthy, I’m saying that inference is the one profitable part of their business.

  They’re all going to die because training costs dwarf the inference, and training doesn’t generate ANY revenue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨power generator⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The new supercritical CO2 generators are pretty cool. Pretty much the same thing but no water!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe management⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We do have numbers from comparably sized Chinese models.

  Yes, every AI company is bleeding money, they’re not healthy in any way. But inference by itself is profitable, based on everything that we know.

  Inference + amortizing the training costs is NOT profitable, which is what most people are talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe management⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a common myth, inference is not typically run at a loss, despite claims. It’s only a loss if you include staff and ongoing training costs. They could lock in their models now and be profitable if they wanted to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roasted, dumbass⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI girlfriend⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hot damn, look at that RAM!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sick of this shit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Right? If some dude on YouTube has to reassure you you’re “alpha“, you most certainly are not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Me too, lil cartoon guy, me too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Start-Up Aiming to Make Geothermal Energy Mainstream Goes Public⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That “24 hours a day” is doing some extreme lifting. There are absolutely areas where wind makes constant power, just sometimes it produces more than other times.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SBA #119 maths⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I ever used a divide symbol like that beyond elementary school. In practice always use fraction style notation for division because it’s not ambiguous or a gotcha.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recent conversations between Dawkins and sentient chat-bot Claudia (Claude)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not precisely true. Most LLMs (all frontier LLMs) are in fact designed at a fundamental level to increase engagement, using a technique called RLHF (reinforcement learning by human feedback). Essentially whichever responses cause people to use an LLM more are baked into its weights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cats⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Difficult to do it in a way that is physically consistent with a camera lens/sensor.

  I don’t see any of the expected issues with AI (garbled text, impossible geometry, strange anatomy, etc) in this picture. Of course it’s quite possible to just edit a portion of an existing picture with AI, and it will match the rest. So I may have been overstating the difficulty.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Very hard to get an AI to make an image that consistently blurred. Very likely a real photo.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is time ~25% faster now?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Am I talking more slowly? No, it must be time that’s wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need a AI update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unfortunately it caused an electrical fire when I tried to use the soldering iron on itself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Need a AI update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Huh, my soldering iron doesn’t even have an on switch, just “plugged in” or “not plugged in”. I’m not saying everything needs to be that simple but we sure do overcomplicate things in our devices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are not the same.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good lizard people, anyway.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Innovation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Would be great if it were a super tiny watch, like a waterproof electronic sticker. Completely intrusive as a chonky smartwatch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Might be nicer to use a sharp rock, methinks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Behold: A vibe-designed pcb⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The point was to post a picture of it, not to get a working PCB.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨謝謝（不,我沒有精神分裂症）⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Seriously. I’m not really sure why a coffee maker needs to have any technology. My electric kettle is about the highest tech thing in the whole process.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lmao⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, that’s probably what’s keeping US down. The aliens out there are probably from worlds with low enough gravity to make a proper space elevator. And they never come to visit us because our world is just too damn big, you’d need some kind of controlled explosion to get back up from a gravity well that deep.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Perhaps the only appropriate use of AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  RLHF was a fundamental mistake. Human feedback almost always trains an AI to be sycophantic because humans in general are super easy to flatter.

  We are building the perfect addiction machine, far more powerful than social media is, and it actively undermines the honesty of the system.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Want fries with that? Or maybe 10,000 ice waters⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Extra big ass-language model

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp we had a good run fam RIP⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Earth (and life) will be around long after humans have destroyed themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don't reach for that water neither⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Dry ass-lips