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				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


A custom app isn't going to brick your phone. They're sandboxed, and at worst, they'll run inefficiently and have to be killed.




Really? That's not what I hear from most the people I know — then again, the rest of my family uses iPhones, so Apple…


And besides, what would I even need a custom app for? I only got a smartphone, like, a year ago, because the decade-old LG flip-phone I had finally died. I use a phone to make calls. That's about it.




do you not read books? If you do read books, do you immediately comprehend everything about them?




If not everything, then enough that discussing it with an LLM is unlikely to provide much novel insight.




Are you not interested to know how things work? How products are made, and what goes into them?




Not really.




If you want to know where that cool photo was taken, because maybe you want to go there someday?




Where would I even see such a "cool photo"? And, no, I know I'm going to spend the rest of my life too poor to ever travel anywhere.




the tpot character creator was supposed to be illustrative of how it can take pop cultural knowledge and work with it.




That's not an explanation; and, again, what use would I have for that? For one, I disdain our "pop culture." Secondly, work with it to what end?




what game? idk? What games are you playing?




Absolutely none. That's my point.




You can get youtube transcripts by expanding the description, scrolling down to the "show transcript" button, then copy/pasting from the text window that pops up. There are probably also browser extensions that will do it, or you could ask an LLM to make one for you.




And that's something that's actually useful information. Thanks. (And I'll note — I got this useful information from asking a human being.)


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


Have you ever had a story you wanted to read, but nobody has written? AI can do that.




As they say, "Press X to doubt." What I've seen of AI-written fiction is barely fanfic tier at best.




The top creative writing models (claude-fable-5, claude-opus-4-6-thinking, gemini-3.1-pro-preview, etc.) are really good at this.




And how much do those cost?




Alternatively, you can use them to create explainers in the style of your favorite authors (also a creative writing capability). Go ahead and ask them to explain economics like they are Scott Alexander, or write a moving guide in the voice of Eliezer Yudkowsky, or an introduction to anime in the style of Robin Hanson.




And why would I ever need this?




They can also do your research for you. Suppose you want a list of 1950s science fiction movies in color along with a short review written in the format of Leonard Maltin, including runtime and year of release? Done.




Again, why would I ever need this?


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


They can be useful for answering questions that do not fit well into conventional keyword-based Internet searches.




And I don't really have any such questions, really.




A recent AAQC alleges that they are quite useful in language learning and have essentially reached competence in the editing even of full-length novels (given proper preparation).




No languages to learn, no novels to edit.




And, of course, they excel in generating text pornography




Not interested. Plus, the free models available online are mostly censored, and my laptop lacks the power to host most anything locally.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


though I'd suggest using Claude or Chatgpt over Gemini. I think Grok might even be better than Gemini right now.




AIUI, Grok requires Twitter. How much do Claude or Chatgpt cost? I use Gemini because it's free, and because my existing Google/gmail account means I don't have to sign up for anything new.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


"I always wanted an app that would do X. Please build one and install it on my phone."




Sounds like a recipe for bricking my phone.




"I'm reading this book (pdf attached). Do a deep analysis of chapters 1-3, as if for a book club, and let's discuss"




Why?




"(attached photo of a product's ingredients) explain what all these ingredients do individually, and how they come together to form a complete product"




Why would I need that?




"Geoguessr this photo and explain your answer"




When would I ever need that?




"create a custom tpot (twitter) character creator, complete with all the obscure classifications, kiki/bouba, apollo/dionysus, theatre kid/band kid, Kegan stages, the works"




I have no clue what any of that even means.




"calculate the optimal talent build for this game given these specifics about its combat system. explain and show your work"




What game? Why?




"give me the tl;dr of this 2 hour youtube transcript so I can decide if it's worth my time"




That needs a youtube transcript available (I don't know how to get one).


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					
So, I'm a bit late to the thread here, but I've been playing around with Gemini off-and-on the past few weeks.


Now, I keep encountering "AI boosters" extolling the universal utility of LLMs, that there's nobody who can't benefit from using an LLM as a tool in some portion of their job or daily life. Well, I've been looking for those uses, and I'm not seeing it.


So, my question: what is my personal use-case for an LLM? I'm a NEET, I don't code, I don't do any of the things I see people regularly using LLMs for.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Small-Scale Question Sunday for August 2, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


If you take the position that slavery with a sufficiently benevolent master, perhaps combined with a sufficiently incompetent slave, would be morally acceptable, then yes, an AI that ex hypothesi is sufficiently benevolent might make a morally acceptable slave master.






I do not think anybody actually takes that position.




I don't know, it sounds pretty close to George Fitzhugh's position to me.


				

				

						

							

								
							

						


						
					

				
			


			
			
			
				

			
		

	






		

			
			
				Culture War Roundup for the week of July 27, 2026
			
		

	

	

	

		
			

			

				

			

		

			


				

					


these tactics are legitimate, and therefore my side should exploit them freely for our own advantage




As people say, "should" implies "can." It does no good to establish the "legitimacy" of both sides exploiting a tactic that only one side can actually use. Because "FBI and Justice Department breaking multiple laws to help one side and harm the other" is something that only works in one direction.