FearandLoathingintheMotte
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FearandLoathingintheMotte
1d ago
I just googled this and confirmed.
I thought you were doing a bit lol
FearandLoathingintheMotte
7d ago
This is phenomenal, thank you.
FearandLoathingintheMotte
7d ago
I think that there's only like a 5% chance that this is satire only matched by that fake Bay Area polycule invite from a month back
What is this?
FearandLoathingintheMotte
7d ago
Incredible worldview, thank you for sharing
FearandLoathingintheMotte
10d ago
The average office drone does SO much more today than they used to. What are you even talking about? Unless the bottleneck isn't tech like "the slide deck must be approved by the VP who has no time to review and approve the slide deck"
Accountants in the 1960s couldn't do shit compared to the accountants of 2026, and yet we have a fuckload of accountants in 2026? Why? Because we decided as a society that we wanted to consume significantly more complex accounting than we had in the 1960s.
If the SEC et al. decided to allow simple cash/accrual accounting and totally threw out IFRS/US GAAP we could crash accountant employment by like 80-90%. This would also be a disaster for efficient price discovery.
Hell the IASB is dead set on making accounting ever more complex and retarded with their fixation on PV-ing everything. Securing accountant jobs for future generations!
FearandLoathingintheMotte
10d ago
Echoing Corvos' question
I'm currently on the $200 OpenAI pro plan due to my thirst for tokens but I'm about to drop to the $100 plan and I'm barely even using 5.5 at this point as I'm largely having AI do non-coding activities for me now so I can get away with way cheaper models for "summarize all my to-do notes for today and file them" so having deepseek do my filesystem work would be nice (but I love the codex app)
FearandLoathingintheMotte
10d ago
There's also a world in which were using mythos^2 size models and the sheer compute to deliver 1 token, let alone 100 million, requires an absolute fuckload of GPUs.
There's also a world in which the inference-optimzied GPUs being worked on now take off bigly and are 1000x more efficient and we need one inference data center per continent.
Or anything in between!
FearandLoathingintheMotte
13d ago
Based and america-pilled
I'm not gonna lie dawg, I've read this entire exchange and I'm 1) incredibly confused and 2) completely unconvinced Magical is Darwin or adjacent to Darwin (also confused who that is, but assuming a troll)
You've accused them of being a bad faith argument shifter here to troll but produced 0 evidence of this despite claiming it exists...
FearandLoathingintheMotte
13d ago
Why is 2025-26 the only time in the last 40 years Iran was not developing a nuclear weapon?
Maybe this implies they spent the last 40 years also not developing a nuclear weapon? Given that 1940s tech was sufficient to make a nuke, maybe they thought "almost having a nuke" was valuable enough and stopped enriching roughly around there and then just made lots of noise about how "they were totally gonna finish enriching any day now"
You think lower class Americans are eating raisins? Or frankly, beans? If Americans ate fruits and cheap staples like beans in any measurable amount there'd be a lot less obesity and hand wringing about "food deserts"
FearandLoathingintheMotte
16d ago
I note that much of US Hispanic culture seems to emulate African American culture
I recently witnessed a tiktok of a Dominican heritage American (I use those terms because I imagine she was born here, not in the DR like her parents) going on a rant and she sounded like she was doing a bad AAVE impression for laughs but that's genuinely how she talks
FearandLoathingintheMotte
16d ago
Three things
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I work in financial services in a large city, in my yuppie social sphere, almost all the white collar women either get their nails done, or paint their own nails. Your impression that it's "trashy" is wildly out of date*, much like thos forums opinions on tattoos. To note however, all of them typically get tasteful pastel colors and the size of their nails is "mildly longer than a man keeps his, with an almond tip".
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I do not give a singular fuck about painted nails. I do not know a single man who gives a fuck about painted nails. It's pure inter-sex competition. I'm pretty sure every anxious striver yuppie woman plays the American Psycho business card scene in their head when she sees someone with "nicer" nails than her.
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*the gigantic fake nails that to my understanding are very popular amongst the African American community, are incredibly trashy. To my boy brain, I hate how deeply impractical they are. To my (limited) aesthetic taste, I also hate how garish they are.
Early in my career I had the great pleasure of being on-boarded by a lady with ~2 inch long nails. It was absolutely hilarious to watch her attempt to navigate a laptop trackpad and keyboard. She didn't even use a mouse! Psycho behavior.
FearandLoathingintheMotte
19d ago
What are we measuring "under the hood" and how is it being triggered
You can measure which parts of the weights get activated in response to inputs and map out what they mean. You can even mess with them to change outputs.
Anthropic releases like 300pg system cards with every model explaining things like this if you want to get deep
FearandLoathingintheMotte
23d ago
FearandLoathingintheMotte
23d ago
Yeah negative prompting has never been a good idea.
Although it seems to largely work given I don't get any goblin mentions, but I'm annoyed were wasting tokens on it at all
FearandLoathingintheMotte
24d ago
Funny bc they have "dont mention goblins" in the sytem prompt twice. Either 5.3 or 5.4 loved to call every bug "a gremlin" , etc.
That's why I asked if you were using 5.5/an older model. Mine doesn't talk about goblins anymore.
I'm still having the Safari problem
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FearandLoathingintheMotte
24d ago
I don't think it's a good example for what you want to argue. I scored 100%
Obviously that scenario is simple, it's just a thought experiment to demonstrate to people how complicated what is logically a "simple" law can get if lawyer-ed sufficiently
FearandLoathingintheMotte
24d ago
I don’t see the issue with that example
My guy obviously "a car in a park" is a solvable problem. The point of that thought experiment isn't to see if you can correctly lawyer a "car-in-park scenario", it is to explain and demonstrate how even an obviously scoped law with a clear purpose can become much more complex than it seem.
FearandLoathingintheMotte
24d ago
Using 5.5? This is literally a meme rn
FearandLoathingintheMotte
24d ago
Law shouldn’t be debatable. It’s should be black and white.
The problem is achieving this in practice. For example, see the "car in park" discussion below
FearandLoathingintheMotte
24d ago
I found the two I called "excellent" subtle enough that I would have assumed he was just a moron with the most awful takes, and the temptation to tell him that would be great.
However the first paragraph was just too obvious. Only someone attempting to rile up this forum would say those words in that order.
FearandLoathingintheMotte
24d ago
I think he was being sarcastic sir
This is 100% bait, and if he'd been a bit more subtle it would have been phenomenal bait too.
This was too obvious:
The first of these is the Third Way position of Tony Blair and Gerhard Schröder, in Social Democrat fashion, which we already know can be trusted to uphold sensible economic and societal policy.
Which is a shame because these were excellent, and would have gotten me to reply:
as hate speech is not free speech
Thankfully the need to have a permit in order to protest is already a well-established norm within many western countries
What makes you smell AI? I did a second read looking for that and the grammar/punctuation is too clapped to be AI. Unless they edited LLM output to make it worse on purpose.
I'm also blocked
We should start a run group
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