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20hr ago
Based on announcements and videos from the highest level people at my company: it is using LLMs to massively increase worker productivity. The productivity increase is not optional. They tell positive anecdotes about being shocked at how fast someone is delivering results and then learning it was by using an LLM to help. Or at least that's the story being told.
This is the push incentive for new tool adoption.
As a counterpoint:
Uber Technologies exhausted its entire 2026 annual AI budget within four months, specifically by April 2026, due to massive adoption of Claude Code by its 5,000 engineers. The explosive usage saw up to 70% of code generated by AI, forcing the company to rethink its token spend, which reached $2,000 monthly per engineer, according to reports in April 2026.
As summarized from published articles by an LLM. Giving the engineers unlimited token usage makes them want to use lots of tokens. I don't work for Uber, but I can attest that some of my coworkers are heavy token users in novel work that will not be replaced with simple reusable code.
Even non software devs. One guy described how he got some LLM agents to optimize PCB layout. Trace connectivity and the actual layout is represented in text form ingestable by LLMs. There is already a simple built-in auto-routing feature. It is practically a single button press. But that doesn’t optimize what he wants in this manner. He wants to go far beyond what the simple already made software does.
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1d ago
I live in a locale in which hard drugs are illegal and simultaneously there are addicts all over some regions of the nearest major city. There are trash strewn druggie encampments and Hep C infected shit everywhere. It is pure anarcho-tyranny.
Given wide scale non-enforcement, I'd like it to be officially legal. Or I'd like actual enforcement.
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3d ago
And their restrictions on media depicting time travel. What are they hiding?
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4d ago
Indeed. Actual government conspiracies such as COINTELPRO, MKUltra, Operation Choke Point, etc were not leaked by conspirators. They were discovered by unrelated means despite perfect lack of leaking. You can indeed get a bunch of people in the FBI or CIA to coordinate and keep their mouths shut afterwards. Even (or especially?) when their actions are illegal and immoral.
This is the premise of the Predators franchise. The predators did not invent their technology. They were a slave race who slaughtered their masters and took their advanced tech. Now a bunch of savages have plasma casters, stealth tech and convenient interstellar travel.
Any time you see something dumb in a Predator movie: that's because they're dumb.
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10d ago
He sometimes ate sausage or meat dumplings. He wasn't a very devoted vegetarian.
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10d ago
To be fair to them: Lobsters pass the mirror test. Shrimp, lobsters and other sea bugs may well be conscious and have feelings. Not human feelings but shrimplike feelings.
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14d ago
In case anyone reading doesn't know. In the 1960s they rounded up low IQ people and sent them to Vietnam. So they could benefit from military service.
Turns out low IQ people are terrible at modern combat. Whatever quickness or coordination it takes, they don't got it.
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15d ago
familial breakdown following the sexual revolution
According to conservatives on radio it is Great Society welfare policies that destroyed black American marriage rates. There are old articles asserting such. The government subsidized and incentivized single motherhood and certainly got a lot of black single moms.
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15d ago
But this definition is actually way too simplistic in a way unrelated to modern gender ideology. Ring species, etc.
That definition is far too simplistic. Ring species defy it in one way. Multiple recognized species that can actually all interbreed defy it in the other direction.
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16d ago
After he was buried, suddenly Republicans were looking at getting slaughtered in the midterms.
But no. They were getting completely slaughtered for the unrelated reason of being the party in power during a midterm election. As typically happens.
There's some deeper point about American voters being terminal contrarian worth exploring. The party currently in power must be punished. But iterated in a comical manner.
I'm betting on SecureSignals for most blocked user. I haven't blocked anyone, but I minimize their particular contributions and move on.
Edit: this person previously blocked me. I don't think I ever interacted with them other than this comment. They are not kidding about exercising the block function.
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19d ago
As Neal Stephenson put it in 1992:
When it gets down to it — talking trade balances here — once we've brain-drained all our technology into other countries, once things have evened out, they're making cars in Bolivia and microwave ovens in Tadzhikistan and selling them here — once our edge in natural resources has been made irrelevant by giant Hong Kong ships and dirigibles that can ship North Dakota all the way to New Zealand for a nickel — once the Invisible Hand has taken away all those historical inequities and smeared them out into a broad global layer of what a Pakistani brickmaker would consider to be prosperity
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21d ago
"Teenagers" are a modern invention.
Indeed. Invented at the end of WW2 as a concept. Really quite modern.
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22d ago
Yes, or as Kissinger phrased it:
Power is the ultimate aphrodisiac
He was certainly not a looksmaxxer. But if even a small portion of women go for status then he was drowning in it despite looking the way he does.
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24d ago
China works 996.
I've worked in China. I married a Chinese woman. I've visited a lot including within the past year. I have posted to the Motte from China. I have somehow never noticed anyone working 996. My Chinese coworkers certainly didn't. My inlaws don't.
I think some miniscule portion of Chinese people work 996. Like stories of American Wall Street workers working insane hours and sleeping under their desks. That's real to some degree. But not the typical experience.
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24d ago
We can always do a shitty half-assed version with most of the downsides and no upside.
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25d ago
white people staying where they are is segregation and white people moving out is colonialism
Also white flight vs gentrification. It is very problematic if relatively affluent white people move away or if they move in.
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1mo ago
The movie Starship Troopers is really on the nose criticism of the War on Terror. Even more impressive since it came out in 1997.
Truth and Reconciliation
This one I never understood. I know about the South African and the one American Truth and Reconciliation commissions. But why do genocidal aliens name their ship Truth and Reconciliation? Irony on the part of the game devs? Skimming Halo wikis doesn't reveal the point.
Halo 1 isn't white. The marines come in all colors. They are 100% space Americans as though modern Marines are somehow battling aliens hundreds of years in the future. I know the marine character models include Hispanics and black people. I recall the drop ship pilot being a black woman, but I'm not sure. They may be space fascists, but they are American space fascists with typical American racial diversity.
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1mo ago
Also there's lots of sexual abuse of children by teachers. Supposedly far more than the total amount of abuse by religious figures. But more kids go to school than church.
Regarding French aerospace: Ariane and Airbus are largely French. They're nominally "European" but in a very French dominated way.
I take your other points, but the French are capable at aerospace and military production. They're the example of a non-feeble European nation.
The school would rediscover their power to expel violent students and apply it to kiddie-Batman.
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