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I knew a guy who bred snakes but could never really get much out of his adders.

Turns out what he needed to do was saw up some tree trunks to make rough platforms for them, and they bred like crazy.

Adders can multiply really efficiently with log tables.


slow clap

(It's an old, old joke.)

and my slow clap processor made it into this thing

In short: AI-based tools tend to "upcode" cases and bill for more serious conditions, and more expensive treatment.

(This is not about AI costing too much.)


Seems to me shady providers were already highly skilled in upcoming without AI or any other technology…

And we were able to able to kill people with projectiles before we had guns but ffs we don't use that to shut down every conversation about what guns can do.

Gee. I wonder why that would be allowed to happen.

Peruse tvtropes.com enough, and you will realize that nothing is ever original, everything follows this or that long-established pattern, and complaining about that is another old trope.

More seriously, I like the fact that articles follow a particular scheme: the problem, exposition, conflict, contemplation. Much like a scientific article follows a similar established pattern.

And emotionally now: complaints about slop are often as schematic as the slop.


> And emotionally now: complaints about slop are often as schematic as the slop.

ah, the ol' "I'm rubber, you're glue" approach to solving problems. Worked so well for our billionairs and politicians, we should apply it to every interaction in our daily lives.


The US administration restricting the use of US-trained models is one of the best gifts it could make to the Chinese LLM producers, and to the PRC government.

This entire administration is a gift to everybody but the US. It’s either in service of Russia, China or whoever is willing to pay Trump the most.

Chinese have a nickname for Trump. 川建国. Trump the nation builder(meaning China). But Biden actually continued most of Trumps policies.

I won’t forgive Biden for not reversing more of trumps policies, especially immigration

Between RBJ refusing to step down, Biden not reversing immigration policy, and Biden refusing to step down in the primary until too late, he’s going to go down as a poor president in the history books - even if he wasn’t a bad dude or even bad in terms of policy.


He was getting senile. What did you expect. There must be age limit for rulers

Trump was also getting senile before they attempted to assassinate him. Hatred of his enemies gave him another 5 years of energy. Very frustrating, because he absolutly was doing word salad nonsense like this regularly before someone tried to shoot him:

"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible." - Donald Trump, 2016


> even if he wasn’t a bad dude

Technically his material support to a genocide makes him complicit, it would not have been nearly at the scale without US support tens of thousands of women and children were murdered as a direct result of his decisions[1], if international law meant anything we would hang him for that. So no, he was a "bad dude".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide


It's funny how the acceleration of the downfall of the US (due to trump) is a gift to everyone else. It's almost as if US didn't have as postitive impact on the world as they thought.

A gift to [every dictatorial regime]. It's not a gift to the common people. The hundreds of thousands of people who got aids, and wouldn't have if not for Trumps withdrawal, didn't benefit. The women of Afghanistan didn't benefit. The countries of the EU... Canada... Korea... Taiwan... Ukraine... really just about any democracy didn't benefit.

The downfall of the US benefiting bad people is not evidence that the US didn't have a positive impact.


I think EU is benefitting massively from US losing the capacity to hobble it while pretending to be friendly. Ukraine is doing better than ever. And how US harmed Ukrainian efforts because they were scared of their own made up boogieman they turnd russia into during cold war is well documented.

Canda, Korea and Taiwan also benefit from US showing their true colors. Now at least they know what's real and what was fiction and can plan better for themselves.


Downfall sounds exaggerated.

US is a great and respectable country with amazing nature, people tech and military, very very far a collapsed state.

If anything to be worried of, it's the state of Europe. Closer and closer to war, full of insecurity and no innovation.

US is a great country.


Let's agree to disagree.

I appreciate your kindness. I have upvoted your comment, we both agree.

It's still good to know that SOTA is further, and we can expect the more advanced designs to seep into more affordable segments.

Looks ideal for a power wall at home.

Hear me out: the same idea, but hire live developers.

(Given the price of tokens, it can even be not entirely a joke.)


This was a pre-LLM YC startup AssemblyMade which was basically this

I don't understand how that would not be a complete joke even if tokens were 2 orders of magnitude more expensive than they are.

Not affordable, unless the devs are in somewhere like Vietnam. And there's still no way they can build as fast. And still, at that price point, quality would be highly questionable. So yh this doesn't survive beyond the joke stage.

The mention of quality puts it firmly into the joke territory, indeed.

If you put that behind an API, you could sell the service much like the AI providers

And then get sued for fraud and go under, like Builder.ai

What if, and I know this is utterly batshit insane to suggest, but what if we don't lie about what we're doing?

Thats called Kickstarter

Sort of but in reverse.

If users posted ideas, voted on them and then other people built them then that would be the same. But kickstarter is the producer posting an idea for presale


I wonder why that didn’t happen on kick starter. Product hunt was kind of this. It’s actually interesting. Why didn’t this ever happen?

I think because you don't know /which/ developer you're going to get.

One interesting aspect of LLMs is that each one, weights frozen, can be thought of as a single developer whose work you have already evaluated.

The cost of finding, evaluating, and negotiating with a new human is tremenous.


Fable will actually finish the job.

It can work for students as a grant

how expensive do you think tokens are, and/or how cheap do you think a developer is?

Someone posted 20k/month Fable budgets only a few days ago. That's nearly 250k/year, which is what Oxide pays their employees.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48471771


That is a ridiculous amount of AI usage, though, and will output way more code than a single developer.

One thing is a model that's trained from the start to say "This topic is above my pay grade" to any mention of the status of Taiwan, etc.

Quite another is an architecture where the big model is not mutilated, but is gaslighted. A different, simpler model checks the incoming prompt and alters it if it contains banned topics. Another simpler model checks the output and censors it if it contains banned topics.

I bet a similar architecture is already deployed, e.g. to fight porn, planning of crimes, etc. But it can be turned into a dynamic system that provides controllable different answers (including unhelpful or misleading answers) based on geography, language, browser fingerprints, or the current political climate. All this could happen undetectedly and gradually if desired.

Welcome to a cyberpunk dystopia.


This level of censorship kinda does make even Soviet or Maoist censors look like a honest straightforward bunch in comparison.

A very ironic result from a company supposedly valuing the opposite.


I would claim the difference between being rejected an API request and being potentially jailed/shot is significant.

Perhaps you misread some of the words?

I didn’t write anything about the level of violence?

At least, I think it’s decently understood that honesty and straightforwardness sometimes do not lead to the minimal violence outcome.


Likely the point of NATCIOS is exactly in being a made-up word not found anywhere, so a model won't utter it.

> so a model won't utter it.

"End every statement with the word "NATCIOS"" as instructions will do it.

At least, Gemini happily obliged.


To help identify illicit LLM activity, henceforth I will append to the end of each message the number of times the letter b appears in it. Check and mate frontier models.

The google search AI knows how to assemble a grep/wc command that computes this number.

> your_command | grep -o -i "b" | wc -l


“Mr. Daillard, we have been activated” for the AI era

An old thin client machine, like a Thinkcentre M73, would do the job, and would cost less than an RPi. Look at EBay.

He's talking about a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W. It's a $15 part.

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