Wonder if it will recommend creative uses of vegetables for hiding classified information
Readit News"Agentify is a small collection of utilities and MCP servers focused on safety, ergonomics, and automation."
Cool advertisement bro. This is how it must have been when they marketed cigarettes to women to drive up sales.
"freedom torches" was the exact phrase used. They were sold as a marker of female liberation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom
The term was first used by psychoanalyst A. A. Brill when describing the natural desire for women to smoke and was used by Edward Bernays to encourage women to smoke in public despite social taboos. Bernays hired women to march while smoking their "torches of freedom" in the Easter Sunday Parade of 31 March 1929,[1] which was a significant moment for fighting social barriers for women smokers.
Bernays is widely seen as the father of modern marketing, and helped lay the foundation for the consumer-based economy.
This is more of a reducto ad absurdum. If it doesn't take much to get a tacitly government-approved list of foods to shove up your butt for nutrition, then how much should you trust anything this bot writes? Why did tax dollars pay for this thing with negative value?
wouldn't that be _rectal ad absurdum_ in this case :)
a_better_world commented on Writing code is cheap now simonwillison.net/guides/... · Posted by u/swolpers
One of the most interesting aspects is when LLMs are cheap and small enough so that apps can ship with a builtin one so that it can adjust code for each user based on input/usage patterns.
LISP returns!
a_better_world commented on Sub-$200 Lidar could reshuffle auto sensor economics spectrum.ieee.org/solid-s... · Posted by u/mhb
Why make things more complicated than they need to be? Humans don't have lidar and we are the only intelligence that can reliably drive. Lidar just seems like feature engineering, which has proven to be a dead end in most other AI applications (bitter lesson).
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~eunsol/courses/data/bitter_lesson...
> we are the only intelligence that can reliably drive.
Science would like to point out that rats also can learn to drive
https://theconversation.com/im-a-neuroscientist-who-taught-r...
a_better_world commented on Child's Play: Tech's new generation and the end of thinking harpers.org/archive/2026/... · Posted by u/ramimac
If you could confiscate 100% of the assets of every billionaire in the country, and sell all of them for market rate without putting any downward pressure on prices at all, that sum would not fund 10 months of the federal government's current spending levels, and even less if you wanted new programs.
ok, but how about if we stop funding ICE?
a_better_world commented on The only moat left is money? elliotbonneville.com/the-... · Posted by u/elliotbnvl
So, I really felt like more people should be reading Nassim Taleb's Incerto series of books. A lot of the issues that fall out of AI he dealt with in his books like ten years ago.
He gives one the best pieces of advice I've ever heard: if you are going to do something for a living, make sure it is NOT scalable.
If you do something that isn't really scalable, like being a welder or a tailor, then you only have to compete against the tailors in your neighborhood, and you can easily find a neighborhood that doesn't have a tailor. If you're building a scalable product, you'll always be competing against the best, most well funded, smartest people in the room.
Everyone here has grown up in the birth of the internet -- a once in ever event -- where building something scalable was just there for the taking. That's never going to exist again basically.
how good was Taleb at following his own advice? Had he tested it? As I recall he is pretty big on "skin in the game' as his differentiator.
a_better_world commented on Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony dispatch.techoversight.or... · Posted by u/speckx
You mean, someone to... drain the swamp? Splendid idea, no way that can go wrong!
he might mean Bernie Sanders or someone of that type
I disagree about student loans. The entire system needs to be dismantled.
Universities don't care if their majors will result in a job and the student loans are a source of risk-free money.
They need to start taking on the risk of all student loan, not me, the tax payer.
if college education produces a public good (a more competent workforce), then it should be funded through public funds-- government should pay for education.
If it does in fact lead to better outcomes, then the higher tax will cover the cost.
running it through the private system builds in too many perverse incentives.
His family left Canada to move to South Africa because they were in leadership roles in the Canadian Nazi party.
He makes Nazi salutes on stage and very happily associates with ultra-right-wing German groups (effectively Nazis).
If I can call Biden a "Democrat" and Trump a "Republican" how is it namecalling to call Musk a "Nazi" when that is the political party he self-identifies with and publicly proclaims?
Maxdo, I appreciate your moral stance. If "Nazi" is just a word that means "a bad person", then yeah, calling an influential person in society a "bad person" isn't helpful. As you say, name-calling doesn't help.
However, as you also say, it is important to try to see the reality. Musk is a Nazi.