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blks commented on Reflections on AI at the End of 2025   antirez.com/news/157... · Posted by u/danielfalbo
Workaccount2 · a day ago
If the tech plateaus today, LLM plans will go to $60-80/mo, Chinese-hosted chinese models will be banned (national security will be the given reason), and the AI companies will be making ungodly money.

I'm not gonna dig out the math again, but if AI usage follows the popularity path of cell phone usage (which seems to be the case), then trillions invested has a ROI of 5-7 years. Not bad at all.

blks · a day ago
Develops will be paying, other people that use it for emails or bun baking recipies - won’t.
blks commented on GPT-5.2   openai.com/index/introduc... · Posted by u/atgctg
nullbound · 10 days ago
I will say that it is wild, if not somewhat problematic that two users have such disparate views of seemingly the same product. I say that, but then I remember my own experience just from few days ago. I don't pay for gemini, but I have paid chatgpt sub. I tested both for the same product with seemingly same prompt and subbed chatgpt subjectively beat gemini in terms of scope, options and links with current decent deals.

It seems ( only seems, because I have not gotten around to test it in any systematic way ) that some variables like context and what the model knows about you may actually influence quality ( or lack thereof ) of the response.

blks · 10 days ago
Because neither product has any consistency in its results, no predictive behaviour. One day it performs well, another it hallucinates non existing facts and libraries. Those are stochastic machines
blks commented on Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon   the307.substack.com/p/rev... · Posted by u/cramsession
tptacek · 11 days ago
Israel had in fact very clear intelligence that the specific pagers they were detonating were overwhelmingly going to be in the custody of combatants. This was very probably the most precisely targeted large-scale military strike of the last 100 years. That's not a value judgement; it's a descriptive claim.
blks · 11 days ago
They knew who purchased those devices. Did they know that at the moment of detonation only military personnel had those devices on them? Military propaganda of course will nod at “intelligence” to defend any actions in public, as there is no way to prove these statements.
blks commented on Israel used Palantir technologies in pager attack in Lebanon   the307.substack.com/p/rev... · Posted by u/cramsession
dralley · 11 days ago
Targeted attacks against military/militia leadership is not terrorism - almost by definition.

If it was just random devices exploding, then sure, that could be considered terrorism. But it wasn't random devices, it was communication devices procured by Hezbollah and directly given by Hezbollah to their own members for their own purposes.

blks · 11 days ago
Not only military leadership was killed, there was a significant amount of civilians being harmed.

Even if you drop a bomb to target a military personnel, but you drop it in the middle of busy city, this will be a war crime, as you didn’t do anything to avoid civilian casualties, and disregarded them.

blks commented on I failed to recreate the 1996 Space Jam website with Claude   j0nah.com/i-failed-to-rec... · Posted by u/thecr0w
manlymuppet · 14 days ago
Couldn’t you just feed Claude all the raw, inspect element HTML from the website and have it “decrypt” that?

The entire website is fairly small so this seems feasible.

Usually there’s a big difference between a website’s final code and its source code because of post processing but that seems like a totally solvable Claude problem.

Sure LLMs aren’t great with images, but it’s not like the person who originally wrote the Space Jam website was meticulously messing around with positioning from a reference image to create a circular orbit — they just used the tools they had to create an acceptable result. Claude can do the same.

Perhaps the best method is to re-create, rather than replicate the design.

blks · 14 days ago
What do you mean? Raw html is the original website source code.

Modern web development completely poisoned young generation

blks commented on Kids who ran away to 1960s San Francisco   fieldnotes.nautilus.quest... · Posted by u/zackoverflow
blks · 14 days ago
I imagine a lot of queer kids were running away from abuse
blks commented on Zigbook Is Plagiarizing the Zigtools Playground   zigtools.org/blog/zigbook... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
blks · 22 days ago
And now it’s made private.
blks commented on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out   bleepingcomputer.com/news... · Posted by u/fleahunter
blks · 22 days ago
I want them to fail miserably in all of their endeavours.
blks commented on Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air   nytimes.com/2025/11/18/cl... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
eru · a month ago
I mostly agree.

> You can pick free, or scalable, or financially sustainable (and without sustainability, a political shift will kill it), but you cannot have all three at once.

Real polities are of finite size, so you don't need (infinitely) scalable.

Here in Singapore we could sustainably afford to make public transport free, if we wanted to.

However I agree with you that charging for public transport is the right thing to do. (And to charge users of government provided services in general for everything, and to give poor people money.) If nothing else, you at least want to charge for congestion at peak hours, so that there's always an epsilon of capacity left even at rush hour, so any single person who wants to board the train at prevailing prices can do so.

blks · a month ago
Charging more for publicity transit during peak hours won’t make people use it less, there’s a reason why so many people commute during peak hours
blks commented on Iowa City made its buses free. Traffic cleared, and so did the air   nytimes.com/2025/11/18/cl... · Posted by u/bookofjoe
soerxpso · a month ago
Luxembourg has insane tax revenue per capita because of its status as an international tax haven. A program that might be hardly noticeable on Luxembourg's budget could put a big dent into the budget of an American city.
blks · a month ago
What about Estonia?

u/blks

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