Well you can't by definition fix something that is a rigged game. The social media exist to maximise the ad dollar, not to benefit you.
Readit Newshansmayer commented on Study: Social media probably can't be fixed arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
Meh. For all the hype over the last several weeks, I'd had expected at least a programming demo that would blow even us skeptics off our feet. The folks presenting were giving off an odd vibe too. Somehow it all just looked, pre-trained :), shall we say? No energy or enthusiasm. Hell I'd even take the Bill Gates' and Steve Balmer's Win95 launch dance over this very dull and "safe" presentation.
(whispers) they're bullshit artists
It's like those idiotic ads at the end of news articles. They're not going after you, the smart discerning logician, they're going after the kind of people that don't see a problem. There are a lot of not-smart people and their money is just as good as yours but easier to get.
Exactly this, but it will still be a net negative for all of us. Why? Increasingly I have to argue with non-technical geniuses who have "checked" some complex technical issue with ChatGPT, they themselves lacking even the basic foundations in computer science. So you have an ever increasing number of smartasses who think that this technology finally empowers them. Finally they get "level up" with that arrogant techie. And this will ultimately doom us, because as we know, idiots are in majority and they often overrule the few sane voices.
hansmayer commented on Job-seekers are dodging AI interviewers fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai... · Posted by u/robtherobber
It is all almost making richer even more richer, instead of properly hiring people for HR, AI bots.
Instead of having more people at the supermarket, have the customers work as if they were employees, the only thing missing is fetching stuff from warehouse when missing on the shelves, but still pay the same or more.
Instead of paying to artists, do job ads using generated AI images with code magically showing off monitor's back.
Instead of paying translators, do video ads with automatic translations and nerve irritating voice tones.
Gotta watch out for those profits, except they forget people also need money to buy their goods.
> the only thing missing is fetching stuff from warehouse
Amateurs, IKEA solved that one decades ago ;) But that's Scandinavian practicality or whatever they use to sell themselves these days :)
hansmayer commented on OpenAI's "Study Mode" and the risks of flattery resobscura.substack.com/p... · Posted by u/benbreen
Travis Kalanick (ex-CEO of Uber) thinks he's making cutting edge quantum physics breakthroughs with Grok and ChatGPT too. He has no relevant credentials in this area.
Ah yes the famous vibe-physicist T.Kalanick ;)
"Commit 2ef776f
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Update READMEs: honest, clear, aesthetic
- Removed pretentious language and marketing speak
- Added real developer experience based on actual testing
- Clear, direct explanations of what it actually does
- Aesthetic improvements with better formatting
- Accurate feature descriptions based on verified functionality
- Honest about capabilities without overselling
- Reflects the 30-second integration we tested
The README now matches what developers actually experience: two lines of code, automatic tracking, no code changes needed."
Hey OP - next time perhaps at least write the commit messages yourself?
Hopefully these cases will get viral to the general public, so that everyone becomes more aware that despite the words "intelligence", "reasoning", "inference" being used and misused, in the end it is no more than a magic trick, an illusion of intelligence.
That being said, I also have hopes in that same technology for its "correlation engine" aspect. A few decades ago I read an article about expert systems; it mentioned that in the future, there would be specialists that would interview experts in order to "extract knowledge" and formalize it in first order logic for the expert system. I was in my late teens at that time, but I instantly thought it wasn't going to fly: way too expensive.
I think that LLMs can be the answer to that problem. One often reminds that "correlation is not causation", but it is nonetheless how we got there; it is the best heuristic we have.
> Hopefully these cases will get viral to the general public, so that everyone becomes more aware that despite the words "intelligence", "reasoning", "inference" being used and misused, in the end it is no more than a magic trick, an illusion of intelligence.
I am not optimistic on that. Having met people from "general public" and in general low-effort-crowd who use them, I am really not optimistic.
I'm not sure what your original point was.
Either it's that serving AI as a business model is impossible to run at a profit, which I easily demonstrated is not the case. If it's just serving the model, then yes, it works, and there's tons of businesses doing just that and operating at a profit.
Or is that's the expense of evening running a GPU to serve a model is not worth the value that the model running on the GPU is capable of making, which is demonstrably not true, given that people are paying anywhere from dozens to hundreds of dollars a month, and there is an eventual payback period for both the cost of the hardware and electricity there.
I think it was on you to make a point here, not me. What is it that you demonstrated? I only saw a lot of creative imagination and "could be-would be" scenarios.
Oh no, just when we finally got them to properly count the number of "R"s in "strawberry"...