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squidproquo commented on OpenAI asks U.S. for loan guarantees to fund $1T AI expansion investinglive.com/stock-m... · Posted by u/donsupreme

bix6 · 4 months ago

> Friar dismissed speculation that OpenAI might soon go public, saying an IPO “is not on the cards right now.”

I thought the whole point of going public was to tap the broader market for liquidity? Maybe they should SPAC lol.

squidproquo · 4 months ago

When OpenAI goes public that will be the sign that they need to pass the baton to the retail invest--I mean--bag-holders.

squidproquo commented on Reasoning models reason well, until they don't arxiv.org/abs/2510.22371... · Posted by u/optimalsolver

ftalbot · 5 months ago

Every token in a response has an element of randomness to it. This means they’re non-deterministic. Even if you set up something within their training data there is some chance that you could get a nonsense, opposite, and/or dangerous result. The chance of that may be low because of things being set up for it to review its result, but there is no way to make a non-deterministic answer fully bound to solving or reasoning anything assuredly, given enough iterations. It is designed to be imperfect.

squidproquo · 5 months ago

The non-determinism is part of the allure of these systems -- they operate like slot machines in a casino. The dopamine hit of getting an output that appears intelligent and the variable rewards keeps us coming back. We down-weight and ignore the bad outputs. I'm not saying these systems aren't useful to a degree, but one should understand the statistical implications on how we are collectively perceiving their usefulness.

squidproquo commented on Polish scientists' startup Pathway announces AI reasoning breakthrough polskieradio.pl/395/7784/... · Posted by u/ludovicianul

squidproquo · 5 months ago

Reminds me of the marketing for a really bad movie:

- “genius” - “the missing link” - “breaks the barrier”

squidproquo commented on That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus cybersect.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/sixhobbits

roody15 · 6 months ago

Once a Chinese grad student explained to me a difference he noted between Chinese and American citizens. He said in China no really reads or watches 24/7 major news outlets in China. They are fully aware that all of it is propaganda and just go about their life. He said Americans seem to get really emotional over content in the press and seem to really struggle with the idea of propaganda / journalism in the news.

I tend to agree with student, NYT and major news outlets are clearly used for propaganda and if you sit back and look at it from perhaps another angle it makes sense , why wouldn’t a world super power with a massive government apparatus use media to influence and control citizen behavior?

So yes the anonymous experts, the anonymous intelligence experts, the experts on CNN panels .. etc etc. It’s the government pushing a narrative for a purpose. My two cents live your life and spend your precious emotional energy for the people you care about around you. Do things in your local community and help when and where you can.

squidproquo · 6 months ago

The other thing to note is that journalism in the US has gotten really lazy. A lot of the articles you will see in the MSM are based on leaked info and press-releases from PR firms, etc. It's easier to for journalists to regurgitate stories hand-fed to them than doing truly hard and costly investigative work.

squidproquo commented on The Illusion of Thinking: Strengths and limitations of reasoning models [pdf] ml-site.cdn-apple.com/pap... · Posted by u/amrrs

stephc_int13 · 9 months ago

Human language is far from perfect as a cognitive tool but still serves us well because it is not foundational. We use it both for communication and some reasoning/planning as a high level layer.

I strongly believe that human language is too weak (vague, inconsistent, not expressive enough etc.) to replace interactions with the world as a basis to build strong cognition.

We're easily fooled by the results of LLM/LRM models because we typically use language fluency and knowledge retrieval as a proxy benchmark for intelligence among our peers.

squidproquo · 9 months ago

Agree with this. Human language is also not very information-dense; there is a lot of redundancy and uninformative repetition of words.

I also wonder about the compounding effects of luck and survivorship bias when using these systems. If you model a series of interactions with these systems probabilistically, as a series of failure/success modes, then you are bound to get a sub-population of users (of LLM/LLRMs) that will undoubtedly have “fantastic” results. This sub-population will then espouse and promote the merits of the system. There is clearly something positive these models do, but how much of the “success” is just luck.

squidproquo commented on The Tsunami of Burnout Few See charleshughsmith.blogspot... · Posted by u/dxs

squidproquo · a year ago

Thank you for this. It’s nice to feel not alone.

squidproquo commented on Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job sibervepunk.com/digital-c... · Posted by u/siberpunk

squidproquo · a year ago

Excellent blog post. Summed up what I've been thinking for the past few years. I find myself endlessly consuming content (videos, podcasts, etc.) that I would deem "educational". It feels good, like you're learning something new, improving yourself. But at the end-of-the day you aren't. Your brain is just sitting there passively - not really doing any hard work. Instead of your brain generating ideas and solving problems, that process has been palmed off to the internet.

squidproquo commented on Benedictine monk wrote earliest known reference to ball lightning in England arstechnica.com/science/2... · Posted by u/Tomte

squidproquo · 4 years ago

A lot of these instances seem to describe meteorites. I don't see a connection to lightning at all. Also, it's pretty crazy that the ball lightning phenomenon has been around for a while, yet it hasn't been replicated in a lab.

squidproquo commented on How to grow monosodium glutamate (MSG) crystals crystalverse.com/msg-crys... · Posted by u/crystalchase21

rob74 · 4 years ago

Interesting - however I don't think I have ever seen "pure" MSG for sale here in Germany. Due to its bad reputation, it's only available as a part of various products which come either in liquid form (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maggi-W%C3%BCrze) or as "spice mixes" (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegeta_(condiment)).

squidproquo · 4 years ago

I'm pretty sure you can get Knorr Aromat Seasoning in Europe. It's not pure MSG, but it does contain it (probably the main ingredient).