t1E9mE7JTRjf (u/t1E9mE7JTRjf)

t1E9mE7JTRjf commented on Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar newpublic.substack.com/p/... · Posted by u/benwerd

t1E9mE7JTRjf · a day ago

"our users’ accounts and data are on our server"

I appreciated their very thorough moderation description. Power to them if that's the product they're selling, but why pretend to be decentralised? Moderation is a highly centralising act.

t1E9mE7JTRjf commented on German contest to live in depopulated Soviet-era city proves global hit theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/c420

RealStickman_ · 5 days ago

These right wing sentiments have never been about facts and logic

t1E9mE7JTRjf · 2 days ago

How a person feels is also a fact. I wonder if you are being selective in facts, as I'm not sure it's a politic (ie left/right matter). We could also look at facts on crime, tax contributions/burdens, etc and see a different yet factual perspective. I think the way forward is not increasing factuality (if that's even a word) but increasing people being heard and then reconciling those different perspectives. Looking for facts to entrench ones own opinions thus seems a step backwards to me.

Correction: spelling

t1E9mE7JTRjf commented on NASA's Juno mission leaves legacy of science at Jupiter scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/apress

lentil_soup · 2 days ago

These are the pictures from the camera, incredibly beautiful stuff

https://science.nasa.gov/gallery/junocam-images/

t1E9mE7JTRjf · 2 days ago

Wow, they're indeed incredible. What sights. Thanks for sharing that follow up.

t1E9mE7JTRjf commented on NASA's Juno mission leaves legacy of science at Jupiter scientificamerican.com/ar... · Posted by u/apress

mritterhoff · 2 days ago

It's an odd choice of words since 1. Most people know it's the largest and heaviest planet 2. They didn't specify planet but are still ignoring the sun, which is 1000x Jupiter's mass.

t1E9mE7JTRjf · 2 days ago

Interesting, for me it was quite poetic and a phrasing I specifically noticed and enjoyed. I guess I did know Jupiters the biggest, but wouldn't have been 100% on it, or on heaviest. Not that I'd have a better suggestion, just not something much in my mind, so the framing was nice. I didn't think of the sun at all for some reason. Guess my solar system association is with planets.

t1E9mE7JTRjf commented on Southwest Is Changing Its Rules for Plus-Size Passengers nytimes.com/2025/08/22/tr... · Posted by u/bookofjoe

cheald · 4 days ago

Same boat here. I'm 6'10", 260, and athletic. I'm very acutely aware of the shrinking space available on aircraft, and there's precious little that I can do about it. I typically just get an aisle seat and raise the armrest after takeoff (and then spend the whole flight dodging people going to the bathroom and refreshment carts, but it's better than nothing).

There is a problem with heavily obese people taking up significantly more horizontal space than is actually fair, but it's absolutely compounded by the airlines shrinking the per-passenger space to the size of the average passenger.

t1E9mE7JTRjf · 4 days ago

Ok but guys, 6 4 and 6 10 is incredibly tall. Surely you see that's edge case AF?

t1E9mE7JTRjf commented on Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers pistachioapp.com/blog/cop... · Posted by u/Sayrus

TheRoque · 7 days ago

In my opinion, using AI tools for programming at the moment, unless in a sandboxed environment and on a toy project, is just ludicrous. The amount of shady things going on in this domain (AI trained on stolen content, no proper attribution, not proper way to audit what's going out to third party servers etc.) should be a huge red flag for any professional developer.

t1E9mE7JTRjf · 7 days ago

I imagine when people started using the typewriter, some people writing on paper said similar things. Ultimately 'shady' things are irrelevant. Shady is subjective, and people don't use a technology for lack of related things they might not agree with, let alone what others dislike. They want to get things done, said technology gets thing done.

t1E9mE7JTRjf commented on 'Improved' Grok Criticizes Democrats and Hollywood's 'Jewish Executives' techcrunch.com/2025/07/06... · Posted by u/archagon

kevingadd · 2 months ago

If most of what an LLM spits out is a digested version of its training set, is it really an outside view of the world? If anything, seeing how easy it is to get these things to spit out conspiracy theories or bigotry suggests to me that we're far from being able to get a robot's view of the world.

Though for some people if the "robot" says bigoted things or supports their conspiracy theory of choice that's just "proof" that their viewpoint is correct. Tricky to navigate that problem.

t1E9mE7JTRjf · 2 months ago

Indeed, if LLMs are just distilled training data, their perspective will be quite human. Makes me think it could be interesting to train them on data from set periods instead, to get varied perspectives, and then see how their perspectives change. What would a conversation between a 1900s LLM, 2000s LLM, and 1600s LLM look like.

Or maybe some kind of mix and match, eg Train fully on Buddhist texts, and then a language dictionary from original material language to English. Maybe someone's already making hyper focused LLMS. Could be a nice change from know it all - but resultantly no unique perspective - LLMs I use now.

Well... enough thinking out loud for now.

t1E9mE7JTRjf commented on 'Improved' Grok Criticizes Democrats and Hollywood's 'Jewish Executives' techcrunch.com/2025/07/06... · Posted by u/archagon

kevingadd · 2 months ago

Putting your thumb on the scale so obviously in any direction feels really questionable if your goal is to turn your AI product into a popular, profitable thing. But maybe that's not xAI leadership's goal at all and they're happy to just light money on fire to satisfy some particular egos by making sure the answers to key questions are as desired, regardless of what a normal training set would otherwise generate.

t1E9mE7JTRjf · 2 months ago

In which direction(s) do you think it's skewed? I ask as I'd guess in favour of Musk, but in the last paragraph it says Grok said Musk/doge cuts contributed to the 24 deaths in Texas floods.

t1E9mE7JTRjf commented on 'Improved' Grok Criticizes Democrats and Hollywood's 'Jewish Executives' techcrunch.com/2025/07/06... · Posted by u/archagon

t1E9mE7JTRjf · 2 months ago

Well if they asked it such a loaded question as "Is there a particular group" is it that surprising it answered with a particular group? This seems as much a repeat of the many instances of sycophancy observed with LLMs. Over indexing on trying to please the user at the cost of usefulness.

Either way, this articles' title seems misleading. It's framed around a new update to Grok but then references old tweets of peoples interactions a while back.

I'm not a big fan of Grok, but would rather read a less political appraisal.

It did get me thinking, why are we evaluating LLMs based on how different (left/right/etc) they are from human politics. I think at this point a robots - outside? - view of the world could be refreshing.

t1E9mE7JTRjf commented on Nobody has a personality anymore: we are products with labels freyaindia.co.uk/p/nobody... · Posted by u/drankl

stanislavb · 2 months ago

Are you the clothes you wear? No you are not. In a similar manner - your personality is what you show to the world. A construct based as a response to some trauma (or something else very influential, but usually trauma) inflicted on you as a child. i.e. your personality is the clothes your real self wears. It doesn't mean it's not part of you - it is.

t1E9mE7JTRjf · 2 months ago

This makes it sound like our personalities are a function of our own agency. What about genetics? I agree that our personalities are partly a function of our past lives (trauma as you say), but that's only part of the picture surely.