I feel like this is one of those times where there is huge “second mover advantage”

AI tools will make work more productive. But right now we are in the pre-Lotus123 era where none of the tools work intuitively and synergistically and there is a hell of a lot more futzing and Solitaire than spreadsheet wizardry

This

They are not focusing on making it easier for more people to run alternate nodes/indexers

They are focusing on enshittification

Your life is what you mundanely do every day

No one special day defines your life

(Unless you do something stupid like just graze the ear)

Corporate centralized platform cosplaying as decentralized begins inevitable enshittification

we think it’s just words, but our brain will seamlessly weave inner monologue into concepts

Are you familiar with latent space representation?

Because yes, that’s how LRM’s work, cycling tokens in latent space multiple times before sending to upper layers and decoding into human words

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06769

wrong again, my man, this is way more real / but since you know everything, I’ll cut someone else a deal

chat bots

Fair, we need to get terms straight; this is new and unstable territory. Let’s say, LLMs specifically.

it did not debug anything, a human debugged something and wrote about it. Then that human input and a ton of others were mapped into a huge probability map, and some computer simulated what people talking about this would most likely say

Can you explain how that is different from what a human does? I read a lot about debugging, went to classes, worked examples…

Why didn’t you debug it yourself?

In my case this is enterprise software, many products and millions of lines of code. My test and bug-fixing teams are begging for automation. Bug fixing at scale

It’s still not reasoning. It’s running a simulation

As Daniel Dennett once asked: “What is the difference between a simulated song, and a real song?”

You say it’s not reasoning, but I’ve seen it debug and fix a core dump

Posted by the hackers:

Dear Google, please please pretty please continue to attack them. I so wanna see the fuck getting destroyed out of you

You will find that a way to dehumanize and simultaneously antagonize just about anyone, is to invalidate their feelings and inform them how they actually feel

I don’t think you have read the relevant papers or are familiar with LRM (Large Reasoning Models). Which is basically all model AIs (GPT5, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek). It’s new in the last ~18-24 months

In a nutshell, they include logical thinking and correct chains of logical thought to the LLM training data, along with tasks like recognizing dogs and predicting next words.

So yes, they are literally trained to reason the exact same way they are trained to write stories and summarize books.

You can say “it doesn’t really reason” but it has exactly the same value as the assertion “it doesn’t really write stories or summarize books” … maybe not, but there will be a story or a summary (or a logical chain of thought) in front of you if you ask for one.

I have my own personal theories.

But she is so outspoken about so many things; I am surprised she has been conspicuously silent on religion.

I agree that it’s a wise move as literally any answer would be divisive.

I am sad and frankly annoyed to see so many people with a knee-jerk reaction against the audacity of asking, as if were unthinkable that religion (or spirituality, or the value of the one yolo you get, or whatever) would provide any insight.

Personal convictions are actually extremely relevant for a person like this and a news item like this

Random question: what is Greta’s religion? Or is she Atheist, like many Scandanavians?

don’t reason

Actually, they have been doing that for about a year now

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09686

Actually having elders in human societies is shown to positively correlate with better outcomes for the youth in that society. Grandmothers in particular have a measurable benefit.

https://elifesciences.org/articles/92914

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-93652-4

wildlife conservation

I met multiple long term romantic partners from this exact thing.

Plus even if you don’t find someone, any time invested in saving animals is absolutely positive karma you can feel good about, even if it was just cleaning cages.

better light sensitivity

I like to think of it as “colors and light so brilliant and pretty it’s like tripping shrooms”

9 days after my son was born his umbilical stump fell off and I could not help lament to my wife that he was no longer eligible for the 100-year gate

Yes you should.

Like all Neal Stephenson books (except “The Big U”) it is one of the best novels I have ever read.

There are some secrets and reveals so I’ll spoil nothing but there is much to reflect on our society today, the human condition, and Hilbert Space