abernard1

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by abernard1 18d ago
I will provide a contrary opinion. The internet has made available a wide array of facts. And combined with needing to double-check the frequently incorrect hallucinations of AI, this set of facts has a devastating, world-altering effect on
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by abernard1 2mo ago
I am indifferent to whether or not my message is well-received. It is true. And also because the people making the arguments for why they should force people to pay for their jobs are indifferent as well. I take joy in knowing that reality
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by abernard1 2mo ago
Are those statistics I provided invalid? Is it not the case there's an entire (ascendant in some spots) political party based upon this phenomenon of the highly-credentialed yet downwardly mobile? If, as you call it, the "OP'
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by abernard1 2mo ago
I don't know. Is it irrelevant? Is it interesting that all these "democracies" around the world have persistent speech bans? When someone says something they don't like? I seem to have a recollection of flipping through
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by abernard1 2mo ago
> Democracy is a broad term describing all forms of government where power is granted by the people No. It's not. I encourage you to read the quite enlightening treatment of democracies in the Federalist Papers. And Greece's go
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by abernard1 2mo ago
John Adams wrote that as a reason why the United States is not a democracy. It's a Constitutional Republic. It's a consistent theme throughout the Federalist Papers. Individual States and localities have elements of democracy, but
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by abernard1 2mo ago
Have you not been present in our recent two-decade credentialed make-believe economy? The one that puts government in the place of a father? https://www.forbes.com/sites/michelletravis/2026/01/29/wom
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by abernard1 2mo ago
One day, AI will be able to provide midwit analyses like this. Until that day, we can just say what we all know: 1) AI will absolutely decimate white-collar office jobs in the future, 2) composition of the workplace will change (more women
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by abernard1 2mo ago
> It is not possible one of their extraordinarily high paid engineers did not know how to deploy an airgapped environment for the models to run in. It is, in fact, possible. Do you not remember 2022-2023 when the air was singing with the
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by abernard1 2mo ago
I suspect bailouts will be off the table. Simply because the people who support OpenAI and the tech industry are on the same side of the political aisle as the people protesting data centers. "Big Tech" as a pejorative started on
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by abernard1 2mo ago
Agreed. Specs are more important than ever. Constraints: types, contracts, protocols, schemas, APIs and such are what ground the boundaries of systems. Without them, code drift is a guarantee. Does anyone trust that a set of human sentences
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by abernard1 2mo ago
What happens when the AI god doesn't appear, and these models plateau in regimes supportable with high-end laptops?
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by abernard1 2mo ago
It is. A predictable reset schedule with refinancing ("valuations"). Loose money leading to debt obligations to be paid in the future. Circular financing. And what's funny, is it's precisely the off-book debt that will m
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by abernard1 2mo ago
The entirety of "agents" and tool calls is a process of combining LLMs to get better results. Is it the same LLM in many cases? Yes. But it doesn't have to be. It's the natural move that happened after people realized yo
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by abernard1 2mo ago
Ah. But which decisionmakers? Would it be the ones that tried to backdoor SSL and encryption in the 90s? Would it be the ones who argued for censoring speech on social platforms? Do those individuals in both cases share the same political i
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by abernard1 2mo ago
"But what about criminals?! What about terrorists?! Won't someone please think of the children?!!!" Every argument against open source AI is moot. Outside of totalitarianism, you cannot control people building algorithms with
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by abernard1 2mo ago
They don't. "Emergence" is some ridiculous hype that a bunch of kids with money peddled to get valuations. And yes, if "emergence" and the "there's something else going in there!" ridiculousness was t
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by abernard1 2mo ago
Fair. Too strong a statement. But much like Ben's point that commoditization is a relatively novel concept to many in tech, it's not the consumer AI applications at risk of commoditization. They have distribution there. It's
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by abernard1 2mo ago
" - The highest tier Chinese models are not more economical than US frontier models. Try GLM 5.2 and see how much it costs to do real work. I did, and it was more expensive than GPT 5.6." This is a flatly false statement for most
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by abernard1 2mo ago
With what accuracy? And with how many intermediate tokens? We can replace multiplication with any class of problems which should go from 0->100% solution almost immediately if there was actually a concept learned. There is not. Because t
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by abernard1 2mo ago
I am not confused. Because herein these forums, I predicted everything that was going to happen years ago. And the "insane inefficiency" of deep learning is fully to be expected from how it works. As well, there are provably no—li
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by abernard1 2mo ago
When I see Chinese (open source) emerging AI dominance... what I see is a chronically corrupt set of Bay Area companies who stole open source software, pretended there was an AI god around the corner, and wanted to be regulated so the feder
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by abernard1 2mo ago
I think this is actually a perfect case of an impressive thing being done exactly by mimicry. Why do LLMs still have trouble on floating point math without forking out to a tool, but they can perform symbolic manipulation just fine? Because
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by abernard1 2mo ago
Wouldn't it be wild if there were real-world penalties for being wrong? And people who follow bad advice will get bad results, and people who follow good advice will get good results? I wonder if this will impact the quality and preval
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by abernard1 2mo ago
Postmodernism is a hell of a drug. What discipline, outside academia, could position "nothing is neutral" as insightful and helpful commentary? So is doing nothing, consuming resources and goods created by others, and living in th
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by abernard1 4mo ago
Babies sleep better when their head is near their mother's heart. This seems to be the obvious reason for the left-handed cradling bias [1]. If a baby sleeps better, it cries less. If it cries less, it attracts fewer predators and help
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by abernard1 4mo ago
There is also a bias for how babies are held [1]. It holds even with left-handers. Holding a baby's head near the mother's heart helps the baby get to sleep. Which means the baby doesn't cry (and attract predators) and also g
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by abernard1 5mo ago
> THe government shouldn't be raising anyone's children, that's what parents are for. The government does raise children. It's called the public school system.
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by abernard1 5mo ago
One of the things I love about this is while Alex Jones was definitely negligent in his case, this pretty much does exactly what he wanted. One of the things I've discovered in my long career of people being wrong about everything is h
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by abernard1 5mo ago
I'm definitely not aware that the credibility of the US DOJ has been destroyed. And I question why a 501c3 charity would need "field informants" and to launder money through shell corporations. Especially to leaders of these

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