fatherwavelet

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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
As if you are just a such a genius the models are of no use to you. How can you not think that makes you sound like a complete moron?
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
I just don't understand how someone can have these models at their disposal not learn anything? The general lack of intellectual curiosity is just mind blowing to me.
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
You are just such a genius. We all stand in awe. Thank you for letting me be in the presence of such towering intellect. Some might even say Dirac like but I so NO, this simply does not go far enough. I will remember this moment for the rem
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
We will have the age of the centaur across all white collar domains. How long that age lasts I don't think is all that relevant before it has even happened. The question is not human in the loop but how many humans in the loop? Then I
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
The worst to me is the way people dehumanize other people who don't agree with them. The other side politically doesn't just have different views, they are barely human knuckle draggers. Basically neanderthals, so who cares if the
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
I feel like Gemini 3 was incredible on non-software/coding research. I have learned so much systems biology the last two months it blows my mind. I had only started using Opus 4.6 this week. Sonnet it seems like is much better at havin
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
I think people want to read how AI is not working , so those are the articles that are going to get traction. Personally, I don't think the current frontier models would help the company I work for all that much. The company exists bec
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
To me it is like steering a car into the ditch and then posting how the car went into a ditch. You don't have to drive that much to figure out that what is impressive is keeping the car on the road and then traveling further or faster
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
I had a 1990 Ford Taurus as my first car. I had got it used and I remember it being completely impossible to afford a new car at the time. It was sticker price of $33,000 adjusted for inflation: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
I had not used Claude much until an hour ago since probably before GPT5. I had only been using Gemini the last 3 months. Sonnet 4.6 extended on the free plan is just incredible. I am just complete floored by it. The conversation I just had
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
I am not against this in spirit but what are the higher order effects and unintended consequences? The only thing that is more annoying to me than market fundamentalist, neo-liberal bullshit is emotional appeals that sound right on paper bu
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
Their "ontology" is not bullshit but they speak about it in a bullshit way. I think they refer to it like a product or something they invented as a form of marketing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ontology_(i
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
I like the analogy but I think you are underestimating how much random knob twiddling there is in all art. Francis Bacon and The Brutality of Fact is a wonderful documentary that goes over this. Bacon's process was that he painted ever
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
Even besides this, do you feel such incredible existential hate/jealousy towards monkeys, baboons, gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos,etc and want to see them wiped off the planet to extinction? Or do you feel a type of connection to these
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
The good old days when you could trust everything posted on usenet to be true. We must live on different planets.
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
Like the good old days when the media was basically complicit in support of Iraq having weapons of mass destruction? It seems to me that the news has always kind of been mass bullshit. What has changed is we democratized the production of
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
It really depends on the music you listen to and what your ears are already use to. I thought my fathers old setup always sounded amazing when I was younger. Coming back to it 20 years later though, it sounds stupidly scooped to my ears. Sa
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
We have agency but it is almost trivial to hijack. Setting up the argument between agency/no agency misses the point IMO.
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
It is because this subject is the closest to modern voodoo of all modern activities. I rolled the bones myself and it seemed like it worked, therefor X. No, I rolled the bones myself and it seemed like it worked, therefor Y. We would first
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
I just don't understand this view on Lex Fridman at all. Fridman is quite good at letting the guest speak. The whole show is exceptionally good at keeping a conversation moving. I think there are technical haters on Lex but that is stu
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
I think the spirit is in the right place but the framing is too extreme. I am never going to be a software engineer either but I took a CS101 class and then data structures and algorithms. Going from zero to passing those classes was the mo
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
I think we highly underestimate the amount of "human bots" basically. Unthinking people programmed by their social media feed who don't notice the OpenAI influence campaign. With no social media, it seems obvious to me there
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
I use Gemini Pro for basically everything. I just started learning systems biology as I didn't even know this was a subject until it came up in a conversation. Biology is subject I am quite lacking in but it is unbelievable to me what
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
Exactly. LLMs are really just an extension of the internet. You can use the internet to expand on what you know or you can use the internet to rot your brain. We have agency to decide and if the majority decide on brain rot I really don&#x2
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
Hobbes was 63 when he wrote Leviathan. This is a pointless discussion though without talking about testosterone and dopamine levels. Doesn't really matter what your IQ is at 60, if your testosterone and dopamine system is that of the a
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
It is an objective fact though that the lack of DVD sales on the backend has completely changed the economics of movies and what gets made. You also can't really compare the 90s to now when music and the movies were the dominate art fo
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
It is not really obvious to me that happiness should be part of the social contract. Happiness is very slippery even in your own life. It seems absurd to me that you should care about my happiness. So much of happiness is the change from th
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
In 1979, median income in China was $100 USD a year. In 1979, median income in the US was $16,530 USD a year. Not exactly an apples to apples comparison.
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
It only doesn't add up if you are viewing him like Warren Buffet in terms of finance. Obviously, his audited track record of returns is nowhere to be found. It very much all adds up if you view Epstein as a financial genius in terms of
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by fatherwavelet 7mo ago
I listened to the two hour interview that was posted. It sounds nothing like this. He was extremely well spoken. How carefully he spoke is what stood out most in the interview to me.

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