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New comment by 2099miles in "Social AI companions pose unacceptable risks to teens and children under 18"

2099miles — Wed, 07 May 2025 18:29:31 +0000

I feel like this is one of the most obvious takes out there but simultaneously parents are crazily unaware of it. Parents need to be more aware of ai companions and Roblox and how bad they are.

New comment by 2099miles in "Social AI companions pose unacceptable risks to teens and children under 18"

2099miles — Wed, 07 May 2025 18:27:55 +0000

Character ai is the one I heard about most.

New comment by 2099miles in "We're building a dystopia just to make people click on ads [video]"

2099miles — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 15:36:17 +0000

^ Exactly Ads are 100% fine I just want the option to pay to avoid them. Like black mirror I think had an episode or some movie had it where you watch an ad instead of paying for a bus ticket and that’s totally fine, cuz right now there is no alternative to paying for a bus ticket.

New comment by 2099miles in "Recursive LLM prompts"

2099miles — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 20:46:19 +0000

New comment by 2099miles in "An image of an archeologist adventurer who wears a hat and uses a bullwhip"

2099miles — Thu, 03 Apr 2025 23:07:51 +0000

The issue I have with this article is that I can ask it “generate me a picture of tomb raider and pikachu on a couch” and it does it. This article makes it seems like it’s skirting the guardrails, dude OpenAI took them off, it’s out in the open.

New comment by 2099miles in "Stone Soup AI (2024)"

2099miles — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 13:29:34 +0000

Psh, the companies are freely giving up the data. It is unmentioned where the villagers got the carrot initially, maybe they also stole it from the library or promised their users the carrot would not be eaten. Lol

New comment by 2099miles in "Stone Soup AI (2024)"

2099miles — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 13:28:11 +0000

Great post

New comment by 2099miles in "Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers"

2099miles — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 13:00:43 +0000

Continued rant :

It’s kinda like a ruler. If you measure workers so that one’s doing 10x less/worse output than the average that’s good.

If you compare workers down to the .01% difference in output that’s stupid and inhumane.

New comment by 2099miles in "Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers"

2099miles — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 12:58:11 +0000

Tbh this isn’t that crazy. If you hire someone to do their job outputting 10 items per hour and that number is reasonable because a bunch of other workers you hired for the same job are doing it and 1 guy hits 1 per hour then that guys shouldn’t be doing that job.

The outrage should be focused on the absolute meme of their ad video cuz they were like “lets literally have a convo with an individual but refer to them as a workspace and have them say human painful responses but then just shit on them anyway impersonally”

The product is not crazy. The video is wild.

New comment by 2099miles in "Tell HN: Y Combinator backing AI company to abuse factory workers"

2099miles — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 12:53:32 +0000

Peak capitalism would have the employees holding their own value and not being crushed in trash power dynamics to allow this kind of stuff. Capitalism is about nonviolent voluntary exchanges between two parties, when one party has a power dynamic skewed in such a way they can use tools like this that employees hate, then that’s not capitalism anymore.

New comment by 2099miles in "When AI Thinks It Will Lose, It Sometimes Cheats, Study Finds"

2099miles — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 16:20:17 +0000

The words thinking and reasoning used here are imprecise. It’s just generating text like always. If the text is after “ai-thoughts:” then it’s “thinking” and if it’s after “ai-response” then it’s “responding” not “thinking” but it is always a big ole model choosing the most likely next token potentially with some random sampling

New comment by 2099miles in "Perplexity Deep Research"

2099miles — Sun, 16 Feb 2025 13:37:58 +0000

Your comment from earlier wasn’t as easy to digest as this one. I don’t think that person copied you at all.

New comment by 2099miles in "The King in Yellow"

2099miles — Fri, 07 Feb 2025 12:43:23 +0000

How is it related to TD1 was it the inspiration for the yellow king and carcosa?

New comment by 2099miles in "LLM based agents as Dungeon Masters"

2099miles — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:18:26 +0000

Now this is solid, like an ai enhanced Evernote, but for organization, not generation/creation.

New comment by 2099miles in "LLM based agents as Dungeon Masters"

2099miles — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 16:12:07 +0000

This is so interesting that people want this. This is beyond the guy saying “people don’t like making music so we made ai so it’s easier and faster to just prompt it to make music” . Like in my experience the best part of d&d is the dungeon master who knows their friends making a story and details specifically for fun and the fun of the group. And the interactions between players and the dm is where I derived the most enjoyment, automating that sounds insane and peak confusion/self defeating.

New comment by 2099miles in "47% of 160 Top Selling Protein Powders Tested Exceed P65 Limit for Toxic Metals [pdf]"

2099miles — Tue, 14 Jan 2025 15:35:16 +0000

I hate this and came to same conclusion. Here I thought I was going to get some third party tested results of popular brands as a public service. Smh

New comment by 2099miles in "An "oh fuck" moment in time"

2099miles — Mon, 13 Jan 2025 16:41:57 +0000

TLDR: ai can be helpful, anyone who doesn’t use it hasn’t realized it’s helpful, SWE’s who disagree “are frankly not gonna make it”

Review: great fun story, I agree with the first part of the take and I like the post and I like some ai tools, I disagree with the last bit. There are really good SWE’s who are in spaces where ai is not that useful. SWE is too big now, it’s too vague, ai doesn’t apply to all. You don’t need to use ai to survive, but I agree you should try it out and see before dismissing it. And retry it every so often cuz it’s developing and changing.

New comment by 2099miles in "Show HN: I made a tiny game to challenge your mind"

2099miles — Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:33:46 +0000

Agreed, but also I’d like some article or something explaining its relation to iq and how the claim that it increases it came about

New comment by 2099miles in "School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study"

2099miles — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 07:26:55 +0000

I don’t get this comment. Double is common hyperbole, but like do you think tiktok habits don’t degrade other productivity? It’s a known phenomenon that smartphones kill boredom and boredom promotes things like sleeping and productivity.

New comment by 2099miles in "School smartphone ban results in better sleep and improved mood: study"

2099miles — Sun, 15 Dec 2024 07:20:29 +0000

This was an interesting post. Thanks for making me question if sarcasm is actually a bad thing. I don’t agree off the bat but I’ve never seriously considered it.