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New comment by Calazon in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

Calazon — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 23:25:31 +0000

What sources do you think are good for this data for the recent past? My brief initial search is turning up a lot of contradictory data, probably because the sources are defining "programmers" differently from each other.

New comment by Calazon in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

Calazon — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 22:25:44 +0000

I agree with you in the broad strokes, but replacement by LLMs isn't the only way the level of employment can be reduced. If LLMs can make it so that two programmers can do the work that used to require five, that can result in a very large reduction in employment, even while having (some) programmers is still essential.

New comment by Calazon in "Mea Culpa – Dark Hours"

Calazon — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 20:52:17 +0000

I know lots of people who voluntarily use AI regularly without being forced to - a lot more than either people who are anti-AI or people who are forced to use it for work.

That's probably a function of the people I'm around more than anything else. It is also the case that AI is being pushed on people, sometimes forcefully. But the category of people who use it because they want to is very large.

New comment by Calazon in "No one can afford to make Myst games anymore"

Calazon — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 17:32:55 +0000

Being unable to tell a game is garbage without personally playing it is a problem with or without AI. Though AI is vastly increasing the amount of slop out there, for sure.

New comment by Calazon in "Someone Used AI to Write an Unauthorized Biography of Me"

Calazon — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:45:20 +0000

Knowing that some songs are by local artists who I could go see live doesn't tell me very much about the quality of the music, unfortunately. My friends recommending the music does though, assuming we have similar taste.

New comment by Calazon in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

Calazon — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:27:25 +0000

Still third even then.

New comment by Calazon in "Your 'app' could have been a webpage (so I fixed it for you)"

Calazon — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 03:36:22 +0000

I just tried and it looks like I can do this in Chrome on Android relatively easily. The UI could be a lot nicer for it though.

And I did run into an issue where if the site allows me to install it as a PWA, Chrome will want to do that and won't want to bookmark a specific page on that site instead.

Also, maybe your point was that this could be done at the OS level rather than the browser, which is fair.

New comment by Calazon in "GLM 5.2 is nearly as accurate as a human book keeper"

Calazon — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:59:07 +0000

My wife (head of accounting for a small business) has been working on automating large parts of her job using AI.

It's not completely reliable and the human cannot be taken out of the loop, but the number of menial tasks she's been able to automate has been really cool. A lot of processing data that arrives in non-standard formats, generating documents based on that data, etc.

She still has to review everything, but her workload is way down, and when her assistant quit she automated away his whole position.

New comment by Calazon in "Show HN: LastShelf – an emergency map of your family's documents bills& contacts"

Calazon — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 15:52:49 +0000

Optional feature, off by default, customizable time interval, and a warning about false alarms?

Even with that you'd likely still trigger false alarms regularly, though they would be the responsibility of the user. Not sure whether it would be a worthwhile tradeoff overall.

New comment by Calazon in "FAANG Simulator"

Calazon — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 00:27:07 +0000

Not everyone, no, but some people do choose to avoid lifestyle creep, or at least have a lot less of it than their peers. I'm just saying it's optional and not inevitable.

New comment by Calazon in "FAANG Simulator"

Calazon — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 23:42:34 +0000

Automatic lifestyle creep with promotions? Well, it's definitely not a FIRE simulator.

New comment by Calazon in "Knowledge Should Not Be Gated"

Calazon — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:36:01 +0000

Sure, but arguably education is the easy part. The even harder problem is aligning incentives/values and avoiding a tragedy of the commons sort of situation.

New comment by Calazon in "Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament"

Calazon — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 17:51:26 +0000

If the decision-makers are elected by the people, it's not a dictatorship, no matter how many atrocities the nation commits.

You can have some gray area I guess, with unfair elections or whatever, but when the bad decisions are made by leaders who keep on getting re-elected in reasonably fair elections, we do not have a dictatorship.

New comment by Calazon in "Knowledge Should Not Be Gated"

Calazon — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 15:45:06 +0000

I suspect because some of these things would require us all to say no, which is difficult to coordinate and enforce.

It's not impossible, but it's not as easy as "just" saying no, as a society.

New comment by Calazon in "My new obsession: A horse-racing board game of pure luck"

Calazon — Thu, 28 May 2026 08:13:09 +0000

How do you feel about chess?

New comment by Calazon in "Google changes its search box"

Calazon — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:49:28 +0000

I read some of the article and skimmed the rest, and didn't see anything about old-fashioned search no longer being an option.

Is the idea that by making the new AI chat UX the default, that's how they're forcing people into it and making them not able to search? Or is there something I'm missing?

New comment by Calazon in "Maryland to ban A.I.-driven price increases in grocery stores"

Calazon — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:13:10 +0000

I think that was the idea, that MAGAs would see "price discrimination" as a good thing, but "diverse pricing" as a bad thing.

New comment by Calazon in "Amateur armed with ChatGPT solves an Erdős problem"

Calazon — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 14:26:30 +0000

Exhaustive brute force prompting is completely unfeasible. The number of potential prompts is impossibly large.

New comment by Calazon in "Youth Suicides Declined After Creation of National Hotline"

Calazon — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 18:02:36 +0000

Psychologists and therapists have different specialties too, for mental differences. This is generally considered a good thing.

New comment by Calazon in "AI-assisted cognition endangers human development?"

Calazon — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:55:42 +0000

Hopefully he would be using the LLM as an enhanced search engine that can point him to relevant authoritative sources that he can use to fact-check its output. I have done that in the past to some effect.