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New comment by LurkandComment in "Elon Musk Just Gave Europe a Reason to Replace American Technology"

LurkandComment — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 13:51:16 +0000

1. EU was slowly doing this in some tech industries and its really going to pick up speed

2. They don't have to replace a lot of US tech before the economic impact compounds to effect the US.

New comment by LurkandComment in "The Price of Intelligence Is Falling Rapidly"

LurkandComment — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:49:31 +0000

Cost per token goes down yes. But are you using more tokens per task/ prompt/ project?

New comment by LurkandComment in "OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'"

LurkandComment — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:31:41 +0000

This is the mistake they made. Anthropic and OpenAI are great technically. I love them. But they are absolute crap at making most people feeling like its relevant to them or that AI companies care about them. So its' really easy to be dismissive of the tech and oppose things like data centers. I think the influencer route is a quick fix. They need to appeal to everyday problems but, understandably, the founders like Dario and Altman think very high level. They think they are doing what's best in a way, but not in a way that's relateable to most people. LLMs need to be more human friendly; example, solve little problems like actually writing without sounding like AI

New comment by LurkandComment in "I had Gemini train its own replacement for $9"

LurkandComment — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:22:20 +0000

The thinking people who would find this interesting and read this are probably more than capable of understanding this and critical enough to expect that. Conversation over the title is distraction of what's important. Just stick to keeping original source title and let people vote and down vote if they don't like it. That's what votes are for.

New comment by LurkandComment in "Damn fine tiny cafe"

LurkandComment — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 15:36:44 +0000

There is an essence to humanity in this type of work: "I'm doing this because I enjoy the way it makes me feel and nothing else". It's inspirational and I love looking at it. Keeping doing what you love, it also brings joy to others.

New comment by LurkandComment in "Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B"

LurkandComment — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 14:22:37 +0000

It could go either way. I think its better for Nvidia to play both open sides and closed models as their chips will be used in both. The only thing that compromises them is that there is a lot of investment they have in the closed models.

Time to see how Jensen plays it.

New comment by LurkandComment in "Characterizing Agentic Flooding of Government Services"

LurkandComment — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:56:33 +0000

It should be more about how Public Services are underfunded and the process for applying and appeals for benefits is designed to be slow to account for this underfunding, but now something has bypassed one part of the design. It should be an argument as to why we need more funding for public services.

New comment by LurkandComment in "What we lost when search stopped making us think"

LurkandComment — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 14:50:03 +0000

This is a very well trodden argument the poster is largely right about. But like others who have written about it like Nicholas Carr and Anil Dash, I agree with the concern, but it places a lot of agency on the technology and not the users decisions. On one hand, you can argue for a long time Google was the default page for the internet so you had no choice but to use it to search, on the other hand, people need to use their brains more when thinking critically. They need to learn how to use it to assist in thought. Yes, Google search results are ads, but scroll past the first few pages and dig. Also, refine searches and look at other sources by people you trust. Ultimately, this is a real concern, and I'm glad the author is updating thoughts on it.

New comment by LurkandComment in "The Absurdity of Albert Camus"

LurkandComment — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 23:46:46 +0000

I don't think there is a Sienfeld without The Stranger

New comment by LurkandComment in "OpenAI and Anthropic unite against open-weight AI risks to their bottom line"

LurkandComment — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 14:29:49 +0000

1) This is going to be like Electric cars. You see how far ahead China is there for commercial viability for a wider consumer base

2) There are many reasons why Anthropic and Open Ai will collapse aside from this.

3) Wait until you have non-China models that are good enough. Hint: they already exist. Microsoft partnering with Mistral is a big red flag for OpenAI and Anthropic.

New comment by LurkandComment in "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"

LurkandComment — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 16:53:15 +0000

Next step, monitize every pixel, result and second into adveristing placement

New comment by LurkandComment in "Mistral's Robostral Navigate: a state of the art robotics navigation model"

LurkandComment — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 15:48:13 +0000

If you're wondering what prevents or mitigates AI hallucinations on the AI layer from replicating or acting out on the physical layer look up QNX. They manage the deterministic reasonin gof robotics. You know them better as Blackberry.

New comment by LurkandComment in "Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers"

LurkandComment — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 16:04:36 +0000

If you're a global health benefits platform that relies on an AI model, do you think you're going to choose one that can get shutoff by a country due to something not remotely related to your business? If you're a buyer of that benefits platform, do you factor this into your purchasing now? X every industry.

New comment by LurkandComment in "All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)"

LurkandComment — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:30:49 +0000

That whole website is just beautiful. I'd love to see more work by the designer.

New comment by LurkandComment in "The OnlyFans Economy of American AI"

LurkandComment — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 15:07:18 +0000

Every industry goes through its slop phase. You should see how much of early print was smut or really amaturish. We just like to talk about the Bible and the great art. What we need is a way to filter through it. AI should be decent at this, but for many intentional and unintentional reasons it isn't.

New comment by LurkandComment in "Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work up to 30 min"

LurkandComment — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:44:30 +0000

Just enough time to...

New comment by LurkandComment in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

LurkandComment — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 14:41:42 +0000

For claude shops this was a huge hit. But lets back this up. There are some companies that haven't even built a break-even model at this price because they are funded by investment. As soon as those investors lose patience the first dominos will fall. For those who have somewhat of a business model, will it survive a price increase? The bigger question is do the base model providers have enough runway and have a way to keep going as they need to recover costs.

New comment by LurkandComment in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

LurkandComment — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:21:01 +0000

This is market introductory pricing that hasn't factored in cost recovery. Most of it has been run on early investment with the assumption they will recover costs in the long run. The prices are subsidized across the board and they will need to go up signficantly to recover them.

New comment by LurkandComment in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

LurkandComment — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:19:26 +0000

1) This happened because they fundementally misunderstand how to use AI and how AI is priced 2) Most organizations are throwing everything in for analyses and not limiting the answer they want. You need to be specific of about what you analyze and what answers you want 3) People undervalue prompting or templated responses. I will have written. validated and sanity checked a prompt several times and run it across several models before I say its ready for use. But when it is, I know what it will give me and that the scope of its research and answer is as close to what I want as it can be. As little excess as I can. This all saves tokens

New comment by LurkandComment in "Expertise in the age of AI"

LurkandComment — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:45:08 +0000

Variable costs - electricity etc. Current model is very resource intensive. You know when they build all those Olympic Venues and then once the Olympics is done the ongoing cost is too expensive and then they become derelict buildings.... like that...