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New comment by RealStupidity in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

RealStupidity — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 03:32:12 +0000

I'm not just talking about LLMs though. People thought the internet and email were just a fad that would never catch on. People thought that the idea of home computing was absurd. All because they only saw what was in front of them at the time.

Also, how many accountants do you know that are truly happy with their work? I'd like to think many of them would love to do something other than crunch numbers all day.

New comment by RealStupidity in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

RealStupidity — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 01:42:17 +0000

I'm always surprised at how many people in the tech sector don't think that things can and will change. In the next couple of years? Sure. 5+? Who knows. Necessity is the mother of invention.

New comment by RealStupidity in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

RealStupidity — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:36:29 +0000

I think that a lot of posters here are missing the point - this is just the tip of the iceberg, and even simple improvements in prompting (infer the meaning of the lyrics, then generate footage related to that) would create a better result.

There is no going back from this, only forwards, for better or worse.

New comment by RealStupidity in "Ending respiratory infections"

RealStupidity — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:29:10 +0000

I like the idea, but I think there will be significant costs associated with it, especially for stricter environmental controls for poisonous materials and water / air pollution, since it'll cost companies to implement and maintain this, regulate it etc.

New comment by RealStupidity in "Investigating how prompt politeness affects LLM accuracy (2025)"

RealStupidity — Fri, 29 May 2026 16:48:59 +0000

You're really clutching at straws here, have you ever been convinced something isn't sentient? Do you think everything is sentient? I understand the argument that normalizing with something like an asshole could cause you to act that way outside of that context, but I really don't see anyone getting convinced that some sentient thing suddenly isn't.

New comment by RealStupidity in "I Cancelled Claude: Token Issues, Declining Quality, and Poor Support"

RealStupidity — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:59:46 +0000

If only OpenAI spent a significant amount of money on some kind of generative software that was predominantly trained on internet comments that'd be able to do all the astroturfing for them...

New comment by RealStupidity in "Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return"

RealStupidity — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 11:04:14 +0000

I think it's less about being able to buy and hold stocks, and more the effects that going has on an organisation because you're now beholden to shareholders who expect returns causing the decisions made by the business to prioritise short term gains

New comment by RealStupidity in "Muse Spark: Scaling towards personal superintelligence"

RealStupidity — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 06:00:45 +0000

I agree that it's more like a compiler (turns higher level language into machine code) but I also think that's only half the story - a compiler could never turn requirements into functional software, generate boilerplate or debug. It's also a development tool

New comment by RealStupidity in "Neanderthals survived on a knife's edge for 350k years"

RealStupidity — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 05:25:55 +0000

To our pets we're gods - in some ways it's just a matter of perspective