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New comment by aakresearch in "OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future"

aakresearch — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 14:59:28 +0000

I find this argument for-RTO/against-WFH emitting exactly the same vibes as argument against women suffrage and workforce participation. Yes, if we forget that we are talking about real people, and only consider a benefit of abstract entities that companies (or society) are, there may be some conjectures, or - dare I say - please bear with me - even limited "evidence" of it. After all, the status quo has supported both arguments for very long time (millennia for society and centuries of industrialization era for companies) and opposition was non-existent for most of that time. Unthinkable even, so embedded was the status quo. But this horse has bolted, because benefits for the freedom and wellbeing of individual - woman or WFH worker - are so enormous, that I do not understand how this handwavy anti-Remote argument is more defensible than anti-suffrage.

New comment by aakresearch in "AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog"

aakresearch — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:01:44 +0000

Last time I checked, their landing page looked like, I imagine, an escort agency catalog would. And why would I go to a cesspit if I already disturbed enough by that "art" screaming at me from every corner of Internet?

New comment by aakresearch in "How to Exist"

aakresearch — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:42:50 +0000

Today there is no guarantee that that sequence of characters, or the one it was produced in reply to, or, indeed, this very one you are reading right now did not come from a bot. There is a lot of "care" being performed and not much left to just exist.

New comment by aakresearch in "How to Exist"

aakresearch — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 02:40:02 +0000

Who's "we"?

New comment by aakresearch in "French firefighters face 'pyrocumulonimbus' for first time"

aakresearch — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:27:51 +0000

0.5% you mean? France population is over 60 million people.

New comment by aakresearch in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"

aakresearch — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 05:18:29 +0000

If decision-makers put up a front of recruiters and talent acquisition "specialists", don't they send a very explicit message that going past those is unwelcome and won't be considered?

New comment by aakresearch in "Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?"

aakresearch — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 07:50:24 +0000

I, personally, think it does not. For the absurd task which has no testable solution, there is no grounded basis to judge creativity or critical thinking behind an answer. The only things that remain are "vibes" or "hilarity". Well, if these are what you want to test for, I do not disagree. But it isn't something I'd be interested in.

New comment by aakresearch in "AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making"

aakresearch — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 04:56:06 +0000

What gives you basis to believe and accept that all of the above is exhaustive, complete and devoid of fakes? That "finding" finds ALL what exists and NONE of what does not exist? Ditto for categorising, summarising and labeling?

There is no fundamental guarantees provided by LLM architecture, so to assert anything of sorts would require manually executing the operation and comparing the results. And why not asserting the correctness is not negligence or fraud?

I am not saying it is impossible, but so far I have not found any explanations that would close this huge gap in logic for me. LLMs themselves "admit" the gap cannot be explained rationaly.

New comment by aakresearch in "The LLM Critics Are Right. I Use LLMs Anyway"

aakresearch — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 01:53:55 +0000

Beautifully put. Agree to the last letter.

New comment by aakresearch in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

aakresearch — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:47:10 +0000

"X in a trench-coat" started popping up recently

New comment by aakresearch in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

aakresearch — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:41:15 +0000

Does it obey?

New comment by aakresearch in "Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS"

aakresearch — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 15:51:51 +0000

Ooooh, don't get me started how mad it makes me! I am paranoid (or just lucky) enough that I didn't yet had it happen to me, but my wife's phone had done it four times in the last year. Each time I check and double check that all "backups" are turned off, and each time it somehow pops back.

So, Google "backs up" a 128Gb worth of photos on the phone onto 15Gb free storage combined with Gmail and who knows what, completely clogs it (as if it couldn't be predicted) and then has audacity to suggest paying for "extra storage". There is no way in online UI to just delete the whole "backup". And the cherry on top: when you finally get to delete some there is a fine-print - "the selected photos will be deleted from all synced devices". Well, I guess I must be thankful that they at least show this warning. This is what passes as "backup" in Google's parlance these days.

New comment by aakresearch in "I think I have LLM burnout"

aakresearch — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:42:34 +0000

I think we are in full agreement. Likewise, I am not in charge of any practical matter, and glad I don't have to answer to any moral or physical dilemma.

The link is fun :). My kill count was 75.

I was hinting at full impossibility to quantify those problems. Starting with un-define-ability (sorry, English is not my native tongue) of the very term "need" upon which the predicate "the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few". Maybe that is why I am leaning towards "deontological" resolution of trolley problems, rather than "utilitarian".

As for LLMs, I use them and benefit from them. For fun, and hopefully for profit too. But if I had a lever I could pull to make this tech disappear - I would not hesitate one second, deontology be damned. Even better if smartphones suddenly follow too.

New comment by aakresearch in "I think I have LLM burnout"

aakresearch — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:36:23 +0000

Wait, what? I thought everyone agrees that modern models post September 2025 (or whenever Opus or whatever 5.6789 was released) do not hallucinate, make things up, contradict themselves and can review their own output into perfection regardless of task, goal or context???? /s

New comment by aakresearch in "I think I have LLM burnout"

aakresearch — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 04:31:48 +0000

If the life of everyone (all 8 billion people) is improved by tech by some margin (pick the margin - 10%, 1%, 0.1%) at the cost of x people (pick the x - a thousand, a million, a billion) being killed by the same tech - is it still positive or negative? How do you even reason about it?

New comment by aakresearch in "Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise "

aakresearch — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 00:53:18 +0000

No, government must not do any such thing. They must back away, as my literacy, curiosity and intelligence is not their business in the slightest. Nobody owes anything to government, especially trust. But if "government" insists on importance of things they communicate, it is absolutely on them to ensure it is calibrated to everyone's profile. And I still am not obliged to trust them. Once a liar always a liar.

New comment by aakresearch in "Forest Brothers Game: Survive the Russian Cold War Occupation of Estonia"

aakresearch — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 03:21:15 +0000

Does the "re-occupied" imply that Nazi's original assault have "liberated" the countries?

New comment by aakresearch in "Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring"

aakresearch — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 02:21:22 +0000

That would end exactly at "Harrison Bergeron" world as described by Kurt Vonnegut, would it not? If every perceived advantage would require you to wear a "handicap".

New comment by aakresearch in "The early hiring funnel is now breaking on both ends"

aakresearch — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 13:30:27 +0000

> We should shuffle the pile and throw half of them in the trash. I don’t want to hire unlucky employees

Modern filtering using "AI" and ATS of all kinds is such a loaded dice that I believe an honest randomizing like you described would be a significant improvement for both ends of the funnel. Beyond jokes.

New comment by aakresearch in "AI demands more engineering discipline. Not less"

aakresearch — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:51:06 +0000

> like asbestos or lead

Perfect framing! I was leaning towards "AI Chernobyl" analogy in my predictions, but I think "asbestos" or "fossil fuels" captures its nature much better. May I borrow it? I definitely see the harmful consequences of "AI" exceeding both, however with sad realization that it usefulness was absolutely below par with any.