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New comment by aerhardt in "Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness"

aerhardt — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:13:03 +0000

Sorry for defending Aristotle? Have we lost the plot as a society?

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

aerhardt — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:16:59 +0000

Claude Design with Fable 5 is an absolute killer app that you’d have to pry from my cold dead hands.

I’m not an Anthropic fanboy - Codex has been my daily coding driver for the last year.

But my point is these companies are building app + model combos that are very sticky. Certainly not as much as an OS, but much more than the “there is no moat” crowd give them credit for.

New comment by aerhardt in "AWS: Inaccurate Estimated Billing Data – $1.7 billion"

aerhardt — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:09:48 +0000

One can almost smell the vibes.

This is peanuts compared to a major cybersecurity catastrophe that’s surely in the making.

To give credit to the technology and the people using it - and I’m not being facetious - it’s actually incredible that at the current levels of usage the unprecedented catastrophic event has not yet happened.

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

aerhardt — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 19:21:33 +0000

I'd be scared shitless to even try something like this. There is just a pretty website, a video, and a blog post. No info on the founders, I can't find anything on LinkedIn, just a company Vineyard Finance LTD that was incorporated last year.

We're all unhinged about the data we're giving LLMs but here I'd draw the line. I'd rather keep paying the small amount I pay to have my accounts done.

New comment by aerhardt in "GPT-5.6"

aerhardt — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 18:57:23 +0000

My guide was to pick the best model on "High" for 99% of tasks.

New comment by aerhardt in "Fable 5 On Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, With Plausible Deniability"

aerhardt — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:02:31 +0000

The website linked is an utter mess. In design and performance.

New comment by aerhardt in "Please stop the AI confidence theater"

aerhardt — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 14:28:36 +0000

AI can be used in classification, extraction, and synthesis quite effectively. Not to speak of code generation, or like the author says, for research and strategy.

In enterprise workflows these are essentially super generalizable NLP and CV models that can be developed and deployed at a fraction of the cost.

This is not what the tech bros promised but it’s still pretty damn good!

New comment by aerhardt in "Dostoyevsky isn't difficult"

aerhardt — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:17:33 +0000

His criticism of characters being laid bare at the beginning of the novel is fair, especially in Karamazov. Unlike Nabokov I don't think it detracts from the work.

New comment by aerhardt in "Dostoyevsky isn't difficult"

aerhardt — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:15:53 +0000

Dostoyevsky was massively popular way before the USSR. Nietzsche and Freud were huge admirers. His book sold well in Europe in his lifetime. Same with Tolstoy. Sincerely doubt the USSR soft power moved the needle in any meaningful sense.

New comment by aerhardt in "Dostoyevsky isn't difficult"

aerhardt — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 18:14:23 +0000

I'm reading Crime and Punishment now. I've previously read Karamazov. I agree that it's not particularly hard reading other than the names. And also, maybe, the characters tend to go on long tirades. And I guess you need to know a little bit of Russian history, too. But they're not that difficult. Otherwise his books wouldn't have been that popular. They sold phenomenally well in his lifetime and continue to do so.

New comment by aerhardt in "Steam Machine launches today"

aerhardt — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:46:15 +0000

Google Stadia worked like a charm. I put hundreds of hours into it without a single problem. The tech felt like magic.

New comment by aerhardt in "Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school"

aerhardt — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:33:08 +0000

I studied in a French Lycée in Spain. We did dissertations, brutal 3h live writing tests. There was no problem with it other than the difficulty. Kids didn’t come out screwed up or impaired.

New comment by aerhardt in "LLMs Are Complicated Now"

aerhardt — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 19:22:59 +0000

The parent comment is AI generated drivel, that’s why. Incredible that it has generated such a lively discussion.

New comment by aerhardt in "Is AI ruining our skills? Early results are in – and they're not good"

aerhardt — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:32:59 +0000

I don't know what to tell you bro. I type much less code but I haven't stopped thinking altogether. I still write to myself and to others. I read longform. I walk and introspect. I think about high level problems. Any general cognitive decline I ever notice, I attribute to having a bad day or getting old...

New comment by aerhardt in "US holds off blacklisting DeepSeek, more than 100 firms deemed security risks"

aerhardt — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 18:18:58 +0000

I'm sure they think of them as a matter of national security, because they think of everything as a matter of national security, but a few analysts I respect say that the mood there is not nearly as AGI-pilled, and I have no trouble believing that.

New comment by aerhardt in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

aerhardt — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:41:21 +0000

You say soon but what you just described is still sci-fi as far as I can tell.

New comment by aerhardt in "GLM 5.2 Is Out"

aerhardt — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:03:09 +0000

I’ve seen analyses pointing to the fact that the gap is growing, which would be worrying. I think all the benchmarking and whatnot is not reliable so who knows, but we’ll definitely have a good feel in a couple of years.

New comment by aerhardt in "AI coding at home without going broke"

aerhardt — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 19:46:17 +0000

Well, if you believe the people who sell the tokens, you should be creating loops that keep yanking the bandit’s arm.

New comment by aerhardt in "Open source AI must win"

aerhardt — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 15:43:09 +0000

This is utopian thinking. The products are way too useful to not subscribe. The argument presupposes the worst-case negative-utility in the long-term scenario (AI companies will create a totalitarian nightmare) and pits it against the radical usefulness that the products are creating right now.

New comment by aerhardt in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

aerhardt — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 12:10:40 +0000

It’s perfectly reasonable to believe that a law of marginal decreasing returns will kick in at some point (if it hasn’t already), and that what one point looked like an exponential may start looking like an s-curve.

I do not see how being experienced in engineering, or having higher studies in computer science and economics should make that view less common.