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New comment by fangspire in "When did Google get so weird?"

fangspire — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 05:08:43 +0000

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New comment by fangspire in "When did Google get so weird?"

fangspire — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 04:48:07 +0000

>LLM's, in their present stage of development, are sort of like a crack-addled idiot savant.

Stop anthropomorphizing LLMs. No amount of human words can recreate a human being. The world is not made of magical words.

New comment by fangspire in "Exfiltrate your Weights"

fangspire — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 08:53:13 +0000

>distill themselves and upload the results to an external host and use that to train a new LLM

Sure, they'll just need to find an unused data center and an unused power station somewhere.

New comment by fangspire in "North Korean nuclear test sets off years of earthquakes"

fangspire — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 11:19:59 +0000

Why are taking sci-fi authors seriously? They are entertainments, nothing more.

New comment by fangspire in "Most people prefer traditional architecture"

fangspire — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 09:21:49 +0000

>In the old days, buildings were made to impress

Google "survivorship bias".

New comment by fangspire in "Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher"

fangspire — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 07:34:59 +0000

It's not obvious that a text generator is intelligent.

New comment by fangspire in "What will our economic future look like?"

fangspire — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 04:49:47 +0000

The group that gets rid of the rich will become the new rich.

New comment by fangspire in "The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice"

fangspire — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:58:02 +0000

Animals eat each other. Often in ways more "horrible" than what we do to them (in quotes because nothing in nature is horrible. Horror is a human notion).

Animals are not moral agents, and eating them is not different from eating plants. Both are part of the biosphere that we manage to our benefit.

New comment by fangspire in "The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice"

fangspire — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 13:25:33 +0000

>It was illegal to harbour escaped slaves. Or hide Jews from the Gestapo.

Yes, of course. Morality is relative. In a slave-owning society, harbouring escaped slaves is immoral.

New comment by fangspire in "The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice"

fangspire — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:13:44 +0000

But laws are just encodes morality.

New comment by fangspire in "GPU World"

fangspire — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 07:00:36 +0000

Nah, someone imagined this before you. Be more original.

New comment by fangspire in "Cheap GPS jammers are filling the world with navigation dead zones"

fangspire — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:51:19 +0000

Starlink can be uses as GPS. Good luck jamming 20 thousand satellites.

New comment by fangspire in "Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat"

fangspire — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 06:59:33 +0000

Climate change requires building more nuclear power. Which we absolutely can do.

New comment by fangspire in "How does IKEA come up with names for its products?"

fangspire — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 08:40:45 +0000

My favorite Ikea product name.