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New comment by gehsty in "Fable 5 Is Back"

gehsty — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 22:48:51 +0000

For a period of time - then you go back to opus 4.8 or new sonnet 5.0 like some kind of AI pauper. Shine your shoes for some fable tokens g’vnor.

New comment by gehsty in "OpenRA"

gehsty — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 19:01:03 +0000

Ah man I remember playing Red Alert against my friends online where you had to put the other persons phone number in and (I guess??) you made some kind of direct network connection. No idea if it was billed as internet or what!

New comment by gehsty in "The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs"

gehsty — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 10:13:01 +0000

I think the issue matters (not us vs china) due to the investment and exposure normal people have to the valuations of the AI companies. It feels like the US govt could make this the pin that pops the bubble. If these companies loose their lead their value drops and the stock market tanks.

New comment by gehsty in "The gap between open weights LLMs and closed source LLMs"

gehsty — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:04:46 +0000

Interesting to consider this inline with recent us export bans, could the US be squandering its lead by giving the open source, largely Chinese labs catch up (in terms of model quality available to masses), will US labs be able to maintain the lead without users being able to use their latest models?

New comment by gehsty in "Scars mark Britain's economy 10 years after Brexit vote"

gehsty — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 21:13:01 +0000

The country is a complete mess - cost of living has gone up massively, wages have gone up significantly slower, no increase in income tax bands mean any increase in wages are eaten by taxes, soon to be 7 prime ministers in 10yrs. Opportunities squandered in energy policy. Right wing rising, with reform no doubt winning the next election. I despair at my kids future - I’m not sure what there is to be optimistic about.

New comment by gehsty in "Telescope Ranchers"

gehsty — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:16:09 +0000

Modern stacking algo negate this entirely for amateur photographers

New comment by gehsty in "Telescope Ranchers"

gehsty — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:15:08 +0000

To get into Astrophotographg you probably need to spend £2-3k for some equipment, if you are based somewhere like the north of England this translates to a handful of clear nights per year. Sending your equipment here gives you an order of magnitude more clear nights.

I wouldn’t do this as I like the fact my photos are taken in my back yard but each to their own

New comment by gehsty in "Telescope Ranchers"

gehsty — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 00:10:52 +0000

Maybe they could just like look at photos someone else has taken? If you are using someone else’s equipment, at a location you’ve never been too, it feels like you may as well just look at bubbles images of things.

New comment by gehsty in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

gehsty — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:30:36 +0000

Curser is the only possible play to make Grok AI some how useful to enterprise, where the vast majority of spend is / will be? Feels like it could only possibly worth this much to Musk. For me Anthropic are too far ahead - this will likely all be for zero shareholder value when Anthropic continues to pull ahead. Will be interesting to see if Musk switches off Collosus to impede Anthropic at some point.

New comment by gehsty in "Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute"

gehsty — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:05:02 +0000

I feel like you are missing the difference between cash out the door and the market cap value of a business. One is a real tangible thing, the other is a function of the stock market.

I don’t think google would spend this money if they did not need this compute, and who know what will happen with SpaceX valuation over the course of a few yrs.

Most things like this are more straightforward than we want them to be - this feels like google paying market value for compute?

New comment by gehsty in "Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC"

gehsty — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 18:11:40 +0000

Sustainable business models that need insano numbers of funding rounds?

We don’t actually know if their business model is sustainable. If they were public we would have a better answer to this.

New comment by gehsty in "Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Forgot about the processors"

gehsty — Sat, 16 May 2026 12:53:23 +0000

And where does TMSC go for the machines it uses to produce these chips?

New comment by gehsty in "AluminiumOS, by Google: Android Reimagined for the Desktop"

gehsty — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:44:44 +0000

Opportunistic url and vibe coded copy? The site looks quite good though, just reads super AI generated!

New comment by gehsty in "Googlebook"

gehsty — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:40:57 +0000

How do they justify developing and selling this? Like how do they justify the internal cost of moving people from core businesses to do this.

New comment by gehsty in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

gehsty — Thu, 07 May 2026 08:55:06 +0000

Where does it end, I don’t see people using AI less as time moves on.

I’ve not seen a cohesive statement on what the world looks like when LLMs can do work perfectly (which on a long enough timeline is coming).

Do Google/ Anthropic / OpenAI capture all value, do clients still want consultancies, if the client wants something that a human would use to do something does that project hold any value in an LLM dominant world, why even bother.

New comment by gehsty in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"

gehsty — Mon, 04 May 2026 11:13:17 +0000

I don’t know what you are saying here? That a program running on a GPU in a data center is alive because it can predict what words to say next?

I find it strange that people are quite often unwilling to see animals as conscious yet here we are discussing if an empheral computer programme is. Have a think on why we don’t eat people but eat chickens - chickens are clearly more conscious than any AI, yet still not enough to stop them being considered food.

New comment by gehsty in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"

gehsty — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:43:45 +0000

It probably is, but the difference is that the signals are happening in a persons and not a gpu.

New comment by gehsty in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"

gehsty — Sun, 03 May 2026 14:42:50 +0000

I feel like it’s quite straightforward - if it’s a living breathing thing it can be conscious, if it is a set of man made mathamatical models that can be switched of, it can be intelligent, but not conscious.

New comment by gehsty in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"

gehsty — Sun, 03 May 2026 08:51:08 +0000

LLMs are word prediction engines.

They clearly are not conscious, they are just guessing what words should come next.

New comment by gehsty in "Joby kicks off NYC electric air taxi demos with historic JFK flight"

gehsty — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 05:58:19 +0000

Clearly no Scottish people with oversite on naming! Loads of wee jobbies flying around!