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New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Nullsoft, 1997-2004 (2004)"

jimmyjazz14 — Tue, 12 May 2026 03:21:59 +0000

Glad to see a shout-out for Reaper in the first comments, its my favorite DAW and I've used them all.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

jimmyjazz14 — Wed, 06 May 2026 16:02:55 +0000

If that is the case market forces would likely favor hand written code and all the slop will be forgotten (unless the slop works fine and is stable).

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs"

jimmyjazz14 — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 16:08:47 +0000

It still blows my mind that anyone would volunteer to don these smart glasses, it's almost like some alien mindset to me.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

jimmyjazz14 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 01:03:22 +0000

The definition of intelligence hasn't changed since the 1980's, most would say that true intelligence requires intentionality which is not something LLMs are capable of, defining intelligence can turn into a fairly deep philosophical debate (which I have no interest in having).

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

jimmyjazz14 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:58:30 +0000

again, all the things you listed are just humans acting like humans, not aliens. Thinking these things are not things that fall within you own human nature is rather arrogant don't you think.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

jimmyjazz14 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:30:09 +0000

My point is that wild imaginations about the current state of LLMs is the problem, we wouldn't even consider connecting a random number generator or a statistical model to a weapons system but if we start thinking of it as an intelligence some actually would be tempted to do so.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

jimmyjazz14 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:48:12 +0000

How they were created doesn't change what they are, or how humans choose to use them.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

jimmyjazz14 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:46:03 +0000

That is a choice a human made. Imagine if someone proposed sending the outputs of a random number generator to a space laser and had it fire at will, would we blame the number generator for the destruction it causes? You may say that LLMs are not random number generators, and I would somewhat agree, but at least in their current state and level of understanding we have about how they derive their output they might as well be.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

jimmyjazz14 — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:32:06 +0000

uhg this entire way of treating AI like a magical alien invasion is the problem, it just a statistical model, text-in, text-out (and it humans that feed the input and act on the output). Its not some alien invasion that can't be stopped, its just another technology that we as humans need to figure out how we want to use. Seriously people need to stop trying to anthropomorphize AI, because doing so is one of the biggest hurdles to practical/common-sense AI adoption IMO.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

jimmyjazz14 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:38:20 +0000

Altman really needs some better coaching on how to sound like a real human, he's not pulling it off here. Who witnesses someone firebombing their home (which is terrible btw), thinks for a second about their family then writes a diatribe full of AI marketing bs. He doesn't even attempt to make it sound personal. He could have incorporated his feelings about his child growing up in an AI dominated world or something to that effect, even as trite as that sounds, it would ring more believably human than what was written here.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

jimmyjazz14 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:21:35 +0000

There isn't much compelling economic data that AI has been the cause of any recent layoffs or job loss, yet you speak as if we are already in the throws of an AI takeover. Sam Altman is a salesman, he sells products that's all he is and ever has been, if you are looking for answers to why people can't afford house and food you should look at the politicians in power.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

jimmyjazz14 — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:14:28 +0000

Its mostly based on science fiction, and requires some possibly infinite energy source. The concept always kinda struck me a sort of a perpetual motion machine, you can imagine it, but that doesn't make it possible and why its not possible isn't immediately obvious in the imagination (well I mean most modern minds know its already not possible but you get the point).

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"

jimmyjazz14 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 16:39:29 +0000

now that, my friend is truly a nihilistic world view, do you actually believe people can not be trusted to control their own fate?

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

jimmyjazz14 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 04:04:53 +0000

I would like to see the concept of what an LLM is move away from its awkward chatbot phase and more into an era of utilitarian functionality (which is where they really shine anyway). The problem I see it is that LLMs got anthropomorphized early on (which was probably inevitable) so people actually believed the AI was thinking about their problem and considering it when it really wasn't, if we just thought of them as really good auto-complete engines, or better search engines, it would matter less what the LLMs sentiment was towards the users (as it probably shouldn't have any).

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

jimmyjazz14 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 03:54:35 +0000

Yeah, I have never had good results with refining ideas with models or really any interactions with models outside of rote task such as coding or analyzing document structures, I don't know why I was ever surprised by this as its obvious that LLMs just aren't capable of original thinking. I think part of the problem is that these things were marketed originally as chatbots when that is honestly their weakest use-case. I think even when I was expressly try to not anthropomorphize LLMs I still sorta did in early days, but the less I do so the more utility I get from them.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"

jimmyjazz14 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 02:12:52 +0000

How is respecting peoples freedoms nihilistic?

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"

jimmyjazz14 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 04:18:08 +0000

ah the good ole nanny state, yes that will work out fine I'm sure.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"

jimmyjazz14 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 04:17:12 +0000

or hear me out, we could just let people have the freedom to make their own choices and take self-responsibility for their choices in life.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"

jimmyjazz14 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 04:14:33 +0000

I really don't think there is a good faith way to regulate it without either violating free speech and/or removing online privacy/anonymity. I strongly believe it should not be regulated, though I would support better educational programs on the dangers of social media usage and other dark patterns (and somewhat related, I would remove most screens from (public) schools).

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Fear and denial in Silicon Valley over social media addiction trial"

jimmyjazz14 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 04:08:32 +0000

its called freedom, do we really need the government to protect us from everything they deem bad or unhealthy?