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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?

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

jimmyjazz14 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 03:08:11 +0000

Toxic waste is harmful to everyone all the time, social media is maybe harmful to some people some of the time, kinda like peanuts, should we ban peanuts? I'll further add that social media is beneficial to many people as well.

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

jimmyjazz14 — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 02:51:16 +0000

I have no love for social media, but I also really don't like the idea of the government regulating how apps are designed, or trying to circumnavigate online privacy to "protect children" which where I see this whole thing going.

On another note, personally I'm not sure I buy the "addictive" argument with social media, maybe its just me but I find social media pretty boring, but I think for a lot of younger people it is something that fills a need for meaning and connection to the world that has been diminished due to a loss of community in our society (which does predate social media).

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

jimmyjazz14 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:22:44 +0000

True, but people in the government are already pointing to it as reason to pass the "Kids Online Safety Act" and overturn section 230.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case"

jimmyjazz14 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 16:02:02 +0000

Coming from someone who hate social media (and has kids) this might seems like a good thing on the surface, but I worry it will be another case used to allow the government to limit speech on the internet for adults.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Local LLM App by Ente"

jimmyjazz14 — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 17:06:50 +0000

LLMStudio is pretty darn easy and if I recall it recommends a model to install when you first start it

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

jimmyjazz14 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:56:22 +0000

I don't follow your logic, it was always either going to disappear or become routine much like any other tool you would use at work.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

jimmyjazz14 — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:47:03 +0000

I think the advancements around models and such are still somewhat interesting but its all the hype around peripheral things like OpenClaw, agentic workflows and other hyped up AI-adjacent news that are getting pretty old.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Tin Can, a 'landline' for kids"

jimmyjazz14 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:57:51 +0000

We just got our kid one of those cheap prepaid "dumb" cellphones, works fine and he can take it with him if needed.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "I'm OK being left behind, thanks"

jimmyjazz14 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 14:46:12 +0000

Yeah, I found this strange as well, if the tech is so amazing why do developers need to be forced to use it?

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Agents that run while I sleep"

jimmyjazz14 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 15:07:44 +0000

agreed, honestly if I see my agent "run" for more than 5 minutes or so I get very suspicious that its doing anything of value other than burning credits because more often than not its just talking to its self or running in loops. I also find the whole multi-agent stuff to be suspect most the time, I don't know that I have seen multiple agents running in parallel do anything that a single agent with good guidance couldn't do synchronously in about the same amount of time.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults"

jimmyjazz14 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:47:21 +0000

Shocked! Shocked I tell you! Could not have seen that coming, nope not even for one second.

New comment by jimmyjazz14 in "KORG phase8 – Acoustic Synthesizer"

jimmyjazz14 — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 20:29:08 +0000

Doesn't the Rhodes use hammers to hit the bars though?