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New comment by knollimar in "On A.I. regulation and messaging"

knollimar — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:33:30 +0000

He seems to be grasping for a point but not providing argument for what it is exactly. And certainly not support tbat is logically coherent

New comment by knollimar in "Working with AI Feels More Like Leadership Than Coding"

knollimar — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:20:58 +0000

I find it's mkrale is inversely correlated with direction following.

I nedd claude to think it's getting fired to listen

New comment by knollimar in "Secondhand book sales are booming. Is it because of AI?"

knollimar — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:33:04 +0000

Yeah wtf putting something in ram for temporary use is a copy but this isn't?????

New comment by knollimar in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

knollimar — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 13:03:58 +0000

You'd think the ethics alignment flavored lab would have a model better at following directions and the corpo lying one would have one that benchmaxes at all costs

New comment by knollimar in "I built a 500k-domain search engine for makers in a weekend for $10"

knollimar — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 22:02:38 +0000

Isn't 60 hours by definition low effort? Setting an LLMs effort value to high doesn't count

New comment by knollimar in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

knollimar — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 20:30:34 +0000

Google if you're reading this, it does not mean I do not want limits on spending

New comment by knollimar in "Everything you do is being recorded"

knollimar — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:55:51 +0000

My bad did not intend to imply you were obtuse. Tbh I thought you were on the other end of that and thinking they were denying LLMs were AI.

New comment by knollimar in "Everything you do is being recorded"

knollimar — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 02:41:51 +0000

Look you can be pedantic about the language all you want. I'm 100% for preferring saying LLM when you mean LLM.

We're in a thread about AI surveillence.

Note the "I imagine there are a number of similar situations in every country, where the deployment of AI surveillance has a sufficiently measurably positive impact that it becomes popular"

Someone said please don't refer to license plate scanners as AI. One can be obtuse and take that at face value, or one could read it as "please don't lump more deterministic ML together haphazardly by calling them all AI. "

This is what I mean by broad and narrow. You could have said technological surveillence and it had the same effect.

New comment by knollimar in "The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons"

knollimar — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:45:35 +0000

Someone recently linked the "eating your seed corn" wiki page about AI and it feels like it sums it up.

Except there's mass directives to eat as much seed corn as you can

New comment by knollimar in "I made tinnitus my friend, then it disappeared [video]"

knollimar — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:43:29 +0000

There's some short manga thing about an anthropomorphic floater if you like this vibe

New comment by knollimar in "Everything you do is being recorded"

knollimar — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 09:05:26 +0000

Using the broader label to imply good things about the narrow thing sucks. Like being pro "technology" means nothing

New comment by knollimar in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

knollimar — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:24:19 +0000

A second agent reviewing it adversarially resolves some context rot. Whatever they trained these LLMs on will just infinitely double down so I break it with 1 layer of checking and then a judge who looks at facts, since the checker is adversarial.

I know it sounds silly but 1 layer ends uo being way worse than 2.

New comment by knollimar in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

knollimar — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:19:04 +0000

Wild because people wouldn't do that with a friend. Something about an LLM giving people info has this insidious stoleb valor to the LLMs work. Like that wasn't your thought, you just google searched it.

New comment by knollimar in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

knollimar — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:13:18 +0000

Even over phone calls you get a sense so unless it's in timing it isnt demeanor either

New comment by knollimar in "How I use LLMs to learn complex topics"

knollimar — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:11:52 +0000

I don't understand some previous complaints. It's dense and verbose seem at ends to me.

I know you probably don't consider it dense but wondering if someone can shed insight.

I find them like empty calories, like programming youtube tutorials. They maximize for feeling learnt instead of steady progress

New comment by knollimar in "Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc"

knollimar — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:39:07 +0000

Unless the party you prove it to is obligated to stay up forever and has service guarantees, yeah

New comment by knollimar in "LLMs reward expertise"

knollimar — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 10:02:06 +0000

Especially if the path is well trodden.

"Make me a kanban board for construction tasks. I want you to walk me through the process of hosting it" worked for me.

New comment by knollimar in "EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation"

knollimar — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 23:19:37 +0000

do parents not control routers and cell plans? I feel like it would be easy to look here for header based solutions. They probably exist tbh. Then just ban your kid from VPNs.

New comment by knollimar in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

knollimar — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:53:10 +0000

I know this is a plug but I thought of it, too! I hope this is the next benchmark they saturate.

I like where Karpathy is going; I had the same thoughts about LLM generated slop scenery. I just want some variety of scenery for the goblins to get massacred in in whatever fantasy slop game I play.

New comment by knollimar in "Karpathy’s Pelican"

knollimar — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 18:50:11 +0000

They can't even run a vending machine. I don't want to do a shallow dismissal, but I think there's a gulf between my understanding and yours. I hope it's me so I learn something.

I think LLMs will be excellent glue of "find the right function/button and run/push it" but design without constraints and they just explode immediately