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New comment by krupan in "A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown"

krupan — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 19:59:08 +0000

Eh, let's just build more natural gas powered data centers. Maybe an LLM will tell us how to solve problems like this

I'm joking, but apparently there are influential people who really believe it's a good idea (see: governor or Utah and his statements on AI data centers recently)

New comment by krupan in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

krupan — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 22:49:27 +0000

I think what's also very similar between that situation and this one is the technology is not understood at all by the people in government. They've just been told by certain people it's powerful and dangerous

New comment by krupan in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

krupan — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:35:23 +0000

Ok, now we are getting somewhere. There is no guarantee that they will be a big part of the stock market. It is not "absolutely" sure, for them or for any new public stock. That's why the indices have/had the the rules they (used) to have, to wait and see if a newly IPOed stock actually becomes a big part of the market before it becomes part of the index.

Why did they change the rules for these companies? That's what people want an explanation for. That's what is fishy about all this. I'm not asking you to explain something that seems normal. I'm asking you to explain something that doesn't make sense

New comment by krupan in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

krupan — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:26:59 +0000

I can't imagine why so many people would be looking for conspiracies now days /s

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

krupan — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:14:19 +0000

You forgot that standard computers are also not sensitive to radiation

New comment by krupan in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

krupan — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:39:29 +0000

There are lots of US companies that pay dividends. Another commentor lists some tech companies that do, and there are lots of other types of businesses that do. A quick internet search will give you a list.

You are correct that stock buybacks are another way that companies reward their shareholders.

New comment by krupan in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

krupan — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:31:58 +0000

I love this clip (this is the other guy that predicted the 2008 crash, played by Steve Carell in The Big Short). Cult Stock is a great way to think about it.

https://x.com/i/status/2061808563979251857

New comment by krupan in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

krupan — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 19:15:20 +0000

What evidence do you have they are not? You've been questioning everyone, please justify your position

New comment by krupan in "My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development"

krupan — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:19:59 +0000

I find it hard to believe that these LLM systems with their enormous training sets and built-in system prompts have their output meaningfully modified by a few paragraphs of extra prompting in the form of these skill files, BUT, it is cool to see people writing out consise, focused documents like this. These would have great to have as a young developer, and great for several of the teams I've worked in in the past. I dabble with python for automating things here and there and I just learned some new things reading __mharison__'s skill in the comments here.

This kind of wisdom used to be cfound in blog posts, or in the beads of more senior developers, but they were never written out as concisely as these skill files. It's kinda funny that billions of dollars had to be spent creating a machine that's a rough human analog needing guidance to get us to produce these documents

New comment by krupan in "My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development"

krupan — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:06:19 +0000

If the consume more tokens then they are not free. If they consume those tokens without really improving anything them they are snake oil

New comment by krupan in "My Agent Skill for Test-Driven Development"

krupan — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:04:50 +0000

It's as of people crave some sort of control and/or determinism from these chaotic tools, and so they have to believe that these "skills" make a difference

New comment by krupan in "Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis"

krupan — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:08:16 +0000

Nobody in this thread said free or affordable. I'll admit I assumed free when maybe I shouldn't have, but it is a much more precise term than affordable. I you want to talk about affordable I would again point to the way things are in this universe. For some of us building and maintaining a shelter would be easier (more affordable) than for others. It sucks, but it's not because of some human imposed system. I know it's comforting to blame other people, but ultimately it really is just the way this universe works. Getting past the victim mentality is a huge help in life.

New comment by krupan in "Stop Killing Games"

krupan — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 01:02:53 +0000

Linux and all the other free software argues that that is not needed

New comment by krupan in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

krupan — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:55:06 +0000

My "and then" simply implies order of operations. When it's fully "trained" then (and only then) can it generate text.

And I will reassert that even if it "understands" the text it was trained on, that is not the same as understanding humans. I mean really, we ARE humans and we barely understand humans.

The thing LLMs model and "predict" is simply, what words in what order are statistically common given these input words in this order.

You can write (non-ai) software to model and predict things using the laws of physics. I'd wager it would do a better job than any LLM at predicting where a rocket will go through space. Does that mean the program is conscious and "understands" physics? No

New comment by krupan in "Stop Killing Games"

krupan — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:45:02 +0000

Have there been commercially successful free software games?

I'm not aware of anyone that has even tried to do that. That doesn't mean it's impossible.

New comment by krupan in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

krupan — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:07:01 +0000

"Wearing can learn new procedures and even a few facts, not from episodic memory or encoding, but by acquiring new procedural memories through repetition. For example, having watched a certain video recording multiple times on successive days, he never had any memory of ever seeing the video or knowing the content, but he was able to anticipate certain parts of the content without remembering how he learned them."

Honestly, that's a pretty messy state of consciousness and I wouldn't proudly crow that my AI is conscious if that's as good as it got

New comment by krupan in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

krupan — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:03:53 +0000

They are conscious because even for short periods of time they do form memories and those change them even if only briefly. They think on their own too. It is a very limited level of consciousness though.

New comment by krupan in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

krupan — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:00:05 +0000

"If a machine has to learn to understand humans to complete text, then that is what it has to do."

But the machine doesn't have to understand humans to do that. It gets trained on a whole bunch of sentences and then it is able to complete text. You could maybe claim that it "understands" the text but even that's a stretch.

New comment by krupan in "Stop Killing Games"

krupan — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:07:05 +0000

Amazing nitpicking of the phrase, well done

New comment by krupan in "Stop Killing Games"

krupan — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:05:25 +0000

No. Didn't you read the whole thing?