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New comment by little_endorian in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"

little_endorian — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:51:50 +0000

You can take LLMs out of opening knowledge by playing chess960, and their performance degrades significantly. I just tried playing Claude Sonnet 5 (high), and it made its first illegal move on move 5.

They played 4...c6, followed by 5...Nc6, somehow forgetting about the pawn the just put on c6. (My move in between was 5. Nc3, and apparently they were trying to mirror me.)

New comment by little_endorian in "TSMC head says drive to onshore chip supply chain is 'unrealistic'"

little_endorian — Thu, 21 Apr 2022 19:01:00 +0000

Morris Chang's point is that TSMC is able to draw upon Taiwan's very best talent, as the country's most attractive employer. Likewise, Samsung is among the most prestigious Korean employers. In contrast, where does Intel rank among US employers?

New comment by little_endorian in "Our self imposed scarcity of nice places"

little_endorian — Thu, 04 Nov 2021 23:33:55 +0000

He literally has a video praising a suburb with detached houses, while attacking a suburb with 40-storey condo buildings: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MWsGBRdK2N0

Sure, we'd all love to live in spacious mansions with robot butlers. But in the real world, most people live in crappy suburbs, where much of the land is dedicated to useless front lawns and excessive parking requirements that make walking a major PITA.