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New comment by mslt in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

mslt — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 03:27:22 +0000

I’m also guessing that “in the club” from this person’s perspective is “studied mathematics long enough to have an academic career in the field,” and the other group that “genuinely enjoy math” are people who didn’t put in said work but can now watch in amazement as they prompt their way through something they fundamentally don’t understand.

New comment by mslt in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

mslt — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:56:37 +0000

Might as well grind up the tablet of complaint to Ea-nāṣir and make cement out it, right? What use could there be in preserving the mundane facets of everyday existence?

New comment by mslt in "AI companies destroy physical books – let's scan rare books before it's too late"

mslt — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 04:52:26 +0000

To play devils advocate, completely on the terms of your argument, would it be better for that particular human artifact to be shredded and its contents melted into an anonymized data pool, or for it to exist in a museum archive, in its original form, such that future generations can better understand what it was like to be alive in 1994?

I’d personally choose the latter, especially given that the 1994 tv guide is not going to meaningfully improve the utility of the language models.

Direct access to pre-digital history is drying up rapidly, why accelerate that for incremental benchmark gains in a domain that isn’t even relevant to the most useful forms of a nascent technology?

New comment by mslt in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"

mslt — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:26:06 +0000

So what are your thoughts on tavern slot machines where legal? No chemicals but plenty of people who will openly tell you they wish they weren’t doing thus while they cash out a 90% loss and buy another beer to head back in for another round of punishment

New comment by mslt in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"

mslt — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:22:14 +0000

I’d bet that an exceptional legal team could make a pretty solid case based purely on the volume and testimony of behavioral psychologists on their payroll

New comment by mslt in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"

mslt — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:15:47 +0000

You’ve not already noticed that the end of every consumer-facing LLM chat always includes an invitation for just one more turn to keep the loop going?

New comment by mslt in "Meta's blockbuster trial draws parallels to big tobacco"

mslt — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 04:00:17 +0000

It’s such a joke. But we also need to find ways to study and measure non-gambling digital platform addiction like 15 years ago. Thanks to algorithmic consumption, we’re nearing a whole generation of adults that have no idea how to navigate their societal agency and 3 trailing generations that had once learned and since forgot.

New comment by mslt in "Geek Fighter – 2d fighter game"

mslt — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:09:59 +0000

This is well executed and stupidly amusing - can I get an APK port for my android handheld? Would make for a fun game night with some buddies

New comment by mslt in "Check out the new US passport"

mslt — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 04:27:40 +0000

More importantly, the US isn’t the one welcoming someone holding a US passport, so the phrase is nonsense and reflects a complete lack of understanding or at least thought as to the purpose of the document

New comment by mslt in "Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo"

mslt — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 04:09:55 +0000

We can’t even make expensive versions of those goods

New comment by mslt in "An Ohio Valley 100k-watt FM signal is severed in broad daylight"

mslt — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 02:49:58 +0000

I’d suggest considering empathy once you get past the anger, their former selves would be equally repulsed by their behavior, and for many I expect their current selves feel similarly despite their lack of control. The villains here aren’t the broken people.

New comment by mslt in "Ruckus: Racket for iOS"

mslt — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 03:25:12 +0000

First search returned a Reddit post describing it as “Ruqqus was a "free speech" website. You were totally safe to say whatever you wanted there as long as you weren't a liberal or a Jew”

Good riddance

New comment by mslt in "Squirrel seen 'vaping' in London park"

mslt — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 05:48:10 +0000

Nuclear arms and fentanyl come to mind as worse

New comment by mslt in "Claude Code, Claude Cowork and Codex #5"

mslt — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:04:18 +0000

It’s fine that a secondary consequence is them showing their foolish hand; I’ll give you that, but this not normal and should not just be absorbed as though it’s normal and that’s just what we call it now

New comment by mslt in "Claude Code, Claude Cowork and Codex #5"

mslt — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:54:17 +0000

Because they used millions of dollars of American citizens’ tax revenue to make a meaningless edgelord gesture, amongst a myriad of other reasons why it’s a bizarre and childish thing to do. Stopping there because this isn’t Reddit

New comment by mslt in "Claude Code, Claude Cowork and Codex #5"

mslt — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 06:24:53 +0000

Can we stop normalizing the bizarre and childish rename of the us defense department?

New comment by mslt in "Testing Super Mario Using a Behavior Model Autonomously"

mslt — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 06:20:13 +0000

Out of curiosity what particular part of the original text needed to be polished and why couldn’t the writer accomplish said polish without a language model?

New comment by mslt in "Show HN: macOS native DAW with Git branching model"

mslt — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:11:03 +0000

I’d recommend providing a lot more screenshots and information about how the core DAW functionality works in comparison to other DAWs. As is I can’t see enough about what this would feel like to spend my time downloading and trying it

New comment by mslt in "Common misunderstandings about large software companies"

mslt — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 20:14:20 +0000

One nitpicky detail is that the executives may be a rep for the customer/consumer, but are also very much reps for the shareholders and that’s a pretty big distinction

New comment by mslt in "When someone says they hate your product"

mslt — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 08:05:36 +0000

The part about his team is so obviously performative, as though he’s such a great leader he just couldn’t help himself from being a dick because someone was “speaking down to his team”

A mediocre PR staffer got paid a decent piece of money to find a way to frame ab outburst as heroic