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New comment by pitched in "I'm Becoming AI-Blind"

pitched — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:22:41 +0000

I think, they don’t care about truth at all, just whether the reviewer rates it highly. Otherwise, it would be deleted after that round of training. It values test-taking ability over critical thinking.

My two favourite words for this are “conditioned” and “catechized” where the latter is a bit more on the nose but way more obscure.

New comment by pitched in "I'm becoming AI-blind"

pitched — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 16:11:01 +0000

> I wish there was a name for this situation. It’s almost like a pseudo-language where it has the correct form and presentation but is missing critical components.

The best I’ve heard of this is peeling the onion. The first pass is always very high-level and you have to make it go deeper. That can be done manually with follow-on prompts but I like using subagents, each with a different angle on the problem.

New comment by pitched in "The Wonders of the Male Human Pelvis"

pitched — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 02:13:17 +0000

Sophie Woods moved herself 2000km in 28 days and the scope of that battle is something I’m having trouble with. That’s 70 km/day for a month. There are no land animals I know of that can hit that.

New comment by pitched in "Our Reality Is Shifting and It's Just the Start"

pitched — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 14:26:22 +0000

A few years ago, when this all started, we had major breakthroughs fairly often that would throw out all the existing tooling. Now, most of the breakthroughs have to do with improvements to the tools instead. All the gains I see personally have to do with agent upgrades, system prompt tuning, skill tuning, context optimization, etc. Didn’t the last Anthropic release come with some system prompt updates too? Plateauing of the LLMs themselves has long since been the case but that means they’re stable enough to build on which isn’t bad.

New comment by pitched in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

pitched — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:44:25 +0000

It sounds like you understood. I find the disconnect between the summary above and the quote below really funny. Almost as funny as explaining the joke here!

New comment by pitched in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

pitched — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:40:12 +0000

I think taxes predates that by a lot and probably had more to do with feeding management.

Money and trade as we know it today was invented by the Romans because soldiers were raiding their own villages for supplies. Paying soldiers with coins then demanding them back from villagers got them to start trading. That’s where incentives started.

New comment by pitched in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

pitched — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:28:54 +0000

This link says very explicitly that it did show people were discouraged from working, making the experiment obviously a failure.

> Among all the people, only two key groups were found to be discouraged from working by the Mincome project – new mothers and teenaged boys, who, instead of entering the workforce at an early age, decided to study until grade 12, increasing the proportion of students who graduate high school.

New comment by pitched in "The lost civic life of movie rental stores"

pitched — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:46:10 +0000

Being upset about immigration like this comes across as someone living somewhere successful but is not competitive with the new immigrants. Not saying psyops and civil forfeiture aren’t a thing, just that watching conspiracy youtube is less helpful than skilling up. This is a reminder to myself, not an accusation.

New comment by pitched in "The Maxwell Conjecture Is False (GPT 5.6 Sol)"

pitched — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 15:08:05 +0000

Before LLMs, empire building was a very large incentive to hire. Teams tended to become larger than they needed to be so the boss feels good about their life choices.

LLMs do not fix this problem, they make it worse. Instead of the team being oversized, they’re now way oversized. It is still in everyone’s best interest to look busy anyways and LLMs do help a lot with that.

New comment by pitched in "The lost civic life of movie rental stores"

pitched — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:39:56 +0000

This comes across as an unhinged boomer rant but is probably more right than wrong.

I have seen fast food chains in the US offering $30/h and that is a life-changing amount of money for a lot of the world. Immigration, as in an individual’s choice to immigrate or not, and the effect they might have, is a supply and demand question.

New comment by pitched in "Game Pass Was Supposed to Save Xbox – Instead, It's Killing the Company"

pitched — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:38:55 +0000

It is easy to see lost sales with a 15$ service vs. the full ticket price of 60$. But I wonder how big of a dent it takes out of piracy where “trialling” many games (vs settling on buying just one) is a big incentive to torrent them.

New comment by pitched in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

pitched — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:23:13 +0000

Is this lazy version of RLM where we use subagents and get them to output markdown documents? With one root agent coordinating, it can create a reasonable prompt and provide paths to the markdown documents for the next agent. This keeps context really low because each subagent is filtering the context needed for the next by bouncing it through that document.

Proper RLM looks like you’re allowing agents to directly modify their own context though, like closing browser tabs they don’t need anymore. I haven’t seen anyone actually doing this though.

New comment by pitched in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

pitched — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:09:32 +0000

These things are still very far from human-level intelligence. Maybe a touch beyond a golden retriever in processing power. Ratcheting the intelligence up a notch from there is expensive. It’s a lot cheaper to simplify the problem it’s solving instead.

New comment by pitched in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

pitched — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 05:41:22 +0000

An approach I like to help solving this is antagonistic or review agents. The first agent decides that eye glows turn NPCs into enemies, the second agent is fully dedicated to deciding if that is valid. If the review fails, it leaves notes and the original agent tries again.

New comment by pitched in "What's slowing down the AI buildout"

pitched — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:12:14 +0000

I think it’s more likely we’ll raise prices until demand lowers enough to match supply.

New comment by pitched in "What's slowing down the AI buildout"

pitched — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:09:01 +0000

There isn’t much need to extract isotopes if you have an actual working reactor, is there? Just use that as-is to cause whatever damage.

New comment by pitched in "What's slowing down the AI buildout"

pitched — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:04:25 +0000

In the Innovation Adoption Curve, we are absolutely beyond the Early Adopters phase and possibly the Early Majority. The growth rates necessarily have to start trending down because there’s no one left to sell to.

New comment by pitched in "What's slowing down the AI buildout"

pitched — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:57:20 +0000

TFA isn’t about consumer usage, it is about training the next generation models. An interesting thought I heard recently is that a SOTA model has about the same parameters as the number of synapses in a Golden Retriever’s brain that are not dedicated to biological processes like breathing. Most of that should be wrapped in double quotes, don’t take it literally! But that number is about 100x lower than the same synapses in a human brain.

If the next order of magnitude costs 40B, I wonder if it’s even possible to get to the one after.

New comment by pitched in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

pitched — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:10:44 +0000

This is the exact kind of cause that triggers the social media algorithms. Part nostalgia, part underdog battle, and no problematic elements.

New comment by pitched in "It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership"

pitched — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 19:06:05 +0000

Sony removing the disc drive from PS6 will save them a lot of money if Xbox also removes it. I wonder if they’re back channel colluding on that right now?