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New comment by poszlem in "From Australia to Europe, countries move to curb children's social media access"

poszlem — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:57:21 +0000

All of that in a very organic, and not at all coordinated way.

New comment by poszlem in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

poszlem — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:38:28 +0000

That's a bit like arguing that the USSR was, in spirit, trying to defend workers' rights, and therefore we should not have opposed it. At some point, the gap between what something claims to be "in spirit" and what it actually is in practice becomes too large to ignore.

New comment by poszlem in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

poszlem — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:47:02 +0000

If anything is racist here it's thinking that redheads are a separate race.

New comment by poszlem in "Claude Fable 5"

poszlem — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:55:03 +0000

Looks like a marxist revolution is soon going to be on the mind of a lot of programmers. We've finally reached the point where the "means of production" in software are back in the hands of the bourgeoisie. It was good while it lasted. But now that only the wealthy can afford access to the best models, software development is starting to look like most other industries, no longer a place where some dude from nowhere can build something cool from his basement because he will be competing with huge companies with unlimited access to those models.

New comment by poszlem in "Claude Fable 5"

poszlem — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:47:56 +0000

Something I never thought I would utter: Here's hoping for china to surprise us.

New comment by poszlem in "Claude Fable 5"

poszlem — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:40:07 +0000

Lol. What support? When they blocked my account the only way to contact them was to send a google form. Then they responded that they blocked my by accident and are unblocking me. Then I remained blocked.

New comment by poszlem in "Home alone: Remote work, isolation, and mental health"

poszlem — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 23:29:25 +0000

Interestingly, when times were good, companies did everything in their power to pull employees' hobbies, interests, and social lives into the workplace. Hence the huge "campuses" and all the rest. Now, suddenly, everyone is surprised that people have no life outside of work.

This may turn out to be a huge wake-up call, perhaps even for the best. People may start going back to a proper 9-to-5, closing their laptops at the end of the day and actually living their lives. Let's hope that the next time the market goes crazy, we remember these lessons - though I'm very doubtful.

New comment by poszlem in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

poszlem — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:16:42 +0000

"Intellectuals are naturally attracted by the idea of a planned society, in the belief that they will be in charge of it." — Roger Scruton

New comment by poszlem in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

poszlem — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:37:15 +0000

Reminds me the Three Body Problem book and the scientists suddenly killing themselves because they cannot see any point to doing science any longer.

New comment by poszlem in "We should be more tired than the model"

poszlem — Fri, 29 May 2026 13:08:36 +0000

Choosing speed today is going to cost you tomorrow. Leaning on these tools degrades your actual abilities. You are making yourself less valuable to future employers. So while it might be in the best interest of the company to force you to work faster it is in your own best interest to resist that.

New comment by poszlem in "Various LLM Smells"

poszlem — Thu, 28 May 2026 21:12:41 +0000

What I find amazing is how HARD it is to make the LLM produce a piece of text that does not sound like slop. I have had dozens of sessions where I tried to make it write like a human would, and yet it still uses those tired writing phrases. I don't understand why neither openai, nor anthropic are able to do anything to make it better, and in some cases it feels like we are actually going backwards.

New comment by poszlem in "YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos"

poszlem — Wed, 27 May 2026 23:22:31 +0000

I think the op mean people writing stuff like: "Amazing what a human soul can create", "This is such a beautiful song. I'm so happy it's not another AI slop" type of comments. I have a fairly popular youtube channel with AI generated music, I make it very obvious that it's AI, yet I still get hundreds of those comments a month.

New comment by poszlem in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

poszlem — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:38:13 +0000

That "another commenter" was Robin Williams - https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fZkFooaaaSo

New comment by poszlem in "Where Are the Vibecoded Photoshops?"

poszlem — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:37:58 +0000

Half of the current startups could be done with a speadsheet and yet they earn money.

New comment by poszlem in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

poszlem — Mon, 18 May 2026 12:28:36 +0000

I think this is a major reason behind the backlash against AI. In the past, people celebrated tech billionaires because there was a widespread belief that, someday, they might join their ranks. But wealth inequality may have now reached a point where that illusion no longer works.

New comment by poszlem in "Canada’s Bill C-22 would weaken protections on private messages"

poszlem — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:57:29 +0000

"Only you, and the person you're talking to, hold the key. Not the app. Not the company. Not the government. You probably don't think about it. "

New comment by poszlem in "Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'"

poszlem — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:36:14 +0000

I, too, cannot wait when it finally stops being true, so people can stop saying it.

New comment by poszlem in "The Whole Anthropic Kerfuffle"

poszlem — Thu, 14 May 2026 13:39:48 +0000

Imagine if they had access to a good AI! They don't even have a bot support.

New comment by poszlem in "EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids"

poszlem — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:46:59 +0000

Because, in general, we see adults making bad choices as a price worth paying in a free society, but we recognize that children lack the maturity and judgment to make those choices for themselves.

Most adults also lack the maturity and judgement, but allowing adults to make bad decisions is usually less dangerous than giving someone else the power to decide which decisions are too bad to permit.

New comment by poszlem in "OpenAI president forced to read his personal diary entries to jury"

poszlem — Wed, 06 May 2026 13:56:48 +0000

I cannot believe nobody brought up that episode of The Office with Jan’s deposition. This is both sad and hilarious, just like in the show. https://youtu.be/V3GbCByGltU?si=ctDluaazxGJ-Io81&t=215