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New comment by raz32dust in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

raz32dust — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:38:35 +0000

Yes but you're getting a lot more for the same price. It's a lot more powerful, comfortable, safe and efficient while the effective cost has remained the same.

New comment by raz32dust in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

raz32dust — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 22:24:58 +0000

This view is too cynical. The frontier advancements are certainly going to trickle down. Take cars for example. AI driven cars are already here. AI-designed battery systems, fuel systems, materials and 3d printing capabilities will come to cars. It will likely lead to cheaper, more efficient and more effective vehicles. If will just take time for the impact to percolate.

New comment by raz32dust in "What Meta got right with Muse"

raz32dust — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 08:13:12 +0000

A lot of use cases for agents require long running sessions. And you're likely to have many agent sessions running in parallel. These aren't going to be running on your personal devices

New comment by raz32dust in "Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe"

raz32dust — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 19:58:56 +0000

Why only GLP? Same logic can be applied to all preventive care

New comment by raz32dust in "Transit rewards"

raz32dust — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 05:12:10 +0000

Nice idea. But too many ifs and buts, and it's too little to really change habits. Besides, waymo's main issue seems to be supply right now. I can never get one when I need it.

I wish the government would rather invest in better public last mile connectivity programs or higher frequency trains and buses.

New comment by raz32dust in "GPT-6 Sol and Luna"

raz32dust — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:41:24 +0000

Interesting that factual error rates have not improved a lot since the last year. Models are getting smarter but not more trustworthy. At this point I would love to have a model that's maybe not as smart but has lower factual inaccuracies and works harder. I.e don't try to find shortcuts as much and does more rigorous self checks.

New comment by raz32dust in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

raz32dust — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 19:50:09 +0000

The question isn't about entitlement at all. It's about decency. I agree, better to not allow people to stay too long on temporary status. But it was and is allowed today. So there are people who have been on temporary status for 15, even 20 years. Fully legally. If your policies require them to just leave one fine day without any recourse, it is not decent.

An example might be someone who is renting your house. If you allowed them to live in your house for 10 years, would you ask them to leave without notice or with just the minimum 1 month notice? Yes they are not entitled to anything more than what was in the contract but would you do that? I wouldn't. Most people I know would work with the tenant and give them more time to figure things out. And if all of this was done with that decency, I am fine with it.

New comment by raz32dust in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

raz32dust — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 15:54:04 +0000

So you're claim of 4 countries isn't applicable to most people buying homes while on visa. Nobody on visa is buying a house in 1.5 years. People buy homes when they've been here for several years and have a permanent residency application in progress. So that's more like the last country where you've been.

Whole point of this thread is that it isn't unreasonable to have kids and family and a house and social life when you've lived somewhere for 10+ years. So any action on part of the government should at least give the space to get things in order or find alternatives. This is a fair and humane expectation.

New comment by raz32dust in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

raz32dust — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 01:43:20 +0000

Curious how long have you lived in 4 countries beyond college? No kids, marriage, social life?

New comment by raz32dust in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

raz32dust — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:11:43 +0000

I think one of the fundamental problem with h1b is that it is labeled as "non-immigrant" whereas for all practical purposes it is really an immigrant visa. Why would a person who is supposedly having rare skills come to a country and spend their best years here without reasonable guarantee of permanency? People buy homes because it is a reasonable belief that they are going to be living here permanently and it has historically been true.

In any case I don't see the point you are making. Should America be treating immigrants poorly because whichever country you're in makes you slightly uncomfortable to buy a home there? It's not an excuse for all this pain and cruelty. America should hold itself to higher standards.

New comment by raz32dust in "Worst-case glacial lake flood scenarios in a transboundary Himalayan basin 2022"

raz32dust — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:11:49 +0000

It almost certainly is. Just too early right now.

New comment by raz32dust in "Dropbox is an obvious PE Target?"

raz32dust — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 05:46:09 +0000

Sad. I still use Dropbox personally and really like their use experience, but I just don't find enough use for it to pay for a service like that. The technology proved to be far too easy to replicate and they failed to build anything that would make users stick around, I guess. Maybe moving to workspace collaboration solution like Google docs was the play?

As much as I hate it, capturing users and building a walled garden seems to be the only way to make it really big.

New comment by raz32dust in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

raz32dust — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:28:30 +0000

I know but the point is that it worked too. You could argue one problem is harder than the other, I am not and expert so I wouldn't know. But at least it's clear the second result is also impressive, and didn't require much expertise. So it's wrong to say that you need expertise to get hard and impressive things done with AI.

New comment by raz32dust in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

raz32dust — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:35:07 +0000

The top comment has a counter example though https://x.com/DmitryRybin1/status/2079904005652893709

I think it's not even about the ability to steer the AI. Just the ability to ask the right questions

New comment by raz32dust in "Study suggests most Americans would be healthier without daylight saving time"

raz32dust — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 06:41:40 +0000

If you present this as the alternative, I think there's a chance people might actually just get rid of it :)

New comment by raz32dust in "The just-say-no engineer was a ZIRP phenomenon"

raz32dust — Wed, 27 May 2026 09:16:22 +0000

I agree with the author that engineers need to recalibrate and say yes more often but the zirp connection is a stretch and unnecessary.

Good engineers will say yes and no thoughtfully and will adjust to the new reality anyway. So it feels kind of pointless since no one is really a just say yes or just say no person, though it is well written.

New comment by raz32dust in "Waymo expands pause to four cities as robotaxis keep driving into floods"

raz32dust — Sat, 23 May 2026 07:08:55 +0000

Does anyone have insight into how waymo is actually doing as a business? It seems to be unaffordable in the bay area. 2-3x the cost of Uber/lyft whenever I've checked. It is very cool, but I can't imagine they're doing well at that price point

New comment by raz32dust in "How diamonds are made"

raz32dust — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:37:14 +0000

It's marketing plus perception of how expensive it is. Most of diamond purchases are for engagement rings. Nobody wants to appear cheap. The expense and rarity is the point.

New comment by raz32dust in "Gmail registration now requires scanning a QR code and sending a text message"

raz32dust — Mon, 11 May 2026 23:53:16 +0000

Google isn't doing this out of kindness. Sure charging for mail would give some bad press but Google can handle it in many different ways and they have in the past. They provide the service because it's valuable to the business. They know that the void will be filled by another service. And that's bad for Google.

New comment by raz32dust in "TransUnion says hackers stole 4.4M customers' personal information"

raz32dust — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 17:12:56 +0000

What can we do to keep these companies accountable? This is so frustrating.