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New comment by throwthrowuknow in "How to Write with an LLM"

throwthrowuknow — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 11:44:28 +0000

artificially-flavoured is also a tic unless the author was trying to make fun of load-bearing, but it’s a bit too subtle to make the point

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "AI safety is mostly a sex cult"

throwthrowuknow — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 10:21:58 +0000

This isn’t moral panic, it’s saying “hey, all these influential people are intimately connected across the strongest possible dimensions (money, sex, belief and legal grey areas), we should probably pay attention to that”

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone"

throwthrowuknow — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 03:36:21 +0000

Cool as long as I can still have my own firepit in my backyard, have a campfire when I go camping, have a gas stove, a furnace, birthday candles, etc.

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "AI is not a normal technology"

throwthrowuknow — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 03:32:59 +0000

Pretty funny how the author fails to identify what the new jobs will be like and then immediately follows it up with the answer but in a way that is oblivious to what is of value in a post scarcity world: AI cannot be human.

The flop is that he jumps to the assumption that being human means hand carving wood or some other nonsense.

The thing that people desire above all else when all their material needs are met is human connection and involvement. Whether that is friendship, love, conversation, rivalry, companionship, gossip, play, competition or even just the silent presence of others. Honestly, just use your brain, why else do extremely wealthy people have multiple large houses, yachts, clubs, etc.? It’s not so they can just sit in them alone and admire their grandeur. Those things are for entertaining their friends and embarrassing their enemies, for hospitality, for lending while not in use to curry favour, to rise in social circles. It’s all about people.

This has been the case all throughout history for the wealthy. Ample documentation everywhere and no one sees it. Instead everyone is dumbfounded about what they’re going to do when they can’t spend all day turning a wrench or typing on a keyboard. Have you never entertained the idea of what you would do if you won the lottery tomorrow?

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "Why So Many AI Researchers Think the Machines Could Kill Everyone"

throwthrowuknow — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:38:20 +0000

This is the same description as any other technology including fire.

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "We have a year to fix security everywhere"

throwthrowuknow — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:15:27 +0000

I didn’t specify genetics

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021"

throwthrowuknow — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:06:09 +0000

It should be easy to calculate this for your own needs based on your playlists. The advantage of buying is that you build up your own catalog of artists that you listen to regularly which means you don’t have to keep paying for them. So, at first, buying the albums would be more expensive but after a few years it would become much less expensive. The exception would be if you are always looking for the latest tracks by a large number of artists but I don’t think that’s most people.

Older popular music can be purchased second hand or as a various artists album which also saves money.

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "We have a year to fix security everywhere"

throwthrowuknow — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 11:40:14 +0000

You’re leaving out some options for sure. Not everyone would need to live under the conditions of a police state, you could theoretically screen everyone and assign them to various levels of risk which would determine their level of supervision.

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "An Alien Mind"

throwthrowuknow — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:19:17 +0000

Development and improvement of nuclear weapons was an entirely American project until the technology was exfiltrated and then it became an instant arms race. That cat is already out of the bag with LLMs. Distillation is just the fastest way to keep pace but that in no way prevents other countries and actors from doing it the hard way.

An arms race doesn’t imply one side winning, it’s not a race with an end goal, it’s a race to keep pace or retake the lead position which can oscillate between the parties involved indefinitely. The other option is to agree to make no further progress or to disarm.

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

throwthrowuknow — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:58:02 +0000

Nah, it’s just a deliberate setup for a false flag attack by “rogue AGI” which will necessitate widespread crackdowns on internet access and computer ownership so that control over communications can be centralized again.

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "OpenShot 4.0 – Open-source video editor"

throwthrowuknow — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:24:34 +0000

I can’t help but laugh at this, it’s like a comedy skit with two people with different European accents accusing each other of being American.

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment"

throwthrowuknow — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 12:14:38 +0000

We’re watching a repeat of the arguments against Chess and Go engines.

It’s all computation, humans just can’t always experience or explain the computation they are doing at the time so we call it creativity instead.

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "Building a backyard office, the build and cost breakdown"

throwthrowuknow — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 16:50:13 +0000

You could do it for less than half that cost if you do your own labour. I actually came into the article thinking that’s what they did but was disappointed.

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast"

throwthrowuknow — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:45:35 +0000

I’m sure it would be fine for simple routine tasks but it wouldn’t compete with OpenAI and Anthropic models

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast"

throwthrowuknow — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:29:28 +0000

Hardware yes, weights? lol

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "If this is true, the hyperscalers are toast"

throwthrowuknow — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 11:39:54 +0000

From what’s presented this seems to be the lower end of Q&A and reasoning tasks and not long horizon agentic work. I agree that the search engine replacement AI usage is something that can run anywhere (though it’s still better run in the cloud for speed, context length, sandboxing and convenience) but this isn’t the engine of AI growth.

Also, the average consumer is not going to be running a local model until they are built into the hardware they already buy and when they are, who is supplying the weights? They’ll likely be shipped as an ASIC (or MSIC) at that point anyways. Those will use a licensed model from the current leaders. The whole argument sounds like saying that cloud services shouldn’t be profitable because everyone has a computer at home or to meme “we have AI at home”.

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

throwthrowuknow — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:37:39 +0000

This is very poignant. The entities that controlled the content broadcast over radio and TV or what was published in books and newspapers had an enormous impact on both culture and language. Radio and print didn’t just transmit the voice of a single person, the message was shaped by whole teams of editors, bureaucrats, politicians, censors and the necessities and constraints of the technology. Any message that a person tried to transmit through these channels was transformed more than it would be if you ran it through an LLM or more likely not transmitted at all.

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

throwthrowuknow — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:22:32 +0000

The bigger problem is its effect on the way we use language. The amount of LLM generated or edited media is going to keep increasing and the media that people consume affects their own word choice.

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "Suspecting court of using AI, man injected prompts in filings to try to win case"

throwthrowuknow — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 11:08:12 +0000

No, it doesn’t intimate that the judge would forgive benign or joke attempts at prompt injection to “expose” the use of AI, the article specifically mentions that the judge sanctioned them as a result of them continuing to add hidden text that only contained assinine comments after the initial attack. RTFA

New comment by throwthrowuknow in "Why does Opus 5 feel worse to work with?"

throwthrowuknow — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 20:36:52 +0000

I always assumed it was just a form of fingerprinting or the result thereof.