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New comment by throwuxiytayq in "Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People (2016)"

throwuxiytayq — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 19:07:27 +0000

Isn't this a misinterpretation of what everyone in the AI safety space is worried about, though? I think the idea is that having an AI that interprets everything in a super-literal way would probably be catastrophic, but we can't even build that. It would be a nice world-ending problem to have.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

throwuxiytayq — Sun, 31 May 2026 12:47:43 +0000

I'm not going to hold back my description of reality out of fear that it's somehow magically shaping it. Stating most nurses are female is the mildest observation possible, and doesn't sneak in any opinion whether that's good or bad, unlike your comment.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "AI job grief: A psychological crisis hitting tech workers"

throwuxiytayq — Sun, 31 May 2026 09:42:20 +0000

Some stereotypes are a useful description of reality. You’ve gotta pick your battles.

In the US, 87.3% of nurses are female and 92.3% of truckers are male.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few"

throwuxiytayq — Mon, 25 May 2026 15:22:02 +0000

He’s not even right about whether god exists, and that’s literally his job. Why should I assume he’s competent about anything else?

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "Why is Vivado 2026.1 dropping Linux support for free tier?"

throwuxiytayq — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:17:39 +0000

What’s next? Take away mouse support in the free tier? You could these fucking cretins with GPT2 and the company would flourish.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "My graduation cap runs Rust"

throwuxiytayq — Wed, 13 May 2026 09:55:56 +0000

You are having so much fun in the video clips. I love this!

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era"

throwuxiytayq — Tue, 12 May 2026 21:42:00 +0000

Nice, cute, silly little feel-good demo so that we can all pretend like we’re all going to be making decisions and micro-managing AIs by pointing at things in 5 years. It’s going to be great! The future is bright!

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

throwuxiytayq — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:18:45 +0000

Just display a warning during purchase. This is a UI/communication issue. It’s up to the customer to decide whether they want to risk the opt out.

I bought a laptop without a charger the other day, plugged it into a charger I already had, and it works great (even under load). YMMV.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like"

throwuxiytayq — Wed, 06 May 2026 23:11:30 +0000

Obviously, the measure isn’t mistakes per day, it’s mistakes per LOC. And that’s not the whole story either - AI self-corrects in addition to being corrected by the operator. If the operator’s committed bugs/LOC rate is as low as the unaugmented programmer’s bugs/LOC, you always choose the AI operator. If it’s higher, it might still be viable to choose them if you care about velocity more than correctness. I’m a slow, methodical programmer myself, but it’s not clear to me that I have a moat.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

throwuxiytayq — Wed, 06 May 2026 08:16:17 +0000

> The laptop is being shipped anyway, so I assume the charger in there may be a "sweet deal" if you need one

You do realize you’re paying for the charger, right? And you don’t like the option of not having to purchase the charger?

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag"

throwuxiytayq — Tue, 05 May 2026 11:12:09 +0000

> Human slavery will thus likely swing back into fashion again in the future as oil, coal and natural gas run out.

There must be some other solution, surely! If only we could somehow find some other source of energy...

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "How OpenAI delivers low-latency voice AI at scale"

throwuxiytayq — Mon, 04 May 2026 21:25:26 +0000

With higher latency this would be even more of an issue. When you pause and start talking again, the model wouldn't catch that until it has already interrupted you.

The actual implementation is at fault. I had some luck with instructing the model to only respond with "Mhm" until I've explicitly finished my thought and asked it a question. Makes this much less of an issue.

But I've decided that their voice mode is completely unusable for a different reason: the model feels incredibly dumb to interact with, keeps repeating and re-phrasing what I said, ends every single answer with a "hook" making the entire interaction idiotically robotic, completely ignores instructions when you ask it to stop that, and - most importantly - doesn't feel helpful for brainstorming. I was completely surprised how bad it is in practice; this should be their killer app but the model feels incredibly badly tuned.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

throwuxiytayq — Sun, 03 May 2026 07:28:28 +0000

I have a feeling that my fat ass switching over to Linux is going to outrun their attempt to roll back decades of accumulated tech debt, institutional incompetence and burned bridges.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"

throwuxiytayq — Sun, 03 May 2026 07:12:21 +0000

Clive Wearing's memory lasts for less than 30 seconds, so he has no memory of being awake before now. He is permanently in a state of feeling like he has just woken up, observing his surroundings for the first time.

Clive Wearing's mind has no time continuity and basically zero memory integration. Is he not conscious? There's interviews with the guy.

Where on the scale [No mind <-> Clive Wearing <-> Healthy human brain] would you put an LLM with a 10M token context window?

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "I Do Not Recommend Bitwarden"

throwuxiytayq — Sat, 02 May 2026 21:02:39 +0000

This is absolutely hilarious, and I am totally using this trick when I get to making my own porn video hosting platform (which I won't).

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "Pro-Iran crew turns DDoS into shakedown as Ubuntu.com stays down"

throwuxiytayq — Fri, 01 May 2026 16:27:52 +0000

There is such a thing as being too open-minded to form an accurate perception of reality.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "Apple Has Given Up on the Vision Pro After M5 Refresh Flop"

throwuxiytayq — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 19:31:46 +0000

Most companies don’t have the attention span for the sustained burn needed to develop a new hardware and software platform. These days Apple is just another company. Valve will show them how it’s done.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "I cancelled Claude: Token issues, declining quality, and poor support"

throwuxiytayq — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:58:37 +0000

This isn't about touch typing or IDE tricks. I'm an IDE power user and - reasoning aside - I used to run circles around my peers when it comes to raw code editing efficiency. This is increasingly an obsolete workflow. LLMs can execute codebase-wide refactors in seconds. You can use them as a (foot-)shotgun, or as a surgical tool.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "GPT-5.5"

throwuxiytayq — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:58:51 +0000

It's much easier to measure a language model's intelligence than a human's because you can take as many samples as you want without affecting its knowledge. And we do measure human intelligence.

New comment by throwuxiytayq in "Framework Laptop 13 Pro"

throwuxiytayq — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:27:22 +0000

what’s the screen like compared to the previous fw13 options? i’m considering an upgrade (screen-only, from the first gen one)

and by the way, it’s a world where it’s hard to be a fan of any company any more and the fact that you guys remain exceptional gives me hope