Although I can see them selling an original 2007 iPhone Anniversary Edition, fully upgraded under the hood and with a modern screen/camera/wifi/5G

But I'm only saying that because I don't like giant phones: I'm in the 2% minority.

They would be if they had gotten popular and competition had ramped up. But that didn't happen.

e.g. who's Meta competing with via these VR Glasses?

It’s basically the Napster era of AI at that point.

“You wouldn’t query a Chinese vector database, would you?”

For that any decent model from the past year will do.

If you want to forget how to write code and not read generated code, then you need a very good frontier model, ideally one from 6-12 months in the future.

This is the least pro-AI tech community on the internet.

Some years ago when I was more willing to waste time, I used to argue with people on here who disabled javascript in their web browsers and complained that websites didn't work. That wasn't the dark ages... it was around covid era times. HNers are often proud luddites, or at least proud tech minimalists.

You might as well ask horses in 1908 what they expect from the next 5 years of combustion engines

I've stopped using Astra entirely and remain on Sol orchestrating Luna Xhigh, but it's still not nearly a week's usage for a week's allotment.

And even then, whenever a new model is about to come out, it feels like the model I'm using is being dumbed down substantially.

I have no evidence for this and can have no evidence for this, but I can vote with my wallet regardless.

We (or our constructs) can plausibly mine all there is and then there's no more that's physically possible for us or our constructs to mine within the universe in which we exist.

If an ant can't conceive of or perceive trigonometry that doesn't mean trigonometry doesn't exist. But if neither an ant nor a human nor any creature or construct or technology inside the current universe, now or ever, can conceive of or perceive trigonometry, then we might as well call it non-existent. It may exist: but we'd literally never know it and neither would our constructs or space aliens or inter-dimensional aliens, or their constructs, etc.

Say that there's a level of mathematics at which a blerg is a zorg, but our universe includes neither blergs nor zorgs and no intelligences in our universe can conceive of blergs/zorgs because that would require having evolved outside our universe... in that case we can consider our universe's mathematics solved without it needing to work down to the blerg and zorg level.

That’s true of all humans and all constructs.

So however much math there is to discover, that’s the finite subset you’ll ever have access to.

It’s hard to prove what thoughts no human and no construct is capable of generating, but surely there are some, and it’s possible or even likely some of those are math-related.

We can conceive of lots of mathematics that our own universe doesn't necessarily support. But only that much and no more: we're still made of stuff inside the universe, and so are our tools, so there are upper limits on our conception.

At those levels math and physics are the same bound: the bound of things the universe allows to be conceived of inside it.

It’s possible the math our monkey brains + sand can ever conceive of in this universe is a low and accessible amount.

Brute Force or not, the game is being played and won without them all of a sudden, and even worse: at a level of output far beyond them

The universe is bounded by rules, as far as we can tell, and not a lot of them

If you can build that as a feature I'd love to use it.

We might override them or ignore them or whatever, but they make decisions as much as anybody else or anything else does