- >The thing that struck me most is how creative they are at finding new ways to fail
Wow, they are really going for that human-like behavior aren’t they?
- I completely agree. Grok’s impressive speed is a huge improvement. Never before have I gotten the wrong answer faster than with Grok. All the other LLMs take a little longer and produce a somewhat right answer. Nobody has time to wait for that.
- Completely agree. Let’s trust the experts we’ve reported on for years: put your symptoms into WebMD. Now please excuse me; according to WebMD apparently this stubbed toe means I have cancer so I have to get that treated.
- Their new smart plugs finally seem reasonably sized. I love IKEA’s smart home products, but their smart plugs (and many of their device power plugs) are comically sized in the US. Their original US version of the TRÅDFRI plugs wouldn’t even allow for two to be plugged into the same (standard size) dual wall outlet. Their more recent TRETAKT is much better, but still larger than competitors.
- Does it actually make a difference? I have an old Kindle (from 2013 I think) and I opted for the ad version. I only see ads on the lock screen, which means I never really read the ads. The few times I’ve looked at them intentionally, they were books I’d never consider reading, just from the title and cover; in other words, a terrible ad for the recipient.
Does the ad-free version not collect your data too?
- Where on that page does it show that it is a necessity? I haven’t been to Rocky Mountain recently (and when I did go right before COVID don’t need one) but am an avid National Parks visitor and have never once needed a phone. You can print the timed entry codes (which I often do because of lack of cell service in some).
- >I am working on a project with ~200k LoC, entirely written with AI codegen.
I’d love to see the codebase if you can share. My experience with LLM code generation (I’ve tried all of the popular models and tools, though generally favor Claude Code with Opus and Sonnet). My time working with them leads me to suspect that your ~200k LoC project could be solved in only about 10k LoC. Their solutions are unnecessary complex (I’m guessing because they don’t “know” the problem, in the way a human does) and that compounds over time. At this point, I would guess my most common instruction to this tools is to simplify the solution. Even when that’s part of the plan.
- >It massively amplified the nuts. It brought it to the mainstream.
>COVID was handled terribly after the first month or so, and hopefully we've learned from that. We're going to endure the negative consequences for years.
In theory, I agree, kind of.
But also - we were 10+ months into COVID raging in the US before Biden’s administration, the administration that enacted the policies the article is about, came to be. Vaccine production and approval were well under way, brought to fruition in part due to the first Trump administration. The “nuts” had long been mainstream and amplified before this “silencing” began. Misinformation was rampant and people were spreading it at a quick speed. Most people I know who ultimately refused the vaccines made up their minds before Biden took office.
- I honestly don’t know. My libertarian foundation want me to believe that any and all ideas should be able to be spread. But with the technological and societal changes in the past 10-15 years, we’ve seen how much of a danger this can be too. A lie or mistrust can be spread faster than ever to a wider audience than previously ever possible. I don’t have solution, but what we have not is clearly not working.
- Ok, but how does that get implemented? Not technically, but who makes it happen and enforces the rules? For all content or just “political”? Who decides what’s “political”? Information about the disease behind a worldwide pandemic isn’t inherently “political”, but somehow it became so.
Who decides agar falls in this bucket. The government? That seems to go against the idea of restricting speech and ideas.
- >SEA and others are still better educated than us.
Honest question: is this true? What’s the data around this? If it is true, why are there so many people from SEA in American universities? Wouldn’t they stay in their home country or another in the area?
I’m truly trying to learn here and square this statement with what I’ve come to understand so far.
- >The best disinfectant is sunlight.
Is it? How does that work at scale?
Speech generally hasn’t been restricted broadly. The same concepts and ideas removed from YouTube still were available on many places (including here).
Yet we still have so many people believing falsehoods and outright lies. Even on this very topic of COVID, both sides present their “evidence” and and truly believe they are right, no matter what the other person says.
- >Slow down our algorithmic hell hole.
What are your suggestions on accomplishing this while also bent compatible with the idea that government and big tech should not control ideas and speech?
- And do you think the impetuous behind this action happening now is any different? In both cases YouTube is just doing what the government wants.
- https://www.ppic.org/publication/californias-economy/
Here is some data on California’s economy. You tell me how to interpret it.
- > U.S. food prices rose by 23.6 percent from 2020 to 2024.
After historic food price roses during a global pandemic and another round of bird flu in four years, you’d think a good president would do things to lower them, not continue to increase them!
- >a young pregnant woman losing her husband, and say, something like a middle aged person losing an elderly parent
This isn’t really your point, but this person lost their husband at 40. By some definitions, that is middle aged. In the general view of things, not young. That doesn’t really change much, but I was thinking of a mid-twenties before I realized who it was.
- That’s understandable. In this 24 hour news cycle of manufactured outrage, who has the time to fully understand an issue before making a proclamation of what is and isn’t true. Facts are old news.
- > our site works perfectly fine,
Was it built by one of the agents? Because parent was right.
- > I'm hoping that this is just the high watermark, and not the new standard.
How long until Fallon and Myers after the president all but threatened them? Guess we’ll find out how high this water will go.
- > I hate it but really what other option did they have? Disney has never been a company to really fight back unless it was about their bottom line.
How about sue the government just the like numerous other times they have? But that wouldn’t work in today’s world where the justice department is practically another appendage of the President himself.
- > his admission that he found Charlie's relatively moderate speech "hateful" strongly suggests the murderer was quite far to the left
Ridiculous conclusion. Empathetic Right Wing people can also have found his speech hateful. Have you actually listened to any of it?
- > However, clearly some people did. Freedom of speech doesn’t mean freedom from consequences. In this case, his employer responded to partner backlash over his remarks.
Government officials also threatened to pull the government provided broadcasting licenses that the corporation has. That’s free speech related.
- >Joe Rogan school of comedy
Joe Rogan, the Fear Factor host turned Right Wing podcaster? Is he know for comedy? I thought his brief failed stint of stand up comedy is why he switched to podcasting.
- Doubt they feel the need to wait. Nobody is going to do anything about it, just like nobody has yet done anything effective about the other blatant corruption. Look at the Saudi “investment” in Trump’s crypto.
- >I wonder if the toxicity of the American culture wars can be contained this way.
Look at recent events: American government officials want to maintain the same level of toxic culture wars that foreign governments want. They just want to control them, not contain them.
- I’m not sure what you are saying… Are you suggesting that US Conservative viewpoints are aligned with those of China’s government?
- >never give out codes sent to use via sms or push notifications to someone requesting them via phone or email. Never. The messages often even say that!
Some services even say that when they are indeed codes you are _supposed_ to read back to them. Which clearly helps further train people to ignore that language.
- >We are a society whose culture has become unmoored from the values that built it.
What society are you referring to? And what values? I’m trying to gauge if you’ve looked in a history book ever.
On the flip side, being able to have a primary I never change and a secondary that I swap out for international travel has proven to be extremely valuable to me. So you take the bad with the good.