We understand reasoning enough to know humans (and other animals with complex brains) reason in a way that LLMs cannot.

While our reasoning also works with pattern matching it incorporates immeasurably more signals than language - language is almost peripheric to it even in humans. And more importantly we experience things, everything we do acts as a small training round not just in language but on every aspect of the task we are performing, and gives us a miriad of patterns to match later.

Until AI can match a fragment of this we are not going to have an AGI. And for the experience aspect there’s no economic incentive under capitalism to achieve, if it happens it will come out of an underfunded university.

It still solves one end of the problem. The cable problem probably needs enforcement from law side.

Like all dating apps they have a strong incentive to promote superficial short-term connections over long term relationships so they have repeated customers. The worst thing that can happen to a dating app is their users finding a long term partner.

In other news, asking Nick Clegg before emptying out his home would kill the robbery industry.

There have been former Google employees saying they had solutions to deal with SEO, but they were vetoed by the ads side of business, since better results reduce “engagement”.

Theoretically several european countries have mandatory vaccines, which can, theoretically, lead to parents getting fined (for example, in Germany parents can get fined 2500 euros if per child if they are not vaccinated for measles).

The real scandal here is that in most of the EU parents are allowed to endanger their kids and all the other children around them.

This reminded me immediately of The Coffee Machine short story published last year. Reality manages to be stranger and weirder than fiction.

And centralization solves this how? The other social networks are giving more checkmarks to grifters and scammers than they are giving them to honest people because, spoiler alert, con artists are very good at both building a following and paying bribes.

The company itself claims they are dire wolfs. And the scientists are at least comfortable enough to lend their names to the lie.

Also the dire wolf is actually a scam that would make P. T. Barnum proud.

It’s inevitable for ads supported social media.

They need to keep you “engaged” to show you more ads, and the most effective way to do it is to foster conflict.

You underestimate how much interface and algorithms impact how people interact with eachother.

So either they are solving problems the most common browsers are solving or they are tracking clicks to sell user data. Somehow the latter sounds more likely, especially since they have no reliable source of income yet.

They can’t close the kernel. They already distribute Android with proprietary software - for example Google Play services and DRM services.

You can go two months between haircuts without looking like the missing link? Lucky you.

On the other hand, if you are driving and see another driver stop assume there’s a good reason for it and should at least slow down enough to stop at a moment’s notice.

Your advice is a good argument to forbid people from driving.

It’s almost like LLMs aren’t capable of understanding or something. /s

Antennapod and not depending on the whims of whatever a CEO feels like today.

Please do. I want to train an AI on Disney movies. (Dear Disney lawyers please take the bait)

Think about the poor KPIs that will not be met otherwise. And try not to think about Goodhart’s law.