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I prefer Claude's vibe over 5.5 but 5.5 seems much less lazy. I'm sure it depends a lot on tasks and prompt strategy though.

Could LLM based AI prefer Linux since it's more customizable?

Are they doubling down on local LLMs then?

I still think Apple has a huge opportunity in privacy first LLMs but so far I'm not seeing much execution. Wondering if that will change with the overhaul of Siri this spring.

Personally I'm excited to see what he can do with more resources, OpenClaw clearly has a lot of potential but also a lot of improvements needed for his mum to use it.

This is economically illiterate. Advertising is not a discount mechanism. It is a tax on the consumer. When I buy a product heavily marketed on Instagram or Google, I'm paying for the product plus the auction bid price required to acquire me plus the margin of the ad-tech middleman (which are trillion dollar companies).

You are conflating "information distribution" with "persuasive surveillance." In a world without behavioral advertising, businesses compete on quality and reputation, not on who can exploit the most psychological vulnerabilities to manufacture demand.

As for innovation: The current ad ecosystem has killed organic discovery. You can't build a "micro-business" based on merit anymore. The winner SHOULD be the engineer who solved a hard problem efficiently. But instead the winner is the dropshipper who cracked the arbitrage spread between a cheap, garbage product and a highly manipulative Facebook ad campaign.

In the author’s words, long degeneracy represents “a belief that the world will only get more degenerate, financialized, speculative, lonely, tribal and weird”.

The most concise and holistic explanation of this trend is:

"As real returns compress, risk increases to compensate".

In a somewhat ironic turn of events the more regulation you have, the worse it is for the customer. Big regulatory burdens require the bookies to extract more from the users, making the offerings more predatory. This is also why the likes of Kalshi can provide a better product to customers at the moment - because they ignore all the regulation.

The same logic is used for this book VAT exemption (which is good in my opinion) - I doubt we'll see the same effect though. Young people not reading is a complex problem to solve but books are really expensive to buy, so it's a good place to start.

[1] https://vidensraad.dk/sites/default/files/node/field_report_...

Every large European company and all of the governments are now considering how to move away from US services. They may not be able to do it quickly but it is a part of the conversation. Customers specifically request that new systems should be independent from US service providers.

In my view the damage has been done and will not go away even after Trump. The Europeans have realized that their only true allies, that they can trust in terms of critical infrastructure, are other European nations. It used to include America, it no longer does.

[1] https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/04/30/europea...

[2] https://nltimes.nl/2025/05/20/microsofts-icc-email-block-tri...

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.06135 - Rewarding Chatbots for Real-World Engagement with Millions of Users

This is pretty funny. I wonder if LLMs can actually become consistent enough to run a business like this or if they will forever be prone to hallucinations and get confused over longer context. If we can get to a point where the agent can contact a human if it runs into unsolvable problems (or just contact another LLM agent?) then it starts being pretty useful.

I'm wondering if someone with a web security background can chime in.. but allowing this seems like a rookie mistake if you're running a large poker site to me.

- The Q* model is very small and trained with little compute.

- The OpenAI team thinks the model will scale in capability in the same way the GPT models do.

- Throwing (much) more compute at the model will likely allow it to solve research level math and beyond, perhaps also do actual logic reasoning in other areas.

- Sam goes to investors to raise more money (Saudi++) to fund the extra compute needed. He wants to create a company making AI chips to get more compute etc.

- The board and a few other OpenAI employees (notably Ilya) wants to be cautious and adopt a more "wait and see" approach.

All of this is speculation of course.

- The press is free to dig and find out stuff - that's what they did here.

- Intelligence officials disagree about the NSA deal. Leadership wants to continue, line officer disagrees and goes to the independent control service for the security agencies.

- Several investigations are conducted showing differing results (independent control agency thinks laws are being broken, subsequent investigation found no wrong doing).

- Secret information is leaked, investigated by the security agencies and a case is brought.

- Courts decide on how the case can be brought and ultimately the case is dropped due to the Supreme Court wanting only partially closed doors (so the public will see some of it).

- ANOTHER investigation will now be conducted into how the Justice Department and/or the Prime Ministry has acted.

While many mistakes have been made by different parties here, the checks and balances work well. Nobody has any supreme power or anything here.

Findsen should not have been speaking to the press a secret source that much is obvious. Imagine the head of the CIA speaking anonymously to CNN about secrets on his own? Unheard of.

This public case has damaged national security much more than just having him fired, and there are some threads to politics (he's rumoured to be hated by the head of the department of the prime ministry, Barbera Bertelsen). However the fact that he is "outraged" or anything of this sort is insane. He dodged a prison sentence and should be happy about that.

The case against Claus Hjort Frederiksen (confusingly called Frederiksen in the article, which is also the last name of the prime minister, Mette Frederiksen) is absurd. He confirmed the cable agreement with the NSA which was public knowledge since Snowden.

Both cases saw vast overreach by the domestic spy agency (PET) in that they used a statute of the law reserved for traitors which is not remotely close to fair in either case.

It's worth noting that the Guardian article is over a month old. Since then all charges have been dropped because the procecution claim they cannot procecute unless everything is in secret, which the supreme court has denied.

I then gave it the original puzzle and got this.

Answer: "[Reasoning] We are given two statements:

If it rains today, I will drive home. I did not drive home. The first statement is a conditional statement, meaning that if the condition "it rains today" is true, then the outcome "I will drive home" will also be true. However, the second statement tells us that the outcome "I did not drive home" is true.

In logic, this is an example of Modus Tollens, which states that if we have a conditional statement (if P, then Q) and the negation of the consequent (not Q), we can infer the negation of the antecedent (not P). In this case, P represents "it rains today" and Q represents "I will drive home."

[Answer] Since we know that the outcome "I did not drive home" is true (not Q), we can infer that "it did not rain today" (not P)."

GPT-4, seems solid. It also solves the original without any issue but gives a simpler answer:

"Based on the information provided, it can be inferred that if it rains today, you will drive home. However, you mentioned that you did not drive home. From this, we can conclude that it likely did not rain today."

You can buy real estate in the US in cash no questions asked? Is that true?

"Buy this rare silver dollar by calling a phone number" LIMITED SUPPLY!!

Making money by any means necessary even by scamming people who don't know better. The worst thing is that Americans I asked about this thought it was perfectly fine and normal.

Inherently consulting struggles because of two things:

1) Consultants usually consult clients on issues where the clients have little knowledge. So it's hard for the clients to challenge consultants on anything.

2) Consultants usually work by the hour which does not align incentives with clients very well. They have little incentive to work quickly and effectively because the slower they are the more they can charge you. This can backfire if the consultancy gets a bad reputation which is why you see reputation being very important in consulting.

Designing better incentive structures is really difficult though.

I would say yes the world of consulting is full of bullshit, especially in America (from what I hear). Scandinavia (from personal experience) is better but not great.

No matter what you think about crypto, Sam Bankman-Fried getting rich so he can do as much good in the world as possible is a pretty great outcome.

It's funny how he started the arbitraging Bitcoin to Japan by just seeing different prices at different markets. I've seen that too but I always just assumed there was a good reason and if not, someone smarter than me would already be taking advantage of the arbitrage opportunity. He just went for it and made a fortune.

If the Tether guys know they have the money and this will never happen.. might it not be good business to keep looking shady? They can buy everytime the peg goes below $1 making free money.. and sometimes a hedge fund comes by and hands them some more money risk free.

In smaller doses I think most people will experience a positive trip if they have a good set and setting.

In higher doses though, the trip is more unpredictable and harder to control. You can't overpower negative thoughts as well because your brain works differently than you're used to.

I can't begin to explain how scary it is when time starts slowing to a crawl, looping and your mind and thoughts don't make sense anymore. Some people never really come back from that. Taking a "heroic" McKenna dose of 5+ grams of mushrooms is extremely stupid and dangerous. Don't do this.

Likewise I think self-medicating with psychedelics to fix mental health is very risky but some risks may be worth it I suppose.

It seems to work pretty well.

Bobby has to go, no matter if this is "his fault" or not. Shareholders lost a lot of money, Blizzard lost a lot of reputation. It happened on his watch and new blood is needed. To be honest I think the studio is lost, we can only hope that some of the spin off studios will turn out to be great.