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This is slopulism, aka you read social media too much and got depression.

> 99% of the population gets poorer everyday and can feel it.

Absolutely not true in the US. What did happen is that poor people's incomes vastly increased since 2019, while upper middle class incomes stagnated.

It may of course be true in some countries.

> Or that can't afford kids at all.

Birth rates declining is a sign of increased incomes, because people can afford entertainment, and prefer to consume it over having kids, which are kind of a bummer and mean you can't have fun for the next 18 years.

You mean, they used it so people trying to use their maps apps didn't have to wait several minutes for a cold GPS fix?

> Do you really think Western providers will not train on your data? I have no such illusions.

Noone wants to "train on your data". You can't learn the answers to questions by pretraining on the questions, and nobody wants to teach the models to output text that looks like a user query.

The Chinese providers "train on your data" by sending your query to Anthropic and training on the answers that come back.

Free to play video games?

IIRC the car typically asks yes/no questions, but comes to a safe stop on its own first. In some cases they might draw an escape route for it on a map.

And it doesn't work on BSD, and fails in an opaque way when it tries.

Waymo does not do this. You can't remote drive a car.

I like to imagine it means pacing around the frontier like a leopard looking for prey.

Is that assuming Instacart/DoorDash? Click and collect or even delivery from grocery stores isn't nearly that bad, right? I thought it was pretty competitive.

> It can never be better for consumers. The only way a business would adopt this practice is if it leads to greater revenues. On average, that necessarily means worse prices for the average consumer.

That depends on the distribution of consumer incomes. Price discrimination (charging people more who can afford more) can be good for low-income customers.

Mostly towards social insurance for old people.

It's not the only such CPU, Fujitsu's also have TSO.

> Who is the most prominent example?

I don't believe any of these people are relevant or prominent, but the unimportant people I was thinking of were bloggers like PZ Myers, I think they called themselves "Atheism+" or something.

> Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, and Sam Harris - all prominent right-wing figures

Are they? That's um, a scientist whose pop book on genetics I read once, a guy I read in The Nation once, and a guy whose book on Buddhism I read once. I remember the first two evolving into GenX curmudgeons (probably the lead poisoning) and have never thought about the last one again. Still, those aren't the right-wingers I'm familiar with.

Arguments are not executable code or the final work product of… whatever it is they're arguing about. You have to continue interacting with these people and their AIs, so the underlying question of whether they're trustworthy and not evil always exists.

> It's californication into the "rationalist" community as it currently stands is no surprise.

This is the minority split. Most of the online new atheism writers became progressives/social justice/"woke 1.0" people. That trend has receded, so I couldn't tell you what they're doing now. (Probably blocking each other on Mastodon.)

The rationalists are the ones who stayed behind and decided to stick to doing logic and math in their heads instead of thinking thoughts the normal way.

Well, a cult is a high-control social group that's difficult to leave and requires you to believe and do strange things that are likely bad for you or at least take up all your time and resources. And a sex cult is what it sounds like.

Neoliberal YIMBYism?

rsync, seL4, Google Photos and Maps, Jira and Confluence

Brisbane is like Miami if it was full of British people. (Except richer and with sunburns.)

Melbourne is like Seattle if… actually it's literally just Seattle except they think they invented it.

> Even things from the US are coming here, like the growth of Halloween.

Halloween is nearly 100% Irish/Scottish. The only American contributions are using a pumpkin, and sometimes holding it in a parking lot.

The cyborg you replied to.

Something like this seems unlikely to work for a behavior so burned into them. It'd be better to do a second pass to delete all the nonsense comments.

That's a Claude.

> I have a stage-gated workflow

This is a Claudism, right? I feel like I never saw "gated" used this way before it.

Eh. They recently changed the algorithm quite a lot, and the guy who was in charge of it (Nikita Bier) made it a lot less evil when Elon wasn't looking. But now he's gone so who knows what will happen.

Unlike GPT (I think?), Claude is served by all of AWS/GCP/Azure and you can go buy it from any of them.

> - AI centralizes power in the hands of capital, rendering those who can afford compute hardware vastly more capable than those who cannot and thus increasing social stratification

Looks to me like I can run Claude Code without being able to afford my own datacenter.

> - AI produces large amounts of mid-tier content, making it harder to discover exceptional human-created creative content produced after AI started to exist

That it does, but I think the real social evil is bad recommender systems. eg YouTube is basically on a mission to drive me insane because it literally only recommends me a) reviews of espresso machines b) video essays by autistic people about Mario 64 c) PBS scienceslop about how quantum physics is super mysterious. None of these are even what I watch, but they're also not what I want to watch.

After a year of not being able to serve Claude because they ran out of datacenters I don't think they want to go back to that.

(If they did, they wouldn't have added the effort level.)

No, there's no reason chatbot behavior would have anything to do with frequency of text in pretraining.

I think the specific issue with Opus 5 is that its writing style is just trying to cheat at RL. It makes everything hypey yet self deprecating and constantly brings up "honest caveats" because the scoring rubrics look for those.