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That the CCP doesn't have input in this, which is the most important tech in history, which could be more dangerous than even nukes, is naive.

Maybe because there is enough given away that there's a lot of competition they may let other companies do whatever they want but to think the CCP isn't managing this is insane to me

While it does feel that LLMs have been here forever let's not forget we're only 4 years in, this tech is pretty new and I assume Google is trying to heavily optimize it and cut costs in order to justify serving it for free.

I don't find this disturbing, I find it funny.

just ask the agent to write it up if you don't have time to do a write-up yourself

not necessarily, just knowing something is possible will motivate others to achieve it somehow. Which is why there are so many LLMs and OAI doesn't have a monopoly

first figures are from a survey of 40k people

Japan Smartphone OS Share: Android Holds Majority at 54.1%; 66.5% of iPhone Users Plan to Buy iPhone 17 Next [ https://finance.biggo.com/news/c2acbc8b-9244-4765-913e-89d63... ]

Global desktop market share for macOS is 15.31% according to https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide

I feel apple is huge mostly in the US, rest of the world apple has a reputation for being overpriced so people have mostly never used a Mac and if you have a lifetime of windows usage switching is jarring.. speaking from experience

there are a lot of people who put the lives of dogs above those of people]. I think you'd find that a lot of people will donate to save animals rather than humans

In this case the goal is bringing about the singularity, basically creating a sort of godlike intelligence. That's what the arms race is all about.

So we are in a true prisoner's dilemma, if one of the companies / countries stops R&D it risks handing over godlike power to another company / country.

In a prisoner's dilemma the players can't rely on one another to self-regulate. This is why Mafias kill snitches, so when their members are in a prisoner's dilemma they can rely on the knowledge that if themselves or the other party snitches they have more to lose than gain.

The problem is that there can not be any outside party to regulate this on a global scale

Comparison is the thief of joy. I remember when I first got a 1080p display, comparing it to my previous 480p one the difference was amazing, but before I got the 1080p display I had no problem with my old one.

All that to say.. what's best, cheap, no wires, no headaches and happy or expensive, wires, having to download music and make a library etc and always looking for the next high, the next minor improvement?

One of the happiest days of my life was when I listened to my music on a 10$ mp3 player with 2$ earphones after 3 months of not listening to it.

So yeah, you may be right, even though I've tried 3000$ open-ear audiophile headphones, with an amazing amplifier, listening on tidal and it didn't blow me away but even if it did, I'd be stupid to even try, then I'd know what I'm missing and craving a 5000$ setup when I'm already happy with the 1 inch box I can easily carry wherever I go.

In gemini I have the following personal context:

- Do not stroke my ego

- I never want to be complimented

And it disagrees with me a lot, granted this is in the webchat which I don't use for programming but for general usage seems to work, it isn't sycophantic

Haven't used chrome in years, Firefox has served me well

Not only requires you to log in, asks you your username once you do log in, which means for me I can't log in because I had a random username and there is no email from them where it is mentioned

A non programmer can iterate on an idea just as well as a programmer.

First guy I mentioned spent a month tinkering, testing what he could, getting a basic high level understanding of the problem space to understand why his prompts didn't work, etc

friends

I've met at least one person that has gone pretty far on a somewhat complicated project who has literally zero programming experience. he did it for fun.

I also know someone that thought about making a SaaS for his specific niche he works in, he asked me if I ever used Claude then told me his project.

Yes, most people will never do it because they're not the type of people that are self-motivated and courageous enough to dive into something with confidence to see how it goes.

But probably, as more people build stuff and it makes headlines that X person built Y service and is making Z$$ per month and he can't even write a hello world to save his life, a lot more people will try it out.

the better AI becomes the more non-programmers will be able to use it to build apps, and because they don't know how to program themselves they will use FAR more tokens than us to achieve the same thing. As long as AI is good enough for them to build whatever they desire there will be a lot of demand imo.

> it ends if we decide not to keep telling it

That's wishful thinking, what are you saying, labs/people across the world will selflessly decide they're not going to pursue further research if we on HN stop saying it?

idk if it's really worsening, someone who has the same issue can apply the patch. I understand why they rejected it but also I'm not willing to learn everything that DS4 did there since I don't plan on working on ffmpeg filters and the knowledge is pretty much useless to me outside this patch. Too much time commitment for.. fixing a filter no one really cared about for 11 years.

But you can see how the parent's comment doesn't really hold, I was able to achieve this while not knowing anything other than what I need fixed and making the LLM test itself towards that goal.

> Trust me when I say that in the hands of someone who doesn't have your experience, the LLMs would not be getting the results you get.

https://code.ffmpeg.org/FFmpeg/FFmpeg/issues/23049

So there's this 11 year old issue in a forgotten ffmpeg plugin and I fixed it with deepseek by putting it into a self-testing loop. Probably would have taken me a few weeks to even understand the initial code to begin with. I haven't done C work in a long ass time and have zero knowledge of even what sub pixel sampling means.

With DS4 took me a few days and a couple of dollars. And by few days I mean I checked on it a few minutes every half hour or so a few times.

I don't understand the code it wrote but it's been in production for a while now and no issues so it's good. Ended up speeding up our video processing pipeline by 20-30%.

I used to do this too, but I learned that will give you inconsistent dosage as the pills aren't guaranteed to have the active ingredient spread uniformly.

I don't think inference is subsidized, it's the training. So what happens is, there's no new models anymore or are released slower.

Isn't there such a thing as low hanging fruit?

Aren't we already approaching theoretical physical limits? We're at 2nm

still need to feed the livestock multiple times a day, chop wood, fix stuff around the house

Not sure I get it. The model you're improving is local? If so how do you even calculate cost compared to an API

wow, did not expect blender to be 32 years old, thanks for correcting me.

but still, they were open sourced about 1 year apart. I still think having a bigger user base is a good reason for the difference

Or Thunderbird is much older and has a lot more users

Unlees you invest thousands your local ai won't even come close to the cheap cloud llms. Local is only worth it if you care about privacy or have a legitimate usage for the hardware otherwise. Money wise it isn't worth it

that's how it works in my country, though there are no denies, almost 90% of transactions over 20-30$ will require I go into my bank app and confirm it.

rarely a big transaction will go through without 2FA but I've never had a transaction declined outright without first asking me to 2FA from the bank app