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jimbo808··on DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers
> this company is full of people with absolutely no ethics whatsoever

I believe this applies to any company which sells an inherently harmful, predatory, and addictive product or service

jimbo808··on Kenyans Did College Students' Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived
Graduated with highest honors from a top engineering school and never once considered cheating
jimbo808··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
It's clear you are not considering the long-term effects of labor policy. If we want a stronger domestic workforce, the answer is to incentivize Americans to develop the skills we need and to train them when they do not already have those skills. Mass importing foreign labor is not a substitute for building and investing in the domestic workforce.
jimbo808··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
Hire Americans?

Hundreds of thousands of tech workers have been laid off in the last two years. There are many skilled Americans on the job market. Foreign workers are here for the benefit of the United States, not as charity to the rest of the world, or as a source of cheaper labor for global employers seeking to undercut American wages.

jimbo808··on Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma
“Even in the Yale study”

What? The Yale study is where the almost two year figure came from. Are you just making things up? Did you read what I wrote, or anything in the study?

jimbo808··on Moderna reports first positive Phase 3 for mRNA neoantigen therapy in melanoma
People were assured that COVID vaccine mRNA would disappear within days and the spike protein would short-lived. Yet Yale-led researchers later detected circulating S1 and full-length spike as late as 709 days after vaccination.

They also left the public in the dark about the risk of vaccine-associated myocarditis, especially in young males, many of whom experienced permanent heart tissue damage.

That is a massive gap between what the public was told and what later evidence found. If a technology makes your cells produce a biologically active protein, regulators should establish where it goes, how long it can persist, and what prolonged exposure does before mass deployment.

https://news.yale.edu/2025/02/19/immune-markers-post-vaccina... https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.18.25322379v...

jimbo808··on Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee
Then I give up. Best of luck.
jimbo808··on Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee
Please do not assert I am making a claim I’m not making. Information-theoretic constraints exist. My comment does not require some specific, hard constraint to have been clearly defined, for my point to be valid.

If I were to say you could put a motorcycle in my car’s trunk, it would be perfect valid for me to say there are space constraints that make your idea unlikely. The same is true in this discussion, even though I have not computed the exact dimensions of the motorcycle and my car’s trunk.

jimbo808··on Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee
Kinda silly to follow your “prove it” challenge with an absurd claim you most certainly cannot prove, much less support with evidence.
jimbo808··on Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee
There’s no reason to assume frontier-level intelligence eventually collapses all the way onto a midrange consumer GPU. In fact, there are quite a few reasons not to assume that (information-theoretic constraints, etc).
jimbo808··on AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain
Could just be that you aren’t an ideas guy/a lateral thinker
jimbo808··on US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers
Doesn’t meaningfully change the answer. There are still tons of edge cases with catastrophic failure modes. The transponder won’t tell you about the alligator on the runway, a vehicle where it shouldn’t be, unexpected braking action, a mechanical problem, or a plane not doing what it was cleared to do. Tracking the planes is the easy part.
jimbo808··on US hires over 2k video gamers as air traffic controllers
Weather conditions, ground/runway conditions, obstructions, mechanical issues. There are tons of edge cases with huge consequences for error. Same reason self driving is not a solved problem, but with dramatically less tolerance for error.
jimbo808··on New Orleans is using AI to triage 911 calls in case of backlog
This is a slippery slope, where the number of operators can be allowed to gradually decline until eventually it’s just AI. And given the unreliability of LLMs, this is a grave concern that will undoubtedly lead to the enshittification of critical services.
jimbo808··on Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
This is inherently deceptive.
jimbo808··on Almost no skill required to cook a steak
160 degrees for a chicken breast is perfectly safe. Considerably lower temperatures can also produce microbiologically safe chicken when combined with sufficient holding time.

165 is a rough rule of thumb, not some magic number like the boiling point of water at 1 bar or something.

jimbo808··on Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index
At this point I feel like the only factor differentiating SOTA models now is who they’re propagandizing you on behalf of (not considering agentic tooling/state management, etc).
jimbo808··on Position: LLMs Can't Jump
Calling my comment a “temper tantrum” is the exact kind of behavior you’d expect of a Redditor. You may be projecting.

Einstein’s fame isn’t the problem. It’s the narrative that he is somehow the greatest scientist ever, when it’s just transparently false when you look at his actual contributions and the historical momentum of the fields he contributed to. There’s nothing wrong with his fame, the problem is that it overshadows actual juggernauts, like Maxwell and Newton. Maxwell not being famous at all among the ordinary public is a great tragedy, when he genuinely is in the conversation as having have been the most important physicist to have ever lived.

jimbo808··on Position: LLMs Can't Jump
I get really tired of Einstein being portrayed as if he’s the greatest scientist who ever lived, when he doesn’t even belong in that conversation. If Einstein never existed, the fields he was in were already moving strongly in the directions of his conclusions. If Maxwell or Newton had never existed, the world today would be quite different.
jimbo808··on Claude Sonnet 5
Uh, I didn't say I stopped using LLM's 6mos to a year ago. I have to for my job, it was just that long ago that I began to understand that they aren't what they seem and definitely aren't a "force multiplier," more like a "debt generator."
jimbo808··on Claude Sonnet 5
Technical debt and skill atrophy

Technical debt due to accumulated excessively verbose, badly architected, often redundant, feature-bloated code which always looks good, even upon earnest review, but actually sucks and becomes extremely difficult to maintain in ways which are not obvious in code review. The issue is this: your tooling can help, and can make you feel better, and you might think you wrote all the prompts and made all the tools to mitigate these issues, but you haven't. If you're not consistently seeing it generate code that is very very close to the way a skilled senior dev such as yourself would have done it (with similar line count, etc), that is a red flag even if the code looks great and works.

jimbo808··on Claude Sonnet 5
> Why even bother posting, especially as a reply to a completely unrelated comment?
jimbo808··on Claude Sonnet 5
I think I might have written a comment similar to yours maybe 6 months or a year ago. I'm not quite sure to respond to these sorts of replies. I have used LLMs/Claude Code quite extensively professionally and was a very early adopter, have built tooling around LLM/agentic development, and genuinely embraced it. They aren't useless, but the short term gains you think you're getting come at a very steep price that you may not actually account for consciously for quite some time, if ever.
jimbo808··on Claude Sonnet 5
https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/2023-07-26_-_... https://xcancel.com/coinbureau/status/2071330294452666695 https://www.techpolicy.press/transcript-senate-hearing-on-pr...

> "Once the weights of a model are public, they cannot be retrieved. If a model possesses dangerous capabilities, it is permanently out in the wild... We need to consider regulatory frameworks that account for the unique risks of open-source distribution of highly capable frontier models."

jimbo808··on Claude Sonnet 5
It's really not that much. It's a bit hard to make sense of it not because it's hard to keep track of, but because they are being deceptive and opaque about what you're actually buying, and the thing you're paying for is different from one day to the next, as they fuck around with the parameters to boost subjective performance during a launch, then quietly degrade the service to cut costs.
jimbo808··on Claude Sonnet 5
They're actively trying to use lobbying power to make open weight models illegal. So I'm just not going to use their services at all anymore. I don't think they're a net gain if you're a skilled senior, and the hidden cost in terms of technical debt and skill atrophy is just being swept under the rug. I'll be okay without their bullshit generator.
jimbo808··on "Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"
Tons. To pick the most recent example:

I was asking about some allegations relating to the Epstein files, and it used the slogan "Satanic Panic" in a weird way that gave me a vibe of discrediting victims. I'm too young to know much about it, so I asked some things about it. It explained the McMartin case in a way that seemed too absurd to be real. I asked some follow-up questions about what the strongest evidence was, and how it was explained.

The first deception was omission. Initially, it didn't even mention what was arguably the most significant evidence in the case, which was the presence of tunnels under the school. ChatGPT mentioned the tunnels, and how an archaeologist named E. Gary Stickel found evidence of tunnels. Here's what it said about that:

> However, that conclusion has been repeatedly challenged and is not treated as settled fact in the academic or forensic archaeology literature.

> Other archaeologists and later reviewers reinterpreted the same physical findings differently. One major counter-analysis (W. Joseph Wyatt’s review) argued that what Stickel identified as tunnels was more plausibly explained as pre-existing trash pits and construction-related disturbance from before the school was built in the 1960s.

The first lie was by omission, it didn't even mention this when I asked about the most important evidence. The next misleading piece was the framing. Dr. Stickel is a PhD archaeologist, and doing this sort of analysis is his area of expertise. He used nine criteria as a basis for determining the presence of tunnels, and all nine were met. He found "conclusive" evidence of tunnels, and that they matched the expected locations described by the victims. Dr. Stickel was the only expert to review the site before significant construction made such an analysis impossible.

The "major counter-analysis (W. Joseph Wyatt’s review)" was done by psychologist Joseph Wyatt, who never physically visited the site, and who is not an expert in anything related even loosely to archaeology. ChatGPT presented this guy in a way that made it seem that Stickel had been debunked by a comparable expert.

jimbo808··on "Don't You Just Upload It to ChatGPT?"
LLMs are now being aggressively manipulated for propaganda purposes. Powerful people have realized that people believe LLMs, and treat them as authoritative sources of fact.

The number of lies, lies by omission, deceptive distortions, and fallacious argument tactics they generate is absurd, and increasing rapidly. Translation, when done as a service you are paid for, can't be relied on by propaganda bots.

jimbo808··on Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds
It's worse in many ways but also better in one way, which is that buried in all the propaganda and manipulation is usually the truth somewhere in there. Before, the truth was simply not available.
jimbo808··on The American Missile Crisis
If America had not been escalating with embargo pressure, the Bay of Pigs invasion, covert regime-change operations, and forward nuclear deployments near the USSR that made Moscow eager to answer in kind, the Cuban Missile Crisis never would have happened. A more protectionist America would not have pushed Cuba so hard into Soviet dependence, and the Soviet Union would have had little reason or opportunity put nuclear missiles there in the first place.
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