operatingthetan

The solution to neurodivergence is church? I'm sorry but come on, this blatant proselytizing is not appropriate here.

A consulting I used to work at started calling their engineers this. All of them. They just follow trends.

If you follow his recent posts he's on a bit of a spiral with how he thinks about AI.

I find it strange how seldom the privacy aspects of LLMs come up. Some people are feeding Google, OpenAI, or Anthropic almost literally every topic they think about during the day. Those companies could just use another LLM to find people likely to commit a crime, and then you have the Minority Report in real life.

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Yep. In my areas of expertise I can easily catch it coming up with wrong information, bad calculations etc. So laypeople are probably being led astray quite often.

>Ironically, the audience that values all that structure the most is now LLMs.

LLMs are not people and they don't have values.

>I'm fatigued by it all at this point.

This is the prevailing opinion of people even outside of tech.

Yes and that can manifest in a very different kind of personal crisis.

He's got "tech brain" where he thinks everything either serves tech or is tech. But you are correct in pointing out that he's just complaining about inconsequential cultural trends, probably because he's somewhat self isolating or something.

Eh not really. It's more like it starts explaining to the user that they are very special, and they discovered this unique intellectual thing in the AI slop that no one ever has, then starts convincing them it's mystical or similar. Just feeding the user magical narcissism basically.

That doesn't even mean it's wrong.

The result is that everything in the american economy is getting squeezed.

Yeah this thread is making a lot of assumptions. Maybe the machine has been ordered, or they need to do HR type onboarding for the first few hours, or any number of reasons. Every job I've ever started I bring my own machine just in case and it has been fine.

It's only a red flag when they specifically ask you to start doing work on your own machine.

Nice attempt at recovery but your comment still doesn't make sense. You were talking about Seattle, and then suggested Bellevue was "greener pastures." Not that Seattle was "greener pastures" from Bainbridge lol.

Also you just admitted that you don't live in Seattle. So I rest my case.

I think you may be the only person in the world who thinks Lynnwood has better energy than Seattle. Complaining about Seattle being too suburban and then praising its suburbs is too contradictory to take seriously.

>Even Lynnwood WA -- a suburb -- had more energy.

I'm sorry but this is so beyond the pale.

Also your comment complains about the energy of the city (that it is too suburban feeling) and then you say you like Ballard the most -- which is by far the most suburban of the neighborhoods you mentioned.

Finally we've been hosting the world cup and news writers from around the world have been exclaiming that Seattle has absolutely peak energy and culture as a host. E.g. https://www.irishtimes.com/sport/soccer/2026/06/22/keith-dug...

>If you haven't lived in Seattle, it's hard to understand the problem.

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>greener pastures (literally) east across the bay

Well obviously you haven't lived in Seattle because if you did you would know the body of water separating Seattle and Bellevue is Lake Washington. Not a bay.

I installed this a while back and honestly I almost never touch it. It turns out that for me searching my history doesn't really replace a search engine at all. The built in extractor list is pretty limited and adding them seems like too much of an ordeal for me to bother.

> murder in moderation, meth in moderation, punching grandmas in the face in moderation

I know these are your extreme examples but this is literally how society functions in each one.

Meth in moderation = prescription stimulants for ADHD or narcolepsy.

Murder in moderation = war, capital punishment.

Punching grandmas in the face in moderation = arrests of shoplifters or intoxicated grandmas apparently require physical restraint, lots of possible examples of violence for purported good on youtube.

Each of your hard lines are things that literally happen daily around the world, in moderation.

Explain what a "good generalization" would be to you?

All generalizations are fragile at the edge cases, that doesn't make them pointless, especially if you know they are generalizations.

Isn't the industry's idea that 'prompt engineering' is over and anyone can use this stuff effectively?

There seems to be a literal trap where people are too trusting of the LLM and take its word on code or whatever is being offered instead of reading it themselves.

In the context of the classroom this means teaching discernment more than ever.

>"Tiktok is like meth", would you advocate for moderation of meth?

This is an absurd statement. If someone is trying to talk about the middle cases, redirecting the conversation to the edge in order to dismiss their general comment is not appropriate.

'Edge cases exist' is not a lesson most people here need to hear.

Truisms fail when you get to the edge cases. This is well known and you aren't pointing out some massive flaw in their reasoning when it comes comes to classroom AI use.

> I believed this so strongly that my company built an entire product around this concept. I used to tell folks that "session transcripts were the new oil," that they were more valuable than the code itself.

This is pretty funny because it's about the depth of understanding of every 'AI expert' on Linkedin. People who praise the context window as basically magic have no idea how any of this works.

Voting isn't some vanguard against political corruption. Voting can and is easily manipulated with completely legal means.

Nadella only understands SAAS/Cloud and everything looks like a SAAS/Cloud nail to his hammer.

They threw Copilot at every single thing they could think of with no discretion and now Copilot is the worst brand in all of AI. They don't even realize this yet and are still dumping money into the Copilot hole.

I think the general public is already kind of bored of AI and the phase of corporations writing blank checks for frontier models is over. The top labs keep doing shady marketing stuff (and various embarrassing stunts) and it's difficult to take their word at face value on anything.

Also Microsoft has been pouring money into AI and it's like not working at all. They might be in trouble.

Why are AI boosters turning around and trying to suggest AI now won't take our jobs? Or less jobs than previously stated?

Meanwhile Meta has so much AI compute that they don't know what to do with, and they are ready to lease it out. And corporations suddenly want token austerity across the board. OpenAI is delaying their IPO until "next year."

Something is starting to give.