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I'm really not seeing the "empathy-speak" you're referring to in that quote or the rest of the interview?

If you're referring to the quote from OP's post, "I don't know if this will make anyone feel better" isn't really appealing to empathy at all, it's basically just preemptively acknowledging what he said may sound bad and so tries to soften it a bit.

It's a rhetorical cliche that has very little to do with anyone's actual feelings.

They're certainly manipulating people with their astroturfing but via slop content like video game playthroughs for rap songs so their actual strategy doesn't seem to uniquely rely on emotional manipulation either. Just following content trends whatever they may be.

Weaponizing "empathy" just seems like a complete red herring that makes for an irrelevant tangent in this context.

What if both competitors are doing it?

That's an example the LLM came up with itself while analyzing its failed car wash walk/drive answer, it's not OP's question.

We truly do not need to lower the bar to the floor whenever an LLM makes an embarrassing logical error, particularly when the excuses don't line up at all with the reasoning in its explanation.

I'm not sure what changed or what the complaint is ... But personally, I have still never hit the rate limit on the $20/mo ChatGPT Plus plan, while I was constantly getting kicked off the Claude Pro plan until I got fed up and cancelled a few months ago.

  > But for God's sake, don't accuse me of pumping it.

They paid him to use his product's brand name on an obvious crypto rug pull, he agreed, promoted it on his blog, then people lost money.

His "apology" would be more effective without including all the whining about accurately describing the sequence of events he voluntarily participated it for personal gain.

  > I wonder if they fixed their client since then.

They have not. I spent more than a week trying to restore a little less than 2 TB backup because the client would just freeze at the last few % every time. I ended up having to break the restore into 200GB chunks on the web client and download and restore manually which was extremely frustrating and made me despise their (required) Windows client.

You're making a lot of highly idealized assumptions that don't hold true in reality.

Most significantly that the increased demand due to mining will result in grid operators investing in proportional new capacity to offset it over a reasonable time scale. Instead of just driving up prices due to basic supply/demand.

Also that miners are only consuming electricity when renewables dominate the mix. Otherwise they're responsible for more CO2 emissions to do something useless.

Plus in markets like Texas, miners also manage to get subsidies intended for actually useful customers like factories to go offline at peak times. So ratepayers are essentially paying protection money so they won't over stress the grid by performing their useless work.

In a world where bitcoin miners had to install new solar capacity to entirely offset their peak usage and sell back to the grid any excess then sure, seems like that wouldn't be a big societal net negative like it is right now.

It is actually entirely possible to discuss a solution for something that may or may not happen. If a hurricane is approaching, we don't typically require every person to agree the odds of landfall are 100% to start preparing shelters and stockpiling aid nearby. Not everything in the world is about the "AI skeptics" on the internet being dumb and wrong unlike you.

  > Another big wrong point: US states have a ridiculous amount of power, imho, far more power than a European nation state has these days.

A nation-state choosing to delegate power by treaty agreements does not mean they have lost the ability to exercise that power. Any state in the EU can withdraw at any time, as evidenced by Brexit.

Setting that aside, US states are prevented by the constitution from exercising control over trade or migration across their borders within the US, conducting independent foreign policy, issuing passports, are unrecognized by any other country, etc so that argument doesn't withstand the slightest scrutiny and is somewhat absurd. What they do have is an independent legal system and police powers that the federal government respects as settled law (with give and take on specific areas but still constrained by the judiciary).

Israel can and does override any action the PA may take at any time, once again on the basis of "security". There is very limited de jure autonomy and non-existent de facto autonomy. Much like how a state can override decisions a city makes, the difference still being that Israel again uses "security" as an ever present wildcard without judicial limitations that act as guardrails such as exist in US municipal governance.

Are (alleged) drug smugglers not engaged in any kind of active combat "military ships"?

For the sake of argument, let's concede that every point you make is 100% true, it's apartheid and racism.

How does that possibly make the act of keeping an ethnic minority of 1 million+ people with zero political agency confined in a walled-in ghetto that is routinely bombed into rubble, where the ability to import even basic humanitarian aid is entirely at the mercy of external security forces anything other than apartheid?

It would be much easier to make your argument without absurd contortions of logic if Israel actually agreed to a two state solution and gave Palestinians true political agency and right to self-determination. Then they could get away with washing their hands of any culpability, instead of vaguely pointing to the Palestinian Authority which both de jure and de facto is missing most of the attributes of an actual state. First and foremost being controlling a border, instead of Israel's "security control" granting the IDF complete freedom of movement and power to block any goods from entering/exiting the occupied territories.

The PA is closer to a city government with fewer powers than even a U.S. state, let alone an actual nation state. As long as that remains unchanged, Israel bears both legal and moral responsibility for the residents, and difficult to view the gross disparities between the rights of Israelis proper and those residing in the occupied areas as anything other than apartheid.

Well done, clear, concise and easily verifiable answer to OP's question and ... no response haha.

I'm also just confused by the implication behind their question, is the idea that GPT-5.4 Thinking has never been confidently wrong, ever, about anything?

Yep, I've discovered the same. Approve once in a session, and from then on you're rolling the dice if it will self-approve a change and commit/push (or whatever you originally asked it to do) for as long as it stays in context.

Not to mention jobs that require or heavily push using it both in and outside the tech sector. Plus, even in a competitive academic environment it’s naive to think college students won’t feel pressure to keep up with their peers if they’re all using AI and pushing up the curve.

Their recent comment history also consists of complaining about vaccine mandates, gun control, and climate science research at NASA while praising funding cuts to higher education…

An analogy that’s, quite literally, an appeal to paternalism to trust the motivations and pernicious incentive structures of the big AI labs.

They've attacked ships multiple times since the conflict began, why are you discussing this like it's some fantasy hypothetical?

Some examples:

Tracking the wave of ship attacks that has choked off Strait of Hormuz

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c80j4rln8zmo

‘There’s no safe place here’: Kuwaiti tanker hit by Iranian drone attack in Dubai port

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/31/kuwaiti-tanker...

Not really that hard when the alternative is the regime collapsing and/or giving up their nuclear program?

Yeah, and telling the dean he spent 25 sleepless nights on this…

I read through this and unless I’m misunderstanding… you did not actually get kicked out of uni?

So… you just blatantly lied in the title? I can’t find any charitable ambiguity to explain the disconnect there other than garden variety lying for clout.

I know you’re young and I did plenty of dumb things and had an inflated ego at that age myself but you want to seriously consider how poorly this story (and the lying) reflects on your character if any potential employers, acquaintances, dates, etc read this.

Your “sources” are just mindless whataboutism that do not in any way provide evidence Harris/Democrats would have started this same idiotic war with Iran.

Democrats in Congress are currently almost universally opposed to the War in Iran. As the minority party they are unable to stop it unilaterally. Budget obstructions are the single lever available to them and given other issues like ICE, healthcare cuts, federal layoffs, can’t be used for every issue, every time without diffusing that very limited power into irrelevance.

Talk about “controlled opposition” given the blatantly obvious differences between the last two administrations is a signal of either being uninformed or a deliberate demotivational strategy.

Here are recent quotes from Schumer/Jefferies/Harris that for some reason you selectively chose not to include:

  "Trump’s actions in Iran will be considered one of the greatest policy blunders in the history of our country," - Chuck Schumer

  “The American people are sick and tired of the chaos, high costs and extreme Republican agenda. Donald Trump must end his reckless war of choice in the Middle East. Now.” - Hakeem Jefferies

  “In the last 48 hours Donald Trump has dragged America into a war that we don’t want” - Kamala Harris

  [1] https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/chuck-schumer-hakeem-jeffries-more-024256513.html?guccounter=1

[2] https://www.wpr.org/news/harris-iran-trump-dragged-america-w...

Even better: switch to Codex plus get better rate limits. I’m not a captive audience as much Anthropic would like to believe otherwise.

Probably the same response I just saw someone reply with in this very thread:

"You shouldn't have so many utilities running"

It's the go-to Apple user response to anything the OS doesn't support or does poorly: "Why would you want to do that?"

Whenever an "LLM fail" goes viral like the car wash question, you can observe the exact same wording of the question get "fixed" within a week or so. With slight variations in phrasing still able to replicate the problem.

Followed by lots of "works perfectly for me, why are people even talking about this?"

I can't say what exactly they're doing behind the scenes but it's a consistent pattern among the big SOTA model providers. With obvious incentive to "fix" the problem so users will then organically "debunk" the meme as they try it themselves and share their experiences.

Meta Platforms, Inc featuring this technology with a title announcing “AI for American-produced cement and concrete” is, on the other hand, 1000% a product of the AI Hype Machine.

  > I ship code every day. I use Claude, I use GPT, I run llama locally.

An "Anti AI" person...

... and closed for inactivity like basically every issue in the repo, of course.

And even worse than that is after you get the slightly condescending spiel about how the problem is normal and real but the solution is simple… it turns out it was completely bullshitting and has zero idea what is actually causing the problem let alone a solution.

It’s awful dealing with some niche undocumented bug or a feature in a complex tool that may or may not exist and for a fleeting few seconds feels like you miraculously solved it only to have the LLM revert back to useless generic troubleshooting Q&A after correcting it.

It was entirely intentional. The Rogerian school of psychotherapy stereotyped by “how does that make you feel” was popular at the time and the most popular ELIZA script used that persona to cleverly redirect focus from the bot’s weaknesses in comprehension.