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wilg··on [dead]
Sure, why not. But also: embarassing.
wilg··on No Sloptober
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandolini%27s_law
wilg··on No Sloptober
Obviously I was referring to the post I was commenting on as a low effort anti AI post.
wilg··on No Sloptober
I'm getting tired of the constant stream of low-effort anti AI posts. ("Metaslop" if you will.)
wilg··on ChatGPT Images 2.5
Golf consumes more water than ALL datacenters on earth.
wilg··on Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil
lmao what
wilg··on Actively exploited sandbox RCE in all Chromium versions
Seems like it was worth $1000 to the researcher in question.
wilg··on GPT-6 Astra
did they say it's agi? does anyone agree what that means?
wilg··on US gov sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material
My position is it's totally coherent to say that "training" is analogous to "reading" and inference is not analogous to "redistributing rips" and that it's a reasonable position for fair use law to operate that way. I think this benefits society.
wilg··on GPT-6 Astra
These are not mutually exclusive ideas
wilg··on GPT-6 Astra
did they?
wilg··on GPT-6 Astra
are we really having to explain to you from first principles in 2026 what things AI can do?
wilg··on US gov sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material
I don't understand your point.
wilg··on US gov sides with OpenAI on issue of training LLMs on copyrighted material
I think it makes sense to say training on material you legally acquired is fair use. Copyright, quite famously, doesn't protect ideas. Nobody really needs or wants AI models to reproduce verbatim copies of books or images or whatever, and they try not to do this anyway, and just because you could maybe make an image or whatever with a copyrighted character design or something, normal intellectual property law already restricts you from selling it etc. Seems fine.
wilg··on METR Report on OpenAI / Hugging Face Hacking Incident
"This fact remains true" - you have not stated any sort of fact.
wilg··on Google avoids a breakup of its ad tech business
It is in fact true that the Trump administration is corrupt on a significantly different level than any prior administration. It is harmful to paper over this.
wilg··on Salad Theory
I think there's a big problem with including an "untossed salad" in bounds. This is asking for trouble. Is an unbaked cake a cake? Obviously not. "Unbaked" is describing how it DIFFERS from a cake.

An untossed salad is an object which is like a salad, but that is not tossed. This means a salad must be tossed.

wilg··on The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice
Presumably this is for ChatGPT Work? https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/30/understanding-chatgpt-...
wilg··on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI
Money has to do with whether you can make the game. Games are regularly funded by many non-profit options such as co-ops or grants, etc. Developers are free to make games however they want.
wilg··on Chicken products recalled in five states due to “false marks of inspection”
We don't have to relearn the concept, we just have a bunch of dumb idiots who we have to fight off every couple years and we often lose because a critical segment of people cannot remember what happened last time, don't understand anything, or are evil.
wilg··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
Nope, it's worse than that, the democracy actually works and the voters are just dumb.
wilg··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
I'm sure you would!
wilg··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
Yes, it's a culture war thing and the commenters here are participating in it: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/adventure/mixtape-is-at-the-ce...
wilg··on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra
cutscenes are often the most demanding part of a game!
wilg··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
This is exactly the type of cynicism that's destroying the country.
wilg··on Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down
It’s much worse than that. People just feel like they’re getting screwed whether they are or not.
wilg··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
Who is proposing interpreting routine border searches as categorically "unreasonable"?
wilg··on Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md
Also the skills are different. it's quite annoying!
wilg··on Claude Code May–August 2026 weekly limits promotion
Oh no, I use the top shelf models every day and I really think they have a lot of room to improve in pretty much every regard. I suspect Fable usage is flatlining because it's not that good comparitively and way too expensive.
wilg··on Claude Code weekly limits reduce by a third tomorrow
Every time I try to use a lower tier model like Terra or Sonnet I regret it, so I just use the best one the first time to keep my sanity (it sort of works). Same with effort, you gotta just max it out (though I stopped using Ultra/Ultracode) and I never use fast because I'd rather work in parallel on more than on one thing faster almost always.
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