alun

It was clear that Reddit had an astroturfing problem, even pre-ChatGPT.

Funnily enough, Reddit got so bad that I stopped appending "reddit" to my queries and I often find myself appending "hackernews" instead (or more commonly, I ask the LLM to find HN discussions on the topic), just because the signal is much higher.

It also makes me think about how much of HN might be astroturfing. Less than reddit for sure, but certainly not 0%.

Sure, object recognition is System 1, but Jev's own use cases list things like security incident triage, invoice approval, agent escalation, support actions, etc.

Those are generally the kind of tasks that require "System 2" in humans.

To be clear, I think the whole "System 1 vs System 2" framing is a pretty limiting way to think about AI (and thinking in general).

The one thing I can't wrap my head around with Jev is why they're trying to create that "System One" narrative.

In real life, a human doesn't do classification tasks with the System One part of their brain, they use System Two. So by definition what Jev does isn't System One thinking.

If anything, regular programming that automatically executes based on logic, without requiring "thinking" would be "System One".

Awesome. To make the device even smaller, I would probably get rid of the physical keyboard

This is pretty cool. Number of humans in space feels like a good proxy for space progress.

So it would be interesting to have a metrics dashboard view of it.

For example a daily / weekly / monthly graph of how many people are in space during each timeframe.

Filters by company, nationality, age, etc.

Would be an interesting way to see how space progress is being made and where it's mostly coming from.

Japan has a 55% top marginal inheritance tax rate.

I wonder how many of these centenarians aren't actually alive and their just deaths haven't been reported so that the family can avoid paying that.

The Cornucopia looks like the cybertruck of urinals.

Not to advocate for the diamond cartels, but your logic that equal diamond quality implies equal price feels wrong.

Otherwise, a perfect replica of the Mona Lisa would cost the same as the original.

How ironic

It would have been cool if they had made the bird resemble a phoenix.

I think his idea of taxing AI tokens would do more harm than good. It would only make AI more expensive, which would create the exact inequality effect that he is trying to prevent.

Very fun read. Thanks for posting it!

Obviously a lot of depression is genetic or due to some unfortunate life circumstance. It's got nothing to do with intelligence.

But what I've also noticed is that a lot of people with unbalanced lifestyles end up becoming depressed.

For example, they might have a habit of going to bed at weird inconsistent times, wake up late, eat junk food, not regularly exercise or go to the gym, etc.

Someone with that lifestyle is much more likely to become depressed compared to someone who sleeps 8 hours a night, wakes up at a reasonable time every morning (i.e. 5am - 8am), has a stable job, and exercises regularly.

Humans are built for routine. Drifting away from that is unnatural.

One thing I've been thinking about recently is whether being open source is good or bad for security.

Open source obviously makes software more auditable, but in an age of LLMs whose intelligence is increasing at an exponential rate, it also makes it much easier to find and exploit vulnerabilities.

For example, had ColdCard (the other hardware wallet that got hacked) been closed source, it would have been much more difficult to exploit the randomized number vulnerability that the attacker used to get the private keys.

Maybe the answer (at least in this case) is somewhere in between where most of the thing is open source, but the parts that deal with creating the sensitive data are kept closed source.