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Maybe? LLMs sometimes provide suggestions that are novel or highlight overlooked ideas. Sometimes I'll oneshot a narrow problem and invite coding agents to get creative about how they chart some complex data and am pleasantly surprised by the results.

I'm absolutely not snobby about where the ideas originate or how they are realized, if the end product functions well. I don't don't want to waste time assessing newly-reinvented wheels. This problem predates the advent of vibecoding for the masses.

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I did a parts order a couple weeks back and the only new question I have been asked since the tariff regime changed was whether I wanted to slightly slower and more expensive USPS delivery with the tariff amount precalculated/prepaid, or a potentially faster delivery by DHL which would require me to provide extra paperwork and customs payment to DHL (in the US) before delivery could occur.

Can you not?

The first line was intriguing but the rest of it is a mishmash of buzzwords and handwaving. It looks like you are bidding for consideration of a grand unified theory, and that's great, I am one of the people that enjoys considering new proposals that unify or align previously disconnected areas of physics or mathematics.

But even though I understood (most of) the individual assertions you are trying to cram into your abstract-of-an-abstract, showing which things you are combining, how you are combining them,and how you are keeping reproducibility and provability as your top priorities, the effect of trying to communicate so many data points at once comes off as earnest but incoherent, like a bus-stop conversation with a schizophrenic.

Ideas are not self-propagating. If you just want to feed your thoughts back into other AIs in a way that lets provide useful input toward an intellectual singularity, publish it on your own blog. If you are publishing it in a social space, take some time to articulate in plain language what you think you've found, why it's important, and why other people might find it worthwhile to invest some time in wrapping their heads around it. If that seems too vague go read some Quanta articles and ponder why they read a wider audience than hyper-technical abstracts in math journals.

The hardware is certainly not cheap, but you can put 512gb of vram on your desk if you are willing to throw $30k at Apple, which is a manageable expense for a lot of small businesses. Bridging a few devices is one way to run large models, r ablation and quantization can do a lot too. You definitely need a data center if you aim to make the model directly accessible to the public, with whatever fine tuning or secret sauce you add. If you want to run it in-house as a coding engine or research tool you can likely reduce its footprint substantially.

Well go sue them in internet court.

I'm tired of people trying to approach every legal/contractual issue as a binary, and treating flexible terminology like the magic words of a spell. They're up front about needing a license to exploit it commercially, but meantime you can use it without restrictions for personal/ experimental/ scientific/ educational/ development purposes, which is a lot. It's not 100% open by your pious definition, but it's clearly much more open than frontier labs who never release weights to the public at all.

If you're running a business, buy a license and be happy. All businesses have expenses, if you're not willing to ever pay for anything you're a freeloader and your business model is probably shit. Complain about whether the license is good value or not if you like. If you're not running a business on top of it, use the model and be happy.

It's not important that it's Wikipedia specifically; I just picked that as a benchmark because it's large and comprehensive. The point is that you can't carry a library of books around easily.

You're arguing from two opposite positions. On the one hand you want information that's relevant to an emergency survival situation, presumably specific instructions on on emergency medical procedures or protection against hazards.

On the other hand you are also arguing for a physical library of books, which requires a building to house safely (and a structurally sound building, not on where the roof can fall in and the books are quickly lost to damp/fire/wildlife) and a full size cargo container if you want to move it around.

If you can maintain a physical library safely enough to hedge against the risks of it being your only library for the foreseeable future, you can probably also maintain a hospital and essential infrastructure of civilization. You're operating something equivalent to a small university campus with a high degree of physical security even if you've had to fall back on 19th century technology because power and water infrastructure have collapsed. Perhaps people are investing in that sort of thing as a hedge against a Carrington event or other abrupt technological collapse, but I'm not aware of any organized effort to build a network of knowledge-preserving monasteries at fairly significant expense for each one.

A digital encyclopaedia/library isn't ideal by any means, but it's portable and maintainable at low cost, for individuals or groups. In the space/weight that a single large book takes up, you can fit abundant storage, several e-ink readers (which will probably last very well given their low power consumption), a battery, a large solar collection sheet, and and a faraday bag to store it all in, for under $1000.

In the era of vibe coding, nobody cares about features. Well obviously people care if they're not there, but just having a bunch of features that every other entrant in this space has is not interesting. If you want attention you need to articulate why it's different.

Consider Ableton Live: when that first appeared it got everyone's attention because it had a clip based workflow that was completely new, and the DAW timeline was secondary. The extremely polished user interface helped too. Then Bitwig built ont he Ableton UI concept but added complex environmental integration essentially allowing you to treat all your plugins and clips ilke modular synthesizer components.

This looks like a perfectly serviceable DAW but I have no idea what makes it different from any other freeware/open source DAW.

It is inorganic, but no more so than the MAGA rallies. They're not trying to hide that they're organized by and on behalf of the Democratic party.

I also think they're pretty cringe, but that seems orthogonal to the question of why Meta is censoring their accounts. I haven't seen any suggestion that they violated meta's policies.

I mean he has Congressional privilege, he literally cannot be touched for reading anything he wants into the Congressional record. I wonder why more lawmakers talk about things instead of just revealing The Thing and leaning on their special rights as elected legislators.

I don't think so. The otehr day I assigned an agent to build a filter for an NDJSON stream and to make it stackable, it took me maybe 2 or 3 minutes to write up the behavior I wanted and it was done, tested, and working 15 minutes later. I don't see how I would have been better off spending the afternoon doing it manually, fixing my own own typos, forgetting one category, using the wrong regex library etc

Ridiculous argument. Reviewers' task is to evaluate new products to provide information to consumers in a timely fashion. There's a niche for 'long term reviews' but it's tiny by comparison, and mainly sought out by nerds who are unusually interested in that product category.

Most reviewers simply can't evaluate products over a sufficiently long term to make convincing judgements about reliability. Where the latter is important, it's better to consult a source like consumer Reports that specializes in that sort of longitudinal assessment at the price of narrow product focus and shallower review detail.

What are generators and solar panels? Come on.

I have a bunch of military field manuals and survival guides, but they all implicitly presume the existence and contactability of civilization sooner or later. Realistically, some pocket computer(s) and solar charger(s) will store far more information, be far more portable, and give you more carrying capacity for things like medical supplies, rope, tools, and other hard-to-substitute items.

This isn't clever or insightful. You can of course condense down critical information into a survival handbook, but in existential crises you don't necessarily know in advance what you'll need to know. Wikipedia (as a benchmark repository of knowledge) is ~5 million pages and would require a decent-size room to store if printed out. By contrast, a laptop + solar panel can fit in a backpack. SD cards/USB sticks with the capacity to store all of Wikipedia are a few $ each.

If things are so bad that you need to factor in the non-operability of any electronic devices, how many indestructible paper libraries are you planning to build and manage in advance, and at what budget?

I think the dividing line between skilled and unskilled use of AI is 'machine, do magic' vs 'machine, do x, y and Z, thus and so, avoid i, j, k which knowledge is the fruit of bitter experience.' Being able to articulate what matters and why is the ultimate high level language.