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Can't believe people are advocating free love in 2026

AC at 68F is obnoxious and wasteful. At least data centres enable me to communicate with distant colleagues, watch enriching movies, and use very strong AI tools to accelerate my research.

A lot of us went through a similar system and still retained both honour and desire to actually learn.

It's interesting that Claude also over-uses en-dashes. It's very willing to create compound-noun-phrases, especially in that compressed-summary-paragraph it often writes. The 0-days-vibes-vulns that started this thread looks a lot like that, but it could be Claude directly, or just Claude's style influencing people who spend too much time with it.

People are missing that Willison is among the very best people we have in the role of (for lack of a good name): early access to frontier models, evaluate them in real scenarios, no wishful thinking, hype, or doom, communicate the possibilities. Yes he could have fixed this himself but then he would have learned nothing about the AI, and we wouldn't have read a fascinating and important article.

> LLMs do just interpolate their training data

"interpolate" has a technical meaning - in this meaning, LLMs almost never interpolate. It also has a very vague everyday meaning - in this meaning, LLMs do interpolate, but so do humans.

But euros spent on tokens is a tiny fraction of the overall costs of the project.

> Since these companies can’t improve their AI models without fresh data created by human beings

Totally wrong. Self-play dates back to Arthur Samuel in the 1950s and RL with verifiable rewards is a key part of training the most advanced models today.

> Anglo

Please, write US-American. These people are not coming from any other place.

I understand your point, but in response to GP (they should spend this money on houses for other poor people instead), the reduced reliance on other social welfare is totally legitimate to count.

You didn't read the article. The scheme gave positive return on investment.

Google Scholar provides imperfect citations - very often wrong article type (eg article versus conference paper), but up to and including missing authors, in my experience.

Jokes are one of the good parts of human existence, so - while I see your side of the story - there is another side.

The best example of all is Prolog. It is always held up as the paradigmatic representative of logic programming, a rare language paradigm. But it doesn't need to be a language. It is really a collection of algorithms which should be a library in every language, together with a nice convention for expressing Prolog things in that language's syntax.

(My comment is slightly off-topic to the article but on-topic to the title.)