> where every person can ask a doctor their questions 10 times a day and instantly get an accurate response.
Why in god's name would you need to ask a doctor 10 questions every day? How is this in any way germane to this issue?
In any first-world country you can get a GP appointment free of charge either on the day or with a few days' wait, depending on the urgency. Not to mention emergency care / 112 any time day or night if you really need it. This exists and has existed for decades in most vaguely social-democratic countries in the world (but not only those). So you can get professional help from someone, there's no (absurd) false choice between either "asking the stochastic platitude generator" and "going without healthcare".
But I know right, a functioning health system with the right funding, management, and incentives! So boring! Yawn yawn, not exciting. GP practices don't get trillions of dollars in VC money.
> Ask an LLM, which gets you 80-90% of the way there.
This is such a ridiculous misrepresentation of the current state of LLMs that I don't even know how to continue a conversation from here.
Honestly that kind of straw man is about equally as grating as the "string theory critics" that watched 1 Sabine Hossenfelder video. And just as uninteresting.
There was a well-publicised "Claude plays Pokémon" stream where Claude failed to complete Pokemon Blue in spectacular fashion, despite weeks of trying. I think only a very gullible person would assume that future LLMs didn't specifically bake this into their training, as they do for popular benchmarks or for penguins riding a bike.
While it is true that model makers are increasingly trying to game benchmarks, it's also true that benchmark-chasing is lowering model quality. GPT 5, 5.1 and 5.2 have been nearly universally panned by almost every class of user, despite being a benchmark monster. In fact, the more OpenAI tries to benchmark-max, the worse their models seem to get.
I use this all the time. It's features like these that sell Rust for me honestly; even if you wrapped your whole program in `unsafe` it would still be a massively better language than C++ or C.
This is meaningless. The benchmarks are (1) run in github actions, (2) include file and console IO, and (3) are compiled with different compiler flags...
It's certainly not meaningful of anything in the first place, since it only tests codegen for a sequence of floating point calculations, which is hardly a representative workload for anything. Even if it were, using an unreliable virtualised environment only introduces noise, especially in the presence of syscalls... So it's worthless even if the entire purpose was to evaluate how fast floating point sums and divisions run in a CI server x)
It's exhausting getting "normies" to care about that. Frankly that ship has sailed, on a cultural level. Things that were unthinkable 20 years ago are just... yeah that's normal whatever.
When you have trillions of dollars being poured into your company by the financial system, and when furthermore there are no repercussions for behaving however you please, you tend not to care about that sort of "waste".
Hardly. Hundreds of millions of "normies" want a browser that just "gets rid of ads and spam and stuff". If ff can be that go-to browser, they have hundreds of millions of potential users.
Potential users are not users, and firefox can't be that browser. Actually that browser is brave, and it also doesn't have hundred of millions of users. You can't fight defaults browsers, people don't care.
I don't get this dark/pessimistic/Firefox's so done view many people love to harp. Do we want Firefox to return, or to die? We should decide and act accordingly.
Telling Firefox to not to move and get out of the place where it currently is a great contradiction in itself.
Many potential Chrome users were not users, and now they are. You can change public opinion by putting your money where your mouth is, and being persistent about it.
Also, let's not forget that Firefox is kinda preventing itself being detected via standard mechanisms so global analytics show its numbers a bit low than the reality, as well.
Many potential Chrome users were not users, and then android happened. I'll believe firefox has a shot to become mainstream when they do something similar. Until them, keep your users or alienate them and disappear.
Gambling has also proven its staying power. A low trust society and some early coin explosions will do that. I don't think its staying power is here in a healthy way, personally.
Thats not a reason for crypto being useless, anything can bribe corrupt governments to pour tax money into it.
Crypto has shown people are willing to use it as a currency for investment and day to day transactions. Its held value for a significant amount of time. The tech is evolving still and people see a lot of value in having a currency that operates outside of Governments in a decentralized way even if some people will misuse that freedom.
Crypto is going to be a new settlement layer thats it. You'll use stripe and they will settle it on their public chain. You are free to use the chain directly but no real consumer is going to do that.
Hacker News was borderline insufferable during the 2022/23 NFT craze when all the startups, investments, and headlines were going into whatever new disruption NFTs/blockchain were allegedly going to cause.
At least with AI I do get some value out of asking Gemini questions. But I hardly need or want my web browser to be a chatbot interface.
Comparing LLMs to NFT isn't fair. Being able to talk to you computer and have it understand you and even do the things you ask is literally StarTrek technology.
I've never seen a technology so advanced be so dismissed before.
That depends on your architecture and access pattern. In case of sequential access, packed bools may perform better due to arithmetic being usually way cheaper than memory operations.
> where every person can ask a doctor their questions 10 times a day and instantly get an accurate response.
Why in god's name would you need to ask a doctor 10 questions every day? How is this in any way germane to this issue?
In any first-world country you can get a GP appointment free of charge either on the day or with a few days' wait, depending on the urgency. Not to mention emergency care / 112 any time day or night if you really need it. This exists and has existed for decades in most vaguely social-democratic countries in the world (but not only those). So you can get professional help from someone, there's no (absurd) false choice between either "asking the stochastic platitude generator" and "going without healthcare".
But I know right, a functioning health system with the right funding, management, and incentives! So boring! Yawn yawn, not exciting. GP practices don't get trillions of dollars in VC money.
> Ask an LLM, which gets you 80-90% of the way there.
This is such a ridiculous misrepresentation of the current state of LLMs that I don't even know how to continue a conversation from here.
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