He makes a point

There are dozens of us

I’ve tutored calculus, and probably the biggest example I’ve seen of this is the difference quotient. The formula is exceedingly obvious once you understand it, but it takes a lot of people some time for it to “click”.

Who’s on first?

Kid named Gurt

I guess you missed the part where I said “logistically, actually”. Logistic curves look like exponential curves until they hit some limiting factor that levels out their growth.

I didn’t say anything about perpetual exponential growth, I’m only talking about a temporary period of accelerating growth.

the people who pointed out this would happen were laughed at

Time to turn the tables. Never miss a chance to laugh at them

Isn’t No Kings explicitly against open carry at the protests? I’m not saying open carrying at protests is bad, it’s half the reason I got my AR-15, but last I checked they weren’t too keen on it.

I was going to bring it up if no one else did

The meme is perfect then. Gas isn’t going to fix the problems, but it’ll keep the car moving for a while.

LLMs are designed to fool humans into thinking something is realistic rather than actually doing something useful.

So closer to average human intelligence than it would appear. I don’t know why people keep insisting that confidently making things up and repeating things blindly is somehow distinct from the average human intelligence.

But more seriously, this whole mindset is based on a stagnation in development that I’m just not seeing. I think it was Stanford recently released a paper on a new architecture they developed that has serious promise.

How so? Project managers have been working for decades to quantify code, and haven’t managed to make any progress at it.

I think you misunderstand me. The metric is the code. We can look at the code, see what kind of mistakes it’s making, and then alter the model to try to be better. That is an iterative process.

The year 30,000 AD doesn’t count.

Sure. Maybe it’s 30,000AD. Maybe it’s next month. We don’t know when the breakthrough that kicks off massive improvement is going to hit, or even what it will be. Every new development could be the big one.

It’s an extension of the workers rights movement from a century ago, which was an extension of the liberation movement from a century and a half before that, which was an extension of the Magna Carta centuries before that.

This isn’t a new threat, it isn’t a new movement. It’s simply the newest battle in a long war between the people and those who exploit them.

As I said elsewhere, the AI probably isn’t going to just be an LLM. It’s probably gonna be a complex model that uses modules like LLMs to fulfill a compound task. But the exact architecture doesn’t matter.

We know that it can output code, which means we have a quantifiable metric to make it better at coding, and thousands of people are certainly trying. AI video was hot garbage 18 months ago, now it’s basically perfect.

It’s not if we’re going to get a decent coding AI, it’s when.

Populations have inertia, it takes time to shift millions of people. These protests started centuries ago. They’re happening more frequently, on a larger scale. That’s undeniable progress.

Protests take time to coordinate and build interest. If you have them too frequently then people don’t show up as much, and the crowds get smaller, and then they’re just this thing that’s happening. A little time between let’s the anticipation build up and then it becomes an event.

This is a perfectly fine frequency for trying to coordinate millions of people. Yelling about how we need to rush it isn’t going to make it go any faster.

Like a lot of others here, I still add “reddit” to my searches when doing research on products or troubleshooting.

Mass networking and marketing for direct action groups that will be better poised to accomplish something with increased numbers? This is such a dumb take.

Florida can’t get open carry fast enough

Wow you’re gonna love what happened 3 weeks ago

And you are present at every single organization to check? Maybe people just don’t like the ones you frequent.

… what? First, how could you possibly “experience” that? Are you recording every single attendee and then going to every single organization and informal collection of people doing mutual aid and organizing to check to see who shows up? That’s literally impossible on multiple levels. At best you could say that about the people you personally know.

Secondly, even it’s true, even if only 1% of people do anything meaningful afterwards, 1% of millions is tens of thousands of people organizing and activating their communities.

That’s why we don’t see titles asking that.