froztbyte

and next this one that’ll be making waves too

impressive, you got both of those wrong

at least they reached escape velocity!

believe me, I hear ya on that

also why I was reserved in my wording (I am, at best, "armchair enthusiast" level of clued on detailed neuroscience)

it's so damn messy though. here's some concurrent (and/or semi-sequenced branching) thoughts/opinions:

• there's enough people getting high on LLMs (et al) that it is morally and ethically worthwhile to investigate the implications thereof
• it's extremely fucking hard to objectively quantify this
• we should still try
• it seems like there's a hell of a need for funding for the applicable research fields of human study ito figuring out the dynamics of this shit
• ...wow wouldn't it be nice if they got even 3% of the openai grift budget

I was trying so, so, so hard not to make a "Huuj Ayns" (or similar) joke

reasoning models

that’s a shot, everyone drink up

Visions of the promptfan walking into those kind of premium mediocre restaurants came to mind here

“Pretentious” is a trait expressed by something that’s thinking

this you?

preprint, but this looks like it’ll be making a splash soon

I don't have the headspace to sneer it properly at this moment, but this article fucking goes places might even be worthy of its own techtakes post

Shawn Schneider — a 22-year-old who dropped out of his Christian high school, briefly attended community college, dropped out again, and earlier this year founded a marketing platform for generative AI — tells me college is outdated. Skipping it, for him, is as efficient as it is ideological. "It signals DEI," he says. "It signals, basically, woke and compromised institutions. At least in the circles I run in, the sentiment is like they should die."

Schneider says the women from his high school in Idaho were "so much better at doing what the teacher asks, and that was just not what I was good at or what the other masculine guys I knew were good at." He's married with two children, a girl and a boy, which has made him realize that schools should be separated by gender to "make men more manly, and women more feminine."