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Comment Re:Saving? (Score 1) 72

That is by intent. People in debt are far easier to control and exploit than those with reserves. Hence spending at your means or above is encouraged.

That said, I have been doing exactly that for a long time. It is easy if you are smart and actually can still live reasonably well when you spend less than you could. It is easy in Europe with everybody covered by health insurance and education is essentially free. It gets very hard to do when you already struggle while spending at your means. And it seems that is what most people in the US are currently doing, with things very likely NOT getting better for a long time.

Comment This is not a problem (Score 1) 92

It is the last phase of getting the technology to maturity. Problems are to be expected, but they will be solved. And none of these are severe, these are nuisances. Which still means they have to be fixed, but it is entirely possible to do so.

For example, how to wake people up with good reliability is understood, they just need to do it. Demo: https://www.youtube.com/shorts...
Maybe this is just American companies ignoring what the rest of the world does and already has figured out. Would not be the forst time.

Comment Re: "we're gonna cure cancer and end hunger" (Score 1) 102

The possible ways this can go are really that either you will be able to run a reasonable LLM on your local computer in a few years, or the big LLM offers will either go away or get completely enshittified because they are too expensive to run. Currently it looks like it will be the 2nd thing.

Comment Re: "we're gonna cure cancer and end hunger" (Score 1) 102

Yes, pretty much. One of my first experiences with ChatGPT was that I asked something, then I asked for sources. It did a web-search and failed. Completely unusable. That Google tries to sort-of "verify" LLM answers with results from search is a good thing. But it really does not work that well.

Comment play more games (Score 1) 41

It's a strange fight. The robots sometimes seem unaware of where their opponent is, facing the wrong direction or throwing kicks and punches in the air.

Not strange if you've ever played a fighting game against someone not into computer games. They learn quickly that by just mashing buttons randomly they can often get a win without actually learning anything about the game. Same principle.

Comment Re:Well Duh! (Score 2) 92

I have to wonder if the geniuses who started these services ever consulted cab companies and drivers before the fact to have a better understanding of what they were taking on.

Of course they didn't. The name of the game is "disrupting an industry". Because on paper and in investor pitches, everything is straightforward, simple, and was practically waiting for them.

That reality is more messy, has more edge cases, doesn't always follow your process, is something you don't tell the investors and don't consider in your service until you've had the chance to cash out.

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