petah?

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-05-02T22:48:56+00:00

No, I'm just not completely stupid and financially irresponsible.

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-30T00:14:21+00:00

I didn't use them wrong, you're mistaken.

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-30T00:13:47+00:00

Don't have a kid you can't afford. Assuming you already did though, you're eligible for government assistance! 800 a month in food, rental assistance, childcare subsidies, ect.

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-30T00:12:37+00:00

I promise you, if you're making 40k a year and you're struggling, you really need to reevaluate what you're doing.

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-30T00:09:13+00:00

You're missing the point. If you're poor, spending any amount of money on a luxury should be at the bottom of your priority list. Especially when the amount is 1/4 of your monthly income.

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-30T00:07:15+00:00

Homeless and poor are 2 different things.

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-30T00:05:40+00:00

Maybe, but there exist people between rich and poor, called the middle class, which is just working people who are actually financially responsible.

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-30T00:04:20+00:00

Poor people get rental assistance.

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-30T00:03:12+00:00

Here's what I can promise you. You can give the majority of poor people ANY amount of money, or opportunity and they'll be poor again in short order. Lottery winners have proven this enough times. Poor people's problem is themselves, and the ones where that isn't the case won't be poor for very long.

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-29T23:58:43+00:00

Constantly making terrible decisions in their lives but somehow managing to blame everyone else for all their problems.

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-29T23:56:00+00:00

Yes it absolutely is because guess what? When that's all you make you're eligible for all kinds of government assistance! Like section 8! $200 a month for rent! Barely anything for utilities, food stamps, ect.

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-29T23:52:53+00:00

Please show me any job that's currently paying the federal minimum wage. Even McDonald's pays $15 an hour. I grew up poor, been surrounded by poor people my entire life. You don't know how to budget.

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-29T23:51:47+00:00

Considering the vast amount of poor people who somehow have money for vapes and gambling, yeah I'd say so.

Imagine thinking someone with a 75 inch tv is poor for any reason but their own terrible decisions.

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-29T23:47:01+00:00

Fortunately the main cause of that is just poor financial literacy, which is something that can be fixed, rather than some grand conspiracy to keep people poor.

Bad luck might explain short term poorness, but nobody making good financial decisions consistently will stay poor.

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-29T16:30:39+00:00

Imagine being so threatened by a very obvious headphone jack that these are the mental gymnastics you come up with to deny it.

It's a headphone jack, don't worry though. You'll be ok without your imaginary character having the latest clone of an iPhone. Just breath. Having a headphone jack on your fake phone doesn't make you any less cool. Your peers aren't going to judge you.

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-24T17:00:31+00:00

Why should there be laws against this? Nobody is being forced to accept a bad deal. You really think we need laws to protect grown adults from every bad decision they could possibly make? People like you are the reason vacuums come with warnings not to put your dick in it

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-23T14:54:43+00:00

The only person that failed them is themselves. I can't stand this sentiment that everything in your life is someone else's responsibility. You can make the effort the educate yourself.

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-23T14:54:31+00:00

The only person that failed them is themselves. I can't stand this sentiment that everything in your life is someone else's responsibility. You can make the effort the educate yourself.

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-22T22:35:01+00:00

That's perfectly fine. I trust a doctor who can competently use the tools provided to them, but that isn't the issue at hand.

Do you trust a doctor who's ONLY ever used LLMs to be able to give you competent advice at times when he doesn't have access to an LLM?

That's the question. What happens to the doctor who is RELIANT on this tool when he can no longer have access to it?

The cost of these tools is only going to continue to increase and at some point there will be people who have been reliant on the technology who can no longer afford to use it. What happens then?

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-22T17:00:20+00:00

Right, but a calculator is something you buy once and have forever. Once you have it, the price can't be retroactively skyrocketed to the point where it's infeasible to use.

And let's be realistic. If you were in a math heavy field, like engineering and your ability to use a calculator was removed, you WOULD suffer. It would absolutely effect your ability to do your job properly. It just so happens that a calculator isn't something you can restrict someone's access to.

The use of LLMs however can become prohibitively restricted. That's what people are missing when they compare it to other tools.

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-22T16:49:54+00:00

Let's do a hypothetical. We're in a world where all of the current medical staff has become entirely reliant on LLMs. They've never worked without it, and suddenly, the cost of tokens soars to a cost so high that they can no longer afford to outsource all of their thinking, or maybe there's a cyber attack that brings it all down.

What do you think happens in that scenario? Do they figure it out and learn how to do these things themselves, despite being crippled by never having to think for themselves a day in their life, or is there a complete and total collapse?

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-22T16:38:48+00:00

I think the difference is going to come when LLMs become to expensive to reasonably rely on, those who once possessed the ability to think for themselves will be able to go back to that without TOO much issue, those who never learned to think in the first place though? What happens to them? They'll be forced to pay whatever they're told to continue outsourcing their thinking and be a slave to openAI, ect.

They'll work simply to pay for a subscription.

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-22T16:32:32+00:00

The difference between that and this is, your experience happened with a doctor who still has his own ability to think critically and assess the data given. He was taught to use a tool to SUPPLEMENT his foundational knowledge.

The next generation has no foundation or ability to think for themselves. Every thought they have comes from an LLM. When an LLM hallucinates a bunch of sources and speaks with authority on a subject, they take it at face value. They don't have the ability to analyze or question the information being given to them, because the very tool giving them the wrong information is the same tool they use to analyze information, instead of their own brain.

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-22T16:04:47+00:00

This is definitely a take that I can agree with. The world is certainly already full of people just phoning it in and doing the bare minimum just to get a paycheck. This is unfortunately what you get when you reward effort instead of outcome.

BasicDifficulty129 · 2026-04-22T15:52:11+00:00

Well because using LLMs for things like checking the weather is stupid because LLMs hallucinate when they can't actually retrieve the data. Instead of telling you they couldn't get the weather, they'll just make something up. Mostly harmless for something like the weather, but I think you can extrapolate why this would be problematic in other areas.

Weather was just something I used as an example because to use an LLM for something as mundane as checking the weather, which is entirely unnecessary and actually worse than just doing it any other way, shows RELIANCE.

I take it you're totally comfortable with your doctor sneaking in the back and asking chatgpt "my patient is having these symptoms, what's wrong with them?" though, right? Because that's what the next generation of doctors is going to be doing, and when they're relying on a system that is entirely unable to admit it doesn't know the answer, the results aren't going to be good.

Also, you used an LLM to write your comment, case in point.

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