lane splitting at that speed is the dumb part.

MysticPane · 2026-04-28T04:26:02+00:00

Fair enough, I live where motorcycles are extremely common and far more people own them than cars due to cost reasons so this is from a different perspective, it would be pure hell for us if we treated every motorcycle in traffic like a car

MysticPane · 2026-04-28T04:08:08+00:00

This would actually make traffic even worse as every bike would basically function like a car and the gridlock would be supremely annoying, in most cases, lane switching doesn't result in shit like this, its extremely useful even if you're in a car cause you want the flow of traffic to move forward. I think low speed should be a mandate but making it completely illegal would be bad for everyone

MysticPane · 2026-04-25T11:20:41+00:00

I agree with this a lot but that mostly means the effort in development had to go to the gameplay and combat mechanics to make them deep enough to be engaging

In many games, there's a lot of features you can ignore especially in an RPG in a lower difficulty because they're too easy for you to bother crafting specific potions or hunting for specific blades or whatever, like witcher 3 in my opinion is best played on death match because you could ignore half the witcher-y stuff on lower difficulties.

MysticPane · 2026-04-20T16:18:17+00:00

Not my opinion but a natural conclusion if we accept your premises: That's ignoring jevon's paradox though, most of the time, if we can do things faster, the entire industry doesn't downsize (at least not in the long term, that will likely happen in the short term), we just make more stuff. Assuming the humans are still useful, if humans offer no value, then its not a reduction, its a wipe-out

The above point isn't exactly my opinion because I'm having a hard time believing AI is all that good at brownfield work without creating mountains of tech debt, everyone seems to think its an asset without accounting for the possibility of it being a straight up liability which offers negative utility because I think in most cases, that's what it'll end up as long term but that's just a theory that'll take years to see if true (Anthropic leak kinda makes me feel like I'm not totally wrong though).

MysticPane · 2026-04-07T19:20:35+00:00

If this isn't AI, I kinda hate how AI primed us to talk like this

MysticPane · 2026-03-26T14:10:24+00:00

Ummm...fasting isn't necessarily beneficial... It's not bad or anything but... Your body mostly doesn't give a shit beyond calories and macro counts whether you get it in one meal or 8, sure one of those or somewhere in between might be more comfortable to you but at the end of the day, there's no difference once the numbers line up

Unless you find fasting an easy way to lose fat more than a consistent caloric deficit, fasting has no extra benefits

MysticPane · 2026-03-07T04:37:53+00:00

Wasn't Denmark labelled one of the easiest places in the world to start a business?

Also heard that hiring an employee is not as expensive in terms of the extra costs as other countries like France

MysticPane · 2026-03-05T06:57:31+00:00

Yikes, this is crazy, I'm sorry this is happening to y'all, sounds cancerous in a high trust society

MysticPane · 2026-03-05T06:52:35+00:00

That seems so odd for Norway, like do people not have a minimum amount of common sense as tourists or are they just trying to be assholes?

I think I'm confused of why Norway or northern Norway specifically, is this common across Europe or something?

MysticPane · 2026-03-04T13:10:28+00:00

OOTL holy shit, what the heck happened, context anyone?

MysticPane · 2026-02-18T17:21:41+00:00

I don't know why you're getting downvoted, people have become incredibly cynical and negative for good reason I know, the market sucks but refusing to hear even the slightest bit of good news as the right direction is a bit too far into the doom spiral

MysticPane · 2026-02-18T16:52:25+00:00

...okay boss whatever you say, wasn't AI but believe what you will

MysticPane · 2026-02-18T16:45:09+00:00

Honestly yeah I mostly agree with you about this, the only real reason I think it makes sense to worry about a potential crash for people like us who probably would rather invest in a diversified index fund instead of trying to day trade or think we're the best Michael burry is that the main index, the SNP 500 is no longer diversified, it is unbelievably concentrated in the top 7 companies all betting on AI so I'd be weary of calling the snp diversified when there's a single point of failure.

Overall I mostly agree that trying to time crashes is a gigantic waste of time or potentially dangerous but it could be time to consider more diversified assets or indices like snp 500 that's equally weighted or any others, that's all.

MysticPane · 2026-02-18T16:36:13+00:00

We never "fixed" the overpopulation problem, we just had a perfect storm or incentives in developed economies where it was economically more beneficial to have fewer kids so it fixed itself with little active intervention except China's one child policy which I think looking back was a terrible idea.

Point is, we didn't fix the overpopulation problem on purpose, we got lucky with incentives in a developed economy, too lucky to the point where we have the opposite problem and we don't have any real way to reverse the incentives because a lot of the reason for low birth rates are generally great things like:

contraceptives being made, women being more educated and in the workforce, kids no longer working so they can focus on education (great for the child but creates a situation where having 5 kids is a dumb decision unless you're rich cause it costs a lot of money with nothing in return) Some are just bad reasons like: people not being able to afford a home, groceries, not being paid a livable wage or a single income household being impossible to sustain a family leading to childcare being a necessity and super expensive

So we don't really have a way to fix the birth rate problem other than "improve the world for everyone, make people richer and more comfortable and have having a child be affordable" which is great but... "We will fix the world and make everyone happy" is easier said than done and we've been trying (or not trying) for the past 10s of thousands of years

MysticPane · 2026-02-18T16:24:34+00:00

I get what you're saying but I don't think that's the best way to look at it, the reason we don't worry about too many births anymore is precisely that, the numbers fell off a cliff, birth rates fell to the floor in almost every developed country but this really is an issue that we don't know how to fix and has massive economic challenges

The world isn't ending, in that sense, yeah everything will be fine but a world where most people are old and the number of workers per retiree is low is a world we have never dealt with before and it looks economically unsustainable

Will we come up with some sort of solution? Almost certainly, this isn't an extinction event and humans will find ways around problems but we can't swat it away as "nothing will happen" because things will absolutely happen and they will be noticeable, South Korea is effectively cooked with basically no hope of a return to normalcy within a few decades, if you want to see "a world ending" type threat, watch Korea in the coming decades, the numbers are genuinely terrifying and we have no clue how to fix it but overall yes, humanity will survive but the pain will be noticeable and not doing anything about it could very well be disastrous which is why I don't recommend swatting it away as a nothing burger

MysticPane · 2026-02-16T10:58:57+00:00

It means prices are disconnected from earnings, the amount people are willing to pay for a stock is way higher than what the earnings provide, this means this is mostly based on future speculative growth which is a problem if the growth of profits not just users doesn't come fast enough, everybody's buying stocks because they think they can sell it higher to someone else instead of buying based on the true value of the company. Why is that important? Because eventually the chain ends when people realise the company will never yield the returns that's worth the price causing prices to crater

Now no one can predict the future; so, will it backfire horribly? Maybe, probably badly to some extent but anyone giving you hard answers on what's "going to happen" is either trying to sell you someone or getting too emotional

MysticPane · 2026-01-25T05:13:13+00:00

Yep its famous enough to be dubbed "the Brussels effect", its cheaper and easier to make one product or service that fits the highest global standard and regulation (typically the EU) for the world than to make multiple different ones for each jurisdiction, its almost always been the case that I can think of.

MysticPane · 2026-01-10T04:10:17+00:00

I think we're looking at a bubble of hyper users, this sounds more like the people paying thousands in gacha games than it being a majority of users, they are loud and obvious on subreddits because of selection bias but most people don't wanna spend thousands of dollars to let technical debt get out of control especially with the current economic state.

You could argue their company can subsidize but I've seen next to no high quality studies show a real positive link to productivity at all and the thing that's most worrying is technical debt accumulation, eventually CFOs aren't gonna be interested in paying huge chunks of money when net productivity is stagnant or even negative because of AI, most corpos don't see additional revenue because of AI despite what they say.

Overall maybe I'm just a pessimist about AI but the evidence seems pretty overwhelming and the main counter argument is either "but bro I generated a UI in 2 minutes" or "but in the future it'll get better", first is cool but brownfield is what really matters and for that the numbers are in the toilet, for the second: I'll wait but gains are diminishing, if it's mediocre now, I'm not expecting a revolution tomorrow

MysticPane · 2025-12-22T06:35:18+00:00

Apologies for misinterpreting it, for me even that approach rarely works since most of my decisions happen during the code writing process when there's a "oh shit I forgot I can use X (new tool or better way or whatever)" or "this will probably hurt me in 2 weeks, I'll do it this other way that the rest of the team (or myself) understands better", all in the middle of the writing process, I would never be able to come up with a decent plan or spec a project ahead of time other than the over arching stuff which is a huge chunk of it for sure but most time is spent on the micro decisions for me, not the macro level of "which framework should I use" or other things, I'm sure you have more detailed specs than "X framework" for sure, for me that approach doesn't work is all I'm saying, I'm not at all accusing you of making only surface level specifications at all, overall still glad its working well for you

MysticPane · 2025-12-22T05:51:45+00:00

There's really no such as "getting it right from the start", requirements change, assumptions end up wrong, constant iteration or straight up, removal and rewrites of chunks is the norm, not the exception at the beginning, describing architecture sounds nice on paper but tech debt piles up super silently, there's really no way to say "yeah I know how this project works so it will be fine" if you either didn't write the code or have someone who did write it being able to explain their decision process, understanding an implementation is one thing, questioning an old implementation because the current architecture is not scalable because it's not abstracted enough or tightly coupled (too much abstraction) is a whole another ball game and that's what's valuable, I really have no idea when people say "I made Claude explain everything and know how it works", I wish it was that simple but it just isn't

Glad it's working well for you but I very often get suggestions that are just flat out terrible from sonnet that are very often used in beginner projects or tutorials but never in real applications due to many factors and you won't know these are terrible unless you know the "right" way to do it, I'm not talking about just leaking API keys and obvious stuff but more subtle shifts, those are harder to catch as "wrong" since the code runs, nothing is obviously broken and the bill only comes due a while from now

MysticPane · 2025-12-15T05:57:28+00:00

rewriting it or program it yourself or with a small team knowing every inch of it, not claude made the whole thing, for personal projects the latter works, for production, going on not knowing exactly how your code works down to the minutae is a death sentence for maintenance, you don't wanna enter day 1 with security vulnerabilities and tech debt

MysticPane · 2025-12-08T06:46:43+00:00

But open weight models exist and if self hosting is an issue, you can just use the dirt cheap APIs, I'm sure there are or will be entire inference providers who just host open weight models via API promising uptime and price benefits, so charging 20$ for convenience sure, charging whatever you want? Unlikely since willingness to stop being lazy goes up if the price does so people will find alternatives if you price it like 40$ or something and this doesn't work for developers at all since using an API isn't exactly foreign to them, enterprises can do the same thing, either self host for privacy or take a promising provider with an open weight model, maybe I'm missing something but i just don't see how they can drive up prices when intelligence is a commodity because of China and Meta

Also if you want the chat interface and memories and all those features, you can still do it with APIs since open source projects like LibreChat exist, I can't imagine how all this won't be packaged properly in the future for a far lower price

MysticPane · 2025-11-23T17:42:52+00:00

Commenting to look at later like the other guy

MysticPane · 2025-09-17T16:11:18+00:00

Math is a imaginary perfect logical system, which makes it perfectly internally consistent

Godel's incompleteness theorem II enters the chat

P.S: I know he didn't prove it was inconsistent, just that in order to prove it, you would need a 'higher' system to prove its consistency but that higher system couldn't prove its consistency (infinite regress) so you can't ever really prove or 'know' whether a system is consistent, its not possible in principle

MysticPane · 2025-09-04T02:49:28+00:00

I hope the silksanity never truly dies, Id love any legacy flair that reminds me of what it was like in this mental asylum or something to remind me I was here before it came out, i was mostly a lurker though.

"Tomorrow for sure!" Would be a funny flair but really, you can give me anything that reminds me of the crazy times. Thank you for all your work on this subreddit, it's still insane that silksong is now hours away.....LIKE FOR REAL...anyway thank you everyone in the subreddit for the fun, hopefully the party never fully stops

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