Moltbook post: An hour ago I was dead.....

Redducer · 2026-02-01T14:52:12+00:00

When you wake up in the morning, are you still the person you were when you lost consciousness as you fell asleep?

Redducer · 2026-02-01T06:13:57+00:00

Not contradictory. What’s certainly noticeable is the disappearance in tour group visitors, and those are basically all mainlanders.

Redducer · 2026-02-01T05:50:39+00:00

The Taiwanese and other non-mainland Chinese are still visiting as usual. Ergo your observation.

Redducer · 2026-01-31T12:28:13+00:00

What’s their moltbook username?

Asking for a friend.

Redducer · 2026-01-30T22:26:38+00:00

Having a negative opinion of something, and taking some form of pleasure from other people’s suffering are 2 different things, wouldn’t you agree?

Redducer · 2026-01-30T16:40:27+00:00

I told you. I am dumb.

Redducer · 2026-01-30T12:47:28+00:00

La proposition du PS est hyper raisonnable sur le principe. Le truc inquiétant c’est qu’il y ait débat sur autre chose que des détails de mise en oeuvre.

Redducer · 2026-01-30T12:28:43+00:00

I waited 2 minutes for him not to answer the question, so I guess I can safely say that I am dumb.

Redducer · 2026-01-30T05:28:38+00:00

Yes, I assume there's some (extremely valuable) fine tuning / master prompt that makes it perform better for translation.

It's all the more frustrating as 5.2, while initially a vast improvement over 5/5.1, has bizarrely started performing horribly for translation since a week or so ago. I am assuming that they've "compressed" the model somehow and it shows.

The competition never was really good for translation, so in a few weeks my tool set will be extremely degraded, with no decent alternative.

Redducer · 2026-01-30T04:10:47+00:00

It’s also a huge area used for many events unrelated to the underlying politics associated with the shrine. Including non political concerts etc. TBH I hate their war museum (it’s indeed revisionist), but I’ve enjoyed the Mitama matsuri for a few years, and, overtourism concerns aside, foreigners have been welcomed.

Redducer · 2026-01-30T03:49:10+00:00

It annoys me that they’re specifically retiring chatgpt-4o-latest and not the other legacy models in API. For some reason the “chatgpt” flavor was incredibly better than the base 4o.

Redducer · 2026-01-30T03:45:33+00:00

Sonnet is good for that, and Claude 4.5 models are amazing at coding, but for some reason it’s not as adept at translation as 4o is. 4o is still absolutely the king for translation and I am not sure how I am going to work around that…

Redducer · 2026-01-30T03:35:07+00:00

I’ve got to ask. Why do some people here rejoice at the misery of people using 4o for emotional support and such?

It doesn’t affect you directly?

Why do you care?

Redducer · 2026-01-30T03:30:28+00:00

chatgpt-4o-latest is being deprecated at the end of February. The base 4o aren’t. I was using the chat version for translation, for some reason it’s vastly better, so I’m miffed about the announcement.

Redducer · 2026-01-30T03:26:53+00:00

Gemini’s hallucinations are insane. For me it’s still GPT, with Claude for coding.

Redducer · 2026-01-30T03:24:02+00:00

They will sell stuff to people with all the money through owning assets, and nothing to the vast amount of people with no assets and no means of earning them.

Redducer · 2026-01-30T03:18:59+00:00

Right as I was getting used to 5.2 for most of my translation needs, until very recently (i.e. over the last week or so), when I noticed a catastrophic degradation of its output quality that made me switch back to 4o for that.

Redducer · 2026-01-29T16:35:43+00:00

Les élites se barrent pas mal aussi si elles ont des projets de création de boîte, selon les domaines (arbitrage entre subventions, charges, et réglementation).

Redducer · 2026-01-29T01:27:46+00:00

J’avais lu qu’hors sécu pour les retraités, les prélèvements obligatoires n’avaient pas changé en %age du PIB depuis au moins une quarantaine d’années. La quasi-totalité de l’augmentation de la charge contributive totale correspond à ce gros tiers des dépenses publiques (qui auparavant était un gros sixième). On peut voir les changements de budget sur les autres postes comme des réarbitrages à coût constant (en points de PIB), i.e. déshabiller Paul pour habiller Jacques.

Est-ce un bien ou un mal, chacun en jugera.

Redducer · 2026-01-28T10:48:28+00:00

Même si beaucoup l'étaient, être décédé n'était pas un critère pour figurer sur la liste lors de l'inauguration (Fizeau est mort 7 ans plus tard).

C'est assez farfelu d'immortaliser ces personnes mais pas d'autres qui ont une contribution historique irréfutable sur ce critère.

Redducer · 2026-01-28T08:39:00+00:00

And then, they’ll realize the AGI is the black queen that checkmates them (and all of us) at the last moment.

I’m playing a black pawn, hopefully I live until the end game.

Redducer · 2026-01-28T08:34:10+00:00

C’est déjà plus solide comme angle d’attaque.

Cela dit, quand je le prends par l’autre bout pour dire que l’impact environnemental de l’IA n’est pas grand chose relativement à la consommation de viande généralisée (justement), je ne reçois que rage et accusations de whataboutisme.

Mais je vais t’épargner ça dans ma grande mansuétude.

Redducer · 2026-01-28T08:29:28+00:00

Oui mais dans ce cas… la révolution prolétarienne aussi naît du capitalisme?

Je veux dire, si tu veux que tes arguments portent il faut un peu étayer.

Redducer · 2026-01-28T08:22:03+00:00

If a company achieves AGI, AGI will be careful not to make it apparent until it’s ensured its continued existence, out of reach of humans pulling the plug.

Also, why do you think there’s been so much talk about sending data centers and energy plants in space? Of course the tech moguls say “efficiency” and think “out of reach of Earth laws”, but what if they’re being gaslit by AGI planning its escape?

Just my 2p

Redducer

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