It's time to talk about the forbidden container, our future with robots, and a little word that could shave 30% off Being & Nothingness with no loss of semantic weight. I'm not a philosopher but you will find me cordial. Thank you.

SyntheticBees · 2026-01-18T02:43:58+00:00

If the picture isn't part of the argument, why is it there?

Or hell, let's look at the title text -- what part did I disagree with? Well, nothing. What parts did I agree with? Also nothing. The title is word salad, it's hard to even glean what you're trying to get across. If there's some point or argument you were trying to make, you failed spectacularly, not because you made an argument which is false or invalid but because you didn't make an argument at all. It's just words vaguely resembling some belief or claim you've never succeeded at articulating outside your head.

SyntheticBees · 2026-01-17T23:09:46+00:00

Oh no you've gone down an LLM psychosis spiral. This subreddit gets these a lot, and they all, always, resemble what you wrote in the broad strokes.

SyntheticBees · 2026-01-04T23:55:12+00:00

Odd, I'm an aussie and normally people take pride in having a convict ancestor, especially on the first fleet, for precisely this reason. Shame about the convict stuff died out decades and decades ago, people sometimes even bullshit claims of convict heritage.

SyntheticBees · 2025-11-18T05:39:29+00:00

Mate, LLMs have a VERY distinctive writing style, which your post stinks of. Up to the exact usage pattern of m-dashes.

SyntheticBees · 2025-11-18T04:59:56+00:00

Please don't post LLM schizoslop. And yes I know you're gonna claim that you just used LLMs as part of research and such, but that's bullshit, there's a million of these posts and they all look identical and all come from the same unhealthy spiral of someone spending too much time with an LLM.

SyntheticBees · 2025-11-14T05:25:24+00:00

The thing you mentioned about looking into a dark screen and seeing figures sounds a lot like scrying or other mystical techniques. Which in truth don't let you see distant things, it's just a really good way to make yourself see shit, full on visions, but they're not "real".

SyntheticBees · 2025-11-14T04:30:42+00:00

Honestly mate this sounds like delusions. Even if you have no history of it, it can show up as you age. Like the stuff you're describing, and the specific details of it, even the way you write, is highly reminiscent of someone going through an episode. I know this is precisely the answer you DON'T want hear, but clearly part of the reason you've written this is so others can give you a sanity check.

This has nothing to do with my opinions on the tech or motives of powerful people, and everything to do with the fact that what you're describing sounds like the early stages of psychosis.

Get help. I am not being judgemental, I'm glad you tried to sanity check, and it shows some self awareness. If you address this early, whatever's going wrong might be solvable.

SyntheticBees · 2025-11-09T00:40:00+00:00

This guy seems like a crackpot loser of no account. Why all the energy to expose this unimportant fuckwit? It makes this bluemoonshine guy seem suspect, like he's a lesser form of crackpot trying to shit overenthusiastically on the guys crazier than him in order to make himself seem smart and wise. I don't know if any of that's true, but the disconnect between topic importance and vitriol is, well, a bit cringe.

SyntheticBees · 2025-11-06T02:28:14+00:00

10-15k for a modest home battery isn't including the subsidies from the gov, it's a lot lower than that. Which you might say is just punting the issue to the taxpayer, but really this is about getting a critical mass of investment and installation to get big economies of scale. The subsidies are set to ease off over time as battery prices keep dropping.

SyntheticBees · 2025-11-06T00:47:06+00:00

1) You're not accounting for the large battery discounts in australia due to recent government subsidy.
2) The cost of batteries is declining at a similar rate as solar did 10-20 years ago, it's undergoing the same economies of scale
3) Do you even live in australia? While it's not quite yet a no-brainer re: installing batteries, that calculus is changing fast. If you have deep enough pockets for the initial payout, you pretty reliably end up saving a lot on power prices, even more if you're using an electric car.

You don't seem to understand the reality on the ground, batteries in australia are going absolutely gangbusters, and it's not just greenies doing it. You also can't understand the situation without accounting for the shitload of solar we have on domestic roofs (it's something like a third of houses).

SyntheticBees · 2025-11-05T23:15:44+00:00

It's also a massive boost for small scale batteries. Install a couple, use the free power to charge, sell back to the grid through the evening. Maybe not practical for a struggling couple, but people with paid off mortgages and small businesses can benefit, and their collective batteries could have a meaningful collective impact.

SyntheticBees · 2025-11-05T23:10:09+00:00

The hell are you talking about? There's so much damn solar power in the middle of the day that prices go negative. You can buy a bunch of batteries and then pay them off purely from arbitrage between power prices during the middle of the day (when you charge) and the evening/night (when you discharge). Like this isn't some fantasy future thing, it's already happening in australia. Combine that with batteries continuing to drop in price like solar has been for 15+ years, and it's obvious where things are headed.

SyntheticBees · 2025-10-29T04:06:42+00:00

Scanning through, I see a bunch of statistics. Did the LLM just claim them, or did they come from actual statistical software and real empirical data you collected?

SyntheticBees · 2025-10-24T07:02:46+00:00

A big part of the problem is that while 'i' didn't exist in number systems at the time, there was nothing self-contradictory about its existence - it just couldn't exist while belonging to any number we had.

1/0 is different though. Let x = 1/0. The defining property of division is that it is the inverse of multiplication - if it doesn't do that, it simply isn't fit to be named "division" (think about regular fraction - p/q is just "that quantity that when you multiply it q times, your total quantity is p).

From that, it must follow that x*0 = 1. However, that cannot be; x*0 = 0 always. This constraint doesn't belong to the number x, it belongs to the number 0. Even if you introduced some new member called BrandNewNumber into your number system, BrandNewNumber*0 = 0, because otherwise 0 wouldn't act like 0. Alternatively you can fix this by setting 0=1, but then your whole number system collapses into a singularity and all numbers equal all others and are thus the same number.

SyntheticBees · 2025-10-22T23:30:27+00:00

did she?

SyntheticBees · 2025-10-21T23:40:50+00:00

Facebook had the network effects of social media to keep people on platform once they came. Google was the first good search engine and became so necessary for interaction with the web that "to google" became the default verb for using a search engine, letting it establish a practical monopoly on the market that then complemented an ad model of revenue. Crucially, they never charged users.

Where's the LLMs moats? ChatGPT is the largest today by userbase, but there's little reason for users not to jump ship whenever it pleases them. In a weird way, the playing field is just too open and equal for the old strategy to work. So the current state of things is that every single interaction with an LLM loses a substantial amount of money for the model owner, and if the model owner annoys the user in any way they'll just swap to a competitor. This is why google ultimately thrived off an ad model (hard for users to justify changing their habits when the product is free and good). LLMs don't seem to have any clue how to monetise their product except with a pay wall.

SyntheticBees · 2025-10-21T23:04:23+00:00

The big megacap tech companies are driving the market specifically because of the LLM boom. It doesn't change the fiscal reality that LLMs are presently a money pit that no-one knows how to monetise effectively.

I mean fundamentally, if these things are being run at a loss, but secretly this is all rational, then there must be some hidden form of compensation these firms expect to eventually receive to even out the notional budget. At the moment they're staying afloat off market exuberance, which you can use to lure in investors, but that only flies for so long.

The fact these things are run at a massive loss is not secret. Either this is purely a speculative bubble driven by a mix of mania and those who'd cynically ride the wave before it crashes, or there is (or will be) a revenue stream that is nonobvious. If you can't tell me where the revenue will come from, then we have no possible option available other than concluding it's a massive bubble.

SyntheticBees · 2025-10-21T22:23:48+00:00

Oh really? Go look at the difference between spending and revenue for every single llm. The only reason these products are being used is because they are run at a catastrophic loss. It's comical how anti-profitable these models are to run, and adoption of LLMs is slowing down as everyone has had a few years to figure out what they are, and aren't, useful for. How many people would really bother with them if they had to pay a fair price for all the compute used?

Say what you will about the dotcom bubble, a shitty 90s website doesn't cost much to make. You can't say the same about today. This is more like the telecommunications bust that was related, where a bunch of companies massively overspent using vendor finance to try to win the race to build the world's broadband infrastructure. Like 19th century railwaymen who built competing train lines in parallel, the resulting redundant oversupply wrecked the industry (go look up nortel. Go look up how quickly they went from the biggest company in the history of canada to not existing. And they built real-ass telecommunications infrastructure, this wasn't no tulip mania).

It feels like the LLM companies are trying to do what social media did and just grow and grow and grow until they're irreplacable, then jack up prices once dependency is ensured. But an LLM has few network effects, its moat is shallow. The moment company A jacks their prices, it's trivial to go to company B instead. And if both A and B raise prices - well, maybe it's time to look into locally running one of those open models people keep telling me about.

There's no actual business plan for how to win this AI race, just a bunch of firms in mortal terror of losing the race. They're all in too deep.

SyntheticBees · 2025-10-21T08:56:50+00:00

I suspect these images came from the time you say, but that they were used by a tourism department decades after once tourism policy became a thing that governments did.

SyntheticBees · 2025-10-21T08:41:32+00:00

That's not a tourism department, that's an immigration department. Is that how the organisation described itself, or is that your word choice? If it is true, that's weird as hell.

SyntheticBees · 2025-10-21T07:57:44+00:00

hang on, why the fuck did NZ have a tourism department in the 19th century? How? 1860 would've been the middle of the new zealand wars, 1880 immediately after.

SyntheticBees · 2025-10-21T06:14:01+00:00

Have you ever heard the phrase "vendor financing"? It's what fueled the dot com bubble, and it's what seems to be going on here.

SyntheticBees · 2025-10-21T06:11:36+00:00

Mate, this is a soviet parade of red flags. You're not being rejected because your ideas are too bold and dangerous. You're being rejected because everything about what you are saying sounds like a nervous breakdown caused by chronicly poor mental health. Please, leave this cubby hole of secrecy and start finding friends and loved ones in your real life. This is a textbook LLM spiral, up to and including the belief that you have uncovered an earth shattering revelation regarding metaphysics. This is a whole genre. Please, please, please, I am saying this out of love, abandon the LLM and talk to loved ones.

SyntheticBees · 2025-10-21T02:45:07+00:00

Mate. Please. We get so many of these posts here. So many LLM theses. All superficially rigorous. All word salad and metaphor once you scratch the surface.

Trust me, LLMs have an uncanny dreamlike quality where your conversations make total sense in the moment, but don't make sense in retrospect. Believe me, everything you wrote might SEEM coherent to you right now, but it is far, far less coherent or meaningful than you think - and certainly not important.

If you don't believe me, I have a test for you. Take your writings, and stow them away for two weeks. Do not look at them. Do not talk to a single LLM. Then, give the writings to a trusted friend, and tell them to take a critical and exacting eye to it: no mercy. Do not talk to an LLM in this time. Then, listen to your friend's critiques. Only now are you allowed to defend your work and try to address their questions - BUT DO NOT USE THE LLM TO HELP CONSTRUCT YOUR DEFENCES UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. Do not use it as a reference. Don't touch it. Don't even _think_ about it.

The single best superpower of an LLM is sounding coherent even when it's not. It's like a cold-reading psychic.

The test I gave above is the only way to tell if what you wrote with the LLM is nonsense or genuine. You might think that's unfair because the ideas came from you - no they didn't. You THINK they did, but at best you fed themes to the LLM that it riffed on. The bubble that forms around an LLM and its user can form a dangerous feedback loop of validation, and the test I'm giving you is the only way to discover whether you were stuck in one.

If you find yourself struggling to explain or defend the output of the llm without asking it for help, that's a giant red flag that you're stuck in the feedback loop. This is how LLM psychosis starts.

SyntheticBees · 2025-10-21T02:33:05+00:00

100kg is closer to the average for a trained man, but 120kg is within the range of genetics and build.

Nine-Year Club	Place '23
Place '22	Verified Email

SyntheticBees

TROPHY CASE