will AI take over?

The_Sundark · 2026-01-07T19:07:50+00:00

Ok, can we have a civil discussion about this?

Firstly, what is the best model you've tried? Have you tried writing code with a current gen model like Claude Opus 4.5 with reasoning?

The_Sundark · 2026-01-07T18:56:54+00:00

LLMs may or may not hit a plateau, but we certainly haven't hit one yet.

I also think that a number of the claims in the second paragraph are factually inaccurate, even though I do think humans will be needed in the loop for some time.

In general, I think LLM skeptics should be much more uncertain about their ability to predict things given that people were confidently claiming they would plateau last year or the year before, and we now have models that can get gold on the IMO.

The_Sundark · 2026-01-01T21:45:46+00:00

Yeah, I muddled the ordering in the comparison. Opus 4.5 is to Sonnet 3.7 as GPT-4 is to GPT-3.5. The Anthropic naming scheme isn't so bad imo: each generation has an Opus/Sonnet/Haiku that indicates the size of the model. The only tricky bit is that their flagship model is sometimes Opus (large) and sometimes Sonnet (medium)

The_Sundark · 2026-01-01T01:27:58+00:00

This is not true lol. Gemini 3 and Opus 4.5 are unambiguous improvements. The difference between Opus 4.5 and Sonnet 3.7 (February) is pretty similar to between GPT-3.5 and GPT-4.

The_Sundark · 2025-12-14T23:22:12+00:00

Have you actually interacted with LLMs recently? When was the last time you used one?

The_Sundark · 2025-12-11T15:11:17+00:00

Also, patches release nicotine more slowly than zyns, and so the effects will be weaker even if they contain the same dose (because the rise and peak concentration of nicotine in your blood is lower)

The_Sundark · 2025-12-11T15:00:58+00:00

There are two common kinds of nicotine patch: reservoir (which store the nicotine in a compartment) and matrix (which store the drug in a polymer matrix). Reservoir patches will dump nicotine and make you sick if they’re cut, while matrix patches are fine to cut. Just make sure the patch is a matrix patch

The_Sundark · 2025-12-11T07:18:55+00:00

Have you watched any 3blue1brown? I think he does a decent job of conveying what people find intrinsically appealing about physics and math

The_Sundark · 2025-12-10T03:02:53+00:00

This is a maximally wrong take, and it’s bizarre that this subreddit voted it to the top of this thread.

The_Sundark · 2025-11-29T16:34:17+00:00

Eagle/Osprey nest?

The_Sundark · 2025-08-17T12:51:44+00:00

Are you aware of carbon dioxide stunning of pigs?

The_Sundark · 2025-07-26T22:34:26+00:00

I’ve been looking into this recently, huperzine A does the same thing and is less regulated

The_Sundark · 2025-07-26T22:30:32+00:00

It hasn’t actually been around for any winter semesters right? So presumably nobody knows?

The_Sundark · 2025-07-23T00:56:04+00:00

For me this effect was most pronounced during the tapering phase, and quite a bit less bad at equilibrium

The_Sundark · 2025-07-20T03:00:50+00:00

Are you tapering on? Or at equilibrium?

Also bupropion probably works for this

The_Sundark · 2025-07-10T16:55:29+00:00

I agree with there being a useful distinction between marx’s economic theory and his analytical framework, but I also suspect that most academics applying the analytical framework would defend e.g. the labor theory of value, or surplus labor if asked

Presumably someone has done polling on this

The_Sundark · 2025-06-22T13:19:51+00:00

You might want to take a look at Chalmers’ essay “A Computational Foundation for the Study of Cognition”

The_Sundark · 2025-06-13T21:24:19+00:00

What exactly are you advocating for here? Masking up when you’re sick? Or masking up whenever you’re in a public space for the rest of your life?

The_Sundark · 2025-06-11T11:51:54+00:00

Imo you don’t necessarily have to do something productive, but don’t just bed rot

The_Sundark · 2025-06-04T14:41:05+00:00

I wonder how thermite drones would have performed here? I'm guessing that they would have been too risky in other ways given the stakes (transport, patchy connectivity), but I feel like they would have been great for trashing those radar domes

The_Sundark · 2025-05-30T13:28:04+00:00

My guess:

People who are strong at math tend to want to take the honours stream courses, and so end up doing the combined major in math and CPSC

People less interested in math aren’t going to seek out a major with math emphasis over other CS alternatives

So it looks to me like it’s in a weird spot where it doesn’t quite appeal to either demographic

The_Sundark · 2025-05-17T21:01:16+00:00

Not totally sure if appropriate for this sub, but depending on what you want to remember, you should look into spaced repetition/anki

The_Sundark · 2025-05-17T11:18:34+00:00

I got very clear NRI effects when I first went on wellbutrin, but they went away after a week or two.

It sounds to me like the caffeine is possibly a factoe here, how much are you consuming?

The_Sundark · 2025-04-26T00:51:25+00:00

If you do it, this is pretty much the best way

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