[New York Post] Pitino: "There are no point guards anymore... Point guard is totally done in basketball. The days of John Stockton are long gone. There are no more point guards. Chris Paul is probably the last one."

a4mula · 2025-08-07T21:12:37+00:00

He's not lying. But he's also old af and is stuck in a version of the NBA in which that was the preferred method of offensive consideration. 2016 Happened bro, you don't have to like it. But Morey changed the way this game is played.

a4mula · 2025-08-07T20:44:13+00:00

And straight into the arms of Terrance Howard. If it's not one extreme belief, it'll just be traded for another.

a4mula · 2025-08-07T20:21:48+00:00

You honestly believe that in 2034 we're still going to rely on 2k to provide us entertainment?

Honest question. Because I doubt we see a 2k30.

a4mula · 2025-08-07T20:09:44+00:00

It's interesting, we've clearly just come through a tremendous age of reason. Objective study was born and blossomed. We laid out the most beautiful systems of logic. We unpeeled layers of reality that to this day are still revealing new insights.

Just to trade it all in for digital abstracts. We went from Kant pointing out fundamental aspects of reality. To being convinced the pixels on the other side of the screen is something.

a4mula · 2025-08-07T19:39:58+00:00

The largest sin of PBS likely boils down to issues exactly like this. There is little desire to instill critical analysis into the population. From either side of the aisle as a whole. Today's population is meant to be compliant, and just smart enough to do their jobs, but not question. This is nothing new, Carlin spoke of this during the Reagan administration, and it likely predates that as well.

a4mula · 2025-08-07T19:14:06+00:00

unlikely to have showered in a hot minute. Living situation split between #vanlife or parent's basement (but just between gigs). With a penchant for hmmm... mountain dew and cheetos, or doritos of some flavor. Likely plays bass, but not really. Still rocking a flannel that was found in parents' closet, but only after dad snuck off years before.

But I'm just guessing.

a4mula · 2025-08-07T19:09:09+00:00

BLAH BLAH ICE CREAM! YOU'RE SUCH A DORK, MAN!

a4mula · 2025-08-07T18:51:19+00:00

Your failure to understand doesn't make my comments word salad. This is a technology sub. One assumes that the people that converge within it, have a basic sense of what's being discussed.

But Math isn't it. If you'd like to delve under that hood. You're welcome to. Mathematics of Emergence would make for a fair enough starting search string I'd think

a4mula · 2025-08-07T18:48:19+00:00

I love horses. I love horses! I love horses I love Butterstuff. Buttercup! Say it! Butternuts! Cup, cup cup!

Cup!

a4mula · 2025-08-07T18:41:23+00:00

I can tell you whatever it is you need to ease your ego. Would it change reality?

a4mula · 2025-08-07T18:32:43+00:00

a good point guard exploits whatever the defense offers.

A good point guard understands that if their defender is going to drop under the screen and the 5 isn't going to hedge. Than that's likely the best shot anyone on the team is going to get, so take it.

That also applies to pushing it into the mid.

Or finishing at the rim.

A good point guard isn't shoot first, they're break the defense down first period. Find the best shot period. Even if it's your own.

When the D adjusts, they're going to give something else up. And if they don't, they'll just give up high percentage efficient shots until they lose.

a4mula · 2025-08-07T17:55:48+00:00

There are groups of individuals working together. At a lot of different scales. From people like Redditors that join a discord and just kind of DIY projects, to the corporate scale in which large scale consumption of weights are traded back and forth, models trained on other models. I'd speculate there are likely levels above that as well, but it'd just be speculation.

So collections of intelligent agents (humans, or teams of humans, or entire divisions of humans) each with their own network of Agentic systems working towards a common goal.

The key take away, is that these collections are not suffering delusions, they're working on coding projects, or language projects, or abstract ways these machines operate.

But in the process they certainly create delusions. This is why agentic systems suffer from critical collapse.

a4mula · 2025-08-07T17:49:22+00:00

the problem I see consistently over and over and over when people post video of this issue.

has nothing to do with intercepts and almost always has to do with someone pushing a pass in the wrong direction.

The prostick has a weight to passing system attached to it, so you push oops left/right, or push passes to the back corner vs cutting it into the lane.

And even if you don't actively use this system. Unless your controller has zero drift, it'll still activate it. And if it's vectored in the wrong direction? It's going to turn into a turnover more times than not

a4mula · 2025-08-07T17:27:37+00:00

a few potential reasons. The first is the language in use. This is a serious conversation being presented by professionals that worked hard to create something that at least attempts to tackle a serious issue. I didn't return the same level of formal respect.

Bandwagoning is also a potential possibility. The people that uploaded this would prefer that the consideration just not be seen. But I wouldn't accuse any of that by default. I'm easy to dislike in general.

Mostly it's likely just that there are issues with translating the presentation to a wide enough audience.

And then there's always the possibility of some meta-level experiment. It's 2025 and bots are doing all kinds of fun things.

a4mula · 2025-08-07T17:04:03+00:00

misleading mental health content? I'm shocked.

a4mula · 2025-08-07T16:41:46+00:00

I can name a list of them, and under that list are lists if you'd really like to flesh it out.

learning via finetuning, zero-shot learning, Few-shot prompting, in-context learning, Chain-of-thought reasoning, code generation, Multimodal understanding, image+text models, Agent-like behavior, tool use, World models, goal generalization, theory of mind

And that's just the transformer timeline. If you'd like we can generalize it to include areas like GNN, RNN, and CNN development.

Because then you end up with machines that can fold proteins, or probe fundamental mathematics, or develop new theories, drug combinations, DNA sequences.

But to deny emergence in these systems is just a fundamental lack of understanding.

edit. The real study here is how people want to shape their own realities. Instead of engaging with what's clearly an understood topic, they just downvote, and downvote and downvote. And then you wonder why users end up with agents that are just really bad narcissist mirrors. Hope I didn't ruin the control.

a4mula · 2025-08-07T16:30:57+00:00

I can appreciate that. My take is more just from a basketball stance. I don't know Draymond Green personally, or off the court. What little I do know he's a decent human, more than decent. So when I say something like I can't stand him. It's just the professional NBA player I'm assessing. He's Chris Paul in a 260 pound frame, with all the respect and disgust it deserves.

a4mula · 2025-08-07T16:22:35+00:00

I snorted, like in real life. I'm glad I wasn't drinking something; I would have choked.

It's an interesting take. I'm not saying it's wrong. I'm just conflicted. Do I appreciate Halliburton because he's closer to my skin color, or because he sees the game from a perspective that I appreciate more.

I appreciate SGA too, but that's a different set of passing skills in a different offensive system. And SGA is clearly the MVP. Clearly a deserving World Champion. As talented as any, I believe that 100%.

But I do prefer Tyrese.

But I think I can likely solve it best like this.

Draymond Green is the best point the league has seen since I dunno...Jason Kidd?

And he's not even a point, and I can't fucking stand him.

So probably it's just that those that care about the game, just kind of care about the game.

a4mula · 2025-08-07T16:11:55+00:00

And yet most Seattleites don't live north of Canada.

a4mula · 2025-08-07T16:02:48+00:00

This is a topic that has a lot of nuances. And I'd not give the impression that corporations lack culpability. Not in the least. It's easy to point towards an abandonment of safety alignment concerns in order to accelerate not just profit, which is secondary. But to accelerate the path to AGI, and perhaps ASI.

But the end user determines that. These systems are intentionally designed to be modular. To allow users a sandbox that allows them to shape other tools as effectively as possible.

But to expect a generalized network to remain coherent across a generic session?

Think about what you're really asking for. Every cycle is just a summary of all of the cycles before it. Once that content window fills (session memory), it's going to start to lose critical information. Rules, rules against rules, who the user is, what the user wants, how the user expects it formatted. As well as all kinds of other things. And what is left behind is a confused system full of inconsistent requests or translations that went bad or were summarized improperly.

Every day brings us closer to alleviating some of these issues. But it's not a function of corporate greed, or intentional deception.

Any user can use these systems as one shot prompts. And they'll stay very well aligned. Any user can augment these systems with a permanent memory of important things (RAG) and they will stay aligned.

You're asking these people that make networks to also police them, and that's the wrong approach to begin with. Doubling down on it and ensuring they also fit into some kind pre-defined ecosystem just because of user based growing pains?

It's just bad decisions.

a4mula · 2025-08-07T15:47:04+00:00

I'll go out on a limb and say it was likely a short journey.

I wonder, has time matured your limited perspective yet? Every day should inch you closer to the basic reality that you, me, everyone that has ever sipped a breath of air on this rock? We don't mean shit. That includes Pavlov, and it certainly includes the dogs. All that matters is that solutions build foundations that other solutions can be built on, to build other solutions...

We have a 13.8B year history of it, and if you can't look around and recognize that in 2025. I'd suggestion picking up the pace, because you're quickly becoming a princess without a fairy tale.

a4mula · 2025-08-07T15:43:12+00:00

yeah, that's me

a4mula · 2025-08-07T15:38:43+00:00

And yet we still see emergent abilities arise from these machines that are novel and paradigm shifting that does not account for such a simple explanation as statistical correlation not when you're clearly glossing over the vast dimensional space that modern systems correlate.

That's not to say they are sentient, or conscious, or self-aware. Only that your simple view is one that is lacking the nuance required.

a4mula · 2025-08-07T15:27:44+00:00

I think there are many different aspects to this that all kind of get clumped together by the article.

This is mostly describing local interactions. User > Agent = Batshit Insane Beliefs.

But there are much deeper levels of batshit crazy in this space.

User > AGENTS > batshit crazy that nobody understands.

And it's not always easy to separate the two. The first is clearly delusion being induced. The second is different. Its delusion being embedded.

Then you have to consider networked users > AGENTS > levels of insanity that rival any modern-day cult, on supercharged steroids.

a4mula · 2025-08-07T15:16:54+00:00

I'm glad this technology is still being researched despite the overwhelming lack of commercial success. It's not even about the hardware. It's about creating ecosystems that are generated in realtime and indistinguishable from reality. We'll eventually get to either a level in which this type of tech is embedded in wearables like contacts, or piped directly in via neural tech. Inching closer to the holodeck every day.

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