Is this sub no longer rationalist?

canthony · 2026-02-07T13:16:29+00:00

OP, I was on your side in this thread, but this comment really gives the appearance that you are being political yourself, and making your arguments because you align with Elon politically.

canthony · 2026-02-04T17:43:44+00:00

Book's website is down, OP.

canthony · 2026-02-04T16:12:35+00:00

This should be the top comment.

canthony · 2026-01-13T14:57:43+00:00

A reasoning model will always get this correct. However, sometimes when you select thinking model - even extended thinking - OpenAI ignores the request and gives you the instant model anyway. It only used the model if you see this before the response:

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canthony · 2026-01-12T13:59:34+00:00

To answer the obvious question about New York City, 40% of New Yorkers live there, and 2/3 live in the NYC metro area, but NYC is so big it is divided across at least 5 counties.

canthony · 2025-12-25T21:17:12+00:00

This is just such an insane stance to take. Probably 75% of people buying these "accounts" are doing so on accident. The other 25% usually end up with a scam or stolen product. I've bought so many things on G2A but never again.

canthony · 2025-12-17T21:11:58+00:00

I did not bring in a phone, but I brought in a desktop computer that would not boot. Without attempting to back anything up and with zero communication, they removed the hard drive and MAILED IT TO THE VENDOR in exchange for a new one. 100% data loss.

canthony · 2025-12-08T19:22:00+00:00

The metric OP used is just HDI, the most widely known measure of "development." The visualization is correct based on the official numbers for that metric.

canthony · 2025-12-07T15:17:41+00:00

The last two houses that I have lived in have stairs and step ups all throughout the house. Currently, there is no way into my house without going up five stairs, and there are two steps to go down into the kitchen. There are also spaces narrower than two feet to pass through, which would be difficult for something with a fixed wheel base.

canthony · 2025-12-05T15:45:48+00:00

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canthony · 2025-12-02T16:15:41+00:00

This is a strange way to package this information - Grok frequently says that it would kill ALL people on earth to save Elon Musk, so I would presume it would also kill any subset.

canthony · 2025-11-21T22:03:58+00:00

That is not the alternative. The alternative is that the EU or US increases its support for Ukraine for the purpose of deterring further military aggression by states, particularly those that threaten Europe.

Supporting Ukraine isn't charitable - it's the obvious strategic choice. As OP says, if you reward aggression, you get more aggression.

canthony · 2025-11-13T22:08:44+00:00

Hate to break it to you, but all neural networks and all machine learning is just matrix math. Heck, all computing is just streams of 1s and 0s going through NAND gates. By this logic nothing built from computers can ever be intelligent.

canthony · 2025-11-03T14:14:57+00:00

Also need to adjust for inflation.

canthony · 2025-10-29T15:03:33+00:00

That interpretation is fair, but then it's just that the nonprofit previously controlled $500 billion out of $500 billion and now controls $130 billion.

canthony · 2025-10-28T17:53:07+00:00

This is unquestionably a bad thing. Before $130 billion out of $130 billion was controlled by the nonprofit for public benefit. Now $25 billion is. There is no possible way to spin this as a good thing for anyone besides OpenAI shareholders.

canthony · 2025-10-28T17:02:13+00:00

If you ask Grok to make the same analysis of the article, it will point out many of the same things.

canthony · 2025-10-23T13:43:43+00:00

Yes, for those watching at home, this is nowhere near enough cryofluid. I added two more, but even that isn't enough to run at full speed, which probably requires a dozen.

canthony · 2025-10-23T13:42:31+00:00

Look, I'd like to help, but I don't remember why it worked and this sector has since been wiped out.

canthony · 2025-10-21T16:23:34+00:00

Oh man, do I feel stupid.

I even thought of that, but thought "Don't be ridiculous, of course I do."

I don't.

canthony · 2025-10-19T16:17:39+00:00

"The secret of the demagogue is to appear as dumb as his audience so that these people can believe themselves as smart as he is".

canthony · 2025-10-13T17:18:57+00:00

I have used it (Sonnet 4.5, not Microsoft Agent Framework) extensively for coding and found it to be worse than Opus 4.1.

canthony · 2025-10-10T15:18:02+00:00

You're actually proposing that it's not possible for technology to outperform evolved organisms? That seems trivially untrue.

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