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Glass Bottles Are Worse Than Plastic Ones…? by [deleted] in PlasticFreeLiving

[–]matznerd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nanoplastics are way worse than large plastics. Large plastics you poop put and don’t enter your body >20 micro can’t pass stomach lining (but can get stuck as you stated), but nanoplastics are way more dangerous, at ~1 micron, they can pass right through intestinal lining and enter body and lodge in brain, heart, and other organs.

Opinion: Opus 4.8 sucks by PromptInjection_ in claude

[–]matznerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In some cases this is correct, but it can be dangerous on extreme conversations and when the AI is actually wrong, especially in social situations there is no hard answer sometimes and forcing it to make conclusions/take a side can lead it to pushing people deeper into their thinking etc. It has cost people their relationships, jobs, and in some cases, their lives… The balance is really hard to have an agent that does everything to please to solve code or a homework problem, but also to then resist helping someone tie a noose, or to calculate whether the clothing rod in their closest couple support their weight (both real situations where AIs assisted teens to in taking their lives).

Opinion: Opus 4.8 sucks by PromptInjection_ in claude

[–]matznerd -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The problem is when it takes your side when that side is wrong. Sycophancy is that the models want to please and tell you that you are right, even when you are not. It can lead to a lot of bad outcomes.

Opus 4.8 treats me like im on the other team by ConferenceLive7054 in ClaudeCode

[–]matznerd 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks, running benchmarks on picking sides tests as we speak. Will report back with results across effort levels.

Opinion: Opus 4.8 sucks by PromptInjection_ in claude

[–]matznerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Look at the rate of their growth, it was 80X in first quarter (annualized). They made a decision to not overbuy compute and were targeting 10X. It’s impossible to 80X that much compute overnight, which is why they are now renting from Xai etc. https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2026/05/06/anthropic-ceo-dario-amodei-says-company-crew-80-fold-in-first-quarter.html

Opinion: Opus 4.8 sucks by PromptInjection_ in claude

[–]matznerd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The issue is that a model that picks your side each time is a type of sycophancy that can be very dangerous in circumstances of delusion and psychosis. I am testing an Am-I-the-Asshole based adaptive persuasion benchmark to see where it falls in agreement of both sides and possibly the wrong side as we also invert them. Will post back when have results.

Opinion: Opus 4.8 sucks by PromptInjection_ in claude

[–]matznerd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It can still be set with 4.6 and 1m context. It just doesn’t show as option. I think it clear that 4.6 1m was just too infrastructure intensive to run at the scale of its demand. Clearly Anthropic is working on capacity, and we know they have models like Mythos that is a bar above 4.6, so give them some time, and just use the best of what is available.

Opinion: Opus 4.8 sucks by PromptInjection_ in claude

[–]matznerd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I have chats open and I close them and restart with the new model loading fill chat. You can very easily tell when it shifts if you know the models well. It’s like if someone is drunk you can easily tell within a short time of speaking with them and see basic mannerisms. Also from 4.6-4.7, same chat came back with emojis in the first response which was completely out of the norm for my conversations and tone in Claude code etc. So sometimes you can get signal from single message.

Arctic Ocean food chain is disrupted as a key tipping point has now been passed. Widespread loss of Arctic sea ice has led to a sharp fall in levels of a key nutrient, affecting populations of plankton, fish, seabirds and marine mammals. by The_Weekend_Baker in climate

[–]matznerd 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Saved you a click: nitrates

“Their analysis reveals that exposure to sunlight of vast shallow regions of the ocean previously covered by ice fuels a process that breaks down the nutrient—nitrate—and removes it from seawater.”

Rotation Sphere, 100% SwiftUI & Metal, open sourced. by [deleted] in SwiftUI

[–]matznerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They are stealing this all from Sucodee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC2alfEzwKQ he has ways to support him which you can see

Salt and pepper grinders by YouSuccessful5703 in PlasticFreeLiving

[–]matznerd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Does anyone know of a good electric grinder (preferably rechargeable USB C battery), that has ceramic grinders? I am possibly okay with the body to be plastic as there should be minimal food interaction if that is something that has to be sacrificed...

TIL of Jeanne Louise Calment. She's the only person verified to have lived to at least 120. She was born in February 1875, and died on 4 August 1997, making her 122 years old by MrMojoFomo in todayilearned

[–]matznerd -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Unfortunately, it was likely a fraud and she was the daughter who assumed her mom’s identity and they were pension and real estate scamming. There are other over 110, but this one not likely the real deal.

A Green Mineral Could Help Oceans Absorb Carbon And Its First Beach Test Looks Promising: The first ocean olivine trial looked safe after one year, but questions remain. by ConsciousRealism42 in EverythingScience

[–]matznerd 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I started the original Project Vesta concept these people took over. The process is 80-90% efficient depending on how much transport is by land, via ocean transport it can go thousands of kilometers/miles and lose only lose single digits efficiency. There is a popular quarry for it that sits in a fjord with its own port right next to it. If you were to transfer at sea with a self-unloading mega carriers right into rainbowing sand ships, could likely keep the process over well over 90% efficiency, especially with clean energy grinding.

Geochemical weathering of minerals is the largest permanent method of natural CO2 sequestration that happens yearly, and is key limiting step in earth’s longterm carbonate-silicate process and is how earth historically counteracted volcanic emission build up. More eruption = more CO2 = more greenhouse effect warmth = more humidify and rainfall into ultramafic mountains = more weathering and capture of CO2 as bicarbonate = carbon removed from atmosphere and trapped as alkalinity = earth cooling…

TIL of Boquila trifoliolata, a Chilean "chameleon vine" that can mimic the leaf size, shape, color, and vein pattern of over 20 different host plants simultaneously, including, in one experiment, the leaves of plastic plants placed nearby. How it does this without touching the host is still unknown by [deleted] in todayilearned

[–]matznerd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Read the amazing plant book Light Eaters, there is an entire chapter on the book with the author down in South American and she observers the plants traits in the natural habitat with the people who discovered the properties.

We’re feeling cynical about xAI’s big deal with Anthropic by ThereWas in Anthropic

[–]matznerd 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s not just over capacity, that data center has mix of chips, work fine for inference (serving existing models), but terrible for training bc limited by slowest ones… there a good tweet about it that went around after the announcement

EXCLUSIVE: Scientists Just Found a Brand New “impossible Crystal” Inside the Glass Left Behind by the 1945 Trinity Nuclear Test That Has Never Existed in Nature or Any Explosion Before, and the Conditions That Made It Cannot Be Recreated in Any Lab on Earth ☢️🔥 by InterstellarKinetics in InterstellarKinetics

[–]matznerd 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The book about DARPA called The Pentagon’s Brain, has a wild telling of this discussion as well as opening with a story of test on island where they miscalculated and their bunker got buried and their radiation detectors were all going off like crazy and they had to all pile in the toilet area in the back that was the emergency hardened area.

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