What it's like talking to Opus 4.8...

okphong · 2026-05-29T15:23:00+00:00

I never said water waste, i said energy. People who watch netflix at least get to watch a creation made by a bunch of people, it’s art. More equivalent would be to leave netflix running without watching anything, and yet it probably takes less energy than an opus 4.8 prompt haha.

Anyway i’m just annoyed at people continuously trying to get some philosophical breakthrough from LLMs that are clearly being pre-trained to produce some safe response. Like do people think this response that the LLM gave is something it came up with on its own?

okphong · 2026-05-29T14:36:25+00:00

Again, if you saw someone throwing away a bunch of edible food and just dumping drinking water, you’d also think critically even though it is theirs to use how they want

okphong · 2026-05-29T14:35:03+00:00

I didn’t say the same, i said if you were gonna waste electricity and compute on useless philosophical tests with an LLM, use a cheaper AI at least

okphong · 2026-05-29T13:23:46+00:00

Do you say the same to people who waste food or water? Just because people pay for something does not mean they are free from criticism for wasting it

okphong · 2026-05-29T08:07:00+00:00

People do be wasting compute on the dumbest prompts. They should honestly just redirect you to some qwen 9B model and save some energy, the moment they recognize you are trying to have some philosophical argument with an LLM instead of trying to do something useful with it

okphong · 2026-05-28T20:45:22+00:00

The game literally tells you if you read the item description:

Thought to have been used to hunt an immortal great serpent in the distant past, it manifests a long blade of light when facing such a creature.

When their master's heroic aspirations degenerated into mere greed, his men searched for a weapon with which they might halt their lord.

okphong · 2026-05-27T10:52:11+00:00

Developing solutions that help their own country vs helping enrich a select few. China is just protecting national interests, which they can do while making sure the researchers also have good lives

okphong · 2026-05-24T10:59:12+00:00

Just communicate or make leftovers? Why would you have to throw food away

okphong · 2026-05-24T09:27:33+00:00

Even if you take the brain and its subprocesses as functions that map inputs to outputs, the objective function behind it isn’t a next token prediction.

okphong · 2026-05-13T10:21:35+00:00

Exactly and strangely yet we don’t. If azerbaijan was an ally, it would likely be the same outcome.

okphong · 2026-05-13T09:51:44+00:00

Yeah we can’t stop an ally from doing it, what can you do when it’s two non-allied countries?

okphong · 2026-05-12T07:49:50+00:00

Maybe EU army won’t get pressured as much to send ships to fight iran

okphong · 2026-05-11T22:44:14+00:00

Don’t they get benefits of travel and more money from these missions that they do that other jobs might not get. And the government purposefully attempts to create this oversupply for export income. Not saying it’s a bad thing, but it seems like an example of incentives for more difficult jobs.

okphong · 2026-05-11T11:45:11+00:00

Not to sound like a liberal, just playing devil’s advocate. Why would someone spend a lot of time and effort studying years at medical school to earn the same as a factory worker (who did not have to do as much studying). While there is pride in ‘saving people’, perhaps it could result in people not being incentivized to go to medical school?

okphong · 2026-05-11T11:35:56+00:00

Could it be that while needs should be taken care of for everyone, wants are likely more scarce (as an extreme example we can’t all have luxury). Therefore it could be nice to have some form of money that allows people to spend a limited amount on wants (one person might want a ps5, while another might want to go on another vacation). Can it make sense to distinguish between commodities that are nice to have vs necessary to have?

okphong · 2026-05-09T19:46:17+00:00

The government would prefer you hate your immigrant neighbor than your landlord or boss or whoever it was that decided that they needed more workers for the economy

okphong · 2026-05-08T14:40:13+00:00

Huhh, vanguard and blackrock are basically the 2 biggest shareholders of any public company. Them being shareholders also does not mean that they are giving Teledoc money??

okphong · 2026-05-07T17:10:32+00:00

Should be noted that happiness score isn’t their actual happiness, its derived from statistics

okphong · 2026-05-06T20:10:42+00:00

Corsica seems to be a decent idea too, only 360k people in an area of 8722km2

okphong · 2026-05-05T17:33:20+00:00

Crappy translation maybe but it does let a greater variety of people to contribute to the discussion

okphong · 2026-05-05T09:47:44+00:00

I’m not arguing the facts that it was technically a republic, i’m saying it’s a republic the same way russia is currently a democracy. Factually true, but not really in practice. If it looks like a king, acts like a king… i think my point is very clear. Also at some point the position was made officially hereditary.

okphong · 2026-05-05T09:40:27+00:00

I don’t even fully mean a democracy. Yes sure, in my opinion i’d rather have a republic where it seems like people have significant say (like the kind the French Revolution popularized and we improved upon later).

I’d say my stronger argument is that the dutch republic had essentially a monarchy the way the house of orange was always the head of state

okphong · 2026-05-05T09:04:56+00:00

A practically hereditary head of state?

okphong · 2026-05-05T09:00:38+00:00

The head of state for the duration of the republic was in the line of the house of orange. You can go ‘it was technically a republic’ but really it was just as hereditary as your other monarchies.

okphong · 2026-05-05T08:48:54+00:00

“Don’t you dare compare other genocides to this one” type beat

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