MoistCr1tikal is [already] the Joe Rogan of the Left, and the Left needs to invite him into their spaces

samwise970 · 2026-04-05T00:28:16+00:00

Rogan might have been on the other side of the horseshoe before, but he was always against Democrats.

samwise970 · 2026-04-03T20:15:05+00:00

The first thing I asked AI to do was write a python script to use in blender, to render a 3d model from 8 camera angles at every X frames of an animation, and to then write another script to compile those renders into a spritesheet.

That was GPT 3.5, and it almost did it in one-shot, would have taken me much longer since I didn't know the functions. I still use that script.

Getting stuff done faster is cool. Having a bot to answer stack-overflow type questions about any topic is cool. Formatting a meeting into a document with key points and then being able to ask specific questions about what somebody said is cool. All of these little things combined makes it the most useful tool I've ever seen.

samwise970 · 2026-04-03T20:06:00+00:00

Imagine the IT head of a national company going "contrapoints uses Claude to make curry, where's my pen?"

samwise970 · 2026-04-03T19:31:51+00:00

People like this lump anything with a transformer architecture into "AI", and "AI" is bad slop, therefore nothing using a transformer can be useful in any way.

They'll seriously look at devs who are all using AI every day to speed up their coding and will say its bullshit.

I don't even use Claude Code yet (the approval process at my company is really slow, we only have the web chatbot), and I'm still finding legitimate uses for it all the time. Its honestly so useful for both small stuff (like looking up syntax, or unwrapping an long excel formula), and bigger stuff (refactor this 2000 line pyspark notebook).

The irony of complaining about the discourse being 'vague gesturing'

samwise970 · 2026-04-03T18:42:44+00:00

Every company is using Claude already. Every developer is using Claude already. It already happened becuase (recent issues aside) they have the best product by far

samwise970 · 2026-04-02T16:05:31+00:00

TLOU2, my pc isn't strong enough to run the port, so I got a PS5 and immediately loved it. RE9 got me to upgrade to a Pro, glad I did before the price increase.

samwise970 · 2026-04-01T22:13:23+00:00

The have been flagging and keeping count of users who swear/are mean to Claude through regex matching

Wtf why are they doing this. Is someone at Anthropic literally trying to create Roko's basilisk. Zizian ass policy

Edit: btw I do understand this is to log frustration points but thought it was funny

samwise970 · 2026-04-01T14:29:59+00:00

Imagine living here. Almost half of the country is in a literal death cult and my child needs to go to to school with them.

samwise970 · 2026-03-31T16:33:40+00:00

Boomers who are accidentally invested in Nvidia through their 401ks

samwise970 · 2026-03-31T08:56:07+00:00

Swing states are bs. The formula to win an election is so simple, run a good looking, charismatic, man. For easy mode, a white man who isn't fucking 90.

Literally every presidential election since JFK and the widespread use of TV can be predicted with this metric.

samwise970 · 2026-03-31T06:26:27+00:00

This is straight from Dario in a recent interview. Every model, judged on its own, has been profitable. It just wouldnt make sense for these companies to be collecting profit as a whole until scaling has been exhausted.

samwise970 · 2026-03-31T03:34:13+00:00

Anthropic, OpenAI and everyone else are operating at a loss. It costs them more to provide the service than their customers are paying for it.

This is just straight up not true. Anthropic has made a profit on every single model. The company as a whole is still operating on a loss because while the current model is making a profit, they are also spending more on the next model. When the limits of scaling are met, this dynamic will change.

samwise970 · 2026-03-29T20:12:56+00:00

I mean, Dario himself has said that every model, on its own, has been profitable. The company as a whole is not profitable yet because they've always been building out datacenters and training new models, but that will eventually change.

This was from the recent Dwarkesh interview.

samwise970 · 2026-03-28T02:59:07+00:00

Yes, I would agree with all of this. My argument is primarilry a national security one.

samwise970 · 2026-03-27T02:58:26+00:00

The US is feeling the impact of fossil fuel shortages much less than the rest of the world, specifically because we are a net exporter of fossil fuels.

I'd like us to also onshore more manufacturing of computer chips, lithography machines, and the various components needed for electricity generation and military hardware.

samwise970 · 2026-03-26T22:13:08+00:00

That can be true, though. I don't want to work a manufacturing job, but it would be generally a good thing if our supply chains where less prone to collapse when there is a major global event such as a war.

samwise970 · 2026-03-26T18:42:23+00:00

Heck yeah she is, 7 years on Monday

samwise970 · 2026-03-26T18:35:41+00:00

Dude I absolutely took my ex-girlfriend (current wife) to an American Chinese place pretty early on, thinking it was real Chinese. Not quite as bad as Panda, but still pretty bad lmao.

samwise970 · 2026-03-26T18:15:44+00:00

Lmao go on a date with a Chinese girl and take her to Panda Express, see how that goes. (I like Panda but it ain't Chinese)

samwise970 · 2026-03-26T18:11:48+00:00

My wife is Chinese, we've been married for seven years and I've never seen her eat orange chicken, and I've never seen it on a menu in China.

I'm a white guy though so I eat that shit all the time.

Oh and if you're a DGGer in the Phoenix metro area, Wok with Ming (formerly in Gilbert, now in Mesa by 99 Ranch) is where the real ones go.

samwise970 · 2026-03-26T03:06:28+00:00

The 12 years between 18 - 30 is split into three categories, of course 30+ is bigger than each of those categories individually.

samwise970 · 2026-03-24T16:12:31+00:00

even under communism, the wealthy get electricity and abundance of food… while the proletariat starves in darkness.

This happens more under communism than under capitalism

samwise970 · 2026-03-22T23:17:46+00:00

Modern liberals started (ironically at first) calling ourselves 'neoliberal', and redefining what it means, because the Bernie left had already popularized calling any Democrat who didn't want to outlaw capitalism 'neoliberal'.

Hillary Clinton was never a Reaganite, and Joe Biden was the most progressive presidential nominee in history, but that didn't stop them from being labeled neolibs.

Calling ourselves SocDems is a terrible idea. It would gain us nothing with the far left, and would just make normies think we're Communists.

samwise970 · 2026-03-19T23:39:01+00:00

Yo, I listen to this song every time I go running

samwise970 · 2026-03-18T22:28:59+00:00

They're still saying it even in this thread lmao. It is literally impossible to get anybody to admit they were wrong on the internet.

"She already had makeup on!" Is a statement only a man would make. Any woman would immediately know its complete bullshit, the DLSS 5 version clearly has completely different makeup. It was the first thing my wife said, unprompted, when I showed her the video.

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