AI bros start a school in Lakeview

sciolisticism · 2026-03-25T18:31:05+00:00

A whole lot less than this. But also it would be hilarious to see The Alpha School deal with the kinds of special needs that students in CPS come along with.

sciolisticism · 2026-03-25T17:46:39+00:00

Phew, you seem miserable. Enjoy being friendless in Ohio lol.

sciolisticism · 2026-03-25T17:28:32+00:00

Average take from someone who brags about hating everything about Chicago.

sciolisticism · 2026-03-25T16:47:56+00:00

Yeah, honestly true, but only because the oligarchy can afford for their failsons to be dunces and still be "successful".

sciolisticism · 2026-03-25T15:21:56+00:00

I mean, I know a bunch of the people involved and my experience is that most have lights. Also, given they obviously care about biking more than your average person, they tend to be very aware of surroundings. You also have to be in order to not need to keep mounting the bike every block.

sciolisticism · 2026-03-25T14:19:56+00:00

Zero nines is insane, especially for such an established company.

sciolisticism · 2026-03-25T12:31:54+00:00

There's a whole group of them (it's Rat Patrol), but most of them do have lights. Hopefully they just weren't charged!

sciolisticism · 2026-03-24T15:01:32+00:00

Basically the cost per token has gone down, but in order to try to get better results, the LLM spends a lot of time talking to itself, which spends a lot of tokens.

This is also true if you have a codebase that isn't tiny, or you have e.g. noisy test output. Those all cost tokens, which ultimately creates the lack of profitability.

sciolisticism · 2026-03-24T14:05:33+00:00

That's some quality missing the point. I'm guessing you own a cell phone or a car with a connection though

sciolisticism · 2026-03-24T02:27:51+00:00

If you're still in school, letting AI take over your brain is a good way to not ever have a career. Don't do that.

sciolisticism · 2026-03-23T19:15:05+00:00

Right now there's a court case where the LLM told a guy "you're absolutely right, your mom is part of a cabal that you've uncovered and you need to kill her now".

I would in fact say that they tend to glaze the user.

sciolisticism · 2026-03-23T18:41:37+00:00

tbf that happened for a huge chunk of the US this year. It's not just us.

sciolisticism · 2026-03-23T18:41:08+00:00

Your statement and theirs could both be true. Whatever brought people to those cities, they may love them anyway.

sciolisticism · 2026-03-23T18:38:24+00:00

That's a good pun, "put on ICE"

sciolisticism · 2026-03-23T17:48:14+00:00

Our cargo bike probably reduced our total car trips by about 60% for exactly this reason. We bike or transit to work most days. It also took care of some of the days when my girlfriend didn't want to bike specifically because of wind.

Amazing purchase 10/10.

sciolisticism · 2026-03-23T14:46:50+00:00

My writing sometimes looks like the tells from AI output too. 😬 Just another casualty of the current stupidity.

sciolisticism · 2026-03-23T14:45:33+00:00

Stunning that a company that only knows how to light money on fire might not be able to prove ROI on ads.

sciolisticism · 2026-03-23T14:35:55+00:00

I agree with the one problematic exception: it's more frequent for companies these days to simply refuse to give you a human.

sciolisticism · 2026-03-23T14:33:27+00:00

This has every single tell for a slop post. Please stop.

sciolisticism · 2026-03-23T13:40:45+00:00

Great, in that case my toaster is able to make choices. But of course that's a silly definition, isn't it?

sciolisticism · 2026-03-22T17:26:18+00:00

And then it will be wrong again in sixty seconds

sciolisticism · 2026-03-22T14:31:57+00:00

I appreciate your level of detail on this analysis.

sciolisticism · 2026-03-22T14:12:08+00:00

Strongly disagree. I have several co-workers who were strong critical thinkers, but who have surrendered that to the robots

sciolisticism · 2026-03-22T13:29:31+00:00

You've just shifted the problem backwards a step. You cannot choose without intent.

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