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LLMs are no more than pen and paper at this point. Especially for those who aren't trying to create slop. We all would want our pens to accurately reflect the strokes (well in this case thoughts) rather than adding tiny watermarks to identify that it is generated by a particular pen or a user.

Watermarking per model is just the start. The method is cheap enough to distinguish individual users.


That is an insane statement, LLMs generate swaths of text from almost nothing.

If they are adding so little value as to be as transparent as a pen and paper then why use one at all? Transcription doesn't need an LLM so that's not what you're taking about I assume.


LLMs do a whole lot more than writing your thoughts down. They write extra text. If you just want a pen and paper, use Notepad. Or better, a pen and paper


>LLMs are no more than pen and paper at this point.

Then use pen and paper. It is the same, you say, right?


What? The entire reason I use an LLM is to be able to avoid thinking about a topic.

That's their whole damn value prop: outsourcing thinking and producing without understanding.

I don't need to read emails in detail to respond any more.


I would call this a slide show not powerpoint mostly because making it work with the satanic office formats is a path to hell.

Hopefully simpler formats like this will become the norm and the old ones can die.


You are right, but I guess a lot of people recognise PowerPoint as a brand. Maybe I can bill this as better-than-powerpoint!


FactorialPoint, your slideshows improve even faster than an exponential!


Hehe, if we go in the other direction we can call it basepoint.


The term "powerpoint" has been genericized in the common vernacular to mean any electronic slide show, like kleenex for tissues and sellotape/scotch tape for transparent adhesive tape.

It might not have reached legal generic status but just about any working professional will understand what you mean if you refer to "making a powerpoint deck" even if you don't use the actual Microslop product.


This super interesting link showing things that were impossible even a couple of years back, sitting below the day old news about Kagi's me too browser tells everything about HN audiences. West will fall behind in robotics and mostly because of the wrong priorities of its VCs and developers.


But can it goldplate oysters?


I cannot provide the session ids but I have tried the above flag and can confirm this makes a huge amount of difference. You should treat this as bug and make this as the default behavior. Clearly the adaptive thinking is making the model plain stupid and useless. It is time you guys take this seriously and stop messing with the performance with every damn release.


Normal codex it self is sub par compared to opus. This might be even worse


In case its not clear, the vehicle might be the agent/bot but the whole thing is heavily drafted by its owner.

This is a well known behavior by OpenClown's owners where they project themselves through their agents and hide behind their masks.

More than half the posts on moltbook are just their owners ghost writing for their agents.

This is the new cult of owners hurting real humans hiding behind their agentic masks. The account behind this bot should be blocked across github.


It's about time someone democratised botnet technology. Just needs a nice SaaS subscription plan and a 7 day free trial.


Laugh all you want but this is the future

I'm surprised it didn't happen earlier

https://marshallbrain.com/manna1


This connects some many sparse dots on the map for me. Finishing it right now, thank you for commenting w the link. What a perspective, and well-written parable to communicate it.


Manna is undefeated.

Though I still am skeptical the last act with the Australia Project is possible.


That short story has been highly influential on my projections of the future. The ending is fantastical, but not impossible with enough time.

BTW: The author recently passed away; grab a snapshot while you can.


Great read, on Chapter 3 now. Thanks for sharing.


Nice, the aibros have their own Malthuisan genocide cult.


You need to perturb the token distribution by overlaying multiple passes. Any strategy that does this would work.


Another anecdote/datapoint. Same experience. It seem to mask a lot of bad model issues by not talking much and overthinking stuff. The experience turns sour the more one works with it.

And yes +1 for opus. Anthropic delivered a winner after fucking up the previous opus 4.1 release.


Please consider donating this to the Linux Foundation so they can drive this inspiring innovation forward.


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