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> Don't believe for a second that Sora will allow you to make racist content with Disney characters.

It's not racist, it's an historically accurate depiction of 1930s Germany under the authority of a significant leader who may or may not be controversial today


> Firstly, generals, like anybody else can be terrorized.

This isn't part of any modern definition of terrorism, otherwise war is terrorism, stalking is terrorism, bullying is terrorism &c.


Compare that to Intermarché's christmas ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Na9VmMNJvsA

Beautiful visuals, beautiful story telling, an actual message... ads can be more than "consume our shit"


Are you seriously comparing a half minute ad with something that's five times longer at two minutes and half? Way too expensive for tv and way too long anyway. I think it's longer than the average TikTok video.

Like it or not advertisement shapes the world in a lot of ways. I still remember ads from back when I was a kid about eating clean, not littering, &c.

It is, or used to be at least, one of the most creative visual industry too, because of relatively big budgets, short duration, fast release cycles.


Given an input clang will always give the same output, not quite the same for llms. Also nobody ever claimed compilers were intelligent or that they "understood" things

The determinism depends on the architecture of the model!

Symbolica is working on more deterministic/quicker models: https://www.symbolica.ai


An LLM will also give the same output for the same input when the temperature is zero[1]. It only becomes non-deterministic if you choose for it to be. Which is the same for a C compiler. You can choose to add as many random conditionals as you so please.

But there is nothing about a compiler that implies determinism. A compiler is defined by function (taking input on how you want something to work and outputting code), not design. Implementation details are irrelevant. If you use a neural network to compile C source into machine code instead of more traditional approaches, it most definitely remains a compiler. The function is unchanged.

[1] "Faulty" hardware found in the real world can sometimes break this assumption. But a C compiler running on faulty hardware can change the assumption too.


currently LLMs from majorvproviders are not deterministic with temp=0, there are startups focusing on this issue (among others) https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in...

You can test that yourself in 5 seconds and see that even at a temp of 0 you never get the same output

Works perfectly fine for me.

Did you do that stupid HN thing where you failed to read the entire comment and then went off to try it on faulty hardware?


No I did that HN thing where I went to an LLM, set temp to 0, pasted your comments in and got widely different outputs every single time I did so

"Went" is a curious turn of phrase, but I take it to mean that you used an LLM on someone else's hardware of unknown origin? How are you ensuring that said hardware isn't faulty? It is a known condition. After all, I already warned you of it.

Now try it on deterministic hardware.


Was the seed set to the same value everytime?


Hm, some things compilers do during optimization would have been labelled AI during the last AI bubble.

"My technosolutionist bubble says it's not a bubble, trust me bro"

> technosolutionist

I'm going to steal this for my arrr rspod conversations.


It's a fairly common descriptor

„Just XYZ more billion, bro, and then we’re gonna have AGI! For real bro, pleaseeee!“

Why can't you just prompt a way to AGI without spending all that money?

Honestly this is the best response. If the AI was actually so great, it could create better AI, and the future would already be here

They are talking to each other already.

Whether for betterment remains to be seen.

2 Opus 4 talking directly to each other: https://www.iflscience.com/the-spiritual-bliss-attractor-som...

"Learning" passing between derivatives of the same base models: https://alignment.anthropic.com/2025/subliminal-learning/


According to the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy this would take an AI 10 million years.

Seems like we're stuck with '42' for a while ;)


"Sam Altman, a man best known for needing a few more billions at any given moment." (c) HN best-of-2025 :)

If you ever worked with people who fully grew up with modern social media and just entered the workforce you know we're already doomed, there is no recovery from this, that's why governments are starting to act

alarmist nonsense

By all means tell us why

younger generation is earning more in the workforce than past generations, clearly they haven't been too cooked by phones.

even though i'm in the younger generation and have less experience in the world, i can recognize pearl clutching and moral panics when I see them.


> younger generation is earning more in the workforce than past generations

Inflation adjusted wages and purchasing power is flat for, at least, the past 50 years... and even if it wasn't it wouldn't mean anything regarding new workers capabilities/attention span/&c.

https://i0.wp.com/economicsfromthetopdown.com/wp-content/upl...

https://assets.weforum.org/editor/Xkzpnpz_lnI-0WbTH1LJVUdu3J...

The propaganda is so good people who have it worse than their parents and grand parents think they're living in the greatest times ever.


those charts are different from the point that i am making, which can be seen here:

https://i0.wp.com/www.edwardconard.com/wp-content/uploads/20...

https://www.federalreserve.gov/econres/feds/has-intergenerat...

the “propaganda is so good” and yet anyone on the internet has seen the charts you’re linking dozens of times. fwiw, your chart makes a lot of assumptions by subsetting to hourly, excluding benefits, and using a different inflation adjustment for income vs. productivity (the last one is 100% a chart crime). every time they make the choice that will make the gap most striking, https://www.piie.com/sites/default/files/realtime/files/2015...


Do you have kids ? Do you see kids in your day to day life ? I do, every day, and even <10 years old already have permanent neck damage from scrolling as soon as they haves 5 seconds of free time. I see groups of friends walking back from schools, they're side by side, scrolling on their phone, not talking, not even looking in front of them. I walk by 3 schools multiple times every single day and that's all I see as soon as they're outside of the playground (because they're not allowed while inside). Locking up kids inside social media echo chambers is much more isolation than kicking them out of them imho

I do have a son. I plan to tell my kiddo not to engage with those platforms and set boundaries. I dont plan to force every kid in every scenario into the same pattern.

>Locking up kids inside social media echo chambers is much more isolation than kicking them out of them imho

"Locking" Why not instead ban the social graph, or certain engagement techniques. Theres a whole other arm here, where the AusGov has pulled back entirely from promised gambling restrictions. Its easy to see a path where dark patterns in both industries are outlawed instead of banning half.

Not to mention that 4chan and youtube are unaffected, so I doubt those kids with the broken backs or whatever are going to be "free".


i doubt 4chan will be unaffected by this

4chan has, at best, 5-10% of the traffic of tiktok

They already excluded many popular and addictive services that are used for grooming

This will enhance surveillance and state control of content, but not address the problems you’ve mentioned


It has some educational content, most of it is brain rot like everywhere else though. Open a brand new youtube account and check out what's being pushed by default, you either get room temperature IQ political analysts or "shorts" with softcore porn thumbnails to bait people for a click

Open a new YT account then feed it with [1] for few hours at least then you will unleash the full power of Youtube... unless you missclick even once into some popular blog typically they very clearly aimed at low-IQ people which accidentably might be your kid or somebody else like you know who I mean. But to prevent that slippery slope at least partly, just increase the feeding time of your YT account with the best requests possible which are carefully stacked at [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=youtube.com


Sure, but then again that's not how most people use youtube in real life. You can trick it into temporarily not being a slop provider but it's a constant battle, and not one a 10-15 years old will engage in, which is to be expected, kids are kids and can't fight multi billion dollar companies hiring the top behavioural scientist of our era to create the most addictive ad delivery mechanism possible

FIRE people are funny, I wouldn't retire in belgium even if I was paid for it personally. Do you just order by tax rate and move wherever the number is the smallest ? I never heard of anyone moving to Belgium for anything other than family or cross border workers

Because Belgium didn't have capital gains tax it was actually common to (fake) retire to Belgium for wealthy individuals. There's supposed to be a capital gains tax from 2026 though.

Belgium is one of the top 20 countries in the world for quality of life and social safety net.

There are ~200 countries doing worse.


Quality of life for integrated citizens or for FIRE leeches ? The truth from quality of life polls can be far from the truth of migrants on the ground. If you're leaving CA for Belgium to save money and enjoy a nice "quality of life" you're in for a treat lol. People aren't interchangeable units of meat that can be integrated and fully acclimated to new cultures/nations.

I could understand Amsterdam/Berlin for the vibe and the fact that everyone speaks english. Portugal/Spain/Greece/Italy for the weather, the nordic countries for nature and the overall lifestyle... but Belgium, really ? no offence but it's like Luxembourg, if it wasn't for tax reasons nobody would ever willingly move there


Maybe... but you're still in Belgium. :)

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