Automating labor is not going to move billions of tonnes of earth required to mine increasingly degraded ore grades of critical industrial minerals. People need to stop with this 'abundance' gaslighting. Without breakthroughs in material scienc…

Here's something I am looking for in models now that I've noticed. It happened when I used Kimi K2 thinking. I gave it a fairly simple directive and it surprised me by going above and beyond. I liked the results! I gave it a bit more complicat…

I am very interested in *real* value from LLMs. I've yet to see a clear compelling case that didn't involve enfeeblement risk and deskilling with only marginal profit / costs improvements. For example, OpenAI recently posted a few (https://open…

I looked at https://openai.com/index/1-million-businesses-putting-ai-to-work/ There were three biz cases: https://openai.com/index/indeed/ <- sycophantic AI being used to convince people to apply (not doing anything productive, that's the match…

I looked at https://openai.com/index/1-million-businesses-putting-ai-to-work/ There were three biz cases: https://openai.com/index/indeed/ <- sycophantic AI being used to convince people to apply (not doing anything productive, that's the match…