seems like Russia has achieved the paradoxical form of government where it is both a perfect direct democracy and a fascist dictatorship

> there is no shortage of so-called studies about LLMs that inexplicably use comically old and bad models like gpt-4o to reach a strong conclusion about the ineffectiveness of LLMs in general

> one cannot help to suspect that this specific kind of academic malpractice does in fact have a point which is to undermine the technology as a whole out of fear, to keep the academic "consensus" in favor of tenured academics

Serious studies often take a lot of time to do. Also, models outdate very fast. So, of course nearly every serious study on such a topic will be based on models that are considered "outdated" by LLM aficionados.

So, no need to invent conspiracy theories that such studies are made to keep the academic "consensus" in favor of tenured academics.

someday we will have models that can resolve physics to such degree to predict the future with surgical accuracy and when someone says "maybe models will become advanced enough to create a whole other universe from scratch" you will be there saying "highly doubt it"

This reminds me of a boss I had 20 years ago that said devs were going to be replaced soon.

Maybe he was 20 years early or maybe it's not happening now too.

Please note that I did not imply devs won't exist in my contrived fantasy.

Who do you think will be operating those mythological tools?:)

Someday.

don't ask how the sausage is made

You have an US-centric (an really naive) view of the judicial systems of the world. In many countries the judges have to follow the exact letter of the law. In others, this "spirit of the law" excuse makes way for enabling systemic corruption.

> You have an US-centric (an really naive) view of the judicial systems of the world.

Right, so because "judges have to follow the exact letter of the law" in the countries you have in mind, somehow my view is US-centric, although I'm from Sweden and I live in Spain, never visited US nor been in any US court ever? Both countries I'm familiar with, have purposive interpretation rules.

You can share that in other places it might be different, compared to how it works in the places I'm familiar with, without chucking insults around, especially insults you uninspiringly basically said in every recent comment of yours, at least make it unique.

To actually make this a somewhat interesting conversation instead of just pooping words, as I just tried that and didn't find it as fun as you did; what specific countries are you talking about, how does it work there, and how little corruption do those countries have compared to say Sweden?

You have ni idea what you're talking about if you think there's such a thing as "the exact letter of the law".

funnily enough - "letter of the law" interpretations can be so general that many left US leaning people believe it is abused by the right for systemic corruption: https://youtu.be/l7To2evwGKs?si=i93YDCuqCl5PMPlY

> central planning regulatory hell

Yup, totally nuanced comment coming from a completely sane person since "central planning regulatory hell" and "laissez faire economy without laws" are the two only options we have here, good job carrying the conversation forward with curious and interesting comments.

You are incredibly naive. There is one on every street, they are just called "sports bars" instead of casinos.

You're probably talking about the big Vegas style entire-hotel casino that aren't so popular in Europe anyway outside a niche crowd. The average lower class Spanish person frequents these "sports bars" heavily

>It’s literally text prediction, isn’t it?

you are discovering that the favorite luddite argument is bullshit

I don't consider these researchers luddites.

https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-think...

https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.01191

Feel free to elucidate if you want to add anything to this thread other than vibes.

> things start to get weird

> just look at research papers

You didn't add anything other than vibes either.

Interesting, what kind of weird?

Getting weird doesn’t mean calling it text prediction is actually ‘bullshit’? Text prediction isn’t pejorative…

> the EU currently has the most user-friendly laws when it comes to data protection

This is laughable. The EU has the most big-tech regulatory capture friendly data laws that make it really hard for small companies to compete, nicely packaged under consumer protection pretenses.

Those same laws give the institutions of the state complete and total right to silently wiretap the digital existence of anyone, at any time, for any reason.

This is one of the best parts of agentic development. I almost never had to reach for any npm package besides the foundational staples like the tailwinds and react queries. My pacakge.json dependency array vs project size ratio is just incredible nowadays