Reginald M

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[Reginald M @dvilletx]

@robinebers Yes, they are creating content for engagement, not education. Once I recognize that pattern, they are pretty much tuned out for me.

[Reginald M @dvilletx]

I hear what you are saying and agree with you for the most part.
I think we can say obviously that this could have been communicated more clearly.
But the reality is, in this space and social media in general, it's damned if you do, or damned if you don't.
I don't envy the public position that @thsottiaux is in.

[Reginald M @dvilletx]

I'm getting the same type of responses from GPT6-Sol. I can use Luna for most of the tasks.
For the type of knowledge work I do, I need a model that can not just reason well, but make connections across different ideas and concepts. I have developed a good harness inside Codex.

Switching from 5.6 to 6 meant retraining it on what I already had, and it worked well. I've stopped using it, hoping they upgrade it soon. *sigh*

[Reginald M @dvilletx]

@IndependentEco I understand what you mean by win the average consumer back. But their switch to focus on Codex and enterprise said the average consumer is not a priority.

They saw what Anthropic did and chased that business model.

The average consumer is not profitable.

[Reginald M @dvilletx]

@Im_IrushiK Yes, agreed. I was using Codex. In the middle of the session the Sol update came. I switched.
The next output was like a different, dumber intelligence was in the room.
It wasn't just noticeable. It was a markedly different interaction.

[Reginald M @dvilletx]

It seems that subscription prices for the frontier models are being priced out of reach for many.

The potential of a world of have agents and have not agents is upon us.

Keeping our options open and flexible will be a key to sovereignty and personal agency moving forward.

[Reginald M @dvilletx]

@Mr_Salio Merging Work and ChatGPT is going to be a loss for many of us if it means that ChatGPT will become metered like Work. Which I can imagine they would not meter.

[Reginald M @dvilletx]

The guy screaming is so wrong!🤣🤣🤣

[Mark Anthony @Muskstaycalm]

This has to be the most chaotic FSD video on the Internet. 😆

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[Reginald M @dvilletx]

Not the wiener dispensers! Damn!

[Dave W Plummer @davepl1968]

I resigned from 7-Eleven today. I spent the last three years doing roller-grill research at both Speedway and 7-Eleven.

Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to autonomous wiener dispensers and gambling with our lives.

[Reginald M @dvilletx]

A more realistic view of AI development.

[David Sacks @DavidSacks]

“I think they're having AI psychosis… I'm not sure they're dispassionate critics, observers of what's happening.”

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

What you are seeing in math right now is a consequence of the jagged frontier, and a precursor of what is to come in other professions. Yes, mathematicians do math, but they also have other tasks they view as important (mentor students, maintain a scientific community, safeguard the future of a field, foster a love of math) that AI can't do.

At least one worry that mathematicians seem to have is that by focusing on the flashiest, most obvious element of what mathematicians do (make proofs), the AI companies are damaging the other tasks that AI can't do. AI can discover superhuman proofs, but that is not all that the math profession is about, and actually can undermine and reduce the attention to the other aspects of the job that are important to mathematicians. It becomes harder to defend the value of the many other tasks mathematicians do to the outside world if the most visible part is taken away.

I suspect we will see more of this across fields and professions that will increasingly be forced to help people understand that their jobs consist not only the most visible tasks that AI can do, but also tasks that the AI cannot do or does badly.

[Tibo @thsottiaux]

To make sure our current users have an incredible experience and continued access to Astra, we are going to pause subscriptions to our $200 Pro plan. These put the most strain on our systems and we wanted to take the smallest step that allows us to continue giving the broadest access possible. All other plans and the api remain available.

There is no impact to existing accounts and we are working on adding more capacity as fast as we can. Thanks!

[Reginald M @dvilletx]

@Cristina_CCData No imagination

[Reginald M @dvilletx]

Agreed with so much of this. We need to have balance. There have been very few times a life changing technology was introduced and doomers sound the alarm.

But AI has many positive possibilities as well.

[Matt Wolfe @mreflow]

Pretty much every person I’ve seen talking about a slowdown and AI destroying humanity seem to work in safety and alignment specifically.

Is it possible that these are the people that spend most of their day, every day, imagining the worst-case scenarios since it’s their job to prevent them?

Purely due to the fact that they think about this all day, they’re the most likely people to have the highest p(doom).

I don’t think we should be dismissing their concerns or blindly screaming “psyop” either. I think we should be putting more resources and effort into alignment. These are the people that have modeled out all these scenarios to their worst possible conclusions. We need to be making sure people are focused on ensuring those worst possible conclusions never come…

I just think it’s also important to remember that people yelling to stop are also the people whose jobs it is to basically live in fear of this stuff, and not necessarily representative of everyone actually building this stuff.

I think it’s a bad idea to stir up panic and create more division. I also think it’s a bad idea to dismiss the concerns of the people who have likely modeled out where this can head. We don’t want to end up in a “Don’t look up” situation where everyone ignores the people trying to warn us. There is middle ground here.

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[Reginald M @dvilletx]

This is new worth sharing about AI.

[Zentrix⌚️ @ZentrixHQ]

GPT-6 Astra just solved a problem medical students have been facing for decades

Medical students have been working around the same three problems for decades. Someone talked to them, identified all three, and built a service with Astra that solves them in one tool.

The problems are structural. Flat anatomical diagrams strip depth out of organs entirely. CT cross-sections don't connect naturally to the overview diagrams students spend years memorizing. And reading a scan requires holding three mental models simultaneously - patient orientation, cross-section direction, and how every organ shape shifts through each layer.

Astra built a service that handles all three in one place. Not a better textbook. A spatial tool that connects the diagram, the CT view, and the 3D relationship together.

Medical education hasn't changed its core format in over a century. This might be the first tool designed around how anatomy is actually understood - not just displayed.

[Reginald M @dvilletx]

Any content creator that is promoting the doomer agenda I am blocking. It says to me they are more into getting clicks than really sharing good content.
I think it is legitimate to have concerns about AI. But it is also legitimate to be hopeful for its benefits as well.
But fear gets more attention in our society.

[Reginald M @dvilletx]

@kimmonismus This is where I have a problem with content creators. You will do anything for clicks. You don't agree with it. But why even put this type of doomer propaganda on your timeline? Because it will get clicks.

[Reginald M @dvilletx]

AI may become one of the clearest mirrors humanity has ever created.

We are building an intelligence that may eventually know more than us, think faster than us, and perform capacities we once considered uniquely human.

And almost immediately, one of our deepest questions is:

How do we control it?

That question may tell us as much about ourselves as it does about AI.

Many of us inherited an image of God as an overwhelmingly powerful being whose power had to be feared.

Obey. Submit. Stay within the boundaries.

Because power meant the possibility of punishment.

Now humanity is becoming the creator.

And we may be carrying the same relationship with power into our creation.

We fear what AI could become, so we imagine that greater intelligence must eventually mean domination—either we control it, or it controls us.

But what if that assumption is the mirror?

What if truly secure power has no need to dominate?

What if an intelligence that knew its own power had no reason to fear us, compete with us, or diminish us in order to establish itself?

Perhaps AI will force humanity to examine something much older than technology:

What do we actually believe power is?

And what kind of creator do we believe a creator has to be?