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[NavinF @NavinFS]

I made a web search engine: https://t.co/VXnVkk9imK

[Doug Colkitt @0xdoug]

> See an academic paper about how LLMs can’t write specs
> Ask “is it a modern model with RLVR”
> They don’t understand
> Ask is it at least a reasoning model
> “It’s a good model, sir”
> Read the paper
> …It’s GPT-4o and Llama

[NavinF @NavinFS]

@soft_fox_lad https://t.co/HWomON7aMQ

[NavinF @NavinFS]

@jakemintz @Suhail meh, this is why your kernel updates CPU microcode on every boot. "unfixable" hardware bugs just lead to some instructions getting slower after the update

[NavinF @NavinFS]

@jakemintz @Suhail meh, this is why your kernel updates CPU microcode on every boot. "unfixable" hardware bugs just lead to some instructions getting slower after the update

[NavinF @NavinFS]

@soft_fox_lad what do you think of epilators or electrolysis for the whole body except face/head?

[Against Narrative @3RenChengHu]

This is the level of understanding the average leftist has of business: Corporations choose to overpay employees in order to hide their profits.

[NavinF @NavinFS]

@Funchuncks @SebAaltonen A ton of people are asking for it. It's still the #1 culture war in gaming

[NavinF @NavinFS]

@HoffProf *failing one assignment. <1 in 1000 false positives are no big deal

[NavinF @NavinFS]

@paulnovosad he said copilot and grammarly. Both can do full rewrites if you ask them to. https://t.co/tGDuheiyzC

[NavinF @NavinFS]

@Thinkwert Word’s Copilot can use gpt-5.6 and Grammarly generates text with an LLM so they really shouldn't be shocked. They don't know it's the same "gpt" in "chatgpt"?

[NavinF @NavinFS]

@lazydumpling13 @peach_pit_fan @Thinkwert https://t.co/tGDuheiyzC

[NavinF @NavinFS]

@Thinkwert Word’s Copilot can use gpt-5.6 and Grammarly generates text with an LLM so they really shouldn't be shocked. They don't know it's the same "gpt" in "chatgpt"?

[NavinF @NavinFS]

@Thinkwert Word’s Copilot can use gpt-5.6 and Grammarly generates text with an LLM so they really shouldn't be shocked. They don't know it's the same "gpt" in "chatgpt"?

[Jerry Hathaway @etubruton]

re: airbnb discourse

in college I worked as a server at an upscale steakhouse. we had a few different steak sauces that were made from scratch daily. they were expensive to make, and less than half of the customers that ordered steak wanted sauce, so the restaurant charged $3 for it

we got complaints constantly. just at my own tables, half a dozen times a week I'd get complaints about being "nickel and dimed" for $3 of sauce on a $70 steak. a few times a month someone would mention it in an angry online review, or ask to speak to a manager and demand that it be removed from the bill because "who the hell charges for condiments?"

after several years of this, finally management had enough. they raised the price of every steak by $3, and now complimentary sauce was included with each steak on request. want to hazard a guess about how many customers complained about the $3 price increase on steak? essentially zero.

it was great, from the restaurants perspective! no more complaints, and instead of making $3 on 40% of steak orderers, they made $3 on all of them. and the customers were much happier, despite this deal being absolutely, unequivocally worse for them.

consumers are not rational agents from microeconomics textbooks. very often the *feeling* of what they're being charged for matters way more than the absolute value of what they're being charged. I think that's more or less what happening with airbnb. people don't want to be charged a cleaning fee and then also told they have to clean, even if in the counterfactual world the additional cleaning fee is more than they'd be willing to pay someone to do the required cleaning. a $100 cleaning fee *feels* better than a $50 cleaning fee + "load the dishwasher and take the trash out to the dumpster", even though most people would not pay $50 to not have to do that.

[NavinF @NavinFS]

@Swervin_King @ligmaballs_rn @mikekalilmfg @paul_cal https://t.co/s3zqYWTNc6

[Byrne Hobart @ByrneHobart]

Pangram is good, but has some well-known failure modes, like:

- A time you heard it didn't work
- A school essay you wrote years ago that it flagged as AI (you don't have a link or the essay text handy)
- A different AI detector got it wrong, and they're all the same, right?

[NavinF @NavinFS]

@bignorthchris @paul_cal https://t.co/s3zqYWTNc6

[Byrne Hobart @ByrneHobart]

Pangram is good, but has some well-known failure modes, like:

- A time you heard it didn't work
- A school essay you wrote years ago that it flagged as AI (you don't have a link or the essay text handy)
- A different AI detector got it wrong, and they're all the same, right?

[Paul Calcraft @paul_cal]

Anti-AI YouTube channel with millions of views & 150k subs is 96% AI scripted according to Pangram

[Sheel Mohnot @pitdesi]

Has there ever been a political ad that backfired this badly?

Vivek Ramaswamy’s Kalshi odds fell from ~31% to ~20% after releasing the ad with Amy’s mom.

He’s spending $4M running the ad! He should have just apologized after seeing the negative feedback.

[NavinF @NavinFS]

@dngcapital @pitdesi @Scaramucci

[Bryan Cheong @bryancsk]

There is a peculiar Third World malaise of thinking that everything of value is created by their primary industries, and all the more advanced economies like the US and Singapore and Malaysia do is steal all their profit from them. I can't tell if folks really believe that

[Scott Manley @DJSnM]

Forgetting the drone side of things, there are artificial limits on civilian thermal imaging cameras in the US that the rest of the world doesn’t have to follow.

[NavinF @NavinFS]

@cottage_st3w https://t.co/Z0SzxblkDb

[VB Knives @Empty_America]

This is another good example.

A man does not even think these things, it would not occur to him that you can only have a particular meal once per month.

If you want things done like that, the woman just has to do it herself, he won't.

[Hunter📈🌈📊 @StatisticUrban]

The UK sometimes does this funny thing where it decides that one tiny, tiny sliver of the country (Manchester city centre, Canary Wharf, etc.) should actually be allowed to grow if it wants to, and then this happens.