I fucking HATE the anti-AI leftist luddite push. None of these people use AI so they have no idea how it can improve their lives.
I literally translated a 500 page Italian book the other day simply because I wanted to read it and there was no English translation available.
Ordinarily you would need to be a billionaire to commission somebody to translate a book you personally want to read.
I've been waiting 3 years for the translation. The publishing house wouldn't move. So I did it in 20 minutes for like 5 dollars in coding credits and the output was actually good.
AI is literally the most amazing tool for the democratisation of knowledge work in human history.
I can suddenly do things that would have required me to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to hire entire research teams a few years ago.
Yesterday I got Claude Code to download and analyse years worth of Brisbane City Council debate. It analysed 4.2 million words to detect patterns in council debate, pin point commitments, analyse subtle ideological and rhetorical shifts.
It would have been literally IMPOSSIBLE for me to do that without AI, you would ordinarily have to hire multiple researchers to read 40,000 pages worth of council minutes non-stop for like 9 months. It would have been excruciatingly boring work for the researchers and would have taken years to produce a report.
Realistically, it simply would have been impossible, because I don't have the money to hire research teams. So this work simply would never have been done in the first place.
AI is a democratisation tool, it allows people like you and I to do things that would otherwise require entire warehouses of research teams which we could never afford because we aren’t billionaires.
It is just so unbelievably helpful and good.
I used it the other day to analyse my financial transaction data going back 5 years in order to help me make savings in the future. Almost 10,000 transactions. Ordinarily you would have to go to an accountant and probably pay tens of thousands of dollars for financial planning advice. Something I can’t do because I don’t earn enough money. Suddenly AI could do this for me.
Another cool task I did. I wanted to download, transcribe and analyse hundreds of lectures by jihadist extremist preachers in Australia and the UK. Claude Code did it all for me in less than an hour.
It would have taken like 20 hours on my laptop and heated it up to like 100 degrees. So Claude walked me through the steps of hiring a GPU in a data center to do it for me.
I still don’t know how coding works so I simply ask Claude Code to walk me through the steps. I went from never having opened Terminal before in my life a few months ago to renting a NVIDIA H100 GPU from a data centre in order to complete this task.
A single H100 card runs roughly AUD $40,000–$65,000 depending on variant and vendor. I rented it for one hour for $3 USD and it completed my task in like half an hour.
I love using AI.
In my own life, it has massively improved my productivity. I remember this time last year I was posting on X hoping a billionaire could sponsor me to hire someone to help my media business cause I was just drowning in tasks as one guy trying to manage everything.
Claude has now reached the point where I can run things on my own. I get it to analyse millions of words of text each week, produce transcripts, manage my emails, my finances.
Just try it out. People tried AI a few years ago when it used to hallucinate everything and just wrote it off. But there's been a massive change in the past 6-9 months. Marc Andreessen said we basically hit AGI a few montha ago. Basically every person on earth can now have a full time 150 IQ personal assistant and it ACTUALLY works. I can't believe people aren't using it
Worth noting that compute is still in the early testing phase and while we're grateful for any and all support as we start building the network, we must state that rewards make not be 100% accurate until we officially start beta testing.
A slur doesn't stop being a slur because teenagers started using it. Today's @nytimes "On Language" column treats the antisemitic slur "goyslop" as a fun linguistic curiosity rather than what it is: a term rooted in white supremacist conspiracy theories.
Normalizing this kind of language is dangerous. "Goyslop" is not just edgy slang. It combines "goy," the Hebrew word that colloquially refers to non-Jews, with "slop" to promote a conspiracy theory that Jewish people deliberately poison non-Jews with cheap food to keep them docile. It was coined and spread by antisemites and white supremacists. No amount of teenage adoption changes that origin.
Such terms spread negative stereotypes and conspiracy theories. Their normalization is exactly what the bigots who coined them aspire to. A bit more on this here: https://t.co/eHiz3qmayF
A slur doesn't stop being a slur because teenagers started using it. Today's @nytimes "On Language" column treats the antisemitic slur "goyslop" as a fun linguistic curiosity rather than what it is: a term rooted in white supremacist conspiracy theories.
Normalizing this kind of language is dangerous. "Goyslop" is not just edgy slang. It combines "goy," the Hebrew word that colloquially refers to non-Jews, with "slop" to promote a conspiracy theory that Jewish people deliberately poison non-Jews with cheap food to keep them docile. It was coined and spread by antisemites and white supremacists. No amount of teenage adoption changes that origin.
Such terms spread negative stereotypes and conspiracy theories. Their normalization is exactly what the bigots who coined them aspire to. A bit more on this here: https://t.co/eHiz3qmayF
@JaguarAnalytics Bitcoin is too simple and solid for even ASI to break it. NSA systems are too complicated that’s why is way easier for AI to break into these