lol no, I’m simply dismissing you

It’s kind of a general problem we in the west now, everything is purely driven by ideology at this point and we’re becoming more and more disconnected from the material reality of the world each and every day. I really do think there’s going to be a massive crash, and Israel might act as the catalyst for it.

For sure, bibi is just a symptom here. The whole society is fundamentally fascist. I think the real problem they have though is that the US has run into material limits of what it can do. And Israel can’t really fight this war on their own, so if the US is tapped out then they’re in very deep trouble.

Oh, I don’t mean he’s going to get jailed over any of this stuff. It’s more that there are factions and infighting internally.

yeah, seems like getting a daily summary would make more sense

Bibi is going to jail if the war stops, so he can’t stop the war. But I agree it goes beyond him, the whole society is fascist and it this point not even rational anymore.

Plenty of tools can be dangerous when used improperly. For example, bleach is very useful for cleaning, but I would advice against drinking it.

What part of my argument is flawed, nothing I said is contrary to your statement.

Reddit does have the advantage of being a single site where search is easy to do in a shared db. Since Mastodon is federated, discoverability is going to be inherently worse as requests have to propagate through the network. But I think that for blogs it’s less of an issue since you tend to follow people for their writing.

In my opinion, Lemmy is already a great replacement for Reddit. So, it makes sense for Mastodon to focus on its core functionality which is blogging, while Lemmy can fill the Reddit niche in the fediverse.

I actually think substack format would be a better fit. It’s already a blogging platform at its core with good discoverability. That’s exactly what sites like substack provide and why they’re popular for blogging. Reddit/Lemmy is more of a news aggregator where people post links and discuss them.

sure kiddo

I can tell why you didn’t want to link to the whole site because it completely undermines your narrative of cherry picked short term data which is not indicative of long term trends. Meanwhile, Russian oil revenue has shot up significantly thanks to the global oil shortages, and it represents a smaller percentage of economy as well. So, what we’re actually seeing is that there isn’t any significant shift compared to previous years, while revenue has shot up. https://energyandcleanair.org/may-2026-monthly-analysis-of-russian-fossil-fuel-exports-and-sanctions/

same

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Something becomes a tool through usage though. So, LLMs can be a tool just as anything else when we put out mind to it.

when you definitely know how tools work

it’s not great

At the end of the day technology is going to advance, and the rational thing to do is to figure out how to use it effectively. Yes, a lot of technology gets abused all the time, our society as a whole is incredibly wasteful. But I see technological progress as a net positive, if anything I think the problem is with our social structures and broken incentives. And that’s what we should focus on fixing.

For me, these tools have unarguably save a ton of time and frustration every single day. For example, I had to work on a Js project recently for work. I haven’t touched Js seriously in at least a decade and I’m not familiar with the ecosystem, libraries, language quirks, and so on. If I had to figure all of that out from scratch previously, I simply would not have been able to take on this project. LLM completely papered over all that for me. I know how to structure programs, I can read Js just fine, but I didn’t have to spend the time searching and internalizing all these little details of how to run tests, which npm modules I’d need to use, what React lifecycle hooks I’d need, etc. It made the project far more enjoyable to work on, and I was able to deliver it as fast as using languages I’m intimately familiar with.

The thing is that I did have to spend the time to actually use the tool effectively, to develop intuition for tasks it can do well and those it can’t. How to get it to write code in a way I can understand and review effectively, how to see when it’s not doing what I want and correct that. Just like any tool, you have to spend the time to actually learn it to get value out of it. If you start with the premise that you dislike the idea of the tool, then it’s guaranteed that you’re not going to have a good time using it. But it’s a mistake to extrapolate that other people aren’t getting actual value out of it based on that.

Meanwhile, the whole context of this discussion is running local models which are tools that are available to the common person, and do not result in any capture of labor that I can see. You could make this argument with using proprietary models that you rent from a vendor, but it simply does not hold with ones you run locally.

GC has little to do with web page bloat though. In fact, that’s precisely where human agency comes in to design things in a sensible way. And I see little evidence to support the claim that stochastic automation leads to worse code myself. I use these tools every day, that’s completely contrary to my experience. I get the impression that you’re starting from a conclusion and coming up with a narrative that fits it rather than actually trying these tools out and seeing how to work with them effectively.

Right, you’re talking about panic buying, but that’s not an indication of actual structural problem. And yeah given the bad media coverage close to election, I can’t imagine that’s gonna get addressed quickly.