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I hate to be the one to tell you this but things changed rather quickly when they elected a clown dictator, and now the US is widely considered to be a low-key geopolitical rival to the 'developed West in general' (blergh) including Canada and Europe ...

Seriously, even if you manage to elect someone capable ever again, the US can't be trusted to not elect someone worse than a toddler again in 4 years. In fact, you can't even be trusted to not elect someone even worse than your current dictator (if you thought it couldn't get worse, Trump isn't the bottom of the barrel by far).


> I hate ads, and I hate having to serve ads. We get some subscription users but nowhere near enough to cover costs.

I hate ads and I hate having to use an ad blocker to be able to not go crazy in order to use the Internet.

You merely hate "having" to serve ads because it denies you profit from the people you're exploiting with those ads.

Why is your business more deserving to exist on the Internet than my usage??


he named his company "Palantir" after Lord of the Rings fantasy books and didn't get it exactly right either


> One simple argument for changing form is that the Sun will eventually scorch Earth so we do have an expiry date.

uhhhh this is utterly ridiculous

the sun will expire and make the Earth uninhabitable in ~1B years

humans have existed in their current form for 300K years

so that's about one three-millionth of that time

> You might hate the guy but he's not dumb

you really have to be a special kind of dumb to believe humanity will snuff it because of something that'll not happen until 3.33 MILLION times as long as humans have walked on this Earth

that just makes no sense however you turn it, there is not a single thing that this has been the case for in the (much much longer) history of Earth, let alone humanity

And I wasn't talking about Peter Thiel being a special kind of dumb. If he's so smart he probably also secretly laughs in the face of people who go along with this reasoning.


No please, I also agree with parent poster. Talk to the LLM, cause the human ain't listening.


What about my latest algorithm, VibeSort

    // VibeSort
    let arr = [51,46,72,32,14,27,88,32];

    arr.sort((a,b)=>{
      let response = LLM.query(`Which number is larger, number A:${a} or number B:${b}. Answer using "A" or "B" only, if they are equal, say "C".`);
      if(response.includes('C')) return 0;
      if(response.includes('B')) return -1;
      if(response.includes('A')) return 1;
      return 0;
    });

    console.table(arr);


Trying to keep things on topic, BTW, I found that LLMs are pretty good at picking up the kinds of context that makes this very obvious what is really being meant.

So you could use an LLM, privately, to soften people's opinions.

I just tried it for you, I won't copy it here cause the thread is about not using LLMs, but if you get too upset from somebody being simply direct and clear in their manner of speaking, the LLM is trained on enough American cultural baggage that it is very capable of softening that blow with the extra words you so dearly need to see past that red mist.

Someone might even be able to vibe code a browser plugin for it.


It's completely clear what is intended, the only thing you're disagreeing about, is the cultural difference of who is expected to make this translation.

I think that would've been pretty clear from the post too, if you weren't so keen on giving a non-native speaker an English lesson ...


> Simply spending money to get someone you like elected isn’t bribery.

Alright then what should it be called, because it's also not democracy.


> Everyone running Claude on AWS, boom gone. The level of disruption to the US economy would be off the charts

seriously? :)


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