The greatest use of LLMs is the ability to get accurate answers to queries in a normalized format without having to wade through UI distraction like ads and social media.
It's the opposite of finding an answer on reddit, insta, tvtropes.
I can't wait for the first distraction free OS that is a thinking and imagination helper and not a consumption device where I have to block urls on my router so my kids don't get sucked into a skinners box.
I love being able to get answers from documentation and work questions without having to wade through some arbitrary UI bs a designer has implemented in adhoc fashion.
I don't find the "AI" answers all that accurate, and in some cases they are bordering on a liability even if way down below all the "AI" slop it says "AI responses may include mistakes".
>It's the opposite of finding an answer on reddit, insta, tvtropes.
Yeah it really is because I can tell when someone doesn't know the topic well on reddit, or other forums, but usually someone does and the answer is there. Unfortunately the "AI" was trained on all of this, and the "AI" is just as likely to spit out the wrong answer as the correct one. That is not an improvement on anything.
> wade through UI distraction like ads and social media
Oh, so you think "AI" is going to be free and clear forever? Enjoy it while it lasts, because these "AI" companies are in way over their heads, they are bleeding money like their aorta is a fire hose, and there will be plenty of ads and social whatever coming to brighten your day soon enough. The free ride won't go on forever - think of it as a "loss leader" to get you hooked.
I agree with the whole first half, but I disagree that LLM usage is doomed to ad-filled shittyness. AI companies may be hemmoraging money, but that's because their product costs so much to run; it's not like they don't have revenue. The thing that will bring profitability isn't ads, it will be innovations that let current-gen-quality LLMs run at a fraction of the electricity and power cost.
Will some LLMs have ads? Sure, especially at a free tier. But I bet the option to pay $20/month for ad-free LLM usage will always be there.
Silicon will improve, but not fast enough to calm investors. And better silicon won't change the fact that the current zeitgeist is basically a word guessing game.
$20 month won't get you much, if you're paying above what it costs to run the "AI", and for what? Answers that are in the ballpark of suspicious and untrustworthy?
Maybe they just need to keep spending until all the people who can tell slop from actual knowledge are all dead and gone.
1. Software: An OS that masquerades as simple note taking software.
Goal is to put an end to all the disparate AI bullshit and apps owning our data.
I solved context switching for myself ages ago and now I'm just trying to productize it outside my 3 companies internal usage.
It also solves context switching for AI agents as a byproduct.
2. Ethics: Give Ai and proto-Agi a reason not to kill us all.
An extremely minimal, empirical naturalistic moral framework that is universally binding to all agents so AI won't kill us all. I view the alignment problem as a epistemic moral grounding issue and that the current pseudo utilitarianism isn't cutting it. Divine command, discourse ethics, utilitarianism, deontology they are all insufficient.
Everything we know about systems resilience shows that 60% to 80% utilization is the sweet spot. We treat our silicon topology better than our human topology.
The problem is the appification of doing, data/structure should have apptributes, we should live in the structure not the function, I have a personal client that I've solved all my issues with, I've got a fair amount of polish before I can release it, but it's effectively my OS at this point.
The nice side effect is that other than chatting with agents it solves the issue of getting sucked into feeds as everything external is a single feed curated by my cluster of ai agents.
In the future it will be easier to mine private notes for novelty.
I've developed a pretty unqiue approach to naturalistic non-arbitrary universally binding morality that has fixed my Ai alignment issues (without being able to retrain their model off their weird utilitarianism), but I'm not highly motivated to share it, it'll get around eventually if humanity doesn't implode.
Arguably, you can get rid of "primitive types" entirely. xtc-lang's "Turtles type system" does so, where all the built-in types are defined in the standard library, where the definitions are infinitely recursive, but we have a fixpoint which we can use as if it were "primitive".
> The Ecstasy type system is called the Turtles Type System, because the entire type system is bootstrapped on itself, and -- lacking primitives -- solely on itself. An Int, for example, is built out of an Array of Bit, and a Bit is built out of an IntLiteral (i.e. 0 or 1), which is built out of a String, which is an Array of Char, and a Char is built out of an Int. Thus, an Int is built out of many Ints. It's turtles, the whole way down.
TODO: Action item that must get done at some point.
TODO? or ?TODO: Documenting funky code that the developer can't triage at the moment without losing flow state but is "off".
Instead of a separate MAYBE any action should have an indicator of confidence level.
We are marking the developers intuition about something they have run into, human intuition is both important and fuzzy, we should mark it as such.
The more ? the fuzzier it gets.
Humans have a bunch of symbols in their brains, we may disagree about the symbols usage but if a developer has a small thought about a codebase let them get it out quickly and with clarity.
The real problem is that unified tooling for plaintext editing and zoomed out team project management don't have a good interface that let's people notate with the level of friction commiserate to the importance of the notation.
People are insane, you can artificially pine for the simpler betters times made up in your mind when you could give oracle all your money.
But I would stake my very life on the fact that the movement by developers we call open-source is the single greatest community and ethos humanity has ever created.
Of course it inherits from enlightenment and other thinking, it doesn't exist in a vacuum, but it is an extension of the ideologies that came before it.
I challenge anyone to come up with any single modern subcultures that has tangibly generated more that touches more lives, moves more weight, travels farther, effects humanity more every single day from the moment they wake up than the open source software community (in the catholic sense obviously).
Both in moral goodness and in measurable improvement in standard of living and understanding of the universe.
Some people's memories are very short indeed, all who pine pine for who they imagined they were and are consumed by a memetic desire of their imagined selves.
It's the opposite of finding an answer on reddit, insta, tvtropes.
I can't wait for the first distraction free OS that is a thinking and imagination helper and not a consumption device where I have to block urls on my router so my kids don't get sucked into a skinners box.
I love being able to get answers from documentation and work questions without having to wade through some arbitrary UI bs a designer has implemented in adhoc fashion.
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