> work discretely like humans

What kind of humans are you surrounded by?

Ask any human to write 3 sentences about a specific topic. Then ask them the same exact question next day. They will not write the same 3 sentences.

Have you missed how everyone was Ghiblifying everything?

I saw that, I just didn't connect it with newly added multimodal image generation. I knew variations of style transfer (or LoRA for SD) were possible for years, so I assumed it exploded in popularity purely as a meme, not due to OpenAI making it much more accessible.

Again, I was aware that they added image generation, just not how much of a deal it turned out to be. Think of it like me occasionally noticing merchandise and TV trailers for a new movie without realizing it became the new worldwide box office #1.

Oh you mean the trend of the day on the social media monoculture? I don't take that as an indicator of any significance.

One should not be proud of their ignorance.

SpaceX can move to another country if the US starts creating problems. Plenty of countries will happily take them.

Reddit, but you have to carefully select your subs. And it's not very useful for politics, because it's very one-sided, very far left, and they ban you for any transgressions that don't fit the narrative.

Should we create a subreddit for this, with a news/politics focus but an hn vibe?

Good luck with that. Their moderation is too insane and not transparent for my taste.

And, considering HN is quite far left, you won't create anything new really.

You think HN is left?

Ha.

HN is at best center-right.

Conclusion: US left is western european center-right. These political denominators are all relative to your local center.

I think that just shows our different perceptions - I, too, see many HN posts as very left. Frequently seen in assumptions about values/ethics/morals...

Update: On further reflection, it is not HN that I am describing. It is the content of the posts that seem to lean that way...

I am outside both of the US parties, I think it is like being sober at a party of those partaking in alcohol. Different perception of the same situation.

HN is definitely left of center by American standards. For example, it's generally anti-Trump, while half the country supports him.

Well, the first comment accurately describes reddit AND it hasn't been downvoted to hell, so you might be right.

Reddit isn't far right, except some esoteric subs either.

Reddit is generally fairly centrist-left for the most part.

Name any far-left position that's not widely supported on Reddit.

Price controls, direct democracy, abolishing capital. I'm sure you can find places where these are supported but similarly you can find subreddits where far right ideology is supported. The average redditor looks at memes, askreddit threads, and whatever hobby subreddit exists for them.

All of these are widely supported on Reddit.

Try posting anything right-wing, like government crime stats of black vs white people. You will get banned.

Lots of people here favour a lenient regulatory environment and are pro business which seems classically centre right.

Nuanced discussion of things like immigration are challenging though, in all fora I think. I’ve tried to make the point that this is a great opportunity for Europe to pick up valuable American immigrants but somehow am apparently being xenophobic by sharing data of net tax contributions of immigrants by region of origin

They love to pull up the crime stats but never the traffic stop stats or police-initiated contact stats or use of force stats. Wonder why.

They did say HN is center-right.

That's simply off-topic. Not sure why you would post that on Hacker News. Most things political simply get downvoted on that basis.

Racism = right wing? You mean alt-right?

If you think posting crime stats of all races is racism, you got brainwashed by a cult.

Because that's not right-wing, that's just explicitly racist. I mean, are we really going to sit here and pretend to be so stupid that we might legitimately think someone is posting that for not racist purposes?

Look, you can be as right-wing as you want and get away with it, nobody cares. The problem is a lot of right-wingers just... can't do it. They can't. They have to throw in something racist, or something sexist, or say something disparaging about brown people. It's like some kind of compulsion, I don't know.

You can talk about immigration policy allllll you want. You can. What you can't do is call Puerto Ricans trash. That's off the table.

So, if your example you're looking up to is someone like Trump and his cronies, that basically means yes, you're censored. Not because you're right-wing, but because you're crude and don't know how to express your views in a way that isn't disingenuous. Just be normal, be good faith, don't race bait, and you know... I promise it'll work out. I promise.

O RLY? Which right-wing positions are common/popular on HN?

... Very far left. How do you measure "far left"? Do you mean they are concerned with all people, and they don't suffer illusions of "I built my fortune on my own" (ignoring all the socialist infrastructure which enabled their success)?

Not "very far left" as in socialist / communist. "Very far left" as in "a large and vocal majority of liberals and progressives" which, when combined with the general Reddit tendency to groupthink and mock/attack opinions that aren't the subreddit status quo, make it a very uncomfortable place to be. (And I'm on the left!)

This just demonstrates how far the Overton window has shifted in US discourse if one views HN a hive of "vocal majority of liberals and progressives"

My comment was regarding Reddit, not HN. I would characterize HN as left libertarian, in general.

Let's just say that if you got all your news from reddit, you would be very surprised that conservatives anywhere ever won an election.

that really depends on which subreddits you're in!

I disagree. We use plastic because it's cheap, lightweight, waterproof and not (very) toxic.

If we had plastic that is not transparent and biodegraded in a year, it would be perfectly fine, as it would cover almost all food packaging cases.

But, unfortunately, we use plastics for everything these days. I saw even some cars are now made of plastic (Bezos's Slate).

> we are confused about what LLMs can do is because they use language.

But they can also do math, logic, music notation, write code, LaTeX, SVG, etc.

as this paper shows, it sees they can do tower of hanoi as well, up to a certain point that is.

Not for long. Sorry

Mirage AI has decent singing

https://x.com/aziz4ai/status/1930147568748540189

https://x.com/socialwithaayan/status/1929593864245096570

Accountability for putting food in your mouth.

And then claiming it's not your fault.

It 100% is.

Of course it's your "fault", obviously. But why do you think so many people are so messed up then?

I see it the same as with alcohol, tobacco and other substances. Lack of self-control. Modern food is specifically engineered to be addictive and easy to get. Full of starch, sugars and fats.

There will be no obesity if person maintains a low calorie intake.

What, do they need to try harder at being wolves?

This would be a useful analogy if humans were unable to think more abstractly than wolves.

We have no idea what wolves think.

They're certainly not discussing it online.

Aoooooooooooo

Wolves know nothing about the horrible consequences of being fat. Most people do.

Because food is cheap and they have no self-control.

And because certain groups promote fatness as a virtue, or that fatness is healthy.

Just a few comments above you claimed "The sheer scope of the obesity pandemic should make it clear that we are not the problem", and now you admit that it's your fault. Which one is it?

And open-source Flux.1 Kontext is already better than it.