I’m not sure about your interpretation of the events.
From the transcript:
> (Model, thinking): Could also be Lake Zug, considering the architecture. The user mentioned they were in Switzerland for postgrad, so it could be a familiar place.
> (Model, thinking): (Goes onto analyse the EXIF data)
To me, this reads as a genuine, vision-based guess, augmented with memory of your other chats, that was then confirmed with the EXIF data. Seems to me that the model then confirms it did so, not that it skipped straight to checking the metadata and lying about it as you accuse.
It also underlines the second-order risks of unneeded diagnostic screenings, even those that don’t include ionising radiation and its ilk, as the surgery you may otherwise have not had is itself not free from risk. Of course the case generalises out from there as well to not only this specific cancer.
I love the commitment to getting this to work at no cost, on principle. Many of my favourite personal projects have followed similar paths, and have often been fun challenges for that reason alone. Great article, thanks for sharing.
While I agree with your sentiment, I think a useful mental model thinks of business bros/MBAs et. al. as natural consequences of growth-at-all-costs capitalism. By our economy’s very nature there’s demand for more every quarter, with substantial money riding on that more occurring on time and as expected. So there’s of course then demand for the services of professionals specialising in more. One can still dislike them of course, as one might the police as an institution, for example, but I don’t find it useful to hate them as people. Ultimately most of us are drawn by incalculable circumstance and survival pressures into happenstance careers, and alienating other humans doesn’t do anything to progress a cause.
Before posting this I feel it’s worth clarifying I didn’t take you to say you do hate them as people, please excuse the ramble.
If everyone else is using PPE, but you choose not to wear PPE, there's no empathy to be given. You may think the need for PPE is a hoax, but that's not anyone else's problem if there's a direct repercussion for your actions.
The problem was not offered as your sibling comment as a forced decision. Some people choose to juice, others do not. That same logic applied to if you want to do it, here's the waiver to acknowledge it was your decision. I can feel sorry for someone's family for being related to a dunce, but no empathy is required on my part for the dunce.
okay, so one guy can choose to do it, and have his career burn bright but for a smaller amount of time than the ones that don't juice and extend their careers and life after playing. The ones that juice, will just get little asterisks next to their names in whatever records are kept. But you keep thinking your noggin is the end all be all.
Sure, like how we all self-host our own email servers and photo albums? Honestly, I think you’re about as wrong as you could possibly be, both on timelines, and in that I’d argue the arc of consumer tech adoption bends towards centralisation most often.
Standards are already emerging, including MCP, and to say that simply because they’ll evolve and be replaced over time means they’re not ‘real’ now is ridiculous. Look at the early internet and web as examples.
Local models, even accounting for reasonable progress and device performance improvements, will always, inherently, be behind the eight ball compared to SOTA models. While they may be sufficient for the low hanging fruit, I’d not bet against the frontier models being every bit as compelling relatively speaking.
Using weasel words like ‘real’ and ‘x is the future’ is astoundingly arrogant, and anyone claiming with confidence that they’ve got any idea where we’re heading is almost assuredly wrong.
From the transcript:
> (Model, thinking): Could also be Lake Zug, considering the architecture. The user mentioned they were in Switzerland for postgrad, so it could be a familiar place.
> (Model, thinking): (Goes onto analyse the EXIF data)
To me, this reads as a genuine, vision-based guess, augmented with memory of your other chats, that was then confirmed with the EXIF data. Seems to me that the model then confirms it did so, not that it skipped straight to checking the metadata and lying about it as you accuse.
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