The post is clearly hyperbole obviously the sole issue being brought up isn't 'brenda losing her job may be bad for the company' you're being facetious.
Reminds me of that one post that goes "Whenever I see those comparisons of sugar between donuts and soda it just seems to me that donuts are healthier than I thought"
>> I'm surprised more hackers don't seek out quality espresso instead of these weird XTREME energy drinks.
I think you answered it though, lots of (younger) people do not like the taste of coffee, so you get the caffeine and the delivery mechanism is sweet & sugary.
Here's a free idea for anyone out there: Caffeinated Ketchup. It already turns up every flavor component to 11 so why not make it heavily caffeinated too!
> a large Starbucks caffinated milkshake (and that's what they are -- addictive milkshakes)
I got the impression (from some online browsing) that Starbucks has started offering coffeeless frozen drinks.
But I also got the impression that their drinks are more "crushed ice mixed with syrup" than "ice cream mixed with milk". How much milk/cream are you getting in one of these milkshakes?
thats because the "ier" is doing a LOT of heavy lifting. getting fat from all that sugar is the least of your concerns. it also ages you rapidly and makes you more likely to have ongoing systemic inflammation. I'm back in the states for the last two weeks and the difference between people here and when I was aboard is jarring.
A handful of the largest companies cyclically investing and buying from each other is propping up the entire economy. Also stuff like Deepseek and other open source models exist. Unless AGI comes from LLMs (it absolutely won't) then its foolish to think there wont be a bubble
I was thinking it's a bit like developing powered flight and saying steam engines won't work. It's true they didn't but the internal combustion engine was developed which did. It was still an engine machined from metal but with a different design. I think LLM -> AGI will go like that - some design evolved from LLMs but different in important ways.
AGI might require a nobel price level invention, I am not even sure it will come in my lifetime and I am in my 30s.. Although I would hope we would get something that could solve difficult diseases that have more or less no treatment or cure today, at least Demis Hassabis seems interested in that.
lowkey typing is so cumbersome though they should make an ai model that can read my thoughts and generate a prompt from them so i don't have to anymore
You are thinking too small. AI should be able to determine what my thoughts should be and execute them so I don't have to spend my precious time actually thinking.
Not sure you'd like the weight. All the major phone makers have consumer research saying they've reached the limits of weight comfort and many makers are working hard to pull back from those limits.
In a Louis Rossmann video (i think it was the one on food delivery guys on e-bikes) he mentions never tipping in app but leaving a note that says he will give a cash tip if the driver brings the food straight to his door. That seems like a decent compromise as it doesn't let the app take a cut from the tip and makes so the driver actually goes the extra mile to 'deserve' the tip.
Weirdly on Reddit I keep getting the doordash and ubereats communities pushed at me - there is a very strong view amongst people using these apps that anyone who says they will "give a cash tip" will not actually do it, so it's probably not as beneficial as you might think.
The tips on the apps nominally do go entirely to the driver.
About half the time I order UberEats I get a call from the driver that they're here and to come downstairs because they won't enter my apartment building. Could be laziness, it could also be because the street parking is always full and so the only place to park close by is a fire hydrant.
The app has different options for meeting in the lobby / come to my unit and I always select my unit, but whatever, I get why they might not do that.
> one of the greatest challenges of world models is maintaining coherence of video over long time periods
To be honest most of the appeal to me of this type of thing is the fact that it gets incoherent and morph-y and rotating 360 degrees can completely change the scenery. It's a trippy dreamlike experience whereas this kind of felt like a worse version of existing stuff.
