Even if true, high rep is impractical, otherwise we'd see people doing body weight exercises only reach high levels of bodybuilding.

Even around 1900, it didn't matter if you were a genetic freak, you needed a barbell to win competitions.

undefined behavior on steroids be like:

Ironically, if your setup is too niche (e.g. browsing privacy configuration) you can be easily tracked, though no one will bother, but captcha's will certainly not miss you.

This is the rub, tech is able to track you based on your browser, viewport size, os, location (a vpn still has a location if you aren’t rotating) and more. I use Firefox for privacy and just that measure alone rules out 97% of internet traffic and zeros down who I am within 3%. How private am I if I default to that 3%. 1440p monitor and a half screen Firefox viewport? Now we’re building an advertising profile!

If targeted advertising is your main threat, then you are lucky to _currently_ live in a country whose government _currently_ does not consider you an enemy or potential enemy. Many people are not that lucky and many people will become unlucky despite not changing anything about themselves.

My next low hanging fruit is certainly to make my LLM usage local, my queries contain much more sensitive information than what is mentioned by this post.

In the past I dropped off privacy when it was too inconvenient. For example I dropped protonmail because of bad search, left Linux desktop for Windows due to missing software, etc, I still haven't found the sweet spot for LLMs yet.

For the rest, I'm currently running the full macOS, iOS, safari, Apple passwords and I'm decently happy with this middle ground.

The absence of solutions for LLM privacy on that list is telling. We’ve figured out how to have private communications with other humans via end to end encryption but arguably we’re leaking a lot more to chatbots about ourselves in a few sessions than we do to even our closest friends and family over Whatsapp

fails on Safari macOS, works on chrome though.

-> expects reasoning

-> runs it in Gemini fast instead of thinking

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Nothing against the author, the content is good. I just wish this wasn't fluffed out with AI.

It's not - I prefer to record a YouTube video first (I speak better than I write) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2po-s2yOCcg Then I run that through a transcription app (so AI I suppose but still my words, shout out to Scriber Pro which I found via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45591222) then I edit down and try to change my verbs (visual to written) where necessary.

What made you think there was AI in it?

Maybe an extremely inefficient way to do money laundering?

No but it’s a perverse incentive for people in power

"Oh sorry guys, we made the mistake again that saves us X% in compute cost, we will fix it soon!"

I find it a bit too introspective, living in a specific period creates urgency, there is still a (opportunity) deadline.

My concerns are more practical:

- How do we make sure power-wrestling bad leaders don't halt generations, currently old age gives us a soft reset.

- How do we cope with suffering? With no clear end in sight I expect more mental health problems. And I'm unsure we can remove those issues without striping the humanity out of people, I would for sure hate to be turned into a calculator with qualia.