Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 also most think their work will make them immortal
so, they're weird fanatics?
rawb
Wednesday, August 12, 2026
I think this huge LLM push has caused the opposite, and delayed actual AGI by probably 10 years
because this will never hit that, but it will get close enough that people will say "yep, we did it"
Google-IBM is the only lab working on non-LLM AI right now
Replying to Dialga #god_of_time so, they're weird fanatics?
yes, but it's not in the way that you think
I spend a lot of time around them, they're all sad about it
folding@home died to crypto
Spooky, I would love to talk to your coworkers just to see what the fuck is going on in their head
they tried to make their own token, but it was on a dead chain
Actually, I would love to talk to the freezing light guy way more than your coworkers, but they are a close second
they're not my direct co-workers, we have Anthropic people on-loan from Amazon who sit with us for a few months, then rotate back to their labs
the freezing light guy is hard at work
Spooky, hear me out. They do not actually believe this, but because they work for Anthropic they really need to upsell it, so whenever you are around they have to act like they think they are causing the end of the world
no, they really believe it
these are the researchers, not the PR people
lol
the Amazon PR people are the ones who tell us non-stop about AI-bro talking points and why we need to give AWS more money
I'm roped into the space datacenter thing xAI and Anthropic are trying to do to beat OpenAI
since OpenAI is pulling ahead again
which I remain convinced is a bad idea
but it means I get to play with big lasers
which is fun
Yeah
I am interested when the LLM craze dies down and people who do ML can get funding for not LLM machine learning stuff again, if we get anything really cool
Thursday, August 13, 2026
Replying to Spooky Phijkchu #spooky.131 it's not all AI, this is also AWS and Azure and Walmart, etc.
What does Walmart need with a data centre?
AI that determines how much they can surge price you (individual) before you shoot the cashier
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Replying to CEO of Phijkchu #.komadi What does Walmart need with a data centre?
Dynamic pricing
Friday, August 14, 2026
Dynamic pricing for a supermarket is insanity. I thought it was bad enough on Ticketmaster
If I don't have to price-check whether a store is raping me while I shop, I'll put up with a lot
I have 4 major grocery stores near me, and I know people who will do a loop and visit all 4 to get the cheapest items from each
some people REALLY hate the idea that they are missing out on saving a cent
especially non-food shopping
where it's more about how good of an equity buy something is
"it was on sale for 75% off, I'd be stupid to not buy it"
I'm not going to shop somewhere if I know I'm being raped on prices compared to Amazon
but I'm not going to obsess over the margins
dynamic pricing also helps them actually work through inventory
I'm a big proponent in prices dropping as food degrades in quality
if you can mark down food based on how long its been on the shelf, that's a net positive imo
or how scuffed a piece of fruit is
yep, and you can get good PR by reducing food waste or w/e
since that's some people's pet issue
the new barcode system they're rolling out will probably help with that
they're replacing all legacy barcodes with QR codes starting next year
and they will be item-specific, rather than product-specific
I am probably more financially frugal than most people here, I won't gp out of my way an hour plus got a better deal, but I do just stock up on things when it is a good deal
my local grocery store stickers all their items between 40-65% off depending on how much they think they can get away with charging for it to sell it before they have to throw it out, so I get a lot of heavily marked down stuff and just freeze it
I also just go to my store semi daily (its a 5 minute walk) and buy absolutely nothing if nothing is stickered for a price I am willing to spend lol
I am 75% sure there is legislation against dynamic pricing in ontario
Either that or I have just not noticved it
they do it for gas I assume
since everywhere does
Gas yeah
grocery specific I meant
Every store I go to advertises their prices once a week, and that is the price it stays that week
and other than sales, I have not noticed prices change much week over week
we have weekly mailers too, but prices definitely change day-to-day, even the non-dynamic priced places
if the butcher is selling stock slower than expected, etc.
Yeah, I think day to day does not happen here, at least I've never noticed it
it's just less granular
and I am the prime person to notice it, because I do just go every day
and look at the same stuff every time I go
interesting if its really set for an entire week
Okay, there are bills in first reading banning it, it is not formally banned