Does openclaw have a killer use yet? Ive not opted to use it yet becauase - while very impressive hype and capability - seems like a lot of risk/credits for not an insane gain.
Does any fashion thing always offer a lot of gain? But it's selling well because it's hot fashion, a talking piece, a sign of belonging to a particular social circle, etc. Perplexity caught the moment very reasonably: a fad should be monetized very quickly, because it's often as quick to fizz out.
It feels like the quality of reddit collapsed over the last decade and a lot of the reddit style posting has come over here. Especially the examples above. To be fair both the good and the bad.
The upvoting for political tribalism (whole political spectrum) is so truly mind bogglingly unintelligent and unoriginal. Its just brings the bar down.
Its interesting that you seem to be more concerned that we would potentially enslave human like robots (while arguing sentience) while the likelihood of events is that we are far more likely to be enslaved to/by our own creations.
Id say probability wise we don’t create sentient like behavior for a long time (low probability) much higher is the second circumstance.
I think we wont know until the true costs for ai are revealed. Right now were still in the vc growth above all things part of the cost curve. It will get worse quality as revenue demands increase (as all products suffer).
It will be another dependency for all companies to bear. Hopefully significant gains for humanity, tbd
This comment thread is hilarious. Split down the line of the people who are like (let kids be kids, let them have fun) and the other group being concerned about the general welfare of everyone else.
I suspect the kids do whatever they want group dont have any experience with the actual nuisance complaint but provide a knee jerk reaction. Id wager its not dissimilar to the delivery ebike nuisance in nyc - which is problematic.
If ebikes are a nuisance or a danger then cars weighing 100× more should be even more concerning. Yet cars are a "fact of life" and bikes are a "nuisance" somehow... Go figure.
It sounds like you don't live in a city with an ebike delivery problem. I'd prefer a city with fewer human driven cars, but ebikes being ridden erratically (40mph against traffic, through red lights, on the sidewalk, etc.) sucks.
> It sounds like you don't live in a city with an ebike delivery problem
Oh but I do. Or actually, in a city with many delivery ebikes but no "ebike problem" . Why? Because there's bike infrastructure. Meaning segregated lanes to ride a bike (and overall good urban design in general).
On a given street or road there's a place to drive a car, a place do ride a bike, a place for the bus/tram to go, and a place to walk. Is this really so difficult? Tell me if you please, in a city where there's only a place to drive and a place to walk, where exactly are bikes (delivery or not) supposed to go?
Cars kill several times more than even the most maniac ebike riders possibly can. They also emit pollution that kills swathes of people (an invisible, background death). It's just common sense.
> Non scrupulous ebikers rip through pedestrian sections.
You're right. A car driver would never rip through a crosswalk or kill someone.
That argument is stupid. Cars kill several times more people than ebikes ever will. It's nonsensical to be worried about a minor issue while treating a much more serious one as a fact of life.
> you obviously dont live in a dense city with e bike delivery.
Yeah but I do. The thing is I also live in a city with bike infrastructure, so bikes (delivery or not) can move safely without annoying anyone.
Id agree it splits both ways. I think in the short run it can be super fun but once you expand your thoughts to the long run it takes the steam out of rediscovered joy of discovery and creation.
Its almost like it reignites novelty at things that were to administratively heavy to figure out. Im not sure if its fleeting or lasting.
Well it’s not even performance (define that however you will), but behavior is definitely different model to model. So while whatever new model is released might get billed as an improvement, changing models can actually meaningfully impact the behavior of any app built on top of it.
the problem the price point is increasing sharply every time.
gemini 2 flash lite was $0.3 per 1Mtok output, gemini 2.5 flash lite is $0.4 per 1Mtok output, guess the pricing for gemini 3 flash lite now.
yes you guess it right, it is $1.5 per 1Mtok output. you can easily guest that because google did the same thing before: gemini 2 flash was $0.4, then 2.5 flash it jumps to $2.5.
and that is only the base price, in reality newer models are al thinking models, so it costs even more tokens for the sample task.
at some point it is stopped being viable to use gemini api for anything.
There's a whole universe of tasks that aren't "fix a Github issue" or even related to coding in the slightest. A large number of those tasks doesn't necessarily get better with model updates. In many cases, the performance is similar but with different behavior so you have to rewrite prompts to get the same. In some cases the performance is just worse. Model updates usually only really guarantee to be better at coding, and maybe image understanding.
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