I tried putting together a research plan using an LLM. Like nothing crazy I just wanted it to help me structure my thoughts and write LaTeX for me. Horrible experience.

I gave it a reference paper and said "copy that methodology exactly“ and then said exactly what steps I would like to see included.

It kept making bold claims and suggesting irrelevant methods and just plain wrong approaches. If I had no idea about the topic I might have believed it because that thing is so confident but especially if you know what you’re doing they’re bullshit machines.

We want the settler colony to disarm and stop existing, thank you for your attention to this matter.

Enjoy my dong zucc, fucking lizard

Too little, too late, probably just bullshit

That’s a Shiaa thing and in Saudi Arabia Shiaa are being persecuted. There are plausible reasons for this practice to exist, e.g. being in a committed relationship and wanting to get married properly but for whatever reason not being able to get married currently. Prostitution is not a plausible reason, even though it’s common practice to use it as way to "legalize“ it.

Solana is awesome in terms of tech, it does everything that ethereum can do but faster and cheaper. The problem is that the foundation has unlimited voting power and it’s unclear if that’s ever gonna change. So the protocol is decentralized but the economics are only decentralized if the foundation keeps listening to the community.

IMO the use cases are there, I can send Solana instantly and at ridiculously low fees around the globe. Let’s say I wanna wire 10k USD to Europe from anywhere else, if I go through my bank it’s insanely expensive and will take days if not weeks.

Another use case is that as long as I hold native token, they’re mine. If Trump declared me a political enemy and freezes my assets, well, he can’t freeze my XMR or SOL, so that’s another use case, protecting yourself against malicious governments.

Finally, as for XMR the use case is private internet money. With cash transactions becoming rarer this is super important.

So I think decentralization is the use case. But I’m worried that it’s never gonna happen because corpos are gonna lobby promising projects like Solana and XMR is gonna get abandoned

Meh not sure it’s even pro or contra. It’s just happening and it’s gonna get better at what it’s doing. I find the whole 10x debate a bit ridiculous because 10x of what exactly? How are you even measuring the 1x in order to determine what would be 10x of that?

That being said, I’ve seen some crazy things, like an entire backend + frontend + dashboards + data warehouse with lots of pipelines + devops being run by a single dev at scale at one of our clients. With AWS or Cloudflare and enough AI budget such things are actually possible. But then you’re looking at a bill of $3-5k / month spent on AI.

Personally I like it for doing stupid repetitive refactoring or feature implementations. Say, I wanna add a new API endpoint so I tell it implement this new endpoint and stand up a service layer based on what all existing endpoints are doing, or I wanna migrate from one testing framework to another. It’s mostly gonna 1 shot it and run all the checks automatically until they pass. Or if I need to dive into the database I can let an agent sift through all the tables and get me a report while I go and make a coffee or work on something else.

I think it can be really useful if you know what you’re doing and it can make your life much easier if you learn where it can help you and where not, and that’s it. It’s just a tool that may or may not help you being more productive.

Yeah they all have depegged at some point I guess and Tether offloads the risk of the shitty Chinese bonds or whatever they’re investing in on you as a token holder.

Circle is SEC regulated which makes USDC a bit more trustworthy but if we have learnt anything from the banking crisis then that this is no guarantee. Plus they depegged to like 0.87 once I think.

My biggest issue with stables is actually that they all have asset freezing mechanisms built into their smart contracts which goes completely against the idea of decentralization. Not to mention that they’re a privacy nightmare as well.

I totally agree with you that they’re not a long term solution but they can be useful if you just use them to send / receive money vs actually keeping them in your wallet. In a perfect world we’d be all using Monero at Solana speed & cost.

Yeah dude convert that shit as soon as you get it, don’t hold it. I’m not a fan but for receiving salary or processing payments in USD it does the job

Stablecoins already solve that. Not very trustworthy because they could in theory do the same but as a temporary solution should work.

Tbh I’m some brown dude living in Germany and I think it’s currently still fine even though there’s some Mordor kinda thing waking up all over Germany not just he east, so this might be totally different in a couple years and that’s honestly scary.

If you’re a local living on a day to day basis together with Nazis that’s rough, no matter if you’re brown or LGBTQ or just alternative looking. But as a tourist just visiting the Bauhaus Museum I doubt you’ll have any issues. I’ve been to places like Dresden and while I did see an AFD rally I didn’t have any issues whatsoever otherwise.

Only angle they can try is blame Hamas for it and hope that people are dumb enough to buy it. I think unfortunately a lot of people are dumb enough.

Sorry we don’t vibe with your Staatsräson

I‘m genuinely wondering why people like this end up here vs just keeping their shit on Reddit

What if I deserve due process? Thank you AI slop

Genocide

Tell me one party in the German parliament right now that calls what’s happening in Gaza what it is - a genocide.

This has nothing do with a right wing coalition or Netanyahu alone. The majority of Jewish Israelis want the genocide, have been part of the IDF at some point or support what the IDF does, and they want Zionism.

But Zionism still does not equate Judaism so the premise that Jews are responsible for what the Zionist settlers do is malicious and just tries to frame everyone who is against genocide, apartheid and settler colonialism as antisemite.

The Arab states don’t give a fuck about Palestinians. The Palestinian authority doesn’t give a fuck about Palestinians. What’s the point of this?

You seem more upset with a fictional possibility of an antisemitic symbol than with the actual genocide that’s currently being perpetrated by the Zionists