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anyway, never finished that first hornblower novel i tried at some point… was feeling like im reading it only so id have read it so i never picked it back up. theres too much art in the world to read books just so i read them before reading tangentially-related, better, later-published books
December 31, 2025 at 1:07 PM
anyway, never finished that first hornblower novel i tried at some point… was feeling like im reading it only so id have read it so i never picked it back up. theres too much art in the world to read books just so i read them before reading tangentially-related, better, later-published books
not to mention the prose is dense so i prefer to see more of the text at once and be able to flip back pages… anyway, just ordered 4 paperbacks from one seller, 6 from another, and have 4 next installments secured before i need to switch to ebook (and by then i should be so invested its no matter)
December 31, 2025 at 12:59 PM
not to mention the prose is dense so i prefer to see more of the text at once and be able to flip back pages… anyway, just ordered 4 paperbacks from one seller, 6 from another, and have 4 next installments secured before i need to switch to ebook (and by then i should be so invested its no matter)
i cannot wait for all llms to go behind paywalls (degenerate tax) but also i got miserable recently bc i realized they may never *all* be paywalled bc having an ubiquitous propaganda machine will be more valuable to the evil corpos
December 30, 2025 at 4:14 PM
i cannot wait for all llms to go behind paywalls (degenerate tax) but also i got miserable recently bc i realized they may never *all* be paywalled bc having an ubiquitous propaganda machine will be more valuable to the evil corpos
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LLMs arrive at wrong answers faster than having to watch a 20 minute YouTube video for the same wrong answers.
December 28, 2025 at 3:13 AM
LLMs arrive at wrong answers faster than having to watch a 20 minute YouTube video for the same wrong answers.
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we never should have let computers do math
December 9, 2025 at 11:23 AM
we never should have let computers do math
so you probably already have achieved this with your extension ;•) i was more despairing for ppl who are like "i need force myself to not read ai overview on accident"; i want them to know they dont ever need it on their screen while doing web searches haha
December 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
so you probably already have achieved this with your extension ;•) i was more despairing for ppl who are like "i need force myself to not read ai overview on accident"; i want them to know they dont ever need it on their screen while doing web searches haha
obv this doesnt fix the problems of "search is ruined by decades of seo and most articles are ai garbage now and the internet is dead", just makes it so theres no ai overview, and in udm14 case its just a list of links like search used to be back in the day
December 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
obv this doesnt fix the problems of "search is ruined by decades of seo and most articles are ai garbage now and the internet is dead", just makes it so theres no ai overview, and in udm14 case its just a list of links like search used to be back in the day
dont know any of those, i main a firefox fork, but you can add udm14.com as your default search (or simply google's 'web' mode, which udm14 is a shortcut? wrapper? or duckduckgo with all the ai features turned off (they switch back on for me from time to time)
December 27, 2025 at 9:21 PM
dont know any of those, i main a firefox fork, but you can add udm14.com as your default search (or simply google's 'web' mode, which udm14 is a shortcut? wrapper? or duckduckgo with all the ai features turned off (they switch back on for me from time to time)
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"they will be, one day"
no, they won't, any more than tires can help you fly. They're not built for that. They're a fundamentally different technology. An LLM does not exist to model conscious thought, it exists to take advantage of your willingness to see faces in things that aren't there.
no, they won't, any more than tires can help you fly. They're not built for that. They're a fundamentally different technology. An LLM does not exist to model conscious thought, it exists to take advantage of your willingness to see faces in things that aren't there.
December 24, 2025 at 1:21 AM
"they will be, one day"
no, they won't, any more than tires can help you fly. They're not built for that. They're a fundamentally different technology. An LLM does not exist to model conscious thought, it exists to take advantage of your willingness to see faces in things that aren't there.
no, they won't, any more than tires can help you fly. They're not built for that. They're a fundamentally different technology. An LLM does not exist to model conscious thought, it exists to take advantage of your willingness to see faces in things that aren't there.