IMO instead of age gating everything, it should've been the other way around, which is making unrestricted smartphones or similar an 18 or 16+ device, much like cars.

When financial institutions in the USA are not even adding basic things like... approve transaction on phone, keeping most things pull based based on knowing a few magic numbers vs. push based and other really basic things, this really doesn't hold water. Things being anon doesn't even register in the day to day of what is bad with the internet, vast majority of it is from very non-anonymous sources, influencers, apps or institutions.

But why is it a tough job? Partially it's the shift hours, they could offer it with less hours and more nurses for example. But they don't due to undersupply, and on it goes.

When you really dig into the difference it's metabolic health that is driving most of it, and that will be fixed by agricultural and food regulation for the most of it, starting with going with the whitelist system that japan and the EU have for food additives & manufacturing processes vs. the wild west that is GRAS in the USA, and way more strict food quality / inspection standards than you would think.

This! I flew from Madrid to SF last year and I can't begin to describe the difference in the quality of food. The scale of agricultural industrialization is terrifying - I wish you luck but I don't think anything short of this becoming a major campaign issue will help you.

I think it is possible that the majority of Americans do not know what they are missing. It is difficult to really understand how much better simple things like fruits, vegetables, and bread can taste without experiencing it. It's like The Matrix, you just have to see it for yourself. Well, taste it for yourself. I find that in America even local farm produce at the "farmer's market" often tastes flat and uninspiring. For whatever reason, heirloom tomatoes tend to be good though - they constitute an exception.

To be fair, I was not born in America. So it is possible that it's not that American food is actually subpar, it's just that I became used to particular nuances of how certain foods taste back when I was a child and I do not get that from most American food, and to Americans their produce tastes extremely delicious. I'm pretty skeptical of this idea though. My hunch is that I'm not experiencing some sort of chemical nostalgia, and that American produce actually isn't very good.

RFK Jr. successfully made some of this kind of stuff a minor campaign issue in the most recent US presidential election, so whatever one thinks about RFK Jr., at least it seems that there is some demand for food production reforms in the US electorate.

Lifelong American Midwesterner and I'm also convinced there's a big difference in the taste of some produce between what you get at a typical American grocery store and a farmer's market or my local natural foods store. I get all my produce there, and people who don't normally shop there often comment on how much better my raw vegetables are when they eat at my house.

Someday I should go buy some produce from each store at peak season and try them side by side.

IMO if you want a metadata registry of how actions work so you can make complicated, fragile, ACL rule systems of actions, then make that. That doesn't need to be loaded into a context window to make that work and can be expanded to general API usage, tool usage, cli usage, and so on. You can load a gh cli metadata description system and so on.

MCPs are clunky, difficult to work with and token inefficient and security orgs often have bad incentive design to mostly ignore what the business and devs need to actually do their job, leading to "endpoint management" systems that eat half the system resources and a lot of fig leaf security theatre to systematically disable whatever those systems are doing so people can do their job in an IT equivalent that feels like the TSA.

Thank god we moving away from giving security orgs these fragile tools to attach ball and chains to everyone.

iMessage lives as a sqlite db at ~/Library/Messages/chat.db , I wouldn't call a sqlite db proprietary per say.

sqlite is a database. You can store things in more or less proprietary formats in it, just like any other database.

Man if the EU made GDPR a 45M+ user platform thing most of the issues with it would've gone away.

I’ve tried Ford and comparing it as competition is being generous. It does lane keeping and adaptive cruise control but you can’t just punch in an address and have it take you there.

Oh man you just gave me an idea to use something like qwen 3.5 to categorize a lot of emails. You can keep the context small, do it per email and just churn through a lot of crap.

The 0.8B can do this pretty well.

Actually pg's original "A plan for spam" explains how to do this with a Bayesian classifier.

I've been learning to apply these lately and it has been pretty eye opening. Combined with Fourier analysis (for example) you can do what seems kind of like magic, in my opinion. But it has been possible since long before LLMs showed up.

Totally different categories and different use cases, but the more I learn about LLMs the more I discover there's a powerful, determinsitic, well-established statistical model or two to do the same thing.

Really, LLMs are kind of like convenient, wildly inefficient proxies for useful processes. But I'm not convinced they should often end up as permanent fixtures of logical pipelines. Unless you're making a chat bot, I guess.

> Really, LLMs are kind of like convenient, wildly inefficient proxies for useful processes. But I'm not convinced they should often end up as permanent fixtures of logical pipelines. Unless you're making a chat bot, I guess.

I think I agree with this. It's made me realise LLMs are great for prototyping processes in the same way that 3D printers are great at prototyping physical things. They make it quick and easy to get something close enough to see the unforeseen problems a proper solution might have.

3d printing is a great analog because there are so many critical considerations that are often missed or can't be accounted for in the prototype, but, it's alright because it's a prototype. The strain testing, durability, manufacturing at scale; none of that is properly addressed. Those might involved some serious, expensive challenges, too. But it's alright because you've got something in your hand that informs you whether or not those challenges are worth contending with. I really love this about LLMs and 3d printing.

IMO the fact that spam detection has devolved into reputation management vs. being able to work on the content themselves makes me think there is a lot of alpha between an llm process vs. the most traditional processes we have now.

I was just chatting with a co-worker that wanted to run a LLM locally to classify a bunch of text. He was worried about spending too many tokens though.

I asked him why he didn't just have the LLM build him a python ML library based classifier instead.

The LLMs are great but you can also build supporting tools so that:

- you use fewer tokens

- it's deterministic

- you as the human can also use the tools

- it's faster b/c the LLM isn't "shamboozling" every time you need to do the same task.

I use Haiku to classify my mail - it's way overkill, but also doesn't require training unlike a classifer. I recieve many dozens of e-mails a day, and it's burned on average ~$3 worth of tokens per month. I'll probably switch that to a cheaper model soon, but it's cheap enough the "payoff" from spending the time optimizing it is long.

you can use 4B for that, its quite good

From what I've seen, the bad effects don't necessarily just come from free access to the internet, but that everyone around them in their social group has a video camera that can covertly record, they're all immature children and thus you cannot slip up once or you get kid cancelled, and they start doing a collective dissociative freeze response in a self-imposed emergent panopticon as a result.

So if the teen phone turned into a restricted "call mom" device with no cameras and with neon yellow obvious fuck you coloring and a restricted set of apps, and police took away a full phone much like they take away cigs and beer it might be enough to break the critical mass to create this issue. They can have dedicated cameras for video club, use the family computer, have an xbox or switch and have whatever tech experience that millenials had, the last generation to not have exponential increases in anxiety , depression and sexlessness.

It's the covert camera + internet that it's the key issue.