Fermin Quant

@rasbt @ShowPwny So, Luna Max is better and cheaper than Terra Max? Or are the labels off by one in Terra as well?

@ShowPwny I made a mistake in the lower left and the Luna labels are shifted by one. So Ultra = Max

For agentic coding, one can say: - Unless you need Terra Ultra perf, it's always better to use a Luna model with higher effort setting (same or better performance but cheaper). - Forget everything below Sol High, use Luna with higher effort settings here - Forget Sol Extra High, use Terra Ultra here - The extra cost of Sol Ultra is probably not worth it over Max

𝗦𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝘀𝗸𝗲𝗱 𝗵𝗶𝗺 𝟰 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲𝘀! "Why should I, as a female, be forced to get undressed in front of a biological male?" His answer: Because magic words. 🙃

@thsottiaux UX

What is something that you feel is surprising that Codex still can't do well and we should have gotten right a while ago?

@thsottiaux Frontend design is horrible

What should we improve in the Codex app. What's not delightful?

@kkozmic not crazy, I feel it too, super lazy and dumb. Hopefully @thsottiaux notices and fixes this.

am I going crazy or is GPT 5.5 (in Codex) super lazy/dumb this evening?

@OpenAI Mobile codex works, but the desktop app doesn't get the messages unless you restart it

Windows users, this one’s for you. Computer use now works on Windows, so Codex can take action on your Windows computer. And with Windows support for Codex in the ChatGPT mobile app, you can start, review, and steer tasks on the go while work continues on your Windows machine. An early experience, but we’re working on more ways to keep your work moving, wherever you are.

"When words lose their meaning, people lose their liberty" - Confucius

@pmarca You're not understanding who suffers from it.

The problem with "suicidal empathy" is that they are neither suicidal (they happily gather power/status/money for themselves) nor empathic (they are nakedly hateful to their outgroups).

"Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience." - C. S. Lewis

The past year or so I have been fascinated with IQ and the data / discussion surrounding it. Sufficiently obsessed so that I bring it up in conversation opportunistically. Believe it or not, I’m convinced a deep unfiltered discussion of IQ and what we can learn from it is at the heart of what is needed to continue healing from the woke mind virus. Entirely too many broken mindsets and policies orbit the idea that all people are essentially interchangeable and that culture, education, and nutrition are more influential than genetics. This is obviously untrue to anyone who bothers to think for a few seconds. As an extreme example, the most well fed human on earth will never ever grow to the size of a blue whale. Similarly, the most well fed and educated blue whale will never win the Boston marathon. Our human genes have an upper bound to the size we can grow, and blue whales have their own limitations. These are silly and obvious and indisputable because they are easily measured and without exception. They are also entirely uncontroversial because they are cross species. To discuss and understand IQ in depth requires you to accept that human sexes and races also have measurable differences. This is a far more dangerous discussion, figuratively but perhaps also literally. There are many exceptions, but they don’t change the rule. I was talking to a psychologist about the topic. They considered themselves an IQ expert, and so I knew the conversation was going to get interesting quick one way or another. Unfortunately I wasn’t surprised to hear them immediately make a point that the test is biased against certain cultures. It’s always that, or the uninformed argument that IQ only measures one type of intelligence… She pointed out California case Larry P. v. Riles (1979) which prohibits testing African American students in CA for the purposes of special education placement. I started to push back, asking to clarify how that was proof the test was bias. Their response was to insult my own intelligence. To assume I have no idea what test norms are or how they are created and applied. I tried to respond to that, but they were already upset and made it clear they were finished with our talk. Look, I get it. It’s not fun or convenient to admit that much of our success or failure is fate sealed in our genetics. But it’s critical in the face of a delusional population to start facing difficult truths instead of denying them. Else we end up with men playing women’s sports and entering their locker rooms.

@robbystarbuck There are quite a few things, although very limited. Foreign policy and national security are the ones that come to me top of mind.

There’s not one thing the government does that the private sector couldn’t do better and cheaper. A lot of political side shows and circus acts on the news are meant to distract you from this fact. Our current tax system is entirely nonsensical. Yes, I’m mad about my taxes.

@PlanetOfMemes Shouldn't it have stopped in the face of a huge smokescreen?

A Tesla vehicle avoided a crash with clouds of smoke and dust which blocking visibility. How long until insurance companies give discounts for drivers with FSD?

This. Groomed by an adult. 👇

@graceofdoge @KnowledgeArchiv You do understand that money doesn't really come from the government, right? It just prints the paper and uses threat of force to make you use it, it doesn't create what gives the money value.

@KnowledgeArchiv She didn't understand that government makes the money. If you use money created by the government then you have to obey and support the government. The problem only happens when superstition creeps into your government which has a tendency to replace reason. I'll agree on that.

Can't believe she wrote this 70 years ago

@Rothmus @elonmusk Anachronism

Leonardo da Vinci, the genius strikes again

HUGE WIN: The Supreme Court just BLOCKED a California law that would have STOPPED schools from telling parents about students' gender transitioning. "A big victory for parents' rights in California, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled 6-3 in favor of an emergency appeal to overturn a state policy barring schools from notifying parents if their child asks to change pronouns or identify as a different gender in class. The majority wrote this: 'Parents with sincere religious beliefs about success and gender have a right to raise their children according to those beliefs, and that California's policy violated that.'"

@MarioNawfal Not having an Islamist extremist government developing nuclear weapons benefits not only America, but the whole world.

🚨🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Geopolitics commentator Cyrus Janssen just identified the crack nobody is talking about live on air. Trump's own base is turning on him. Right wing influencers. America First voters. The people who put him in office. "How does this war in Iran actually benefit America?" Iran was not a military threat to the United States. Trump campaigned as the peace president. Ended 8 wars. Was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize. Now there are confirmed American casualties. And his base wants answers. @thecyrusjanssen

Paradiastole — new word I didn’t know I needed. Euphemism: softens. Paradiastole: renames vice as virtue. Plato called it 2400 years ago. Anarchy = “liberty” Waste = “magnificence” It’s happening right now.