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No, I don't think that's preferrable. That just leads to pointless disagreements based on both sides having an inaccurate understanding
The problem with that is that there will always be dissent for the sake of dissent, right? But you're probably right that some sort of middle truth is preferable. I sometimes wonder how we get there from polarization. How does society depolarize?
I might make a post about this for Pleb Economist.
That'd be awesome.
Even when they don't, other people use their research to make irresponsible claims. It's an unfortunate aspect of the profession that the economists themselves have little control over.
This happens even to me and I'm not an academic. I've seen whole theories being ascribed to some code even though I thought I'd made it crystal clear. It's at times hard to take the blame for not stating things unambiguously enough when it happens, which is also part of how I get to "dissent for the sake of dissent".
Few people seem to strike the right balance, but I don't blame them [..]
Would it be fair to say that the balance should be sought in the aggregate, not in the individual?
since knowing what to trust and what not to requires a bit of insider understanding as to how the profession operates.
Is there a guide?
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bruh.
I won't argue with you on that, except that there's still OGs that actually held on to much of their coin (not me, I'm a retard compared to those people because I didn't keep a fiat job). If ultimately something needs to give, I'm not entirely sure that its the institutional coercible value that wins, they got in late, relatively. So principled actors may still win in the end, but the printer is a bigger enemy than I'd like.
Bottom line: are you willing to get rekt over principles? Because that's what it comes down to.
In the top reply thread on nitter
Strategy and Tether are the two companies furthest along the path I envision.
If these are good examples, might as well kiss the feet of the Ethereum Foundation and Block One: they sold their shitcoins for bitcoin too.
The on-site chatbots are truly awful and seem to still run on inferior and outdated models. I twice had one of these send me to support only to in one case be ignored, and in the other, go through what it said then in the instructions be redirected to the same bot again!
Glad no one got seriously injured!
I'm personally a bit on the fence about binary / judgement questions to LLMs simply because whenever I bench a true cognitive skill "is this A or B", or "express as a % certainty" then the results are still all over the place, also with expensive models. But it's cool that it worked for you.
I think that it kind of is momentous because 2 years ago (and probably even 6-9 months ago) you would have lol'd at what you're using it for today - or at least the confidence you have in it. And if it has somewhat plateau'd now - in terms of model capabilities - it means there is unresolved (and maybe unresolvable) friction still and that's worth exploring. It's cool that it's there, but does it meet up with expectations? And what does and doesn't work?
A lot of stackers are using chatbots (the usage among us seems to be really high thus far, especially if you realize that the alleged global penetration rate is about 1.5B/5.5B) but the problems we feed it are all different, and results do vary, probably through a mix of prompting effort put in, expectations and problem-space alignment. So I'd like to get a better feel for what experiences people have outside of the common ~AI commenters too.
I typically paste my writing and ask it for a critique that covers good bad and ugly.
Interesting. I generally ask "explain
x" when I write about something, to make sure I that I am not completely off the mark. Like a double check. But I never say "I wrote this" - to avoid the PC. The other day I was challenging Qwen3 because it was being generic to a specific question and it actually started calling me names, lol. The training must be absurd at times.I think we can now create a Grok account without having X account?
It is available at grok.com where you can sign-in with email.
They have this announcement of a fantastic 40 around the end, where they talk about what they believe will have the highest market caps in 2030. They believe that - despite not owning it - Bitcoin will do (only) a 2x. OpenAI would do a 3.5x, Oracle 3x, MS and Nvidia will do less than 2x. Apple is gone, Alphabet gone. Strange list, lol.
But the thing is, no single AI is perfect for you. You need to keep pushing them to correct it, doublecheck the response, check the sources, and reprompt them when they forget previous chats.
It really helps to switch sometimes when there's been a "model influx", like we had the past month-and-half. Try something else. The commercial products are constantly copying each other's successes to try and gain the upper hand.
I use research mode in perplexity a lot.
Example: In terms of commercial chatbot products I found that plain free Grok 4 fast currently (the last few weeks) blows Perplexity Pro out of the water on basic facts accumulation, interpretation and explanation. Like for example, Perplexity could give me some link leads in the footnotes, but Grok incorporated these much better into the answer it gave me, for the same question, and seemed to be much more aware of non-frontpage information (In this case I was asking about the Colombian debt swaps of this year)
But it does help you plan things better to be honest, like groceries.
Interesting. I haven't used it for this. How do you do that practically? Do you ask about products you were looking to buy or do you let it recommend you? Something else?
This is a good point. You need to elaborate your context, so that you can get the answer you seek automatically, because you only get one answer, rather than having to click through a bunch of top search results to find the answer you need.