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Cake day: October 2nd, 2025

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  • Little known fact:

    Tudor era European cities were effectively bioweapon labs that wiped out 90%-95% of Native Americans within the first century of contact because they didn’t have a resistance to the animal shit bacteria and viruses that made the jump to humans.

    They didn’t live in filth so they never had exposure to it.

    It was densely populated cities with poor hygiene conditions that created some of the worst diseases known to humankind.

    Bathrooms serve a critical service because shit in the streets is how you get plagues.

    Thank you for attending my rant.






  • It’s doing a shit job at replacing people, it’s still too prone to hallucinating for the vast majority of its applications.

    In many of the applications where AI has replaced people the promised performance gains never materialized because of the insane amount of babysitting a LLM agent requires.

    Doesn’t matter if it can write 10 hours of code in 5 minutes if you still need a software dev to troubleshoot the output for 25 hours.

    They have like 90% reliability (figure pulled directly from my ass) but they need 99.99% reliability to actually be effectively reliable.

    They’ve burned through all their hype and still haven’t made it reliable yet. I think they’re not going to get it done before the bubble collapses.

    It’ll be similar to the dotcom boom, infinite hype implosion collapses the market to a few core players and then those core players will get there over the next 15 years.

    Isn’t going to disappear but it’s absolutely going to fade into the background of day to day life.



  • I find that people high up in academics tend to lose touch with reality.

    I remember in college one professor ranting and raving about how students worry about grades too much and that we should all focus on actually retaining the material.

    It’s like yeah that’s a pretty thought but 70% of the class was there on scholarship so if we don’t make the grade we don’t finish and have a mountain of debt.

    On a separate occasion the dean of engineering wasted 2 full lectures of ethics class ranting about how we should give to the alumni association and how “it’s a privilege to be here so we need to pay it back.”

    There were over 100 people in that room who were in at least $60k of debt to the school and we still had another semester left before graduation.

    These people have brains the size of planets but couldn’t comprehend in the slightest how reality gets in the way of their pretty little egalitarian ideals.