kabir's blog

My father is now saying to my little sister that if you want to be a doctor, you can only sleep 2 hours a day. He doesn't care about the truth being sacred. He will lie to himself, to others, to anyone.  He has not seen the truth as sacred for as long as I can remember. He didn't hold it sacred when I was a child. Lying for any reason at all, unless he felt that there might be some consequences for it. He lied when he cheated on my mother for years. He lied when I caught him cheating on my mother. He lied when he called the police on me on false charges. He lied for silly things as well. He lied whenever he should have admitted to not knowing things. For insecurity, for ego, for convenience, for dominance, for power, for ease, for greed, for selfishness, for selflessness, for pain, for pleasure. He lied every day and still does.  I know I can become like him easily. I know I have been like him, for many years, from when I was a child to a teenager. And that I can do it again....

 Every single person I hear talking about GPT5 talks about how it was a 'flop' or 'overhyped'. How it wasn't world changing, how it didnt meet expectations, how it's not impressive, etc.  However, before it came out, I had cancelled my OpenAI subscription, I renewed it for trying GPT5 and now I don't think I'll be cancelling it anytime soon. I had used o3, o4-mini and gpt 4.5 Before gpt5, gpt 4.5 was the most impressive model for me, in terms of actually being something close to semi decent writer and actually having some useful information.  By and large, the vast majority of models have been absolutely trash at research for me, for anything expect for very general or basic stuff in fields. Anything that required actual reasoning ability - the ability to actually put things together and form new ideas from them, they would just fail at.  e.g. taking ideas from neuromorality and reinforcement learning and using that to put together a new reinforcement le...

This video is about 'the banality of internet evil'  ArtChad talks about how Hailey Welch's crypto scam was just expected and boring, that she wasn't exceptionally evil for doing so, this is the internet enabling a boring banal evil that is possible for normal people to do.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APNCB0m5ex0&list=TLPQMDQwODIwMjWfoRvqEBEnPA&index=2 However, it is far, far too repetitive. I'm 10 minutes in and the same 4 points have been repeated over and over again. And it's generally focused on pushing an opinion, rather an actual dissection.  Edit: 13:00 in - this is actually pretty interesting.  However, I think not going into the lack of legal enforcement of scams in general now is a mistake.  14:30  Also, the romanticization of the past, as if cultures without/with less internet didnt have (and still have): beggar scam rings, ponzi schemes, snake oil salesmen (both literal and metaphorical), religious scams/abuse, general corrupt...