I think LG V10 was peak-smartphone for me - at least design-wise.

That’s why I always have 120 litres of diesel stored at home in jerrycans plus what ever is left in the tank. If the shit ever hits the fan and I need to get away quick then the gas station is among the last places I want to go fist fighting to.

As an anecdotal note I must mention that my lawnmower works just fine with gasoline that’s over a year old.

Yeah, I’d imagine it’s pretty much the same here in Finland. People tend to DIY it when ever possible. I even encourage them to give it a shot and will give free tips when ever possible.

Most of my customers are either elderly or busy career people. Plumbing is the only exception where even handy people tend to leave it for a professional.

Unless I do it in my native language, Finnish. Then I’ll only get to three.

What a weird assumption to make that they wouldn’t be reading the message before sending.

Since I didn’t have anyone to model from, I just went with what felt intuitive: I ordered a ton of flyers from an online print service (Vistaprint) and started stuffing mailboxes around the nearby homes. It was pretty slow at first, but the occasional call here and there kept me going. Whenever things quiet down, I just go out and drop off more flyers. I think of it like blowing on an ember - you do it a few times, and eventually the fire catches and starts sustaining itself.

Other than that, I haven’t really done much marketing. I do have Facebook and Instagram pages for my business, which I think are important - especially Facebook. I also made a website. I’m not sure how much that helps directly, but it does get some traffic, and if nothing else, it adds to my credibility.

Also, I played with the idea for nearly a decade, but I should’ve done it sooner. Starting a business is absolutely terrifying, and he’ll lose sleep over it - but it has the potential to be one of the greatest and most life - changing decisions he’ll ever make. Better to regret having tried than to regret never having even tried at all.

I charge 50€/h including VAT. It’s true that small jobs like this don’t really pay much - but it’s also true that they sometimes lead to bigger jobs. One of the customers I’ve charged the most over time originally just had me come over to install a washing machine.

If my schedule is full, then obviously jobs like this get put on the back burner, and bigger jobs always take priority. Still, there are days when I’ve got nothing else to do, so I might as well go hang a shelf and chat with some granny.

I’m talking about my highly curated feed. Otherwise it would be an avalanche of US politics and bad news.

are failing to appreciate what it is.

A firehose of US politics and bad news?

I bought a similar one from Biltema for 5 euros.

It sucks.

A statement can be simplified down to the point that it borderlines on misinformation while still being factually correct. Another examples would be saying “photography is just pointing a camera and pressing a button” or “internet is just a bunch of computers talking to each other.” It would be completely reasonable for someone to take issue with these statements.

You are arguing very specifically that we cant know llm’s dont hae similar features (world model) to human brains because “both are black boxes”

At no point have I made such claim.

I haven’t claimed it does reasoning.

“The human mind is very much a black box just the same way as LLMs are” is a factually correct statement. You can’t look into a human brain for an exact explanation of why an individual did something any more than you can look into the inner workings of an LLM to explain why it said A rather than B. Claiming that my motive is to equate LLMs and human brains is not something I said - it’s something you imagined.

I often wonder about this myself too - especially when it comes to people being mean online. It’s absurd to me that just because I said something they disagree with, they think it gives them the green light to viciously attack me personally instead of addressing what I actually said. And often, it’s from people I haven’t even interacted with directly. I just don’t get it. I never feel the urge to be intentionally mean to someone, and I can’t imagine what these people think they’re gaining from it.

Ability to make decisions doesn’t imply sentience either.

Nobody here has claimed that brains and LLM’s work the same way.

Nothing I’ve said implies sentience or consciousness. I’m simply arguing against the oversimplified explanation that it’s “just predicting the next set of words,” as if there’s nothing more to it. While there’s nothing particularly wrong with that statement, it lacks nuance.

No. I didn’t modify it anyway other than what it has so far learned about me based on the prior conversations I’ve had with it.

Where is the world model you maintain? Can you point to it? You can’t - because the human mind is very much a black box just the same way as LLM’s are.

It’s in the form of distributed patterns across billions of parameters. It’s not like the world model was handed to it. It’s emergent consequence of massive scale pattern learning. It learned it from the data it was trained on. The only way to become good at prediction is to implicitly absorb how the world tends to behave — because otherwise it would guess wrong.