Mr. Breadcrumb
@mrbreadcrumb.bsky.social
Former biologist. Writer of odd fiction he hopes you’ll someday be able to read. I mostly just read on here.
But I don’t think you’re exactly a modal user (complimentary) and your use cases aren’t universal either.
December 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
But I don’t think you’re exactly a modal user (complimentary) and your use cases aren’t universal either.
That doesn’t mean it’s bad. It seems to work great for you and that’s great.
I’m interested in what the next generation of these tools looks like and I’m sure interesting things will happen when experience from people like you who have beaten paths for yourselves filter back into the tool design.
I’m interested in what the next generation of these tools looks like and I’m sure interesting things will happen when experience from people like you who have beaten paths for yourselves filter back into the tool design.
December 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
That doesn’t mean it’s bad. It seems to work great for you and that’s great.
I’m interested in what the next generation of these tools looks like and I’m sure interesting things will happen when experience from people like you who have beaten paths for yourselves filter back into the tool design.
I’m interested in what the next generation of these tools looks like and I’m sure interesting things will happen when experience from people like you who have beaten paths for yourselves filter back into the tool design.
Absolutely I think the way you two have described working sounds like some of the best and most effective ways to use these tools. And I have no doubt you are right when you say how useful they’ve been. But I don’t think that means you’re unaffected by all upstream decisions in hard to see ways.
December 19, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Absolutely I think the way you two have described working sounds like some of the best and most effective ways to use these tools. And I have no doubt you are right when you say how useful they’ve been. But I don’t think that means you’re unaffected by all upstream decisions in hard to see ways.
And I think the way those meta questions of how you interact with / use these things winds up embedding assumptions about what work and thought and creativity even are or look like to engage in. And I’m not ready to cede that table setting power to define the shape of the arena to these companies.
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
And I think the way those meta questions of how you interact with / use these things winds up embedding assumptions about what work and thought and creativity even are or look like to engage in. And I’m not ready to cede that table setting power to define the shape of the arena to these companies.
Wind up pervading the whole thing in insidious ways that become invisible the more you swim in it. I’m not just talking about them gassing you up all the time. I don’t know the right answers or anything, but the chatbot paradigm itself makes me a bit uncomfortable.
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Wind up pervading the whole thing in insidious ways that become invisible the more you swim in it. I’m not just talking about them gassing you up all the time. I don’t know the right answers or anything, but the chatbot paradigm itself makes me a bit uncomfortable.
This is all a bit half baked from me, but many of my problems with LLMs stem from those sorts of decisions as much or more than anything inherent to LLMs. But that doesn’t make them trivial!
I think assumptions that these companies are making about what thinking / creating should look like…
I think assumptions that these companies are making about what thinking / creating should look like…
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This is all a bit half baked from me, but many of my problems with LLMs stem from those sorts of decisions as much or more than anything inherent to LLMs. But that doesn’t make them trivial!
I think assumptions that these companies are making about what thinking / creating should look like…
I think assumptions that these companies are making about what thinking / creating should look like…
I do think a lot of people have been frog boiled by choices these companies have made about what interacting with an LLM looks like and how much that framing can affect things.
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I do think a lot of people have been frog boiled by choices these companies have made about what interacting with an LLM looks like and how much that framing can affect things.
I am very big on the importance of meta cognitive skills, so it’s not like I think it’s wrong per se, but so much of threads like the one linked read like “I’m too smart to be affected by cognitive bias / propaganda” to me.
December 18, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I am very big on the importance of meta cognitive skills, so it’s not like I think it’s wrong per se, but so much of threads like the one linked read like “I’m too smart to be affected by cognitive bias / propaganda” to me.
But, also, generally you should want to make things nice for your partner?
Lovingly lining up the toilet paper in the arbitrary way they prefer should be a regular reminder that you share your life with a separate person instead of being alone with with no one to care about making things nice for.
Lovingly lining up the toilet paper in the arbitrary way they prefer should be a regular reminder that you share your life with a separate person instead of being alone with with no one to care about making things nice for.
December 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
But, also, generally you should want to make things nice for your partner?
Lovingly lining up the toilet paper in the arbitrary way they prefer should be a regular reminder that you share your life with a separate person instead of being alone with with no one to care about making things nice for.
Lovingly lining up the toilet paper in the arbitrary way they prefer should be a regular reminder that you share your life with a separate person instead of being alone with with no one to care about making things nice for.
That said, if I don’t like, say, my wife’s laundry workflow and worry that someday it will cause a problem, my choices are to either get over it or trade tasks so I can be particular about it in the way I prefer.
Don’t micromanage your spouse, but don’t try some malicious compliance routine either.
Don’t micromanage your spouse, but don’t try some malicious compliance routine either.
December 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
That said, if I don’t like, say, my wife’s laundry workflow and worry that someday it will cause a problem, my choices are to either get over it or trade tasks so I can be particular about it in the way I prefer.
Don’t micromanage your spouse, but don’t try some malicious compliance routine either.
Don’t micromanage your spouse, but don’t try some malicious compliance routine either.
I think this is much more true re strong opinions about the WAY a task is done rather than that a task is done. “We live together and part of respecting me is respecting my strong preferences about my environment, whether you share them or not” is always valid.
December 10, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I think this is much more true re strong opinions about the WAY a task is done rather than that a task is done. “We live together and part of respecting me is respecting my strong preferences about my environment, whether you share them or not” is always valid.
That doesn’t mean the ads themselves are devoid of creative thought, just that they are what the ai is making a soulless mimicry of.
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
That doesn’t mean the ads themselves are devoid of creative thought, just that they are what the ai is making a soulless mimicry of.
I can see why you’d find it insulting, but I don’t think it‘s symmetrical. Any single ad is not slop, but put them all together and ask what the common vibe is and that is what these ai slop videos are targeting. It’s like camouflage. They’re trying to disappear against a field of ads.
November 18, 2025 at 10:53 PM
I can see why you’d find it insulting, but I don’t think it‘s symmetrical. Any single ad is not slop, but put them all together and ask what the common vibe is and that is what these ai slop videos are targeting. It’s like camouflage. They’re trying to disappear against a field of ads.
None of them would refer to themselves as as eugenicists and if they did it would be a very bad sign.
November 13, 2025 at 4:19 PM
None of them would refer to themselves as as eugenicists and if they did it would be a very bad sign.
To be clear, I mean people who actually study human genetics.
November 13, 2025 at 4:13 PM
To be clear, I mean people who actually study human genetics.
I think that’s pretty common in people who do the actual research. Far less common among people who first get rich or famous or powerful and then get interested in promoting it.
One of the tragedies of all this is that these horrible people hijack all these fields and come to define them.
One of the tragedies of all this is that these horrible people hijack all these fields and come to define them.
November 13, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I think that’s pretty common in people who do the actual research. Far less common among people who first get rich or famous or powerful and then get interested in promoting it.
One of the tragedies of all this is that these horrible people hijack all these fields and come to define them.
One of the tragedies of all this is that these horrible people hijack all these fields and come to define them.
I thought this was about Gene Wolfe for a moment.
November 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I thought this was about Gene Wolfe for a moment.
It would be nice if this could be channeled into needed reforms, but this group includes people who hate Dems because too much trans, too little trans, too much ((globalists)), not enough support for Israel, fight more, and out with the olds. Not my first choice for a coalition to trade to.
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It would be nice if this could be channeled into needed reforms, but this group includes people who hate Dems because too much trans, too little trans, too much ((globalists)), not enough support for Israel, fight more, and out with the olds. Not my first choice for a coalition to trade to.
It’s people who are unhappy with how the Democratic Party presents and organizes. Some people see this and think “like DSA folks and Jacobin types” and others see “centrist scolds” but the unifying feature isn’t location on the political spectrum it’s non-Republicans on the ~left who hate Democrats.
October 31, 2025 at 4:12 PM
It’s people who are unhappy with how the Democratic Party presents and organizes. Some people see this and think “like DSA folks and Jacobin types” and others see “centrist scolds” but the unifying feature isn’t location on the political spectrum it’s non-Republicans on the ~left who hate Democrats.
I will never understand why people on the left half of the Democratic Party (a group that includes me) are so eager to help people on the right half win the argument that they are the real Democrats who embody the soul of the party.
October 29, 2025 at 5:15 PM
I will never understand why people on the left half of the Democratic Party (a group that includes me) are so eager to help people on the right half win the argument that they are the real Democrats who embody the soul of the party.
This is all tangential to the point I was trying to make which is NOT that the switch was bad. But the knifing (which started WAY earlier than summer 2024) actively prevented less damaging approaches to getting changes we needed and locked us into a doom loop.
October 28, 2025 at 4:57 PM
This is all tangential to the point I was trying to make which is NOT that the switch was bad. But the knifing (which started WAY earlier than summer 2024) actively prevented less damaging approaches to getting changes we needed and locked us into a doom loop.
And, honestly, I’m probably actively not helping here by posting all this.
I think continuing to have these arguments and fight on this ground is insane and every day I walk farther away from my “I don’t really post on here” stance I walk farther from the light.
But, nevertheless…
I think continuing to have these arguments and fight on this ground is insane and every day I walk farther away from my “I don’t really post on here” stance I walk farther from the light.
But, nevertheless…
October 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
And, honestly, I’m probably actively not helping here by posting all this.
I think continuing to have these arguments and fight on this ground is insane and every day I walk farther away from my “I don’t really post on here” stance I walk farther from the light.
But, nevertheless…
I think continuing to have these arguments and fight on this ground is insane and every day I walk farther away from my “I don’t really post on here” stance I walk farther from the light.
But, nevertheless…
It’s not about denying our marriage has problems. It’s about whether a big loud fight at Lowe’s is helping.
October 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It’s not about denying our marriage has problems. It’s about whether a big loud fight at Lowe’s is helping.
But all people see is “weren’t you the ones who had that bad guy/slogan/approach and couldn’t get your act together about it?”
October 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
But all people see is “weren’t you the ones who had that bad guy/slogan/approach and couldn’t get your act together about it?”
It’s about negative sum instead of positive sum approaches.
The negative feels better because it can get you tangible, undeniable, change.
You think the message you’re sending is “see we agree this was bad and we got rid of it.”
The negative feels better because it can get you tangible, undeniable, change.
You think the message you’re sending is “see we agree this was bad and we got rid of it.”
October 28, 2025 at 4:53 PM
It’s about negative sum instead of positive sum approaches.
The negative feels better because it can get you tangible, undeniable, change.
You think the message you’re sending is “see we agree this was bad and we got rid of it.”
The negative feels better because it can get you tangible, undeniable, change.
You think the message you’re sending is “see we agree this was bad and we got rid of it.”