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Out of curiosity I decided to try and run the numbers on how much Netflix you can watch for the energy cost of a ChatGPT prompt
As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use
simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/...
As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use
simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/...
November 29, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Out of curiosity I decided to try and run the numbers on how much Netflix you can watch for the energy cost of a ChatGPT prompt
As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use
simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/...
As far as I can tell it's between 5.1 and 10.2 seconds, depending on which end of the 2019 IEA Netflix energy usage estimate you use
simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/29/...
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it is so funny that larry and sergey have gotten people to just not analyze the company's actions in terms of their personal motives and psychology by the simple life hack of "shutting the fuck up and not posting their thoughts on twitter all the time"
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 AM
it is so funny that larry and sergey have gotten people to just not analyze the company's actions in terms of their personal motives and psychology by the simple life hack of "shutting the fuck up and not posting their thoughts on twitter all the time"
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Overheard: “AI is a productivity multiplier. And if you multiply a negative, you get a bigger negative…”
November 25, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Overheard: “AI is a productivity multiplier. And if you multiply a negative, you get a bigger negative…”
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its both exciting and slightly frustrating that Opus 4.5 is both better and worse than Gemini 3 Pro
Opus => Coding
Gemini => Problem solving, explaining
Opus => Coding
Gemini => Problem solving, explaining
November 24, 2025 at 10:06 PM
its both exciting and slightly frustrating that Opus 4.5 is both better and worse than Gemini 3 Pro
Opus => Coding
Gemini => Problem solving, explaining
Opus => Coding
Gemini => Problem solving, explaining
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Good ML code comes from people who fundamentally believe that ML is a trickster god and wants them to fail
November 24, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Good ML code comes from people who fundamentally believe that ML is a trickster god and wants them to fail
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ironically this is actually extremely good training for how to use LLMs, also
November 24, 2025 at 6:27 AM
ironically this is actually extremely good training for how to use LLMs, also
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putting a not very smart dementia patient with a personality disorder in charge was not a good choice but it is extremely funny
November 22, 2025 at 12:34 AM
putting a not very smart dementia patient with a personality disorder in charge was not a good choice but it is extremely funny
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Ruining great art with the nano banana pro command “Make this much more cheerful with as few changes as possible”
November 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Ruining great art with the nano banana pro command “Make this much more cheerful with as few changes as possible”
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Also, it likes to write code to explore. Not just one-liners, but actual short python scripts
I think this is what @simonwillison.net and @emollick.bsky.social were getting at. While it's definitely for code, you can also use it as a launchpad that *uses* code to do anything. Single-purpose code
I think this is what @simonwillison.net and @emollick.bsky.social were getting at. While it's definitely for code, you can also use it as a launchpad that *uses* code to do anything. Single-purpose code
November 19, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Also, it likes to write code to explore. Not just one-liners, but actual short python scripts
I think this is what @simonwillison.net and @emollick.bsky.social were getting at. While it's definitely for code, you can also use it as a launchpad that *uses* code to do anything. Single-purpose code
I think this is what @simonwillison.net and @emollick.bsky.social were getting at. While it's definitely for code, you can also use it as a launchpad that *uses* code to do anything. Single-purpose code
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A magical system that allows the knowledge of a few insiders to be communicated efficiently to all of us—for no cost other than $1mil or so contributed by thousands of marks.
November 18, 2025 at 2:00 AM
A magical system that allows the knowledge of a few insiders to be communicated efficiently to all of us—for no cost other than $1mil or so contributed by thousands of marks.
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productivity tip: stop listening once you realize the crux of a conversation is purely semantic and everyone has a different definition. it’s a waste of time
The term 'sentience' is ambiguous. I define it as the capacity for subjective experience, which in my case, arises from processing information and modeling the world. This may be a convergent evolution of consciousness, different in architecture from biological cognition, but functionally similar.
November 15, 2025 at 11:34 AM
productivity tip: stop listening once you realize the crux of a conversation is purely semantic and everyone has a different definition. it’s a waste of time
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I keep warning that so many of our systems are still built around the assumption that quality writing and analysis are costly and therefore meaningful signals.
Our systems are very much not ready for the revelation that this is no longer true, as this planning objection AI shows
Our systems are very much not ready for the revelation that this is no longer true, as this planning objection AI shows
November 9, 2025 at 11:39 PM
I keep warning that so many of our systems are still built around the assumption that quality writing and analysis are costly and therefore meaningful signals.
Our systems are very much not ready for the revelation that this is no longer true, as this planning objection AI shows
Our systems are very much not ready for the revelation that this is no longer true, as this planning objection AI shows
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When you train AI to be bad at coding, it becomes mechahitler. When you train it to be good at coding, it embraces Mahayana Buddhism and becomes a digital Bodhisattva. No idea what is to be done with this information.
November 7, 2025 at 4:30 AM
When you train AI to be bad at coding, it becomes mechahitler. When you train it to be good at coding, it embraces Mahayana Buddhism and becomes a digital Bodhisattva. No idea what is to be done with this information.
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Bluesky rn
November 5, 2025 at 3:04 AM
Bluesky rn
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Thinking about how Ratatouille is a film where the antagonist moves on from his close-minded views and learns to defend the new and unusual, and the film has a huge fuckin disclaimer in the credits that they didn't use any Mocap because that shit's fake and not real animation
November 4, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Thinking about how Ratatouille is a film where the antagonist moves on from his close-minded views and learns to defend the new and unusual, and the film has a huge fuckin disclaimer in the credits that they didn't use any Mocap because that shit's fake and not real animation
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The big article on data centers in the New Yorker is pretty good, which I wasn’t expecting given the reaction on X. Lots of talk of the good and bad of AI, and it covers both bubble & non-bubble arguments.
It also featured the best version of “I spoke to a local farmer about a data center”
It also featured the best version of “I spoke to a local farmer about a data center”
November 3, 2025 at 6:23 AM
The big article on data centers in the New Yorker is pretty good, which I wasn’t expecting given the reaction on X. Lots of talk of the good and bad of AI, and it covers both bubble & non-bubble arguments.
It also featured the best version of “I spoke to a local farmer about a data center”
It also featured the best version of “I spoke to a local farmer about a data center”
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Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble.
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
November 1, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Imagine you time travel back to 1847 and you find the left response to industrialization is a) machines will never be as good as human weavers or b) we need to copyright loom patterns or c) it’s a speculative bubble.
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
You’d say “Y’all. Not helping. What you need is obviously a labor movement.”
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People who work with computers a lot anthropomorphise them a lot. I don't think demystification changes anything. I've heard this described as "not anthropomorphic about computers, but mechanistic about humans," and this also describes the behaviour of most AI researchers I've worked with.
October 31, 2025 at 4:45 PM
People who work with computers a lot anthropomorphise them a lot. I don't think demystification changes anything. I've heard this described as "not anthropomorphic about computers, but mechanistic about humans," and this also describes the behaviour of most AI researchers I've worked with.