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The current consensus is that the effects of social media on mental health are in between minimally detrimental to non-existent.


Expensive and Google doesn't even have enough resources to decently deploy a model like that. Creating 10 images in parallel gives me RESOURCE_EXHAUSTED error, which is a painfully common error when using Google AI products.


> Google doesn't even have enough resources to decently deploy a model like that

Probably not for free but tbf, Google did scale "AI Mode" globally to its billion+ users, with its Gemini 3 series. Pretty much broke my habit of searching the web with pplx & Chat.


I think it's pretty safe to assume they are not losing money on inference.


I think it’s safe to assume that they are bleeding cash.


Based on what? They haven't even IPOed.


It's silicon valley and they are trying to aggressively grow. Your baseline assumption should be the exact opposite.


> Pretty much every person in every culture cares deeply about their children.

I would substitute "deeply" for "superficially". Like, if my parents found some way to prohibit porn when I was an adolescent, I wouldn't say they cared deeply about me. I would say they were misguided and authoritary. The "care deeply" idea you are putting forward is just trying to distil whatever societal norm currently is into the youngs.


Companies who could see it clearly and ignored the "AI is a bubble duh" crowd will ultimately get benefited by the GPUs they already acquired. The companies who acted cautiously will get burned.


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Technologies: Python, Deep Learning (PyTorch), NLP, Graph Knowledge Systems, Vector Search (Cosine Similarity), PostgreSQL, React/Svelte.

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Hi HN, I’m Rodrigo. I’m a software engineer working at the intersection of applied ML and scalable systems. Lately, I’ve been obsessed with solving the "context window" problem through graph-based knowledge representations. My recent work focuses on treating graphs not just as data stores, but as a method for information compression and long-term memory permanence in AI agents. I develop pipelines that integrate LLMs with structured memory to allow for more efficient knowledge generalization and recall.

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I’m looking for a role where I can contribute to the "Next Step" of LLM integration—moving past simple chat interfaces toward systems with true persistent memory and structured reasoning.


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I have no idea where this idea that Internet is toxic to children is coming from. Is that some type of moral panic? Weren't most of you guys children/adolescents during the 2000's?


Are you saying that social media isn't harmful to children?


This is like rhetorically asking, "Are you saying that doom and marylin manson aren't harmful to children?"

The problem with social media isn't the inherent mixing of children and technology, as if web browsers and phones have some action-at-a-distance force that undermines society; it's the 20 years or so they spent weaponizing their products into an infinite Skinner box. Duck walk Zuckerburg.

This is all assuming good faith interest in "the children," which we cannot assume when what government will gain from this is a total, global surveillance state.


Last time I checked there's no scientific consensus if social media causes harm at all. The best studies found null or very small effects. So yeah, I am skeptical it is harmful.


The equivalence of emotions to reward functions seem pretty obvious to me. Emotions are what compel us to act in the environment.


Idk, we seem to be the at the cusp of autonomous driving. Transportation is like ~8% of world's GDP. Payroll is, what, 30% of that? It seems like we can already have the return on all AI investment by just conquering this one application.


Transportation AI does not remotely require any of the heavy investments obligated to run LLMs.


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