Thanks! I’m pretty happy how it turned out as well. I hope this one will be even better.

Here’s few more pics if you’re interested.

I possibly could but I haven’t given up on it just yet so I don’t want to disassemble it into pieces before I’ve at least attempted to fix the frame.

I bought a 32T chainring to replace the 38T one and see how much that helps. If it’s still too stiff then I’ll just convert it into 11x1 with a 11 - 50 cassette so then with the 38T chainring it has the same gear ratio as my old bike and I might try then using the 32T chainring for winter driving for when there more need for torque rather than speed.

The “paintjob” you see on my old bike isn’t paint. I have an uncontrollable urge to make my posessions unique looking and with bikes that means a duct tape camo paintjob.

Nobody has claimed otherwise.

Consciousness, meditation, stoicism, zombie apocalypse, prepping, trolley problems, superintelligence, the alignment problem, AI apocalypse, Ukraine or Palestine conflict …

I consider anything over 500 watts to be getting into motorbike territory. I’m talking about a bicycle. All I need from the motor is enough assistance to offset the weight and rolling resistance of the big wheels - and then a little extra. I still like to pedal myself. My current bike has 5.05" tires, and 250W of pedal-assist is more than enough to take me anywhere I want to go. The limiting factor isn’t power - it’s range.

I’d want the absolute best two-wheeled monster truck.

– A rigid steel frame with custom geometry built to my specs
– An extra-long frame, something in the vein of the Surly Moonlander
– 24 x 6.2" Surly tires
– A mid-drive motor with an integrated gearbox
– Belt drive
– Power output slightly above the legal 250W limit to make up for the added weight
– At least a 1000Wh battery
– AWD system from Christini, with a switch to engage the front wheel
– Matte camo paintjob

Not just kids - I find myself talking more and more with LLM’s as well. Neither my friends, my partner or the people I hang around online are interested in talking about the stuff I’m interested in. Neither is ChatGPT but atleast it pretends to be.

You’re advocating for ditching due process and sentencing people to death not for what they’ve done, but for the group they happen to belong to. That’s not a sensible position to hold, in my opinion.

Being a commander of a mercenary group doesn’t count as proof of being a rapist by my books.

Sorry, but I don’t want to live in the world you’re advocating for, and luckily I don’t have to. We’ve granted war criminals due process in the past and we’re going to do it again. I’m proud to live in a country where we have sensible adults in charge.

Or maybe lets be better than Russia and grant people due process before labeling them rapists and murdering them.

I literally thought of this yesterday and now it’s a real thing.

I think it’s a false assumption that these people wouldn’t be paying anyway. That’s just a narrative spread as a fact. It’s undeniable that film/game studios are losing money due to piracy. Some number of the people who pirate would be paying for it if piracy wasn’t an option.

You’re free to say “I hate all AI-generated content” - but the issue isn’t what you believe you hate, it’s whether you can know that what you hate is in fact AI-generated.

You don’t need 100% detection accuracy to hate some AI content. But if you claim to hate all AI content, then the reliability of your detection absolutely matters. Because if even one piece slipped by - and you didn’t hate it - your statement is no longer true.

And considering how much AI-generated content is already out there - usually unlabeled and increasingly indistinguishable - it’s statistically highly unlikely that everything you’ve consumed and didn’t hate was human-made. You may feel confident about your preferences, but you’re arguing from certainty where none is possible. That’s not a logical stance - it’s ideological.

That would require you to be able to detect AI-generated content with 100% accuracy, which simply isn’t the case.

What you actually have is a prejudice - you dislike content when you suspect or find out it’s AI-generated. But there’s undoubtedly AI-generated content you’ve encountered without realizing, and likely didn’t mind. Just as there’s human-made content you dislike.

You don’t hate all AI-generated content. You hate the idea of AI-generated content. That reaction is ideological, not purely about quality.

You’re not really engaging with what I said. I’m not claiming everyone who listens enjoys it, just pointing out that some clearly do - and if enough people are voluntarily replaying it or adding it to playlists, then the “slop” label starts sounding more like prejudice than critique.

There’s always filler and mediocrity in any medium - human or AI. We just don’t call it “slop” when it’s made by a garage band or a beginner solo artist. That word feels like it’s doing extra work here - as if the low quality is inherent to all AI content independent of the end result. And that’s exactly the bias I’m pointing to.

You can say it’s “AI slop,” but if it passes for music some people want to listen to, then maybe it’s time to reevaluate what that label is even supposed to mean.

It’s not exactly “slop” if people are listening to it and presumably enjoying it. That just goes to show it’s not AI-generated content in general that people dislike - it’s bad AI-generated content. If the content is good, people are drawn to it regardless of who or what made it - as it should be.

It’s the toupee fallacy: “I’ve never seen a toupee that doesn’t look bad” …except for the ones that didn’t look bad, and you didn’t realize were toupees in the first place.

Ouch. That’s half of the value of my entire truck.

The current generation of "AI"s are trumped-up autocorrect

LLMs are AI. There’s a common misconception about what ‘AI’ actually means. Many people equate AI with the advanced, human-like intelligence depicted in sci-fi - like HAL 9000, JARVIS, Ava, Mother, Samantha, Skynet, and GERTY. These systems represent a type of AI called AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), designed to perform a wide range of tasks and demonstrate a form of general intelligence similar to humans.

However, AI itself doesn’t imply general intelligence. Even something as simple as a chess-playing robot qualifies as AI. Although it’s a narrow AI, excelling in just one task, it still fits within the AI category. So, AI is a very broad term that covers everything from highly specialized systems to the type of advanced, adaptable intelligence that we often imagine. Think of it like the term ‘plants,’ which includes everything from grass to towering redwoods - each different, but all fitting within the same category.

Well, what kind of bikes are the people you’re comparing yourself to riding? Because a cross-country hardtail - while versatile - is still fundamentally a mountain bike, and it’s never going to reach the same average speeds as a fixie or a gravel bike, for example.