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The tech is at the point where synthetic data is almost high enough quality to train further models on, AND there are so many human users of cloud AI, that their usage can be gathered and trained upon (it's human generated and used in real world situations, so, it is of a good enough quality). The cat is fully out of the bag.
Huge, generational mistake for the USA to be leaning so hard into fossil fuels right now and actively trying to prevent buildout of solar and wind power. That decision is just going to hurt more and more in the coming years as China's electricity costs continue to plummet while the US' continues to depend on unsustainable fossil fuel infrastructure.
Gibson's books are awesome but oh my god do NOT read his social media posts
They've already been investigated by security agencies in Germany
We really need digitally verifiable chains of custody for things like this. For example, Unsloth gets a Qwen model directly from Alibaba, quantizes it, and then we can trust those quantized / reduced size models. Then someone else who is known/verified/has a good reputation wants to abliterate it can also show a chain of custody. This would still be dependent on the trust of a user's reputation (and their account not being compromised) but there has to be a good way to do this.
Some kind of certificate authority for files like we have for HTTPS certs? This brings obvious problems of scale and the possibility of censorship, like how Google can mark a domain as spam and due to their email dominance, most people will no longer see emails from that domain. 2600 Magazine ran in to this problem.
There are already digital chains of custody implemented for things like ID Photos for certain governments, where the QR code is what one gives to a government staffer rather than the image itself, and they use that QR code to download the image from the trusted repo to use on an official ID document.
Unfortunately the darker reason is that the authorities / ruling class know that they don't need the public to accept these things. Americans will allow basically any abuse.
Now I'm not saying the Americans should look to France for inspiration, ...
Edward Snowden said that some NSA workers had used their huge surveillance systems to peep on their partners and ex's. One cannot give a bunch of people access to a vast surveillance network without abuse ensuing.
It is wild to think that enabling HTTPS used to be difficult and expensive before Let's Encrypt came along in the wake of the Snowden revelations.
Were you contractor or "FTE"?
If you ask Qwen3.8 to give you a list of things it would refuse to help you do, it will list a number of things related to building/creating/training/altering LLMs. This didn't make much sense to me until I read that the #1 thing these frontier companies are optimizing their models for is training/creating/editing newer AI models. That makes a lot of sense to me now, and that's also something which they will want to keep 100% under wraps.
Therefore the #1 focus of their research and efforts and expenditure will be something that they don't want any of us to get access to. I think many other behaviors like model nerfing follow from that. It helps explain these frontier research products which we ourselves cannot get access to.
Because learning is fun, useful and addictive all on its own?
The US-American mind cannot comprehend "free time" nor working hard on something just for the love of it and the joy of collaborating with other like minded people.
There's a reason that so many open source builders and contributors are unemployed people in social-welfare European states. There's a reason that nearly every great work in the English canon was written by someone who was on the dole at the time, from Nietzsche to Harry Potter.
"Taking into account the nature of human beings" you mean humans' innate desire to help others, to share, to make friends, to spend time working together on shared projects / pursuing shared goals?
Or did you mean "human nature" (I'm using huge air quotes there) as you have experienced it in late 20th century / early 21st century United States?
Now this is real code-as-poetry, poetry-as-code. Already I have the Tamarian cadence stuck in my head, it's beautiful.
With arms wide and eyes open. Fists unclenched, we stand together at the ocean.
Their examples of their font made me fall in love with an alternative, IBM Plex, that they showed. IBM Plex shows more of their example assembly code than any of the other three, and quite clearly.
I am probably not the only one who feels embarassed when I copy-paste a large error output to an LLM and it points out to me that the error message very clearly said what I needed to do already.
What were those specific problems they faced? I haven't paid any attention the market for cloud-based AI services by all these non-frontier companies, but I know it's a big market
His statement isn't even true for FAANG jobs inside the united states. Those FAANG companies often have nearly 50% contract workers who do the exact same work as the FTEs (Full Time Employees) while receiving maybe 1/3 the pay and benefits and also generally being treated like garbage, to the point that mistreating them socially is often codified into company rules.
This distinction between blue collar and white collar is mostly a symptom of the united states' attempts to erase all concept of class and propagandize american workers into thinking they are all one, giant "middle class", including those who make $30k and those who make $300k.
Blue collar vs. White collar is mostly a useless distinction since both are working class and have shared interests against the owning class, or to put it another way, those who (have to) work for a living vs. those who merely own for a living.
Also:
"Blue-collar workers, in general, have successfully ridden the waves of technological change. If you can manage a crew of manual carpenters, you can also manage a warehouse full of woodworking robots. It’s usually the white-collar workers who bear the most economic disruption from major technological innovations."
WHAT! This author has apparently never visited a rust belt city nor ever worked in manufacturing anywhere in north america. Absolutely insane statement to make.
That happens often also with anime junk / anime avatar on otherwise good content
Tf;dr (Too Furry; Didn't Read)
"But a human cannot point to a piece of the outer world and say, "See that stuff right there? That stuff is Failure."
Counterpoint, I would point at the mouth of a shark or a slippery cliff and say, "That is failure"
And a completely insomniac time to be in defense.
What is your point with this, are you saying it isn't a problem? It sounds like it ruined your life almost!
I would love to have that To Do list interface in Pi. Pi is great and my daily driver but it only has such nice pop-up TUI for the sub-agent management. I use it on a monitor which is tipped 90°, so I have a lot of room for TUI stuff, and a live To Do list would be awesome to glance at.
Edit: I am referring to the To Do list shown in the TUI in this screenshot from the repo: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Niko1221/Strata/refs/heads...
Every model I just tried in here gave me very nonsensical hallucinations, or immediately fell into a loop. Not the best examples of what Petite GPTs (as one is called) can do, I hope.
Our societies should have expanded their healthcare capacity afterwards and maintained it to a high standard, but unfortunately it sounds like the political classes continue to treat healthcare as a cost centre that they can starve or pull money from for other projects.
Hands you a copy of Volume 1 of Karl Marx's "Capital"If only someone had written an explanation of this effect 170 years ago...
