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New comment by StevenWaterman in "How abliterated models can get you pwned"

StevenWaterman — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:37:26 +0000

Yes. You get the model from HF? HF could've edited the weights.

You use an unsloth quant? Unsloth could've edited the weights.

You create a quant yourself? Your version of llama.cpp could've edited the weights.

And then yeah, as you say, the actual inference engine itself, the firmware, even the hardware.

Untrusted is untrusted, abliterated AI or otherwise.

New comment by StevenWaterman in "Tesla Roadster"

StevenWaterman — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:37:07 +0000

Submarine is trying to keep the pressure out, air tank keeps it in

New comment by StevenWaterman in "Sergey Brin says Google's AI models are reaching recursive self-improvement"

StevenWaterman — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 06:01:22 +0000

That's why it's news

New comment by StevenWaterman in "Flock CEO: If you want a crime-free society, be ready to give up your privacy"

StevenWaterman — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 07:58:07 +0000

Yep. The optimal amount of crime is nonzero

New comment by StevenWaterman in "Gemini 4 Argon for Robotics"

StevenWaterman — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 20:09:06 +0000

Kitchen appliances run Linux now. I think the economies of scale might win regardless

New comment by StevenWaterman in "Scam American companies are using to manipulate ingredient lists"

StevenWaterman — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 18:22:09 +0000

Well if becomes law, not doing it is even more untenable

New comment by StevenWaterman in "Reasons to Dislike AI Coding"

StevenWaterman — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 10:02:45 +0000

> Who's labor are you demanding there?

OpenAI's

> If somebody doesn't want to give you the food they've grown what are you going to do about it?

Well, die probably. That's why people are upset.

New comment by StevenWaterman in "Reasons to Dislike AI Coding"

StevenWaterman — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:54:32 +0000

There is a disappointing lack of revolutionary spirit, to value labour directly instead of for the things it provides us.

Demand food, shelter, leisure, purpose. Jobs are one (honestly pretty bad) implementation of that

What I Remember

StevenWaterman — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 09:52:40 +0000

Article URL: https://stevenwaterman.uk/what-i-remember/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49990479

Points: 1

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New comment by StevenWaterman in "RuneScape's Position on Gen AI"

StevenWaterman — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:08:53 +0000

It is, but the statement goes further than that and says they use no gen ai at all in making their games. Which feels unnecessary, unless they mean just in the art and writing, which feels misleading

New comment by StevenWaterman in "Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model"

StevenWaterman — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:44:07 +0000

Yes, you can use constrained decoding

What I Remember

StevenWaterman — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 14:57:18 +0000

Article URL: https://stevenwaterman.uk/what-i-remember/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49857205

Points: 3

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New comment by StevenWaterman in "Nearly half of young people trust AI over a human for fact-checking, report says"

StevenWaterman — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:36:02 +0000

Cool I stand corrected, I had asked an openai model (probably sol?) and got much worse answers, broadly:

- Listing the reasons why Hollywood claimed to want to law, like not giving premature ideas that a movie would flop, without pointing out how much Hollywood benefits from the information symmetry

- Saying yes the gratuities affect pay but not as straightforwardly as you would expect, quoting the "all gratuities go to staff" while ignoring the fact that can and does mean paying the labour bill the company would have to pay anyway

I would be happy with the answers you linked. Which I'm now realising demonstrates the point you actually made. I read "I use Claude" as context not as a conditional.

I didn't realise there was such a difference on this. We need a "willing to ignore official company information and point out paltering" benchmark.

New comment by StevenWaterman in "Nearly half of young people trust AI over a human for fact-checking, report says"

StevenWaterman — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 07:25:19 +0000

If there is a genuine conspiracy, it (edit: not Claude evidently) will take their claims at face value. A couple I've run into recently:

- why did Hollywood lobby for box office receipts to be added to the onion futures act

- do gratuities on cruise ships actually increase crew pay

In both cases it went to the official source and repeated their statements, without thinking about the fact it was blatant paltering. Only after I pointed that out did it go digging deeper and realise it was more complicated (and less favourable for Hollywood / cruise lines) than it had said

Which I'm assuming is a consequence of the post-4o anti-delusion anti-conspiracy training

New comment by StevenWaterman in "Heretic removes restrictions from language models"

StevenWaterman — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:20:02 +0000

You can stop it refusing but you can't make it tell you things that aren't in the training data

New comment by StevenWaterman in "Heretic removes restrictions from language models"

StevenWaterman — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 13:19:01 +0000

Yes, it submits lots of varied prompts that get refused, and then lots of varied prompts that don't get refused, then iteratively edits weights so those two groups end up in roughly the same latent space.

New comment by StevenWaterman in "Teen Social Media Bans Miss the Point"

StevenWaterman — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:22:56 +0000

While I think you're right that this is a real problem, there's also real costs to a partial solution. It encourages people to see it as a solved problem, disincentivising further reform and giving the impression you don't need to keep an eye on your kid's internet use because the state is handling it for you

What I Remember

StevenWaterman — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:08:26 +0000

Article URL: https://stevenwaterman.uk/what-i-remember/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49776053

Points: 2

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New comment by StevenWaterman in "Introducing System One Models and Jev"

StevenWaterman — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:23:48 +0000

Zero shot classifier indeed. Reminiscent of asking an llm a yes/no question, constraining the output to either yes or no, and looking at the logits directly

And each question is a separate single token model completion done in parallel

New comment by StevenWaterman in "Introducing System One Models and Jev"

StevenWaterman — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 07:21:56 +0000

Yeah saying it can't hallucinate is crazy. It can still forward a billing query to the dev department incorrectly. It can still get an obvious yes/no question completely wrong