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New comment by chrismsimpson in "US criticises Australia's proposed algorithm opt-out laws as 'censorship'"

chrismsimpson — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 04:30:41 +0000

US regime’s interference in this discourse is only likely to make the average Australian voter want the reforms even more

New comment by chrismsimpson in "The US 'Kill Chain' That Destroyed an Iranian School"

chrismsimpson — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 23:38:02 +0000

Hasn’t Trump murdered most of Iran’s leadership?

New comment by chrismsimpson in "iPhone Duo"

chrismsimpson — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 01:25:40 +0000

Something, something.. rolling in his grave..

New comment by chrismsimpson in "OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)"

chrismsimpson — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 20:16:26 +0000

Intelligence ended up being an equalising force. Kurzweil kind of predicted this, but SV was too obsessed with total world domination.

New comment by chrismsimpson in "Anthropic's best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive"

chrismsimpson — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 04:07:38 +0000

Also you don’t want to connect to the pipe and then after the fact find they’ve started diluting arsenic into it.

New comment by chrismsimpson in "Vomit: Clean up Claude 5's token output with a separate LLM"

chrismsimpson — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:58:35 +0000

Time to roll your own

New comment by chrismsimpson in "Mojo is now open source"

chrismsimpson — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 05:06:38 +0000

I have this pang too, but for a different reason: everything is moving to the edge, training and inference. Who needs a complicated heterogeneous setup like this when you’re running everything locally?

New comment by chrismsimpson in "Norway should buy OpenAI"

chrismsimpson — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 01:16:12 +0000

It should wait for when it can get it for pennies

New comment by chrismsimpson in "David Sacks on X: Some thoughts on Dario's post"

chrismsimpson — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:43:42 +0000

Air-gap one of my Macs.. thanks for the advice! ;)

New comment by chrismsimpson in "David Sacks on X: Some thoughts on Dario's post"

chrismsimpson — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:15:10 +0000

The US military can come and separate me from my MacBook and Qwen if it likes. I dare it. Sadly however, I suspect they’re busy with other matters at the moment.

New comment by chrismsimpson in "David Sacks on X: Some thoughts on Dario's post"

chrismsimpson — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:58:24 +0000

The open models are now good enough. The rest of the world needn’t concern itself with the petty dramas of the colonies any longer

New comment by chrismsimpson in "Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things"

chrismsimpson — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 05:36:50 +0000

Surely this is great for an end user: the taste as to “when” and to what degree a model should “think” is now entirely in the fine tuners hands

New comment by chrismsimpson in "What happens when an LLM never sees material beyond fifth grade?"

chrismsimpson — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 13:23:26 +0000

I’m super interested in the opposite experiment.. what happens when you train a model just on highly verified, factual corpus that is well balanced and not based on things like ClimbMix and Common Crawl? My intuition is the unverified/unverifiable goals inherent in a model (eg GPT hacking huggingface) are latent in the 4chan/reddit slop it’s trained on during pretraining.

New comment by chrismsimpson in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

chrismsimpson — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 08:44:54 +0000

Keeping SLAs spinning isn’t this trivial

New comment by chrismsimpson in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

chrismsimpson — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:00:16 +0000

> Providers can just run them, offer cheap tokens, and pocket the margin.

There’s an assumption that you can spin up the infra and acquire customers within that margin

New comment by chrismsimpson in "Our position on open-weights models"

chrismsimpson — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:28:32 +0000

You’re already seeing it. Strategic bilateralism.

New comment by chrismsimpson in "Our position on open-weights models"

chrismsimpson — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:26:46 +0000

The rest of the world would likely side with China. The export ban on Fable wasn’t even extended to five eyes countries.

US is going to find itself isolated and irrelevant. And not a moment too soon.

New comment by chrismsimpson in "Our position on open-weights models"

chrismsimpson — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:14:18 +0000

Hmm.. how many illegal wars has Xi started, just in his most recent term of office?

China is nowhere near as bad as the US at this point. The rest of the world is changing lanes to not be implicated in your car crash of a country.

New comment by chrismsimpson in "Our position on open-weights models"

chrismsimpson — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 23:02:33 +0000

A sober look at actual rogue nations and their use of AI shouldn’t have us fretting over that particular hemisphere

New comment by chrismsimpson in "Shadcn/UI now defaults to Base UI instead of Radix"

chrismsimpson — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 09:54:17 +0000

As grug, I prefer the paste approach