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New comment by drkleiner in "Person of Interest"

drkleiner — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 12:40:42 +0000

Two main characters essentially combine into Batman. Maybe Finch is a bit of Alfred as well

New comment by drkleiner in "A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost"

drkleiner — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 19:46:35 +0000

RX 7900 XT (20GB VRAM) with a custom ninfer engine I built through long Claude Code sessions

New comment by drkleiner in "A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost"

drkleiner — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 21:07:17 +0000

Custom MCP with a variety of functions, I have different Qwen profiles with a variety of subagent numbers and cache pools, my default is 192k pool with 64k initial context that can grow 32k at a time up to 128k, allowing 3x64k, 2x96k or 1x128k and 1x64k subagents. Qwen uses Pi harness. Model I use specifically is ukisai/Swift-1.5-Qwen3.8-27B-GSQ-RCO-GGUF

New comment by drkleiner in "A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost"

drkleiner — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 20:30:59 +0000

I do the opposite of this, use Qwen3.8-27B as subagents, Opus 5.5 as orchestrator and planner, never implementer, and it cuts my token usage significantly. So it is using Claude to direct Qwen. Never thought of the other way around, will give this a try soon as possible.

New comment by drkleiner in "AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power"

drkleiner — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 12:25:21 +0000

> Consciousness is a physical phenomenon

This can mean one of 50 different physicalist frameworks. And only 55% of philosophers of mind accept or lean towards physicalism

https://survey2020.philpeople.org/survey/results/4874?aos=16

> rainbows, their ends, and pots of gold at them are not

It's an analogy. Someone sees a rainbow and assumes there might be a pot of gold at the end of it, so they think if there were more rainbows, there would be more likelihood of pot of gold (or more pots of gold).

Someone sees computing, assuming consciousness is at the end of it, so they think fi there were more computing, there would be more likelihood of consciousness.

But just like the pot of gold, that might be a false assumption. After all, even under physicalism, there is a variety of ideas, some of which would say more computing will not yield consciousness.

Personally, I think even if computing as we know can't yield consciousness, that would just result in changing "computing as we know" and end up with attempts to make computers with wetware, literal neurons (which I think is already an attempt)

New comment by drkleiner in "xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure"

drkleiner — Tue, 20 May 2025 19:33:56 +0000

But implementation was too messy for someone with expertise to do it on CEO's request

New comment by drkleiner in "xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure"

drkleiner — Tue, 20 May 2025 07:56:41 +0000

Hit the salute twice

New comment by drkleiner in "xAI's Grok 3 comes to Microsoft Azure"

drkleiner — Tue, 20 May 2025 07:52:30 +0000

It's hard to believe it is Elon either, I don't think he would know how unless they made a special interface for him

New comment by drkleiner in "Beeper acquired by Automattic"

drkleiner — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 05:50:49 +0000

That doesn't sound much considering they employ like 2k people, that's $100k per worker and considering they're tech workers that would just cover their pay

New comment by drkleiner in "Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness"

drkleiner — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 05:14:55 +0000

Internet used to be a village, with nice cozy places and communities but also shady weird individuals and houses you're not supposed to enter

Now it is a shopping mall, sanitized, organized, brands and ads plastered all around, not really for socializing and community but more for products and marketing, you can still find a bookstore or a cafe but in the end, shopping mall is there to make you shop

New comment by drkleiner in "Beeper acquired by Automattic"

drkleiner — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:16:47 +0000

> Our teams and products will merge

From the article, not a rumor.

New comment by drkleiner in "Beeper acquired by Automattic"

drkleiner — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:13:42 +0000

Then Beeper would just be replaced by bigger fish (or open source fish)

New comment by drkleiner in "Beeper acquired by Automattic"

drkleiner — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 16:10:56 +0000

They will likely dismantle Texts and focus on Beeper as it received more investment while taking the good of Texts. They will probably introduce Texts monetization model to Beeper though.

One app for Apple and another for Android kinda defeats the purpose of "all in one platform", wouldn't it?

New comment by drkleiner in "Beeper acquired by Automattic"

drkleiner — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 15:38:01 +0000

Good for both products, Beeper and Texts, but seems like there will be layoffs coming

New comment by drkleiner in "The illusion of AI’s existential risk"

drkleiner — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 05:48:58 +0000

Solid book, Metzinger is really underrated

New comment by drkleiner in "AI does not exist but it will ruin everything anyway [video]"

drkleiner — Thu, 20 Jul 2023 04:14:35 +0000

Wrong approaches and little to no focus on bigger picture will either lead to destructive consequences or oversight on destructive consequences