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New comment by make3 in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

make3 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 05:49:56 +0000

It's harder for them to argue you were actively destroying evidence; you could say that you had written the wipe pin there for a legitimate use case like both your wallet and your phone get stolen

New comment by make3 in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

make3 — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 05:44:40 +0000

creating a convincing and actually safe innocuous mode is probably harder than it sounds in practice

New comment by make3 in "Startup founders urge U.S. government not to shut off Chinese open weight AI"

make3 — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 06:44:16 +0000

Your argument about not successfully competing doesn't hold because distillation is essentially model stealing. The situation is like trying to compete on effort in school on an exam against someone who's copying your answers. Of course the person copying your answer will always have to study fewer hours.

I sympathize with the argument saying that they ripped the whole Internet and books first though of course.

New comment by make3 in "Cruller: Bun's Zig Runtime, Continued on Zig 0.16"

make3 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 09:49:19 +0000

The Zirgs they call them (I'm kidding)

New comment by make3 in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

make3 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 21:45:44 +0000

Not arguing for the morality of it, but if we're going by the law because that's what you're using in your comment ("don't I own" which only matters wrt the law), then you explicitly accepted a Terms of Use which excludes distillation as a use case.

Now of course they themselves trained on the whole Internet for free, etc.

New comment by make3 in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

make3 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 20:47:31 +0000

no argument from me here

New comment by make3 in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

make3 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:20:20 +0000

There's no real way to compete with someone who gets the output of your own work for almost free in comparison.

I sympathize with the argument saying that they ripped the whole Internet and books first though

New comment by make3 in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

make3 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:15:56 +0000

You can also get it to think in the output tokens pretty easily, eg "Here's a math problem, I want your reasoning first, then the answer" which is what I assume they're doing.

New comment by make3 in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

make3 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:11:10 +0000

It's about the claim of whether these companies could develop a similarly powerful model without larger companies building their own first, which is an important point, and it's likely not the case.

It's also about the larger companies explaining why they can't be as efficient, of course they can't, they're not just ripping the outputs of another model that someone else invested billions to train.

New comment by make3 in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

make3 — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 17:09:10 +0000

Distillation requires training

New comment by make3 in "How we measured AI writing across arXiv, and where the measurement breaks"

make3 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 18:27:08 +0000

The most concerning is the use of these tools to detect cheaters in schools.

New comment by make3 in "EU Exempts Apple Watch and AirPods from Battery Removal Requirements"

make3 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:34:45 +0000

are the other devices waterproof

New comment by make3 in "SpaceX stock erases all its gains and slides below IPO price in intraday trading"

make3 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:39:12 +0000

Not if it's going to keep dropping, which I think is fair to assume as people wake up to the fundamentals after the hype is done (not financial advice)

New comment by make3 in "Decoy Font"

make3 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:42:39 +0000

wow that's kind of crazy impressive that it can do that honestly, VLMs have gone so far, can't imagine the crazy amount of annotations they had to create to get to that level

New comment by make3 in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

make3 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:39:51 +0000

Second group essentially is how you have to think of it

New comment by make3 in "Codex Micro"

make3 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 07:49:09 +0000

They need to sell like 300+ per single Nvidia B100 GPU lol I'm not sure they'll quite fund themselves with this

New comment by make3 in "Codex starts encrypting sub-agent prompts"

make3 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 04:39:57 +0000

no, last stage is removing you completely from the equation

New comment by make3 in "Vancouver PD website features Quick Escape button that wipes itself from history"

make3 — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 05:40:15 +0000

I'm sure 99% don't? Unless your abuser is a CS major

New comment by make3 in "New York City to ban deceptive subscription practices"

make3 — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:01:00 +0000

I don't expect that Mamdani will cave in to real estate lobbyists lol. What you're describing is exactly why Establishment Democrats are losing to Mamdani and his ilk (DSA)

New comment by make3 in "FAANG Simulator"

make3 — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:34:20 +0000

Yes, I really don't think that such a high fraction of people get purchased for fucking 15M after one year lol