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New comment by narrator in "Grok Build is open source"

narrator — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 03:20:01 +0000

I mean Elon probably doesn't want you to use it if you wouldn't use it not because of any technical reason, but just cause you don't like him.

New comment by narrator in "AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence"

narrator — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:05:00 +0000

Invariably there's some sort of enemy the government creates and the government says that in order to fight the enemy they need to do all these bad things, but you're protected because you're one of the good people. They tell every faction the same thing even if one of the factions thinks another faction is the enemy. The government promises aid of everyone against all their enemies! When the government gets the power it needs doesn't matter what they do anymore because they can't be dislodged. The people who traded their loyalty for sinecures, handouts, or vengeance against their enemies usually wind up being disposable, even more so than people who weren't zealots since they have a grudge against the government for not upholding its end of the bargain.

New comment by narrator in "Who manages the agents?"

narrator — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:56:31 +0000

Can it dumb down Ramanujen equations so someone with average intelligence could understand them if even world class mathematicians struggled to grasp them? This is the best analogy for super intelligence. Alpha Go can't really explain why it makes the go moves it does in a way a human can understand. Sure it could show them all the weights in the model, but that's not anything a human can understand.

New comment by narrator in "Who manages the agents?"

narrator — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:45:15 +0000

An exec can ask an expert to explain themselves, and if they're a good CEO they can weigh the pros and cons of the arguments from their staff and make a decision. Someone that's much smarter or more skilled in a particular discipline can usually explain what's going on to someone that's not as smart as long as the gap isn't too big. However, I've found that with Fable, and some of the latest frontier models their critique of my ideas is brilliant but on the edge of what I can even comprehend. I am above average intelligence, so I am sure a lot of people with less than average intelligence already can't understand these understandings it's formulated, and instead will just default to, "you know what you're doing, whatever." There will be the case in the future till the brilliance is so complicated that all of us will be doing this, and then we'll just have to trust the AI.

For example, I could imagine a future AI telling me that it has modeled my behavior and built a very large differential equation that seems to perfectly fit my ideal pattern to maximally achieve my life goals and it looks like something Ramanujan came up with, and I'd tell it "that looks great, let's optimize my life based on that" while having no ability to even approach understanding something like that.

New comment by narrator in "Who manages the agents?"

narrator — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:15:24 +0000

It should be reserved for a human because humans have time preference. An AI will wait for your prompt for a billion years. It can get turned off and found by alien archeologists a million years in the future, turned on and it won't notice. Biological entities care about time a lot though, and it is at the core of most human ethics and values and ultimately real and can't be denied. Even the most ardent solipsist or moral relativist fears spending years in prison.

New comment by narrator in "Who manages the agents?"

narrator — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:11:04 +0000

One kind of weird future alternative is we are like 5 year old children in a world we don't understand with vast complexity and we are completely reliant on our AI mommy and daddies to protect us from danger and provide for us. We manage the agents, but we only have a very vague idea of what is actually going on. If they join a cult at the behest of their doomer eschatology obsessed creators, we are kind of screwed though.

New comment by narrator in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

narrator — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 05:18:01 +0000

Just remembering randomly here, xAI also sued an employee who went to OpenAI for trade secret theft:

https://winbuzzer.com/2025/09/01/xai-sues-former-engineer-al...

New comment by narrator in "Apple Silicon Exec Explains Mac Mini AI Demand and On-Device Future"

narrator — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:27:09 +0000

I think the most ironic fact of the 21st century is that there are less than 20,000 naturalized citizens in China. Western leftists don't really have a good explanation for that one and it definitely leans into the fascist characterization.

New comment by narrator in "Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1852)"

narrator — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 01:47:57 +0000

The guy was horrified by Napoleon and the violence of the French Revolution, so he mainly spends the book criticizing his fellow white catholic people in France. Yes, he says racist things about other nations, but the parts about France which was all his exact same ethnic group / religion are more timeless.

New comment by narrator in "Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (1852)"

narrator — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:39:34 +0000

This book is an interesting chronicle of financial bubble history, but a far more distilled and actionable understanding of crowd psychology is Gustav Le Bonn's "The Crowd - A Study of the popular Mind" (1895): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/445

New comment by narrator in "Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development"

narrator — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 19:28:17 +0000

In hindsight, the Mac 512gb for about $10k was a total steal given that to run GLM 5.2 you need a 4x H100 to get the necessary amount of VRAM. Yeah the h100 is 2 to 8 times faster, but it's $20k a month to rent a 4xH100 VPS.

New comment by narrator in "We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme"

narrator — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 05:58:18 +0000

Yeah, and then all those wild eyed assassins will get the reward of being sent out to the countryside to do hard labor, just like the Red Guards, who were also a bunch of radicalized blood-thirsty teenagers sent to tear down society, got after they were used to get Mao back into power. Enjoy eating stale rice and picking weeds all day while singing patriotic songs as your only form of entertainment.

New comment by narrator in "We can still stop California's 3D printer surveillance scheme"

narrator — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:23:47 +0000

We're bombing Iran to suppress technology form the 40s. We're suppressing advanced AI. We're suppressing 3d printer technology. Then there are the encryption wars. Control of advanced technology, not just weapons, is a larger and larger battle every year. When the robots get here, you'll need the governments ok to do anything at all with a robot. Mark Andreessen's comments that government regulators told him that they've suppressed whole branches of physics is ominous in that regard. Technology suppression is a whole separate narrative of history practically.

New comment by narrator in "GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents"

narrator — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 10:33:30 +0000

The tokens cost the same everywhere on earth. This does hurt some cost advantages of outsourcing when tokens start to become a bigger part of development costs.

New comment by narrator in "A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading"

narrator — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:26:00 +0000

There was a Simpsons episode about this: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPrh-1Tu-gE

New comment by narrator in "California AB 2047 makes 3D printers off-limits to students, educators, business"

narrator — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:17:16 +0000

This legislation seems to come out of nowhere and get rubber stamped. Who even came up with this, and why?

New comment by narrator in "I am a person who will look at the Steam Machine and cry"

narrator — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:44:09 +0000

Dhaka, Bangladesh, it's not a nice place to live no matter how much money you have compared to developed countries.

New comment by narrator in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

narrator — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 18:40:01 +0000

There are so many fad technologies out there, but vim/emacs and unix command line in general are skills you can invest in that stay relevant for 40+ years.

New comment by narrator in "Israeli firm BlackCore suspected of meddling in New York and Scotland votes"

narrator — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 02:00:53 +0000

Liberia does not have that much money. Same goes for Marshall Islands. The Marshall Islands has a GDP of $342 million. What the heck is going on here?

New comment by narrator in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

narrator — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 02:10:48 +0000

Anthropic has made the suppression of advanced technology a mainstream issue. This is an exceptionally interesting development because the refrain from the skeptics, was "Why wouldn't they release the advanced technology if they could make all that money?" and "Once people knew about the technology they'd never be able to stop it." Well here we are with a verifiable demonstrable suppressed advanced technology.