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New comment by nisegami in "Fiber lasts decades, GPUs last three years: the AI boom isn't the dot-com boom [video]"

nisegami — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 11:56:13 +0000

There's this weird tension where small models are getting a lot better, but the gap between the frontier and "what I can run on my gaming GPU" at home isn't necessarily getting smaller. That said, Qwen-3.8-27B-Q3 runs on my 9700 XT and performs well enough for tool calling in agents, which is a critical floor in local model performance imo.

New comment by nisegami in "LLM Voice"

nisegami — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 17:49:38 +0000

Yes, I like the phrase "you can't expect someone to put the time and effort in to read/etc what you didn't put the time or effort in to write/etc".

New comment by nisegami in "Evidence of a spying operation by ICE against left-wing social movements"

nisegami — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:32:34 +0000

Alas, it will not. It will instead dramatically increase suffering in the world while leaving most humans alive.

New comment by nisegami in "ICE Is Running One of the Largest Anti-Left Surveillance Ops in US History"

nisegami — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:35:37 +0000

I think the history of the FBI suggests this will continue long after Trump himself leaves office, effectively becoming a state run gang.

New comment by nisegami in "Tailscale SSH: Investigation and remediation update"

nisegami — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:08:26 +0000

Adding complexity would imply you're doing both. In this case it would be more correct to say you're trading the complexity of key distribution and access control via keys for the complexity introduced by tailscale ssh.

New comment by nisegami in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

nisegami — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 15:40:22 +0000

Is there any reason not to take the buyout?

New comment by nisegami in "An Apology"

nisegami — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:33:19 +0000

>They could network their smart glasses and leverage their ubiquity to help people find lost pets — but strictly only lost pets, not people — but then Something Labs might ship a tool to make a person's face look pet-like enough to turn Find My Pet into Find My Ex.

This exists btw, from Ring: https://ring.com/ca/en/search-party

New comment by nisegami in "Muse Spark Open"

nisegami — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 19:02:59 +0000

At least Gemini is an okay model independent of how Google is leveraging for consumer experiences.

New comment by nisegami in "Muse Spark Open"

nisegami — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:09:50 +0000

>Google, Apple, and Microsoft are each in a stronger position to win consumer AI because they're guardians over the foundations of the user's experience.

From everything I've seen, they're all too large and dysfunctional to make a competent play in consumer AI. Anyone in there trying to work on it is too far removed from end product and is answering to too many masters.

New comment by nisegami in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

nisegami — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 11:36:05 +0000

>But what I wonder: can we legitimately grind on Physics or curing cancer?

If we can enable a feedback loop, yes absolutely. But feedback loops for things in the physical world like these are measured in months per cycle usually.

New comment by nisegami in "Singapore govt dating app uses Gale-Shapley stable marriage algorithm"

nisegami — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 14:16:29 +0000

There are really fringe perspectives out there that imagine capitalism as a living entity of which we individual humans are simply parts of the whole. Governments that represent the economy over the people are exactly what you'd expect if that were true.

New comment by nisegami in "Microsoft exec called AI scraping 'the largest theft of labor in human history'"

nisegami — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 12:55:31 +0000

>"Information wants to be free".

I agree wholeheartedly and in keeping with that, I call upon frontier AI labs to release both their weights and training sets.

New comment by nisegami in "Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA"

nisegami — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 14:28:38 +0000

You're right, but the scandal is so upsetting that I personally cannot ever look at Fujitsu the same way even. Also, I think you're neglecting that a large part of why it became so bad was that Fujitsu claimed there was no issue with their software. Even if it were built by a company they acquired, the response to the developing situation was something that the parent company should have stepped in to oversee.

New comment by nisegami in "Our framework for reporting model misalignment"

nisegami — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:38:20 +0000

Things are going to be alright.

New comment by nisegami in "Tech Fascism Has Come for American Democracy"

nisegami — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:46:16 +0000

The golden path I dream of has ASI replacing human-run governments

New comment by nisegami in "Diesel prices in U.S. top $6 a gallon for first time"

nisegami — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:40:19 +0000

Non-US based producers too, I can already see the difference in my country's economic position.

New comment by nisegami in "AirPods 5"

nisegami — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 13:11:20 +0000

Ditto. I loved my Airpods Pro 2 but it was really clear Apple did not want me as a customer of their headphones. In a practical sense, the recent open source work would have mitigated most (all if it supports software updates) of my issues, but I still won't be buying any more Apple audio products out of principle.

New comment by nisegami in "More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math"

nisegami — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 11:35:45 +0000

One question has been nagging me for this situation. Levent Alpoge works at Anthropic and would presumably have some knowledge of "how the sausage is made" and I would hope he would be aware that his collaborator was utilizing LLMs in some capacity for their joint work. Would he not have guided him otherwise if it were an open secret that this kind of thing was a possibility?

New comment by nisegami in "The UN challenges five centuries of cartography"

nisegami — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:50:58 +0000

Representing a 3D sphere-like surface on a 2d plane definitionally requires compromise.

New comment by nisegami in "I'm going back to coding by hand"

nisegami — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:59:56 +0000

>I build the base manually and then I can iterate with AI faster once the fundamentals are solid.

I've had tremendous success with this approach as well.