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New comment by pyaamb in "Qwen3.8-Flash-Next"

pyaamb — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 22:05:52 +0000

The Pelican Brief

New comment by pyaamb in "AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint"

pyaamb — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:33:26 +0000

Also perhaps AI agents are now capable enough to run these apps the way the user would and recognize these dark patterns. Flag those and feed it back to a warning at the point of sale that users can upvote there to signal their disapproval and a threshold score that risks removal of the app from the store. Because bad behaviour continues to make business sense if the rules allow it. Moreover, it penalizes and puts pressure on the good actors as a "missed business opportunity".

New comment by pyaamb in "Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)"

pyaamb — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:11:14 +0000

I guess it falls on how the courts see it. I'm sure the app devs would love to take their money.

New comment by pyaamb in "Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)"

pyaamb — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:58:30 +0000

Does explicit licensing and the threat of a lawsuit related to violation of it not help here?

New comment by pyaamb in "AliExpress runs silent WebAudio fingerprinting that breaks Bluetooth multipoint"

pyaamb — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 12:48:06 +0000

Need to rethink the system that allows for (and encourages) this kind of plausible deniability. From "Oh we need this permission for [non essential feature] and you need to accept it if you want the app at all" -> to giving the user ultimate control over what happens on their personal device. Virtualize what the app can see and use fake data/identifiers/devices if necessary to get it to do what its supposed to. If the App isn't going to act in good faith why should the user? Fine grained permissions don't really work in practice because the app can keep annoying the user until they give in and hit Allow.

New comment by pyaamb in "Incident with Github.com"

pyaamb — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:49:46 +0000

Wow.

New comment by pyaamb in "DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813"

pyaamb — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 08:53:07 +0000

I prefer the Browser OS test

New comment by pyaamb in "Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models"

pyaamb — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 00:43:16 +0000

Between humans, I feel that what we like to call a "good communicator" as opposed to someone who just rattles off facts or prepared statements comes down to the "theory of mind" skill and how advanced that is. The presenter knows what they have to say but beyond that they maintain a real time internal representation of the state of mind of the listener and continuously update their delivery based on that. LLMs today seem to achieve this to some degree(?) but its interesting to think of how far you could advance that skill. I think great human communicators develop a sense of different ways that people think over time and quickly get a sense of someones signature thinking patterns when communicating with someone new for the first time

New comment by pyaamb in "Emergent Introspective Awareness in Large Language Models"

pyaamb — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 23:41:22 +0000

In thinking of directions where LLM's could develop from here, I cant help but think that a models ability to self introspect would immensely improve their utility. The R&D on how to achieve that is beyond me though. How do you train someone how to introspect? Also would it require a continuous learning architecture that doesn't separate training and inference?

New comment by pyaamb in "Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership"

pyaamb — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 01:06:58 +0000

A necessary tool to manufacture consent in the feudalist society we're speed running towards

New comment by pyaamb in "Waymo in Dallas"

pyaamb — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 21:19:43 +0000

Elon may have been technically correct about 'if humans can do it with vision only then theres no reason why vision-only cannot work' but turned out to be the wrong strategy for learning how to get there. lidar gives you a constant stream of data to check your vision yourself against and interatively learn. Once trained you turn it off. whereas teslas strategy ended up having to rely on human drivers for error feedback which made the learning loop way longer.

New comment by pyaamb in "Ollama: All Aboard Open Models"

pyaamb — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 16:50:20 +0000

Do you see any negativity towards llama.cpp? This isnt drama-seeking. The author makes very valid points.

New comment by pyaamb in "Qwen3.8 is launching and going open-weight soon"

pyaamb — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 09:25:04 +0000

Its about closing the gap. its the gap over everyone else that will give one country leverage over everyone else in the AI age. Makes me wonder what the world would look like if a country or group of countries did this during the industrial revolution.

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

pyaamb — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:37:20 +0000

That is seriously impressive. Can I ask the prompt you gave it?

New comment by pyaamb in "Data centers have hiked electricity prices on the public by $23B"

pyaamb — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:38:00 +0000

Data centers should at the very least build their own renewable energy generation. It would set the right incentives in place and encourage investment in clean energy generation solutions. It would also present a very compelling problem to direct all that new AI compute towards solving.

New comment by pyaamb in "A graph that should be front-page news"

pyaamb — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:20:12 +0000

the ignorance is a consequence of our societies system of incentives. everything keeps pointing back towards that each time theres an event like this. But if we aren't going to attach an economic price for emissions then it remains an externality and not a recognized reality to the economy. The current US administration is playing a leading role in keeping it that way. And voters keep voting for it. Incentives.

New comment by pyaamb in "GitHub is investigating unauthorized access to their internal repositories"

pyaamb — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:52:25 +0000

editor themes seem like a good candidate for something that someones trusted local LLM could generate for them

New comment by pyaamb in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

pyaamb — Mon, 18 May 2026 08:47:04 +0000

we are caught between an evolutionary need to know that our existence is meaningful and a universe that seems indifferent.

New comment by pyaamb in "Reimagining the mouse pointer for the AI era"

pyaamb — Tue, 12 May 2026 22:25:49 +0000

If its offline I love it. Otherwise I hate it.

New comment by pyaamb in "GrapheneOS fixes Android VPN leak Google refused to patch"

pyaamb — Sat, 09 May 2026 22:57:58 +0000

a VPN enabled wifi router would suffice as a fallback tho right?