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New comment by utilize1808 in "Z.ai confirms Ox Alpha is a new GLM-series model and will release its weights"

utilize1808 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 11:23:31 +0000

It's logical to serve the best version (quant) of the model at the beginning so that users keep testing it. It is also reasonable to think that the developer of the model tried to test various quant levels by gradually degrading the model's capabilities.

New comment by utilize1808 in "Stop Making TUIs"

utilize1808 — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 22:43:56 +0000

> Why TF do we not have a display protocol that can do graphics natively over SSH in 2026?

Did you mean X server?

New comment by utilize1808 in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

utilize1808 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 22:46:33 +0000

> Also, in that case, there would likely be activations indicating that it is favoring a specific version.

> Maybe you can illustrate a realistic scenario in which that would be a problem, otherwise I don't really understand what your point is in this context.

I doubt it. Can you definitively prove that you can reliably detect the kind of threat I described when model weights are released? Can you be sure that your detector won't miss *any* such sleeper attacks? If not, then that's a threat that will be used to justify the ban of models (open or not) that is not sanctioned by the US government. A model being open doesn't make a difference here.

New comment by utilize1808 in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

utilize1808 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 19:32:07 +0000

The model is conditioned / pretrained to use a particular version of a library. The model doesn’t know why — it was just taught to use that version. To the model, it is just some insignificant detail in the grand scheme of things. It’s just like how a model would intuitively favour using English without explicit instructions — it’s not trying to sabotage other cultures, it’s just what it does.

New comment by utilize1808 in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

utilize1808 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 16:41:16 +0000

Except that the model doesn't hold any malicious intent when doing it. No "deception", no "sabotage".

New comment by utilize1808 in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

utilize1808 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:06:00 +0000

It will be used as ammunitions against non-US sanctioned models in general.

New comment by utilize1808 in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

utilize1808 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:21:47 +0000

They can just favour some specific versions of some library that's been compromised. Unlike introducing bugs / flaws directly in the source code, they can claim plausible deniability, and it's much easier to implement without compromising the general coding capabilities of the models.

New comment by utilize1808 in "Who's afraid of Chinese models?"

utilize1808 — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 10:17:38 +0000

e.g. be trained to favour including compromised dependences into your projects.

New comment by utilize1808 in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

utilize1808 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 11:50:36 +0000

Our dev arm (me included) do use Linux VDI. But most day-to-day business are done in Microsoft's ecosystem (Teams, SharePoint, Office, Copilot, etc). In the industry I am in, you would never be able to use any AI tools unless the trusted platforms offer them as part of their products (i.e. Microsoft's Copilot or Amazon's Bedrock) because InfoSec and Legal departments won't risk authorizing any other providers.

New comment by utilize1808 in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

utilize1808 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 14:39:58 +0000

Corporates aren't running Linux not because it's hard to switch. Corporates are sticking to MS because of compliance and admin costs.

New comment by utilize1808 in "How to stop Claude from saying load-bearing"

utilize1808 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:55:56 +0000

I just use a ban list in CLAUDE.md: fold, crux, invariant, gate. I find "load-bearing" can be load-bearing so it's exempted.

New comment by utilize1808 in "Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here"

utilize1808 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 20:52:29 +0000

Are you more deterministic than an instruction-following black-box? I doubt it. Also, such organization practice mostly becomes a mechanical routine after the initial experimentation phase. Good riddance, I'd say.

New comment by utilize1808 in "Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here"

utilize1808 — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 07:26:45 +0000

It means there is little point in providing a notes organiser when the notes can organise themselves (via LLM).

New comment by utilize1808 in "Logseq 2.0 Beta (DB version) is here"

utilize1808 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 19:02:56 +0000

The writing is on the wall for PKMSs the moment LLMs are powerful enough to drive agentic workflows.

New comment by utilize1808 in "Rayfish, Peer-to-peer mesh VPN with no server to trust"

utilize1808 — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 17:19:38 +0000

I think for this kind of system to work, there has to be SOME kind of public/shared server to do the coordination. If the inviting node is behind a firewall then no amount of information can enable a guest node to connect to it without a node reachable by both.

New comment by utilize1808 in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

utilize1808 — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 08:44:13 +0000

Because they have “superhero serum”. Of course it doesn’t matter to you if you don’t want to achieve greatness, but some do.

New comment by utilize1808 in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

utilize1808 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:23:17 +0000

Well. We will see about that. Wishful thinking can be cute.

New comment by utilize1808 in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

utilize1808 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:47:21 +0000

USA will experience unprecedented prosperity from influx of global talents and capital who seek to amplify their productivity and profits by 10x.

New comment by utilize1808 in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

utilize1808 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 22:36:05 +0000

Yes, that's what I meant. It's not that the Chinese will never be able to come up with models that superior --- it's simply that they will no longer have the incentive to open-source them once their models take the lead.

Training models are expensive. No one can do it for free for very long.

New comment by utilize1808 in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

utilize1808 — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 21:25:50 +0000

While that might be true, it is unlikely that open source models' capability will ever surpass frontier models --- if you have the best model (by some margin), then people will want to access it, even if it means going through compliance.