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New comment by vitalyan8184 in "Our position on open-weights models"

vitalyan8184 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:09:21 +0000

>To everyone here pushing for total proliferation of ...

...general-purpose computers

...unbreakable encryption

...unbackdoored communication

...unkillswitched vehicles

...unsurveiled dwellings

>what should be done about ...?

nothing

>Do you seriously want this level of capabilities to be generally available with no guardrails?

yes

New comment by vitalyan8184 in "Qwen 3.8"

vitalyan8184 — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 15:15:24 +0000

nvidia and amd don't give a flying fuck about end users right now while they can milk triple digit markups from infinite money VCs via data center GPUs.

New comment by vitalyan8184 in "M 3.9 Experimental Explosion – 147 Km ENE of Ponce Inlet, Florida"

vitalyan8184 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 10:32:42 +0000

they have some consciousness, but again, not as much as a human. and again, most of humans lived in similarly abhorrent conditions throughout most of the history.

New comment by vitalyan8184 in "M 3.9 Experimental Explosion – 147 Km ENE of Ponce Inlet, Florida"

vitalyan8184 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 10:42:52 +0000

again, you're ascribing human level of consciousness to much simpler creatures driven primarily by instinct.

and you are aware that even humans, with our much longer lifespan and much higher cognition, can endure living in captivity for years just fine, right? hell, even outside of captivity, a double digit percentage of us doesn't have a single room of living space, and the only outside most of us see is covered with asphalt and concrete.

New comment by vitalyan8184 in "M 3.9 Experimental Explosion – 147 Km ENE of Ponce Inlet, Florida"

vitalyan8184 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 07:25:34 +0000

in civilized countries, industrially farmed animals live short, uneventful lives devoid of hunger and pain, injury and disease, heat and cold, then die instant, painless deaths. in the wild, the kind of animals we farm rarely get to die of old age - most end up being mauled and eaten alive by predators.

their lives are only bad if you assume they possess adult human level of conscience, which they obviously don't.

New comment by vitalyan8184 in "'We used acid to sabotage Microsoft hyperscale data centre construction'"

vitalyan8184 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:35:28 +0000

is it? from where I stand, hn seems to be one of the exceptionally few remaining places where the mods don't take sides so the obnoxious minority doesn't get to win arguments by silencing everyone else like they do everywhere else.

New comment by vitalyan8184 in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

vitalyan8184 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:37:54 +0000

oh, I've no doubt the US government and giga corporations can get zero data retention without ten pages of fine print. the rest of us can't.

New comment by vitalyan8184 in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

vitalyan8184 — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:19:30 +0000

with open weight models, you have three other options

A) use a provider that pinky-swears not to store your data. they obviously don't give a fuck about 'distillation attacks', so they have little motivation to voluntarily monitor and store your queries. reasonably high likelihood of privacy.

B) rent the hardware and run the model yourself. very high likelihood of privacy.

C) buy the hardware and run the model yourself. absolute certainty of privacy.