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New comment by wyager in "The Road to the WASM Component Model 1.0"

wyager — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:50:27 +0000

Very exited about WASM/WCM as a portable format for capability-secure applications.

I had a spec file sitting around for an OS project idea I had, where the kernel would just be the WASM compiler + a few small shim drivers, and everything else (including e.g. PCIe device drivers) would be WASM modules with WIT interface specs. I handed the spec off to Fable and it seems to have made a working proof-of-concept. Has a maximally-WASM OS running on browser/QEMU/Orange Pi. https://eo9.org

New comment by wyager in "The Road to the WASM Component Model 1.0"

wyager — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 05:44:02 +0000

I'm curious if people have a good story for why WASI will succeed where Java failed

New comment by wyager in "Claude Fable 5"

wyager — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:58:14 +0000

The entire US lunar effort cost only $330B in current USD, commensurate with the amount AI companies have raised on private markets alone, and there was also a cold war

New comment by wyager in "Claude Fable 5"

wyager — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:54:19 +0000

> Solstice (100k NVIDIA chips, currently spec'd to be Vera Rubins) in the next five years

Is this supposed to be impressive? Five years for the equivalent of, what, Colossus 1? What a joke

New comment by wyager in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

wyager — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:36:49 +0000

EU countries continuing to ensure the conditions for their future economic competitivity

New comment by wyager in "Claude Fable 5"

wyager — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:21:31 +0000

> i wish govt would fund these labs and make it free and opensource.

It would be impossible for the govt to allocate this much capital towards such a moonshot, and even if they could, they would do it in a way that would get 90% frittered away to fraud and waste

New comment by wyager in "Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC"

wyager — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:19:37 +0000

That would be a valid explanation if they hadn't totally oversold and underdelivered on "apple intelligence". In reality, this explanation is just cope

New comment by wyager in "Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC"

wyager — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:38:03 +0000

Apple has completely dropped the ball on every single detail of AI rollout for the last 5 years - why do you think they will suddenly stop now? My prior is that the new siri stuff is just as vaporware as the previous "apple intelligence" rollout

New comment by wyager in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

wyager — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:14:59 +0000

Isn't the entire point of this order to prevent filling low-paying jobs with cheap foreign labor, in order to increase demand for domestic labor? "Rural district schoolteacher" sounds like exactly the kind of job where the H1B program has very low public support

New comment by wyager in "Apple Core AI Framework"

wyager — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:10:32 +0000

> By the end of next year you’ll be running most of your AI on device.

I expect I'll probably keep paying for whatever badass high IQ model is running on inference servers at that point

New comment by wyager in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

wyager — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:10:15 +0000

> If you believe it is dangerous, you should be dedicating yourself to STOPPING others from making it

I don't think anyone has been more successful in promulgating AI safety

There are groups like MIRI who tried what you're sugesting, where they make no AI and just push for AI regs, and they have been relatively much less successful

New comment by wyager in "Different attitudes towards AI in California's university system"

wyager — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 01:35:28 +0000

> It is not illegal, at this point in time, for teachers to oppose AI for political reasons.

No, but that would make it a "political coalition thing", which is why I asked

New comment by wyager in "Different attitudes towards AI in California's university system"

wyager — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 00:07:45 +0000

Yes the a priori most likely reason for the TU to be "against AI" is political. If you know much about TUs this is pretty obvious

New comment by wyager in "Different attitudes towards AI in California's university system"

wyager — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:32:50 +0000

> Yeah, I work at a CSU and the Teacher's union is against AI.

Is this a political coalition thing or is there a real teacher-related reason they don't like it?

New comment by wyager in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

wyager — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 04:16:44 +0000

> Where's the trillions, or hundreds of billions worth in improved quality of life?

Starlink and Claude are both awesome and huge QoL improvements for me!

New comment by wyager in "Should you normalize RGB values by 255 or 256?"

wyager — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 23:42:55 +0000

You don't need to make this judgement; it's fixed by the colorspace you're working in.

First, figure out what colorspace the processing needs to happen in. Usually this is linear RGB.

Then, figure out what OETF and EOTF your input/output format use. This will be something like PQ or HLG. This will exactly specify the meaning of each integer value.

This fixes the choice of representation and conversion.

New comment by wyager in "I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit"

wyager — Thu, 28 May 2026 00:43:05 +0000

> there will be hardware capable of running frontier models

The current frontier? Sure. The frontier then? No - obviously that frontier is going to keep consuming available datacenter compute capacity, which will be better

New comment by wyager in "The Eternal Sloptember"

wyager — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:34:34 +0000

This description falls apart for two reasons

1. It only accurately describes pre-training 2. It ignores the existence of generalization

Next token prediction is just a training task, not "what the model does internally" in any meaningful sense

New comment by wyager in "The Eternal Sloptember"

wyager — Mon, 25 May 2026 04:37:01 +0000

> They are a highly sophisticated statistical model designed to mimic the distribution of programming

Are we really still doing this?

New comment by wyager in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

wyager — Mon, 25 May 2026 04:23:13 +0000

You're already writing Rust in a very different style if you're writing the type of code that gracefully handles allocation failure. It's to Rust's immense credit that this type of coding is actually fairly well-supported (unlike in Go), but you're already a bit off the beaten path for stuff like error handling.