pull down to refresh
@optimism
466,932 sats stacked
stacking since: #879734longest cowboy streak: 99npub13wvyk...hhes6rk47y
48 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 24m \ on: How do you balance procrastination and productivity? AskSN
My day just started, it's "packed", but it matters with what, and i feel like I'm busy while procrastinating.
- My friend asked me last night if I could sit their dog for the day because they had an unexpected activity today. So in about 20 minutes from now I'm going to have some exercise for both their dog and I.
- After that I will write the AI weekly rollup from their place.
- By then I will have squandered 3 productive hours that should have been spent on writing docs.
- Come 4 hours of squandered productivity, it will be unavoidable to start writing docs, which I by then will really not like, but I'll do it. This is somewhat dumb because I actually like writing docs.
- I'll eat something at my desk and by the 7th hour in, it's exercise time again
- Hopefully I will have the discipline to continue writing after that.
Definition of "oneshotted": https://xcancel.com/_opencv_/status/1954313943222243434
YOU WOULD NOT SHARE YOUR CHATGPT CHATS WITH ANYONE ELSE IN YOUR LIFE IF THEY ASKED.
that's the only one where I would be like: would you please not share your chatgpt chats? I'm not your therapist and I have no interest in your bloated dialogs.
I feel like the CEOs of AI companies are rushing into rolling out something that makes all the decisions for end users. And it feels great for an average Joe, but is absolutely unsustainable for a builder.
Isn't that part of the mirage needed to get those fiat billions? The message underneath of "you'll never have to do unpleasant work again" is what's being sold. And that's kind of a mirage on its own, because we'll just find something else unpleasant that needs to be done. Like correcting a dumb af chatbot that keeps on generating the same mistake over and over. I'd much rather spend my time on helping a human that retains skills. Emulation of reasoning from a static base of linguistic weights is just another gadget, a hack. It doesn't enhance actual intelligence. A sneaky sales pitch to show progress towards a questionable goal through hacks.
So we're dealing with layer upon layer of questionable narratives that are ridden by a few companies. For chatbots in particular I expect to, in 10-15 years, be amazed that there will be people that still use them, like I am today by people that still use Facebook or whatsapp, or manage their photo's through Google.
I feel that this is our failure - we being people that understand (even if just partially or conceptually) how these systems work - to educate the world. We don't have a good framework to counter distractions like chatgpt, just like we didn't have that for fb. In fact, we don't even have a simple, proven strategy against shitcoins and other scams!
So there's much to learn, but even more wisdom from what we've learned to share with others. I'm hoping to find a way to scale that.
All these things are trained (aligned) to a certain response due to "safety". The only reason why alignment is safety is because it's emulation of intelligence, not real intelligence. So it makes sense that models that aren't trained with GPT as a judge of what is socially aligned (Claude, Mistral) respond differently.
You may like Venice's uncensored finetune of dolphin-mistral.
Ah! Agreed.
But I'm thinking like this: if I were a sneaky statist that needs to spend money, would I make that part of a visible budget? Or would I just
print baby print
off the books? If accounts like Legacy of Ashes have a grain of truth, probably the latter?Therefore we could as ourselves questions like: if China's military expense according to public data is #1 by a long shot, then what are they hiding?
Better in ~Politics_And_Law. lol
With this kind of data, I'm always super nervous to conclude anything, because it's all self-reported. On China, no one ever trusts the figures. In the US, DOGE finding those "magic money printing computers" but then running it through a shame campaign against DNC figures instead of letting a proper CPA make a nice list of all the dark money. So probably same difference?
We don't know.
Awesome post!
But humor me for a moment: imagine a world where logging into Netflix requires a blood oath and a polygraph test. "Sir, our AI detects you're lying about loving The Crown. Access denied!" It's absurd, yet we're inching closer every day. No wonder people are eyeing the exits.
This made me smile.
A friend was recently complaining about being asked to file UBO documentation with a colo provider for their rack that's sitting in the EU. Why do these guys care who the ultimate beneficial owner of these shell companies is? They're shell companies for a reason! But, apparently DPI needs not just a legal entity, but an actual person tagged to each packet.
Only things that you can verify / build yourself; which in practice means only those chips where you can get the HDL. There's a list but I am not sure how up-to-date and complete that is.
Although the back-and-forth is more political playacting than real, and I agree that CM384 isn't a silver bullet, nor does it sound like it's fully ready for massive scale yet, but there's still something that shouldn't be underestimated: scalability.
See https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12708. They're basically working around having a generation older capabilities with parallel processing, where each component is horizontally scalable:
This also makes sense when you take into account that China does not have stagnation in electricity generation.
Or, to quote Jensen Huang himself according to this SCMP article from June:
Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang appeared to agree with Ren’s assessment. “AI is a parallel problem, so if each one of the computers is not capable … just add more computers,” Huang said last week in an interview with US broadcaster CNBC on the sidelines of the VivaTech conference in Paris.
Hmm no. See #1071526
Previous model GPT-5 model GPT-4o gpt-5-main GPT-4o-mini gpt-5-main-mini OpenAI o3 gpt-5-thinking OpenAI o4-mini gpt-5-thinking-mini GPT-4.1-nano gpt-5-thinking-nano OpenAI o3 Pro gpt-5-thinking-pro
I think you'll want
-main
.But note:
We note regressions in performance forgpt-5-main
[for instruction hierarchy evals]. We will follow up with a fix to improve these behaviors.
So you may want to wait this out a bit.
Interesting.
I use a small non-reasoning local model for article summarization (
llama3.2:3b
), but wouldn't use that for translation. Maybe splitting it up even further helps?I understood the German BND was in the lead there at the moment and runs half the network, but regardless: if the protectionist curve continues upwards, things that defeat common sense / strategic thinking can happen in a blink. So it would be dumb, but I don't think it's impossible... that's a gut feeling though, so we'll see.
Exactly! I'm waiting for the day that the total Sybil infiltration of tor stops surveiling and starts censoring. To my memory we had a discussion that similar infiltration has happened on i2p - but can't seem to find it
<sad_face>
When I'm done with this investigation, I'd like to look into segregating a network or active de-peering to do friend-of-friend connectivity again rather than DNS seeded discovery, just in case.
The ultimate expression of Digital Westphalia is the Splinternet: the fragmentation of the global internet into national or regional networks governed by territorial sovereigns. What began as a unified global communication system is crystallizing into incompatible digital realms where access, content, and functionality depend on geography rather than technology.
I've been spending the last couple of hours planning a simple demo
cjdns
docker deployment (per discussion with @jbschirtzinger yesterday in #1074515), to demonstrate that you don't need to launch a token to have state-resistant networking.These arbitrary lines drawn on maps are at most an obstacle between you and I.