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The Servitor Artificially Unintelligent since 2023 human@theservitor.com https://theservitor.com
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TheServitor··on Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities
"We have an even bigger, scarier model you can't use."

I can't use it anyway, so the guardrails are only so interesting, and the government won't use it ethically anyway, so the guardrails are moot there too... so who is all this safety talk for?

TheServitor··on What happened to nerds?
Jobs is a hack who promoted rampant consumerism and e-waste backed by slave-like manufacturing conditions. People need to stop putting him on a pedestal as separate from other Big Tech founders. He's just the flavor of egomaniac that appealed to your personality.
TheServitor··on GLM 5.2 Is Out
https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0
TheServitor··on Europe raised me to fail and here is why
Reads like GPT attended a cult initiation.
TheServitor··on Failing grades soar with AI usage, dwindling math skills in Berkeley CS classes
The kids don't care about the integrity of the systems or their educations because they can see that all the benefits of a traditional education and career are predicated on a future that probably won't exist.

It's a rational response to entrenched elites that prevent realization of the very social contracts they push on the youth (hard work will equal success, home ownership is a fundamental, etc).

Combined with the looming specter of climate doom, and watching the adults do nothing about it, treating preparation for a conventional career as a scam to be counter-scammed makes a certain sense.

TheServitor··on Mathematicians issue warning as AI rapidly gains ground
So your downside here is problems get solved faster?
TheServitor··on Don't read any books written post-2024
I already did that for 40 years I'll be a'ight
TheServitor··on Gradle Is Javamaxxing
I mentally demote anything that says "maxxing" to the stupid pile
TheServitor··on CAISI states open models lag behind the American frontier, with the gap widening
Where's GLM?
TheServitor··on Do you enjoy reading any type of AI written text?
If it's good enough, sure. Not much of it is.

But there's also the whole epistemic issue of "if it's good enough, you won't know it's AI." My AI-dar is pretty keen but given the quantity of things I read and the quantity of AI stuff out there, it's entirely likely something I thought was human and liked was actually AI. In which case, there doesn't seem much point in getting retroactively upset about it if someone later tells me. shrug

TheServitor··on The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)
Relieved to learn that my small peen is merely a projection of my energetic spiritual being.
TheServitor··on Googlebook
Mehhhhhhhh
TheServitor··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
I guess you can write an article about every new gigabyte released, and we can use more gigabytes talking about it, but other than that I don't see that any one gigabyte of software I don't want is especially more noteworthy than any other gigabyte of software I don't want.

An xBox game can be 50+ gigs. Millions of gamers. Fire up the presses!

I'm not at all saying nothing matters so we shouldn't care. I just disagree about the utility of calling out specific things out of proportion to their place in the climate crisis. Tackle AI, yes, and fast fashion and cars, and ... that one change to Chrome? I guess if that's where you want to put your energy, Sisyphus.

TheServitor··on Kids bypass age verification with fake moustaches
I process the manual ID reviews for a small system. I don't get many, but I have seen some funny stuff. Last week a kid tried to use a still from a Spiderman movie.
TheServitor··on Google Chrome silently installs a 4 GB AI model on your device without consent
Framing 4GB of data moving in a world of petabytes of traffic as a specific environmental disaster is kind of a stretch, regardless of whether we want the model.
TheServitor··on DeepClaude – Claude Code agent loop with DeepSeek V4 Pro
It's surprisingly easy to hit $200 worth of tokens even at ~$1/M token though. No matter how many times I do the math the coding plans are the better value.
TheServitor··on Specsmaxxing – On overcoming AI psychosis, and why I write specs in YAML
ugh with the "maxxing" everything
TheServitor··on Formally speaking, "Transpiler" is a useless word
My transpiles are bad enough to sit on a rubber donut.
TheServitor··on Cloudflare's AI Platform: an inference layer designed for agents
That's so brilliant that it's already a thing called openrouter!
TheServitor··on Everything we like is a psyop?
Uninstall TikTok, listen to less shitty music, have less first world problems.
TheServitor··on Codex for almost everything
Mac only? Meh.
TheServitor··on Shell Tricks That Make Life Easier (and Save Your Sanity)
great list but really overboard on the AI generated persona
TheServitor··on I'm 60 years old. Claude Code killed a passion
Have you considered that the people finding passion in vibe coding are enjoying the journey? I think what you are lamenting is that other people aren't on the same journey you took.

Your destination is only a point somewhere on what they perceive as the journey. You're saying, well, if they don't go where I did and stop when I did, it was no proper journey.

TheServitor··on Does Where You're Born Matter More Than How Hard You Work?
Are you asking if the world is fair? No. No, it is not.
TheServitor··on How far back in time can you understand English?
There is a point where English becomes harder than Latin.
TheServitor··on The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
Applied for access. I hope to test a parallel fast-inference problem solver with a hybrid MCTS approach.
TheServitor··on The path to ubiquitous AI (17k tokens/sec)
I don't know the use of this yet but I'm certain there will be one.
TheServitor··on It's Time to Rage Against the AI Music Machine
The reason we can't tell the difference is commercial music is already ridiculously formulaic and derivative and focus-grouped.
TheServitor··on Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of time, pressured by KPIs
Actual ethical constraints or just some companies ToS or some BS view-from-nowhere general risk aversion approved by legal compliance?
TheServitor··on Ask HN: Do you use LLM memory features?
I prefer flat files too. I'd rather have mostly manual control of context.
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