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conmod278on How GLM built its own inference infrastructure

Future AI systems will eke out every last blood drop of performance from any kind of hardware. Not even a single bit flip will go to waste.

conmod278on For AI leaders Doom is a form of hype

As Von Neumann said about Oppenheimer's performative angst over the atomic bomb:

"Some people profess guilt to claim credit for the sin."

conmod278on Aligned to whom?

Perhaps if someone wrote linear algebra books in Harry Potter fanfic style, Yud would have mathematical contribution for alignment research

conmod278on Aligned to whom?

I think we should start training models to guess intentions. That's the whole game. e.g. If I dislike a particular short form video, what are the specific intentions I am conveying to the recommender system, (general category I don't like, the time at which it was shown, the combination of feed in which it came), these are all intentions I am trying to convey. In websites google analytics helps with clickstream tracking (or clickstream analysis, user journey mapping or behavioral tracking.) — the sequence of clicks and pages you move through is your clickstream, and analyzing it to infer intent. The same thing will need to happen in chatbots. Can a chatbot infer the specific instance of the problem I want to solve?

conmod278on Aligned to whom?

Eliezer Yudkowsky – AI Alignment: Why It's Hard, and Where to Start

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUjc1WuyPT8

Eliezer talked about these ideas way before everyone else.

conmod278on Nvidia is the central bank of AI

I think at the top level between Govt and Industry and understanding has been reached that AI industry will be backstopped

conmod278on Nvidia is the central bank of AI

But the fraction to be kept in reserve has been zero for 4-5 years.

conmod278on Fuck it, make it anyway

With AI story telling, lot of people can tell their stories. Democratization of story telling. Earlier we just used words, now people can make others imagine the words with AI art. Honestly I want the best story to win. Anybody can be a storyteller.

conmod278on Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video]

Alan Watts says, "Mind finds itself in a strange position. It (ie universe) is in me (modelling wise). I am in it (physically)." But the model only has access to its modelling of both it and itself.

conmod278on Douglas Hofstadter: Analogy as the Core of Cognition [video]

If self reference is universal then building something on top of ingredients from the universe will include that property. Sort of like root node properties can be found in the leaf nodes.

conmod278on Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra

Why would I adapt myself to unseen environments unnecessarily?

conmod278on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

Here's my GUT. The multiple branches of the Multiverse (MWI) are in competition to become the best branch. So they steal probabilities from each other since the probabilities have to sum upto 1. This competition could be considered as Painful.

conmod278on Shopify is moving from React Native back to Swift and Kotlin

Can React Native become a sort of Compiler which compiles to natives (Android/Apple) now that AI can help in that direction as well? I don't know much about mobile ecosystem though.

conmod278on DeepSeek v4.1 Flash

words like "is" "the" etc are filler words anyway. they won't be changing the meaning that much. I asked AI whether it hurts to read ill formed sentence as it does to a human. It replied, "it doesn't"

conmod278on Benchmarking Qwen3.8 27B quantizations: 4-bit holds up, 1-bit collapses

Computer science has known the tradeoffs between memory and compute since ages ago. The same could be reflected here.

conmod278on Netherlands pulls gold out of the US

A person can be partially wrong; partially right. Focus on what kind of arguments they put forth and decide for yourself. If you watch the video, they give plenty of historical precedents for the things they describe.

conmod278on The revolt of the reader

https://schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com/2022/07/results-comput...

Schwitzgebel, Strasser, and Crosby fine-tuned GPT-3 on Dennett's corpus and asked whether readers could pick Dennett's real answers to ten philosophical questions from four machine-generated alternatives, with no cherry-picking beyond mechanical length filters. Even Dennett experts averaged only 5.1 out of 10 (well below the 80% the authors predicted), blog readers got 4.8, and lay participants barely beat chance — though experts did rate Dennett's answers as more Dennett-like overall. Schwitzgebel stresses this isn't a Turing test (one-shot text is far easier to fake than extended interaction), but argues it foreshadows a future where machine outputs are humanlike enough that their moral status becomes genuinely uncertain, motivating his "Design Policy of the Excluded Middle": build machines that clearly lack moral status or clearly have it, not ambiguous ones in between.

My own take is : don't focus on the symbols on paper. focus on the facts about the world it is talking about. Isn't objectivity all about the facts? In future AI will have all the memory about what I have already read and it will just furnish the delta new information in the blog/writing so that I don't spend time on refreshing what I already know.

conmod278on Netherlands pulls gold out of the US for fears of 'geopolitical unrest'

That 40T$s will never be repaid. So what kind of monetary reset are we looking at? nonlinear as Luke says or gradual as Lyn says in the following video

"We're Past The Point Of No Return" | Luke Gromen and Lyn Alden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoAuuJyBg6E

conmod278on Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos

People think all AI is bad. AI in the hands of expert can create wonders. Take a look below.

Oneiric | AI Sci-Fi Short Film | Higgsfield Originals (2026)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAg9iDh9_BQ

AI is replacing me by kold

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGoFUxCmBdA

conmod278on Tim Cook Sold Out Steve Jobs

Generally people who have fu money don't want their fu money to be reduced by a fu amount. There is your answer.

conmod278on Ask HN: What would happen if your company stopped using all AI tomorrow?

In support, we chuck in the logs and get detailed analysis of possible problems and causes. AI based support request handling has been literally Godsend.

conmod278on Bhartrhari's Paradox

The Beauty of Bézier Curves

https://youtu.be/aVwxzDHniEw?si=tPPRId1y5L7U2_5L

Name_I = a*lambda + b (1-lambda)

lamda is a real number.

conmod278on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

Hyperscalers later will move to their own chips. Nvidia would follow Apple strategy of selling the hardware. Nvidia would like to have near frontier open-weights model and sell the hardware, otherwise that market will be ceded to Apple hardware of M6 Ultra and future versions.

conmod278on Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra

Nvidia is definitely working on a AI Rack machine fully built for on-prem uses for companies.

conmod278on One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed

There is a similar theory heavily contested in Indian History that the Vedic period never existed.

conmod278on What Is a Harness?

https://www.latent.space/p/attention-interface

Labs are now post-training models with Harness so that Harness now gets absorbed into the weights.

conmod278on Thinking in Python

why are these low effort and devoid of any content posts being upvoted?

conmod278on Simulacra and Simulation

I think most of these issues are symptoms of the fact that "People are forced to take decisions in limited time, based on limited information and possible misinformation". It has nothing to do with the fact that general public are dumb or ignorant. How do you expect me to make informed decisions about the world if I am forced to work a day job and raise a family while taking out time for personal entertainment and recharging. To remove the constraints, one must imagine an alternative universe where a person can stop time, read and reason as much as he wants. In such a universe, these theories would fall apart.

conmod278on The Mojo language (by Modular, now Qualcomm) is now open-source

E.g. GRRM avoids reading fan theories so that he doesn't change his writings to actively thwart them.

conmod278on The Amazon tax

> Amazon's only core product that they care about now is their stock price.

wrt to article insight, Benedicts Evans has been mentioning Ads being the major profit driver at Amazon in his newsletter since 2-3 years ago.