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is that some kind of euphemism for spyware?

I'm always reminded of a study of empirical music tastes: the scientists wanted to to determine if there was some kind of intrinsic property to music that would naturally be reveal in the lab. So they created some generic music, split people into groups: one where people could see each other's choices and one where they couldnt; and they ran this several times with different people over and over.

The only thing that elevated music was when people could see others choices and select music just snowballed to popularity.

Most of reality is shaped like that. Once you see that Elon musk was just in the right asshole location, then you can release the shackles of the "meritocracy" that obscures just random chance and personality choices.

the problem is we refuse (americans) to let things that we need to be civilized to be in the public domained, "owned" by government and pushed into our "free" spaces.

Libraries are the last time americans agreed on basic principal that a public space with a public good is worth investing in everywhere.

Right, but your example presumes tpdays facebook market. Im presuming todays market where people are feeding all their ideas to a third party, much like how open source software is pilfered and turned into business ventures.

Now even if you want your idea to compete with all the other todo apps with your special sauce, youre giving a third party your recipe. That third party ostensibly has no reason to steal it, their business model does.

So, sure, if your app is a cult of personality and nothing special, i admit it doesnt matter.

But the number of software home runs is dwarfed by all other auccess on individual products

All roses until the MBA comes along.

yes, ok, but the point is: evolution has allow humans to continue to make stupid choices, and those stupid people still survive.

So atleast pare of our collection of genes has added value as with random decision factors rather than find some supergene that everyone benefits from.

the GP posits the problem with "recursive self improvement" is the poisoned context & hallucination problem. While a strong loop that has fail safes, backups, restore points (essentially, a fancy backup system), the problem isn't that we cannot create a healthy advanced wiggum loop; it's that every step of the LLM as it grows whatever knowledge is acretes, has a chance of being either poisoned (eg, it conflates two tokens as describe different things) or wholesales fabricates a method or procedure.

Now humans are just as bad, but they're not moving at the speed of compute so the posion and fabricates can dissolve over time, or just, as you've noticed turning on your news, get stuck in very stupid positions. So humans are clearly capable but clearly don't tend to do this either.

So then we dont have a real road map. The error rates, although small, acrete at exponential levels and will wash out improvements.

So I also had the idea that "if we just give it enough context, surely it'll be more powerful". But the error rates hit that squarely. The larger the context grows, the more likely it hasn't properly organized its knowledge to avoid overlapping facts.

In programming, it's worse, because a lot of the code is purposefully "DRY" and reuseable. Everye C program has a main(); is it remembering the correct main? or any of the number of same variables?

You can see an LLM is powerful but it's not ominipotent. It'll suffer very much when it starts hallucinations and context poisoning.

So, sure you can try a super ralph wiggum loop with memory, fallback safeties, etc, but you basically then need another turtle that does the same thing, and at that point, you're positing a infinite jest of ralph wiggum loops tracking each other, recursively, forever.

I mean, yeah, you can push things through the pipe faster, but if we want to continue to live in a sane world where _someone_ is responsible for what happens, then you arn't going to find that with AI coding bots.

anyone who looks at the growing fascism in American and across the world isn't worried about "AI"

such a weird self centered bullshit.

Another solution is to pray to the sun god for the wisdom of the universe.

someone go correlate whether this leads to a drop in bot/AI traffic.

The existential danger exists today: you're providing your entire business toolchain to models in the cloud, owned by businesses who are for profit entity. Even if the model itself doesn't care about your data, the business model does.

Everything your building is now streaming through a third party who could steal it, the same way Amazon steals open source software and repackages it.

All you need to do is look at palentir's forward deployed engineers. Once you let a third party observe your processed, you're cloneable and replaceable _as an entity_.

I think we can look at our own human psychology as it developed into social groups. If our brains were obviously deterministic, it would be easy for people to prey upon us via structured inputs. Some level of randomness in our thought process is almost evolutionarily required to avoid becoming part of the larger super structure, similar to an ant colony.

So these AI companies are definitely more dangerous than just the "AI is super intelligence". They're basically a intelligence platform everyone is wiring into.

That's today. Tomorrow, they'll be run by an MBA which is the enshittification.

hard pivot to ai confirmed.

is this Cloudflare signalling they're going to hard pivot to being an AI company?

if all your models are in the cloud, why would you trust anything your agent builds

this is the rag owned by amazon. definitely, when a billionaire owns something it has no choice but to be stupider.

old people don't mind being lumped together.

On published numbers or did the analysts get to look at the circular financing portion of the money flow.

welcome to the sigmoid...

Can you imagine discussing this rationally when you know it's being done be a kleptocratic government?

Man, people are so easily deceaved because it some how aligns with their favored prejudice.

It's an open secret that the US administration uses regulatory system for bribes and kickbacks, and no one should take them seriously regarding any rationale.

Qwen3.8-Flash-Next+strix halo+halogen server = TAM

Im convinced AI is local now. Halogen loads QFN in 30 GB at 4bits. Its token gen is slightly faster than readable. You can follow along and leave it alone based on its thinking traces.

It gets 256k context but using dynamic context pruning, i got it to loop between 64k and 128k to maximize its speed vs prefill.

Its real. If the memory cartel is busted, the moat is busted.

I think you're humanizing too much.

The <think> blocks are an attempt to explore the gradient descent space to escape local minimums and find a better global minimum to continue the descent.

While verbosity _might_ do this better, you could easily consider things like "but wait am I forgetting ...." as just one token. So if you actually do it right, you could replace all that with a "hold on" or something of a terse variety.

Technically,Godel showed you can make proofs say anything. all LEAN does is proof consistency. It does not validate the starting blocks.

I'm primarily using local models. I turn on thinking visible and try to review at speed what it's doing.

Other than that, no. I drag myself out to poke around occasionally because at times the local models get to far into context and refuse to do simple tasks.

AI is going to eradicate, for good, all trust in the Internet.

That's a benified "not a drawback".

there's a manifold to what "effective" means. The problem is once you get into the vibe flow, it's really difficult to eject yourself into the other realms of vscode or IDE or whatever it is you normal do because the vibing provides no anchor to what you're doing.

Even if these models are smart enough to reorient themselves, they get entirely stuck in a desert and now you're asking someone to just pull up stakes and digg them out even thought they only watched them get there and the UI provides so much speed that no human can comprehend how they got there in the first place.

It's like asking a pilot to take over in an emergency situation when they're not tasked with any of the every day requirements of the job. The orgs are relying on borrowed time of experienced professionals, and that's going to erode away and what replaces it is mostly people who understand how to navigate context but not use any of the _classic_ tools.

It's a real conundrum and won't be easily surfaced but for a decade.

...among the cultists.

I'd say what's important is seeing how the American administration is embracing this stuff.

Jev: The Decider

I haven't seen any frameworks for running the NPU. my 395+ needs a buddy.