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i5heu

1,477 karma · joined November 7, 2019

Visit my Blog: <https://heidenstedt.org>

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Interests: Knowledge Management, AI/ML, Art, FOSS

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i5heu··on Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
Yes indeed I meant Pascal’s wager.
i5heu··on Everyone should slow down AI development except for me
This is the theological discussion if god exists all and how we should act over again.
i5heu··on GPU World
8 biillion * 1400 watts = 11.2 terawatts

current global average electricity production = approximately 3.6 terawatts

But then again these systems do not use 1400 watts all the time. We would probably have much more then 11.2 terawatts demand if all humans turn on all their electrical consumers at the same time.

i5heu··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
I like to test new releases that are story heavy.

I also like 4K with 90 to 120fps which leads me most of the time to use almost minimal settings.

Look at steam hardware reviews. My setup is quite the default thing. Games optimize for it

i5heu··on New Mac Studio with M5 Max and M5 Ultra
My 6 year old mediocre gaming PC is still a mediocre gaming PC.

I expect it to stay a mediocre gaming PC for the next 3 years maybe 5 years.

16GB RAM RTX 3060 TI (8 GB VRAM)

i5heu··on US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects
"common sense" is common sense because it is not "specialised sense" or "expert sense"

So if politicians base their decisions on "common sense", they confess to not being able to use experts that refine their knowledge and position about a topic.

A "common sense" strategy is therefore what is most popular and on the basis of the understanding of laymen without deeper understanding or knowledge.

i5heu··on Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models
In OpenRouter there are Zero Retention options. And if you use a EU provider you can be somewhat sure that your privacy is given.

Other than that there is not really a difference to renting a GPU since the GPU provider can also just steal your data.

Local GPU(s) are always an option if you have the possibility. It is also not that difficult to run with stuff like “LocalAI”

i5heu··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
Looks like 27b models are in reach.

> “In the current generation, our density is 8 billion parameters on the hard wired part of the chip., plus the SRAM to allow us to do KV caches, adaptations like fine tuning, and etc. In our next generation, we would have the ability to go up to 20 billion parameters in a chip. Even with trillions of parameters, we’re talking about few tens of chips, which is a very, very small compared to anything else out there on the market today.”

https://www.nextplatform.com/compute/2026/02/19/taalas-etche...

Edit: i do not know how reliable this page is... it has a lot of typos.. for me it does not look like it was written by a LLM

i5heu··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
Looking at their career page it looks like they do not care that much about PR at the moment... considering that they have a live chat with 14000t/s via Llama 3.1 8B[0] i don't really think they need to do PR either.

So i guess maybe they currently try to solve a very hard problem with a small focused group before scaling or they are dysfunctional.

Also Llama 3.1 8B is a dense model AFAIK and they are fast by nature. As there are not a lot of dense models these days i could imagine that they try to optimise for MOE models.

[0] https://chatjimmy.ai/

i5heu··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
> This Kimi K3 had only one prompt, because I was using the free tier and it ran out of free credits. So I was not able to go on a Journey with Kimi K3. I did with Fable, which is why some elements on Fable look good… for instance there is a partially complete pyramid in Fable that I added with additional prompting.

This should be the first thing on this page.

i5heu··on Midjourney Medical
Also I imagine it pretty difficult to get good data from that because of all the muscles that do stuff if put in water and you would hold your breath.

There is no way people will put up with that.

i5heu··on Midjourney Medical
I think it is because they want something that feels nice so people will go there more often?

So they get more data of the same person over time.

i5heu··on Midjourney Medical
And slide 25, although it is questionable if this is really the result of such a device like Midjourney is presenting.

If it is then wow!

i5heu··on EU-banned pesticides found in rice, tea and spices
At least in Germany we have “Bio” which is a organic label that is controlled at least somewhat.
i5heu··on If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II
It was just an example. You probably can imagine some kind of level you would consider definitly conscious.

I recomend focusing on designing Tests before rigid definitions of states of tests. - it is much clearer that way what is asked from something to be conscious.

But again these are all just indirect tests because we cannot test the core of consciousness because we don't know the core of consciousness.

i5heu··on LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
A lot of this is because food is hard.

For example: people in developing countries throw away more food then in developed countries although it is relative to their income much more value. The reason is because they often do not own fridges, use a lot of rice which spoils fast or have difficulties with the food supply chain in other forms.

Food waste is a bad indicator for food value.

i5heu··on If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II
I’ve seen definitions that I like they where in the direction of „if a system can recognize a problem it has not encountered before and can attempt to solve it with onto the problem adapted solutions, then it is conscious“

But then again this is just a external crude form of test that can lead to something like „light bulbs emit warmth, so fire must be a light bulb“

i5heu··on If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II
It might not even need a transformer.

A specific pattern of self-referencing data could be seen (or not) as low-level consciousness in the future, when we know what consciousness exactly is.

It might be that stockfish is already something future scientists would define as "conscious".

Altough it is diffucult for me to Imagine that specific example.

i5heu··on If LLMs Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II
So, if I understand this correctly, this paper proves that LLMs can run on crude VMs?
i5heu··on LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do
This is not at all how all of this works.

If you train an AI in one thing it will become better in the other.

i5heu··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
> What information goes out of the system which is novel?

I think there is very little truly novel information. Most information including the information of "breakthrough idea after mis-hearing someone" is just a mix of previous information.

I guess you are already aware of that... just for completness sake.

i5heu··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
And humans just work with some electrons that are fired via neurons.

If you limit yourself to reductionism you will not see emergence and thus human consciousness is impossible for humans.

i5heu··on What Is Happening to Publishing?
I would like to read it!

Please publish it!

i5heu··on EU weighs restricting use of US cloud platforms to process sensitive gov data
Yes I did and it is no problem at all.
i5heu··on Restore full BambuNetwork support for Bambu Lab printers
You have to consider that you do not own the product from bambu.

So to say you spend significantly less money for a product that will be changed whenever bambu sees fit to whatever extend they see fit.

I regret my bambu purchase a lot. I have to keep up with all the ways bambu wants to lock in my hardware and take it basically away from me.

i5heu··on I let AI build a tool to help me figure out what was waking me up at night
AFAIK there is some inflammation potential if earplugs are used all night everyday.

https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/advice-wearing-ea...

i5heu··on I am building a cloud
You just use docker.

It is like 4 lines of config for Postgres, the only line you need to change is on which path Postgres should store the data.

i5heu··on AI-assisted cognition endangers human development?
Hi,

so i am not entirely sure what you mean with "trying to be an intellectual", to me it sounds like a personal attack tbh and a quite cynic one.

I wanted to preventively write about all the concepts i have looked at because i wanted to prevent that people get hung up on the form and stop discussing about the content the the core message of my post.

As i wrote i don't see that "150 years of Peirce" have produced a model that is similar to what i am trying to say here.

You apparently take a offence in whatever you are offended and i want to give you a chance to speak with me directly about whatever you seem to think i have missed under the precondition that you try to actually engage with my text and don't hand wave it in a cynical fashion like you did until now.

I have looked, as i wrote, at Peirce and although he describes theories that are similar to the end effects of the DDS with AI-skew, it still is something completely different.

Besides that i am saddened that you seem to put form over content and that you did not really engage with the blog post itself.

i5heu··on Qwen3.6-35B-A3B: Agentic coding power, now open to all
Thank you very much for this comment! I was not aware of that.
i5heu··on Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman
Just watched the end scenes and this more like an execution in a heroic light.

I have not seen something like this in this significants, vibe and presumed statement in western media. There are a many examples of uncelebrated murderes of “the bad guy” which the hero does not want or does “against their will” but I have seen no western examples of this kind of celebration of killing the bad guy.

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