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islandfox100··on I were 17, I'd learn how to build LLMs from scratch
it's just a fact of the market, it's not an attack on you.
islandfox100··on Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)
because my country isn't protecting my freedom, it's killing schoolgirls in a country we had a perfectly fine agreement with four years ago
islandfox100··on Leanstral 1.5: Proof abundance for all
A net loss on the order of dozens of thousands of dollars. And one whose primary purpose is not wealth creation.
islandfox100··on Political bias in AI: Where the AI models stand
Are you under the impression that personal ability and external government structure determine an individual's politics? Under your framing it's impossible for any fascist to exist in any liberal democracy.
islandfox100··on Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities
Then it should be simple for one of the frontier labs to produce a model trained only on private data. We haven't seen that.
islandfox100··on NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute
Seems to me OP's implication is that they were fired because someone wanted to hit a quota of (employees cut/payroll expenses reduced), or other similarly ''reasonless'' justifications.
islandfox100··on A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown
''Now, the total population of well-off countries in the world is about 1 billion, while China has more than 1.3 billion people. If we are all to become modernized, the well-off population must more than double. If we are to consume as much energy in production and daily lives as the present well-off people do, all the existing resources in the world would be far from enough for us! The old path seems to be a dead end. Where is the new road? It lies in scientific and technological innovation, and in the accelerated transition from factor-driven and investment-driven growth to innovation-driven growth.'' -Xi Jinping, Governance of China
islandfox100··on Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them
Substance aside, I feel this comment is combative enough to be considered unhelpful. Patronizing and talking down to others convinces no one and only serves as a temporary source of emotional catharsis and a less temporary source of reputational damage.
islandfox100··on The Rich and Powerful Want to Live Forever. What If They Could?
Reminiscent of Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson
islandfox100··on US cities are axing Flock Safety surveillance technology
The categorization of the problem isn't an excuse to propogate and intensify the problem. The tech should not be used until the problem is resolved.
islandfox100··on LinkedIn is searching your browser extensions
Where do browser extensions exist? I've got a dreadful feeling they might be on my computer.
islandfox100··on Nvidia NemoClaw
Rather, in what way is any generic closed claw, or NemoClaw, so much better than an open variant that it's worth using? I consider phoning home for inference about (all of the contents of my computer, email ,etc) a very large downside.
islandfox100··on Astral to Join OpenAI
Maybe I'm reading wrong here, but what's the implication of the clean room re-implementations? Someone else is cloning with a changed license, but if I'm still on the GPL licensed tool, how am I "not protected"?
islandfox100··on Nvidia NemoClaw
I'm still extremely skeptical on Claws as a genre, and especially more skeptical of a claw that's always reporting home. What's the use case for a closed claw?
islandfox100··on Ireland shuts last coal plant, becomes 15th coal-free country in Europe (2025)
Coal is a lot cheaper and easier than modern energy sources when your goal is modernizing rural areas. Meanwhile, urban centers are decommissioning old emissive power plants and shifting to renewables. It's a fine way to do green transition and rural development.
islandfox100··on Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or 2020 recessions
That's because it's a macroecon dip, and the effect of AI on hiring has been greatly pre-empted as excuse
islandfox100··on Global warming has accelerated significantly
Well if Gemini says fires have existed, that's enough proof!!!!
islandfox100··on Global warming has accelerated significantly
https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-chinas-co2-emissions-ha...

Chinese emissions have peaked and are now falling.

islandfox100··on Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model
I think this is a fundamentally adverserial mindset and so you should be prepared for others to treat you in kind (i.e. to attack you and minimize the value of your work)
islandfox100··on How I use Claude Code: Separation of planning and execution
It strikes me that if this technology were as useful and all-encompassing as it's marketed to be, we wouldn't need four articles like this every week
islandfox100··on Claude Sonnet 4.6
Regardless, the statement "the stock market has said SaaS is dead" is a fair and accurate response to your initial question "Who said SaaS is dead".
islandfox100··on AI has fixed my productivity
I'm curious if blocking non-company AI is even possible. It's very easy for me to imagine someone, say, turning the wi-fi off on their phone and using the claude phone app, or texting their openclaw.
islandfox100··on UK Discord users were part of a Peter Thiel-linked data collection experiment
I'd like to believe that Tencent has information gathering methods more sophisticated than asking me to send them a picture of my driver's license.
islandfox100··on TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperpalatable_food , One could argue about the plastic usage of the Coca-Cola company, etc