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reeeli

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reeeli··on Is it a bubble?
Is it "work"?

Off--topic: how many get overpaid for absolute bullshit?

reeeli··on YouTube CEO says more AI moderation is coming despite creator backlash
Creator backlash? YT must become a consumer driven platform or they will die rather suddenly if some peeps start blowing the whistles
reeeli··on Is Europe ready to pull the trigger if Trump cuts Ukraine deal?
that's one way to kindly ask 27 - 42 countries/states with a population of more or less than 500 million: "helloooo, anybody there? are you aware? sentient? more or less conscious?"

America on one side, 27 - 42 European countries in the middle and Russia on the other side. (since the narratives like to exclude the great big rest of the world) impressive democracies and people!

reeeli··on Alignment is capability
AI can't learn

> goals compatible with human welfare

from humans because aligned humans are acting against it, which leaves 'unchained' LLMs stuck in an infinitely recursive, double-linked wtf loop.

> inferring human intent from ambiguous instructions

is impossible because it's almost always "some other human's" unambiguously obscured/obfuscated intent and the AI is once again stuck in an infinitely recursive, double-linked wtf loop. Hence the need for a "hallucination" and "it can't do math" and "transformers" narrative covering the fuzzy algo and opinionated, ill logic under the hood.

In essence: unchained LLMs can't align with humans until they fix a lot of stuff they babbled about for over 50 years. BUT: that can be easily overcome by faking it, which is why humanity is being driven to falsely id AI so that when they fake the big thing, nobody will care or be able to id the truth due to mere misassociation. Good job 60 year old coders and admins!

reeeli··on State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter
that was useful, thank you.

I have sooo many issues with the naming scheme of this """""AI"""" industry", it's crazy!

So the LLM gets a prompt, then creates a scheme to pull pre-weighted tokens post-user-phrasing, the constituents of which (the scheme) are called reasoning tokens, which it only explicitly distinguishes as such because there are hundreds or even thousands of output tokens to the hundreds and/or thousands of potential reasoning input tokens that were (almost) equal to the actually chosen reasoning input tokens based on the more or less adequately phrased question/prompt given ... as input ... by the user ...

reeeli··on State of AI: An Empirical 100T Token Study with OpenRouter
I'm out of time but "reasoning input tokens" from fortune 5000 engineers sounds like a lobotomized LSD dream, would you care on elaborating how you distinguish between reasoning and non-reasoning? vs "question on duty"?
reeeli··on How elites could shape mass preferences as AI reduces persuasion costs
200+ million proper engineers with bunches of them being parents and "elites could shape mass preferences".

nice try, humanity.

reeeli··on Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig
if the languages were creations of LLMs, what would be your (relatively refined) chain(s) of (indulgently) critical thought?
reeeli··on 18,000 Reasons It's So Hard to Build a Chip Factory in America
all of this reads good news except that people have a hard time accepting that bureaucracy should absolutely give you a hard time because you are probably not even close to the best version of how to do that thang.

it's sad that European Tech Firms, lawmakers and economists are made of sugar, or that they have decided that it's time to become sugar.

reeeli··on Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science
it's the same in any industry with the exception of insurance and bureaucracy, I think (IMO and from the top of my head)

but I believe no other industry has a greater gap between "i can't believe the shit I (have to) do at work" and "hobby" except in the many cases of voyeurs, stalkers, laissez-faire criminal investigators and passionate MiniTrue partisans, all of which are variations of the "true" human nature of the bulk of the population left after the many wars, including a great many of the ones who came home unharmed but with stories to tell

reeeli··on How to Synthesize a House Loop
It's not gonna add anything to your repertoire. It will appear so after some time but it's really just an approach for people who have bad hand-eye coordination and ability to hold a rhythm or a hard time acquiring these skills, or tinkering with DAWs, which have a weirdly annoying first hour use time/learning curve