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Once ASI exists we'll still have people arguing whether it's actually AGI or not.

Nor did their marketing:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35027437

Hi.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47411267

Not sure if you saw that since you replied to other comments after. It's easy to miss all the way at the bottom.

There's a few questions at the end, curious how you're holding up. Hopefully you're still able to charge your devices.

Realistically, pretty much anything.

Complaints about its complexity no longer hold much water these days what with AI as competent as it is.

Kerbel AGI program hits the nail on the head.

>That's not what's happening here ...

On the contrary, it very much is.

I'd argue AGI is already achieved via LLMs today, provided they've excellent external cognitive infrastructure supporting.

However, the gap from AGI to ASI is perhaps longer than anticipated such that we're not seeing a hard takeoff immediately after arriving at the first.

Just, you know—potential mass unemployment on a scale never seen before. When you frame it that way, whether LLMs qualify as AGI is largely semantics.

That said, I really hope you're right and I'm wrong.

Your GoFundMe is still at $0. Putting myself in your shoes, to say that's probably demoralizing is an understatement.

I noticed that donating requires a real surname that matches the card info provided, which is then available to the organizer. That might be giving people here cold feet since you're a new account; the anonymous donation option just removes the name from public visibility.

Beyond that, having spent the better part of my day yesterday vetting this, I'd say the other items are:

a) Lack of source code that essentially proves you've got it working.

In a nutshell: imagine if the OpenClaw author took your approach, under your circumstances. I highly doubt it would've went anywhere. The way it went however, he ended up joining OpenAI.

Point being: from that same position, he could've instead raised funds no problem. That's the position you could be in if you take the OSS route, and indeed most startups these days begin as open source since proprietary is losing favor rapidly.

That said, myself being a fan of monolithic Rust binaries that do crazy stuff and having authored several professionally to great effect, I know precisely what you're building and indeed some of your competitors in the agentic isolation space are getting large funding rounds right now.

The point there being: you're not wrong that it could work, it's just that from your current position this is by far the riskiest path. With velocity what it is right now, witholding source might not matter all that much; you already have a project architecture description up that makes it easy enough unfortunately.

Please understand I'm not trying to trivialize your work here; I read all of your kernel.org correspondence. Nor am I trying to pressure you in bad faith into something you're not comfortable with. What I'm saying that if you take the OSS route, while you might not necessarily end up a rock star, you open up a hell of a lot of doors you otherwise wouldn't because you have people actually using it and going "Hey, this is pretty cool."

That moves your moat from technical (withholding source) to a social one.

If your project is as good as you say, even if it's alpha quality, there's a chance your project ends up the de-facto agentic isolation choice that people reach for. In the midst of a gold rush, that's an enviable position that might even exceed the best outcome on your current [proprietary] course.

b) A perceived attitude issue. Let me explain: I understand where you're coming from there, and were I an angel I'd personally select for a level of belief that borders on irresponsible and crazy. Most people don't think like that, so: respect.

However, it can come across as you saying you're too good for drudgery, essentially. I get that, you want to use your potential to its fullest and not doing so feels maddening. I had to bite the bullet and get a job in a similar situation that fell just short of total financial ruin, but what made that palatable to my belief system at the time (which was eerily similar to your current one), is this: the job was an instrumental objective in ensuring startup success. It's the same thing.

Regarding dead-end jobs, those might be what you want. If you're accustomed to working 18 hours a day recently, working one for 8 hours to put a roof over your head that has a lot of [safe] downtime—where most people aimlessly scroll on their phone—sounds like it'd work out pretty well for you relative to your current situation.

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OK, now that I've had my turn at being insufferable and heaping on a bunch of unsolicited advice, some questions:

1. Has anyone reached out privately to help, or is the situation radio silence right now?

2. How is your food security? Shelter isn't doing great right now obviously, but I'm worried things might get truly dire.

3. Do you have any friends that can help? It doesn't sound like family is, given that awful situation you described. You mentioned autism, and having been a family man. I imagine your support network might not be all that great given you're here.

4. What's the status on your AI subs/compute? Putting myself in your shoes again, losing that capability would be terrifying in those circumstances.

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I'm sorry you're going through this, it's truly heartbreaking. While I don't have angel-level resources and am dealing with my own issues currently, I'll be doing everything in my power to ensure you don't fall through the cracks.

Cheers

That'd be like me assuming you don't have a soul. A rather callous assumption, really. Admittedly one with a better evidentiary foundation than your accusation.

I'm a big secure boot fan. The fact that it's becoming increasingly common for games to require it is the stupid part.

Said games tend to want that root of trust to be known OEM keys, not custom keys. At that point they're dictating the operating system and hardware you can use, and that's where that approach becomes garbage.

Hardware attestation should not be a requirement nor concern for games, period.

Hot take: It's also totally unnecessary. The entire arms race is stupid.

Proper anti-cheat needs to be 0% invasive to be effective; server-side analysis plus client-side with no special privileges.

The problem is laziness, lack of creativity and greed. Most publishers want to push games out the door as fast as possible, so they treat anti-cheat as a low-budget afterthought. That usually means reaching for generic solutions that are relatively easy to implement because they try to be as turn-key as possible.

This reductionist "Oh no! We have to lock down their access to video output and raw input! Therefore, no VMs or Linux for anyone!" is idiotic. Especially when it flies in the face of Valve's prevailing trend towards Linux as a proper gaming platform.

There's so many local-only, privacy-preserving anti-cheat approaches that can be done with both software and dirt cheap hardware peripherals. Of course, if anyone ever figures that out, publishers will probably twist it towards invasive harvesting of data.

I'd love to be playing Marathon right now, but Bungie just wholesale doesn't support Linux nor VMs. Cool. That's $40 they won't get from me, multiply by about 5-10x for my friends. Add in the negative reviews that are preventing the game's Steam rating from reaching Overwhelmingly Positive and the damage to sales is significant.

McDang II: You Have the Right to Remain Shadowbanned

Having anticipated this, I'm aiming for 1000x.

Thing is, there's plenty of jerks out there aiming for 10,000x and 100,000x.

It's almost like it's a race to the bottom or something.. Huh.

Well, the simplest automated method would be to run the post and comment together through an LLM with a prompt that's roughly:

"Is this person claiming to be the author or co-creator of the work discussed in this submission?"

Only green accounts subject to it. I predict you'd probably have a very low false positive and false negative rate.

It's of course a terribly slippery slope. My perhaps overly-cynical take is that once the infra is place some of your bosses would be prone to eventually abusing it.

Personally I'm here for it: Dang, moderator turned whistleblower—on the run from dark VC money—in a race against time to save freedom. Still working on a title for the film.

Never say never. Besides, there's still non-technical moats aplenty.

Personally I'm quite pleased with this inversion.

Counsel: "How do you explain the nanny cam footage of you planting a weapon?"

Robot: "I have encountered an exception and must power off. Shutting down."

Are you suggesting they're lacking on the ultra-high-end? That is: 5-10M+ in comp to sign a single researcher/IC; industry rock star territory.

Major frontier AI labs do tend to have that type of talent in abundance. I'm sure NV has the equivalent when it comes to hardware design. Surely in AI research too, but perhaps not in the same quantities.

I really don't think it's fair to characterize someone that way.

>>I've decided to raise the bar on performance management and move out low-performers faster. We typically manage out people who aren't meeting expectations over the course of a year, but now we're going to do more extensive performance-based cuts during this cycle. This is going to be an intense year.

Ah, never mind.

Apparently there's already a few projects with the latter name.

TIL this exists. Here's hoping we see some type of NixOS + Graphene mashup one day.

Can you elaborate?

>The system, for once, seems to be working.

Interesting worldview.

I'll take: List of places I never want to bond my soul with someone at for one thousand, please.

You raise a good point.