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rsstackon Gemini 4 Argon

If there's a company that culturally doesn't understand alignment, on a human or systemic or AI-research level, it's going to be Google. (or Oracle, but they're not in this race)

rsstackon AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC

It’s also not happening. They’re saying that because they need to somehow explain how there’s synergy between their space side and their Grok side. It doesn’t work, but that doesn’t matter to investors as long as they don’t actually do it.

rsstackon Moonshot serves Claude instead of Kimi and collects exchanges for model training

I didn't realize Anthropic is a person and doing all of this for his/her/their personal use that is never shared with anyone else, and even more never for financial gain. What a fun hobby. /s

It might still be allowed for other reasons, but "personal use" isn't what they claim in court.

I am not allowed to read a book many times until I memorize it, and later record an audiobook of one of its chapters for money.

rsstackon Moonshot serves Claude instead of Kimi and collects exchanges for model training

Which part from the cropped text do you think changes anything?

rsstackon Moonshot serves Claude instead of Kimi and collects exchanges for model training

> they seem to be buying physical copies and scanning. Seems legit, that's what a human would do to learn from a book

There’s still the open question on learn vs copy/mimic/repeat.

As a human, I can read a book I bought. I’m definitely not allowed to scan it and post its pages online and upload them to an archive of scanned PDFs without the authors’ and publishers’ permission.

IIRC the Meta legal case wasn’t even about LLMs, they just torrented and shared pirated files, whether with strangers or among employees. Those may or may not have been later used for training, but it was already illegal to just share among employees.

rsstackon Muse – Meta’s personal AI agent

I've heard in my home country Geppetto for ChatGPT. I'm not sure if it's still a popular term there.

rsstackon Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices

Many humans write EST in the summer.

rsstackon A new ceiling for Λ: the de Bruijn–Newman constant

It's not wrong, is it? I didn't want to trust myself, Wikipedia agrees that the Riemann hypothesis is equivalent to Λ = 0 (because the lower bound is now 0). This proof lowers the upper bound, but we still don't know if it's 0 or between 0 and that upper bound (inclusive).

rsstackon OpenLogi

> Consider English might not be the author's first language

https://openlogi.org/zh

The Chinese version of the website through Google Translate shows the same LLMisms, so while I don't know which version was authored first but neither was human-authored regardless of language proficiency.

rsstackon The End of an Era

You're definitely in a certain environment of readers. There are populations living on this Earth reading AI-generated books that are available on Amazon, an AI-generated TV shows. I am not recommending you try to engage and consume that content, just saying that it exists and there are people that either don't notice or don't mind.

rsstackon Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting

In this article, it's just an AI-generated TL;DR, tagline, sub-title box that was badly prompt-engineered and the website owners didn't care about its quality. I am pretty sure the entire website is an AI generated news aggregator.

rsstackon Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting

> Explain Like I'm 5

> Buzz is an open-source, self-hosted workspace that combines team chat, AI agents and Git hosting using signed Nostr events, so teams can keep control of their data.

Very different expectations of 5-year-olds.

rsstackon Female US rower completes historic solo journey from California to Hawaii

Her rowboat is fascinating: https://yourowkelsey.com/ https://yourowkelsey.com/about/

rsstackon GPT-5.6, Grok 4.5, Claude, and Muse Spark build the same 4 apps

2/5 isn't quality, it's consistency as written there. The full links are at the bottom. Most of Spark's attempts are failures:

https://d1md4c6gq9re9p.cloudfront.net/blog/gpt-5.6-buildoff/...

rsstackon Muse Spark 1.1

They were leading the race in a niche category a few years ago. Now they are, according to some benchmarks, even on the right playing field.

rsstackon Small Penis Rule

Not everything is post-scarcity, mostly food and clothes. Land, fuel, weapons, art, fame, and labor are still limited resources in the Star Trek world. Also, not everywhere is post-scarcity, as we see many "poor" or restricted societies. The post-scarcity bit is mostly about a social safety net for individuals in the Federation.

rsstackon Small Penis Rule

I tried to Google his joke, but couldn't find it quickly enough. It might have been part of a longer special.

rsstackon Small Penis Rule

> Armin Shimerman addressed the issue when asked at a question-and-answer session at a Star Trek convention. He stated that:

> In America, people ask "Do the Ferengi represent Jews?" In England, they ask "Do the Ferengi represent the Irish?" In Australia, they ask if the Ferengi represent the Chinese ... The Ferengi represent the outcast ... it's the person who lives among us that we don't fully understand.[30]

rsstackon Small Penis Rule

A Jewish comedian made a joke about how jews (only in the US*) were offended that Ferengi in Star Trek were based on them - "why would we assume these ugly greedy people are _us_?"

*Outside the US, it looks like the Ferengi are mocking American capitalist culture.

rsstackon Dynamic Workflows in Claude Code

Will you document how to (AI-)author and share reusable workflows between team members, to ensure some consistency of quality?

Maybe blasphemy, but will workflows be able to use non-Anthropic LLMs (e.g., delegating some steps to local models, but design and review by Claude)?

rsstackon Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers

Thank you! That's basically what I was asking.

rsstackon Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers

All my corporate AML training says that not performing some KYC for large payments, directly or through a bank, is a crime in its own even if the recipient isn't sanctioned.

From Claude, maybe it's a little nuanced compared to conservative corporate policies, but doesn't feel very legal: "You can be charged with money laundering (18 USC 1956/1957 in the US, equivalents elsewhere) if you knowingly — or with willful blindness — process proceeds of crime. "I didn't ask" is not a defense if the circumstances were suspicious; deliberately avoiding KYC to preserve deniability is exactly what willful blindness doctrine targets. The recipient doesn't need to be formally sanctioned; the funds just need to be tainted."

rsstackon Instructure pays ransom to Canvas hackers

How is it not a violation of AML laws to pay a ransom like this? Surely they didn't verify that the recipient (a criminal) isn't sanctioned or associated with sanctioned organizations.

rsstackon AI Product Graveyard

It's counting acquisitions as "death". Not a useful list as is.

rsstackon Philly courts will ban all smart eyeglasses starting next week

Philadelphia cheese brand is from New York. Presumably, the German market licenses the brand but produces locally in Europe and doesn't import from the US (New York and Wisconsin).

rsstackon Using TypeScript to obtain one of the rarest license plates

In New York it's the same, they make the license plates and also school furniture, and maybe other things too. I was scared for a moment when I was told by USPS Informed Delivery that I have incoming mail from Auburn Correctional Facility - but it was a license plate.

rsstackon Building optimistic UI in Rails (and learn custom elements)

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/custom-elements.html#...

> This is used for namespacing and to ensure forward compatibility (since no elements will be added to HTML, SVG, or MathML with hyphen-containing local names going forward).

So things that work today without a dash might break in the future if <badge>, for example, becomes a standard HTML element.

rsstackon OpenAI and Nvidia announce partnership to deploy 10GW of Nvidia systems

Customer A pays you $100 for goods that cost you $10. You invest $100-$10=$90 in customer B so that they'll pay you $90 for goods that cost you $9. Your reported revenue is now $100+$90=$190, but the only money that entered the system is the original $100.

rsstackon Taco Bell rethinks AI drive-through after man orders 18,000 waters

In the early stages of that pilot, the backup person was off-site in a call center so the higher the AI failure rate was the more expensive the program was. If they realized it's better to have the backup person be the order-taker, that's pretty good.

rsstackon The many JavaScript runtimes of the last decade

1. Check your AI's output before you share it with the world, so you don't waste everyone else's time.

2. The Bun project has two domains with identical content that don't redirect to each other: bun.com and bun.sh