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ryoshu··on Is A.I. Above the Law?
That's the right level of cynical.
ryoshu··on Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI
tl;dr - it's content creation rather than process and understanding
ryoshu··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
That decision was expanding rights, not removing them.
ryoshu··on Is it all just vapourware?
Yes. Feels like the better you are at your craft the better the tools work.
ryoshu··on Taste Is All That's Left
I like judgement. Taste is a subset.
ryoshu··on AI fuels more than half of cybercrime in Africa as scams surge – Interpol
In the old days porn peddlers were the pioneers of digital.
ryoshu··on GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices
"my phone died yesterday, a friend just gave me his old pixel" - please don't do this. That's lying to law enforcement and they can prosecute. Just say it's your travel phone.
ryoshu··on GrapheneOS protections against data extraction from locked devices
If the government could easily get the remote backup they would have already done it.
ryoshu··on ARC-AGI Leaderboard
iirc, a harness isn't allowed, but if the LLM wants to write its own tools to solve things that is allowed.
ryoshu··on Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence
Are you testing a model or a harness? People conflate the two.
ryoshu··on A way to exclude sensitive files issue still open for OpenAI Codex
Can't you do that with regular Unix permissions?
ryoshu··on Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware
Age eleven and had access to a chemistry set that a relative gifted. It had sulfur, but the saltpeter, and charcoal came from elsewhere. The 1960s encyclopedia had the instructions.

Let the kids play.

ryoshu··on Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails
No. Excel is a general purpose tool that can be used for calculating tasks that are good, neutral, or evil things. It's a fancy calculator.
ryoshu··on Teenage Engineering: Introducing APC-2
Looks good for light-duty uses. Scared for my fingers for anything heavy.
ryoshu··on Google will pay SpaceX $920M per month for compute
Trillionaire
ryoshu··on Big tech's anti-labor playbook has come for Wikipedia
If Ghengis Khan was raping & pillaging in 2026 his Wikipedia article might have a more modern slant.
ryoshu··on Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence
They become hyperstition engines.
ryoshu··on The gay jailbreak technique (2025)
When we do these it's a fine-tuned classifier, generally a BERT class model. Works quite well when you sanitize input and output with low latency/cost.
ryoshu··on HERMES.md in commit messages causes requests to route to extra usage billing
Even if you spend a crazy amount of money with them for advertising they will try to gaslight you if they make a mistake.
ryoshu··on Making AI chatbots friendly leads to mistakes and support of conspiracy theories
Finnish if you want to go hard mode.
ryoshu··on Decisions that eroded trust in Azure – by a former Azure Core engineer
I’ve worked with their consultants and they were lovely. They hate Azure too.
ryoshu··on Midnight train from GA: A view of America from the tracks as airports struggle
Sat across from Dr. Ruth on the Acela going from NYC to DC for business. She was lovely and sharp as ever.
ryoshu··on A pig's brain has been frozen with its cellular activity locked in place
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room#Brain_replacement...
ryoshu··on AI coding is gambling
Like video gaming, but similar.
ryoshu··on Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story
I have a theory that prediction markets will becomes hyperstition engines. This is a rather... violent example.
ryoshu··on Shall I implement it? No
Do not enforce invariants with an LLM. Do not enforce invariants with an LLM. Do not enforce invariants with an LLM. Do not enforce invariants with an LLM.
ryoshu··on My spicy take on vibe coding for PMs
Entire product or a feature for a product? Sometimes you just want to test an idea and vibe coding works well for that in the very short amount of time it takes now. Product market fit, user testing, engineering, those can come after the hunch.
ryoshu··on Don't become an engineering manager
Wait until you meet a VP in finance.
ryoshu··on Why Developers Keep Choosing Claude over Every Other AI
Oof. I turned the history referencing off. I use ChatGPT for wildly diverging topics and it will bring things up that have zero relevance to what I'm currently looking for if history is on.
ryoshu··on News publishers limit Internet Archive access due to AI scraping concerns
This is a good idea. Not sure what ToS it would violate. But a good idea.
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