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scottyah

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scottyah··on Claude Says
Google's web search AI is pretty great at it!
scottyah··on FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/two-defendants-employed-la-ar...

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2026-09-16/la-homel...

https://calmatters.org/housing/homelessness/2026/09/la-homel...

It's so crazy how politicized fraud has gotten. Diehard Dems offhandedly dismiss Nick Shirley and DOGE even though all they look for is proof of fraud. If someone is doing that for free, why on earth would you want to stop or dismiss it before any evidence or reporting has been delivered? There's no shortage of it from either side, why defend the scummy parts of your party vs trying to root it out?

scottyah··on FTC is investigating OpenAI, Anthropic and other AI companies over product risks
At the state/city level, California and Los Angeles have much more blatant corruption. From the High Speed Rail to LA's billions of homeless money (now some invoices showing house purchases, ubers to and payments at strip clubs). I think more politicians are just shameless about it lately. Karen Bass was reelected anyway, and Gavin is gaining support in a run for presidency even. Buying votes has never been easier.
scottyah··on Red Hat being phased out of existence?
They have more bargaining power now. Lots of people are scrambling to get off vmware after they raised their prices astronomically for seemingly no reason (other than they could, and a lot of groups are leaving VMs for containers). Openshift Virtualization is there with open arms to take those who haven't or won't migrate off of VMs.

Redhat can now charge a lot more and have worse service because some of their main competition now enables it. Whatever replaces kubernetes is slowly being formed and decided on, but there's easy pickings for custom solutions and consultants for now.

scottyah··on An AI sovereign wealth fund isn't progressive – it's techno-imperialism
Also of note: this is not the first administration to take controversial action. Pretty much every government ever has shown that more power = more corruption.
scottyah··on An AI sovereign wealth fund isn't progressive – it's techno-imperialism
Who is we and what is ownership? Taxes are nice because it's just straight cash, no meddling (other than the myriad of laws they must follow). "Ownership" meaning you want whatever political party/group in power in the moment to able to directly command businesses on top of adding laws and taking money seems a bit like overreach to me, in addition to being costly resource-wise.
scottyah··on The top secret URSALA, RAQUEL, and FARRAH satellites (2025)
Prevents a lot of wars and skirmishes.
scottyah··on Claude Says
I disagree completely, citing your source is an amazing habit and I wish more people did it. "Webster says" vs "My mamaw told me" makes a big difference, and to all those like the author who think that drudging through manuals on specific topics will pay off in 20yrs, I really think you should look into how human memory works. One of my favorite quotes is "That guy has forgotten more about SSL than I've ever learned, and he still made a typo that broke the internet."

So please, cite your sources where relevant and don't waste people's time with your fuzzy human memories.

scottyah··on Gemini 4 Argon
But that's the whole point of the singularity. Right now the models use a lot of human effort and ingenuity to improve the models, but about a year ago it was 100% human. We'll see in another year, but if this pace continues I doubt there will be more than a handful of people who can contribute more than the models.
scottyah··on America.gov
Oh they can, no problem. You just download (transfer data for) the weights and whatever you want running it.

You can install Gemma4 on ollama on your own computer and try it out! Lots of examples of people coding with no internet using qwen on flights etc.

scottyah··on America.gov
The media wave made it a kangaroo court worse than OJ Simpson's trial. My only point was that there is a lot of bias in it, and right in the same politiosphere that those juries are in. Gives a lot of "police have investigated themselves and found no problems"
scottyah··on America.gov
*.gov is for USA, use *.ca for Canada instead of California.
scottyah··on America.gov
Also despite there being one in every continent, you'd be amazed how many Parisians from France think they are the only ones who ought to use the name. Must be "patriotic BS that has spewed over there for decades"
scottyah··on America.gov
Woah easy on the caffeine there.
scottyah··on America.gov
Seems very factual and unbiased, I think you're showing everyone else more about yourself. It's not a "Heroic attempt to save democracy" or an "Large scale Insurrection and attempt to instill Fascism".
scottyah··on America.gov
You should message Joe Gebbia.
scottyah··on America.gov
Not sure, why do you ask?
scottyah··on DevDay 2026 Recap
With friends like OpenAI, who needs State-sponsored adversaries?
scottyah··on DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers
Your moral compass seems to be very close to some very powerful magnets
scottyah··on ChatGPT Pro 500
It's a bit more complicated than that though. Dollars per token is not the right metric to track.
scottyah··on ChatGPT Pro 500
dangit, I've been loving the subsidies.
scottyah··on ChatGPT Pro 500
Hmm, a super-programmer familiar with almost every framework in existence that can ship entire new apps in a day and collaborate with you realtime, or paying to train someone in a different time zone for some likely subpar work?
scottyah··on ChatGPT Pro 500
I was happy to take VC money to uber to parts of town I wouldn't have otherwise for that period of time. Only my local bar lost out on selling me like maybe 20 drinks over the year or so.
scottyah··on GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price
Yes, obviously. They're both working to make it cheaper, faster, and better at different industries (3d animations, etc). The only direction they are slowing is raw intelligence.
scottyah··on How Delhi cut electricity loss from 50 to 5 percent
It's just not true at all though, and I don't get where the meme comes from other than the politicians pointing their fingers at the rich so we don't look at them. If there wasn't incentive to be homeless, we wouldn't have so many.
scottyah··on Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space
You're just gullible to the other side, not sure why you can't see that.
scottyah··on U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain risk
You're creating a fake choice. Other people are commenting on how ineffective the party that claims to be the heroes actually are. Calling out BS here is right IMO.
scottyah··on Classified estimates show the NSA is paying billions to test AI models
I wish I got paid for my crusade against ignorant posters trying to brainwash the youth against their own community.
scottyah··on Kids turned low-traffic NPR Spotify comments into a secret group chat
I think the biggest attraction is the formation of the group with no established processes. Nobody telling you "This is how things are done around here". Exactly the opposite of ham radio
scottyah··on Classified estimates show the NSA is paying billions to test AI models
> So you have to be evil to think of what evil can do by the statement you made.

You don't, and my statement did not assert that. You are stretching wayyy too much here to try to get the world to fit your narrative.

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