AlexCoventry

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by AlexCoventry 3mo ago
> Change is not going to happen until it's forced. Yes, Pearl Harbor was a known vulnerability, prior to the Japanese attack. The US just wasn't ready to take airpower seriously, at that point. https://www.reddit.com
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by AlexCoventry 3mo ago
According to Zelensky, there will be drones capable of traversing tens of thousands of kilometers within a couple of years. The US mainland is definitely at risk of drone attack in the near-medium term, IMO. > One, two, three years — dro
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by AlexCoventry 3mo ago
According to The Economist, the Iranian theocracy is no longer in power, the IRGC is. Still, not the regime change Trump was hoping for, that's for sure. > Khamenei’s killing has accelerated Iran’s transition from a theocracy to an
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by AlexCoventry 3mo ago
The goals for intervention in the Serbia/Bosnia conflict were clear and noble, IMO.
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by AlexCoventry 3mo ago
> Why don’t we have reasonable logistics and supply lines and infrastructure with $1T? Deeply entrenched corruption, obviously.
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by AlexCoventry 3mo ago
Surprisingly, it is a thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radioresistance
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by AlexCoventry 3mo ago
Where can I read about the Anthropic incident?
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by AlexCoventry 3mo ago
> things like ethnic cleansing (which these models are already being used for). Got a cite?
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by AlexCoventry 3mo ago
At this point, it has a lot to re-learn, as the Trump administration has been systematically lobotomizing it for 18 months.
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by AlexCoventry 3mo ago
> How in the world did Anthropic have to do all the theatrics about Mythos just to have OpenAI release an equivalent or stronger model a month later without any drama??? Corruption. Giving Trump $25M will earn you a favorable decision.
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by AlexCoventry 3mo ago
It's just a shame that none of it seems to pan out, and in the areas where I know what they're talking about, it all sounds like cynical nonsense to me.
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by AlexCoventry 3mo ago
The "free market" gave the PRC its current strategic lock on rare-earth minerals. There's definitely no such thing as a free market in a Maoist dictatorship. I personally think the "free market" concept is an unachi
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by AlexCoventry 4mo ago
I just finished Everyday Zen by Charlotte "Joko" Beck, and it's very pragmatic and good, IMO, though you won't learn a lot of doctrine from it. Zen is not a good Buddhist tradition to start with unless you have a skill
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by AlexCoventry 4mo ago
Canada, Europe, China.
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by AlexCoventry 4mo ago
Ascension to AI plays a quasi-religious, soteriological role in the world of the book.
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by AlexCoventry 4mo ago
Right now, we seem to be shambling toward a war which would hit globalized industrial processes very hard. Buying decent hardware now might wind up looking like good insurance against that.
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by AlexCoventry 4mo ago
They might not have an answer in mind. They might just be exploring how you adapt to new tools and methods.
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by AlexCoventry 4mo ago
I have a nonlinear attention mechanism which seems to improve data efficiency, but it's slow. I'm trying to learn the python CuTe DSL to speed it up. I'm also reading Principles and Practice of Deep Representation Learning,
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by AlexCoventry 4mo ago
> Often this is for good reasons: governments have grave powers, and it’s usually for the best that they aren’t used too hastily. "Don't mention the (Iran) War!"
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by AlexCoventry 4mo ago
Maybe they'll become an AI company again after they've abused their privileged access as hardware providers to reverse-engineer Google and Anthropic's weights and operations.
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by AlexCoventry 4mo ago
Common sense and rationality go out the window in corrupt, unregulated environments with perverse incentives.
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by AlexCoventry 4mo ago
> nearly 30 students in CS 10 were caught cheating on take-home exams in spring 2026. You'd have to be really lazy and disrespectful, to get caught cheating on a take-home exam...
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by AlexCoventry 4mo ago
I thought one of the advantages of Glasswing was that it could produce a PoC for you. Was it producing working PoC's?
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by AlexCoventry 4mo ago
The headwinds are way worse now, though. Oil is choked, war is brewing, and corruption is at an all-time high.
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by AlexCoventry 4mo ago
> an AI company that produces virtual fetish porn and makes money renting GPUs to Anthropic Whatever Anthropic is paying is too much, since it means xAI will get to observe Anthropic's software, weights and operations in detail. It&
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by AlexCoventry 4mo ago
For what it's worth, I think anything selling energy or fertilizer which is not sourced from the Middle East is a pretty good bet right now. Depends on how the US/Iran conflict plays out, of course, but I'm not optimistic.
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by AlexCoventry 4mo ago
A: This has not happened yet. B: Are you actually optimistic that it won't? That's a request for an opinion, not an emotion.
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by AlexCoventry 4mo ago
Run coding agents in a docker container with limited permissions. FWIW, I run it with --cap-drop=ALL --pids-limit=4096 --runtime=runsc
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by AlexCoventry 4mo ago
I'd need to see some transcripts of his conversations with coding agents, to believe this.
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by AlexCoventry 5mo ago
He was establishing the context of The current blog post. Very unlikely that he was doing it for Google juice.

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