AlexCoventry

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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
It's quite likely that OpenAI is running a significant PR campaign to compensate for the bad rep they earned by stepping in to meet the demands of the Trump administration, after Anthropic refused to assist the administration with mass
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
I think there's definitely more scope for ruling out vulnerabilities by implementing simpler designs and architectures.
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
They have no values of their own, so you have to direct their attention that way.
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
I don't think "usage" is exactly the metric they're going for, more like "usage in line with our developmental strategy." Transcripts of people using Claude to write code are probably far more valuable to them
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
I just use Ctrl-g to open the prompt in emacs.
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
I have a transformer attention mechanism which seems to be more data-efficient than the usual dot product, and I'm trying to write a performant backwards kernel for it.
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
That's some cynical ignorance.
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
No, AI has real, immediate, large-scale industrial and scientific applications. Cryptocurrency is a massive disappointment, but AI has genuine potential value.
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
Yes, it was good. It seems clear that Farrow and his co-author approached it in a methodical, fair-minded way. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wr_sB1Hl0oM
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
I don't condone violence, but the contract he's signed with the US military is a credible threat to everyone in the US. OpenAI will now certainly be called on to assist in domestic mass surveillance, under threat of the kind of se
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
Yeah, it's kind of terrifying, how this incident seems to have faded from people's memories.
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
> The only solution I can come up with is to orient towards sharing the technology with people broadly, and for no one to have the ring. The two obvious ways to do this are individual empowerment and *making sure democratic system stays
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
That's great. It seems like a large body of experts are having real problem with this, so maybe you should publish something about your methods, or start a business...
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
The hatred is particularly intense on reddit. I lost a couple of accounts there to suspension, just for speaking a civil way about the positive aspects of AI.
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
I don't condone violence, but it's hardly surprising that people would resort to or support it in this case, considering that by stepping in where Anthropic refused to help the US military, sama essentially agreed that OpenAI will
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
> If all of us can go hunting in the woods and yet there is still game to be found, then there's no compelling reason to define and litigate who "owns" those woods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feudal
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
Hmm, I still have some nonrefundable API credits with OpenAI. Maybe I should try to use them for my kernel. FWIW, this talk[1] from NVIDIA/Meta from March claims that coding agents can often write correct implementations of of CUDA k
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
Yeah, it's easy to vibecode and review a docker sandbox, too. If you run containers with --runtime=runsc --cap-drop=ALL --security-opt no-new-privileges:true it's pretty tight. That's how I use coding agents, FW
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
Do you think they're lying about the vulnerabilities they claim Mythos has found? Seems like a very short-term play, if so.
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
Try using a coding agent to write an efficient GPU kernel. I guess they might get good at it soon, but they definitely aren't there yet.
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
Giving up looking is not necessarily the same as not wanting a job.
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
You can rent it, but it's basically worthless at this stage.
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by AlexCoventry 6mo ago
> due to the way round-tripping tool-calls work, splitting code up into multiple files is counter-productive. Can you expand on that?
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by AlexCoventry 7mo ago
Even complete legal novices like me know about the Sony/Betamax case, FWIW. It would shock me if a judge ruling on copyright implications of a technology didn't know about it.
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by AlexCoventry 7mo ago
> There's only one highly monetizable use for AI video generation Yeah, marketing. Which is a huge market...
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by AlexCoventry 7mo ago
Supply-chain attacks long pre-date effective AI agentic coding, FWIW.
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by AlexCoventry 7mo ago
You can argue a moral equivalence, I guess, but on a practical level, OpenAI's decision is more dangerous for everyone, because it will help to secure Trump as a dictator.
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by AlexCoventry 7mo ago
OpenAI agreeing to operate as Trump's secret police materially impacts your security as a European, though, because it cements Trump's power.
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by AlexCoventry 7mo ago
IMO, OpenAI have either implicitly committed to becoming the IT service for Trump's secret police, or they've willingly signed up for the harsh retaliation Anthropic's getting, knowing that the Trump administration will inevi
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by AlexCoventry 7mo ago
It's very straightforward to instrument CC under tmux with send-keys and capturep. You could easily use that for distillation, IMO. There are also detailed I/O logs.

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