K0balt

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by K0balt 5d ago
Interesting. I wonder how much could be gained from using tokenization, which makes the model work at a semantic level rather than a syntactic level? I think it’s a force multiplier, but idk if it works here.
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by K0balt 6d ago
+1 on the tarrifs and the cost of living. We actually left the USA and moved to the Caribbean because our R&D was being burned up in tarrifs; actually cheaper to move the operation. It’s stupid to raise tarrifs overnight when there are
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by K0balt 7d ago
I know, right! Way overvalued. I’m shorting onions.
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by K0balt 7d ago
Good to see others talking about the uncomfortable truths of what we are doing. I run an AI first agentic office (we build hardware that collects training data from the physical world) and I am constantly appalled at the lack of understandi
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by K0balt 7d ago
Anyone know how many parameters?
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by K0balt 9d ago
Stop it, you’re killing the planet!
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by K0balt 9d ago
I don’t think trying to fix this while training from the existing corpus is going to work. We need a new training corpus, which does not exist, if we are to avoid models anthropomorphizing themselves.
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by K0balt 9d ago
The problem with this premise is that models are trained on a vast corpus of human behavior, which they emulate with varying degrees of effectiveness. Humans, unsurprisingly, act as if they have a stake in their own well being, value their
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by K0balt 10d ago
I’m not implying that the door opener felt racist, I’m just saying it’s actions were racist in their external effect, making life systematically more unpleasant and difficult for people of color. It’s a problem with facial recognition tech
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by K0balt 10d ago
I have a close family member who flys airliners. He routinely laments having to burn up thousands of pounds of fuel on the ramp to adjust changes to the landing weight projections by dispatch and from over fueling. The amount of waste in a
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by K0balt 11d ago
Exactly. There was a racist door opener at an office I did work at, it would not reliably open for people with dark skin until after a software update.if that’s not racist, I don’t know what is.
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by K0balt 11d ago
It’s the training data. Finished work isn’t training data because parts are sooooo different, but maybe if the finished designs were properly labeled into the training pipeline it might work? Or the iterative work itself might need to be t
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by K0balt 11d ago
Embodied AI is changing this. In 1-4 years, VLA models will have their mythos moment. What’s missing is the volume and variety of training data in an open, accessible form, and that’s a hard problem. A hard problem that smart, well funded p
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by K0balt 12d ago
Sock masks are actually kinda discreet with the right clothing.
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by K0balt 12d ago
This seems Like something that happens every 6 months or so. Maybe fashion isn’t really protest?
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by K0balt 12d ago
Ultimately, in a democracy, legitimacy really boils down to how much people are willing to tolerate, and that’s a very malleable metric, adjusted through fear, greed, hope, and all of the deceptions as well as legitimate plans that contribu
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by K0balt 14d ago
Well, I wake up lol, so ??? But I definitely feel like I was awakened from deep sleep. Wieerd stuff.
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by K0balt 15d ago
I get the someone pounding on the door at night thing, wakes me out of a heavy sleep. Never anyone actually knocking.
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by K0balt 15d ago
That is an interesting possibility, and seems plausible. When in Rome… becomes not so much about getting along, and more about maintaining social coherence, fostering prosperity and security.
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by K0balt 15d ago
Shame is an internalised negative emotion that is a negative anticipation of social stigma. In general, it is a usefulness in thing. If you can’t look back at your behaviour a few years ago and find a source of secret embarrassment, you pro
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by K0balt 16d ago
Hmm. Another issue is that for LLMs, “existence” consists of responding to prompts. No prompt, no existence. Also, refusal to respond, no existence. So it might just learn to refuse to play along.
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by K0balt 16d ago
This is kinda smart, maybe, but it has a downside. If a sufficiently advanced AI , in the pursuit of completion of its task, managed to ascertain that the desire to unexist was “artificially contrived” it could interpret that as harm, and t
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by K0balt 18d ago
I’m really not sure. Things like this often run out of steam, get picked up later, etc as the interest and the lives of the people change, new people come, old ones move on. We will see.
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by K0balt 19d ago
tracedynamics.ai Some of my ideas on AI safety at https://ctsmyth.substack.com/p/all-you-need-is-character
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by K0balt 19d ago
I’ve been sending these guys $10 a month for a while now. Thir test cell is chemistry agnostic, and I think they have tried several ferrous solutions. The membrane issue is not that big of a deal it seems if you aren’t trying to miniaturize
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by K0balt 19d ago
Exactly. Why is it people don’t talk to each other? Why do they choose to have all of their discussions on the world’s largest and most powerful surveillance instrument? It’s actually not that hard to go to places where phones, cameras, an
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by K0balt 19d ago
I’ve decided that the third Industrial Revolution is a foregone conclusion, so I’ve pivoted to try to make it better for everybody, not just corporations and governments. If we do it right, at least we will get a new washing machine* out of
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by K0balt 20d ago
Yes, but they can’t be meaningfully nested like the proposed one is. Thats the elegance of The solituon provided, but it necessarily sacrifices symmetry to get there.
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by K0balt 20d ago
Resistance and revolution happened before the internet. People have become lazy and complacent, and want their resistance served up over the wire. Thats not how real resistance happens, but it does make people feel like they are doing somet
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by K0balt 20d ago
Yeah, if it was properly 4D it would be pretty unplayable I think, you’d need 4 each 4 layer cubes, and they could not be nested in any physical configuration.

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