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by ianm218 4mo ago
Could you flesh this out more? The Chinese surveillance state is pretty well documented by academics [1] I'd be curious to see what makes you think that is fake news or whatever. [1]. https://www.technologyreview.com/20
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by ianm218 4mo ago
I'm not being intentionally disingenuous my model of the situation is the US does mass surveillance and China does it at a much larger scale with much less restrictions. For example, China and the US have roughly the same amount of cam
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by ianm218 4mo ago
Even then though at their scale - billions of DAU with pretty elite consumer distribution in terms of InstaGram and WhatsApp the future is hard to predict. Like they have much lower cost of capital than OpenAI or Anthropic for example and
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by ianm218 4mo ago
It’s a hard thing to measure right? Google under bet on demand for their AI infra and left lots of money on the table with Anthropic/ has to buy computer from SpaceX for awhile, Meta over built.
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by ianm218 4mo ago
Anecdotally I know several people who would fall in the camp of anti vax but openly use peptides. And intuitively it makes sense we’re talking about groups of people who are skeptical of main stream institutional health recommendations but
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by ianm218 4mo ago
The US government is no saint in terms of mass surveillance but there is a gigantic gulf between US governments mass surveillance and China, I think to act otherwise is a bit disingenuous.
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by ianm218 4mo ago
Hmm yeah I really think that the US government doesn’t have access to my Claude chats and wouldn’t be able to without jumping through actual legal hoops like a subpoena or other legal order. More than happy to be wrong if you have a source
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by ianm218 4mo ago
I think it’s a real concern. Chinese companies are much more closely tied to the state, as in if you decide to go to China one day they might already have all the data on how you have interacted with their models. The US is certainly inchin
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by ianm218 4mo ago
I feel like the topic has been discussed ad nausiem but: * Software security - I.e. Mozilla blog post on using Mythos for software security [1] * Algorithms - AlphaEvolve makes real progress on matrix multiplication [2] * Open source - Back
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by ianm218 4mo ago
I think this is a false dichotomy. We’re getting lots of new productive output in some areas and in other areas it is too much slop.
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by ianm218 4mo ago
Hmm but isn't your point moot if the GLM 5.2 type models are good enough to do these large scale port to Rust projects? Like maybe Anthropic goes bust but doesn't really matter for this case. I feel like your conflating some gener
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by ianm218 4mo ago
Could you explain your mental model of the situation a bit more? Let's take something like GML 5.2 that is open source - anyone can run it on NVIDIA or AMD chips. People are currently making money by running GLM 5.2 Nvidia and AMD chip
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by ianm218 4mo ago
So your prior is that token costs are only going to go up. Doesn't stuff like GLM 5.2 and Deepseek change this? I.e. something close to Opus 4.5 that runs 10X + more performantly.
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by ianm218 4mo ago
I have been experimenting in this general area myself. I started by doing a port of Lua to Rust, then did Valkey to Rust using my Rust Lua for scripting, and now I've been working nginx in Rust. I was thinking for all of these that the
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by ianm218 4mo ago
This thread is about a product based on fully reproducible research though so I feel like we should stay grounded. Claude science is meant to be used in the context of reproducible science research, there is a decent reason to not be cynica
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by ianm218 4mo ago
You can imagine using AI agents to tag papers that don’t have code or similar work attached and just filtering them out. The Chinese open source community has made a lot of incentive to make research reproducible for example. The most repro
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by ianm218 4mo ago
Just as a counterpoint ML and AI research has become much more reproducible over time. I feel like this is relevant because ML / AI researchers are huge power users of AI tools. Between 2016 and 2021 the share of ML/ robotics&#x2F
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by ianm218 4mo ago
Isn't this just blanket cynicism? In the long run conceivable we could use AI to hold papers to a much higher standard, audit all the data and code that is associated etc.
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by ianm218 4mo ago
I mean the company has like 3k employees or more right? Lots of them are just working on more applied AI use cases that don't require frontier AI just the right integrations and structure etc. Opus 4.8/ GPT 5.6 level models with t
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by ianm218 4mo ago
What has been the best way to determine return on the AI specific capex for hyperscalers? I would naively expect Microsoft’s to be the highest since they are probably mainly just selling access to their capex through cloud since they aren’t
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by ianm218 4mo ago
> Maybe they figured out it was too easy now, and this is the clamping down we are seeing in response His post was from the start thinking out loud. It’s a solid contribution. It seems against the spirit of the forum here to respond to s
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by ianm218 4mo ago
Very cool! Well let me know if you get a chance to use it would love to hear if it ends up being the right tool.
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by ianm218 4mo ago
Heh I was going to queue up a skill that uses the CLI to make it easy to convert scripts to older or newer versions. If you have any Lua use cases let me know I’m looking for more real world use use cases to justify the effort here.
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by ianm218 4mo ago
Hmm I think in general I would not recommend doing this just because Lua does change pretty significant things from 5.1-5.5 so you could have some really hard to understand behavior if some portions are 5.1 vs 5.4 for example. I think whe
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by ianm218 4mo ago
Performance dashboard is linked here https://ianm199.github.io/omnilua/performance.html . In a mix of official and unofficial benchmarks wall clock performance is ~1.4x as fast as C Lua and the memory usage is ~1.7x. So
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by ianm218 4mo ago
Tangently related but I’ve been deep in Lua recently working on a rust implementation that supports Lua 5.1-5.5 in one Rust Binary https://github.com/ianm199/omnilua . My ultimate goal was to support LuaJIT in Rust as w
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by ianm218 4mo ago
To get more concrete are you using coding agents like Claude Code/ Codex/ opencode etc? What kind of work are you doing specifically? If you are doing the kind of median enterprise tech work these tools are just good enough to do
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by ianm218 4mo ago
Can you describe your experience using modern AI tools that led to this conclusion? It is hard for me to wrap my head around how my perception could be so different from someone else in presumably the same or similar profession. I'm no
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by ianm218 4mo ago
So is your position that i.e. the Five Eyes [1] cyber security leaders are just pretending that AI cyber security is a serious thing to play into the geopolitical east vs. west thing and its not genuine? It just feels like people are starti
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by ianm218 4mo ago
What makes you think that? The rate of change seems to have been increasing and there is so many chip and model best in different directions at the moment.

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