nickysielicki

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by nickysielicki 18d ago
When the history books are written and all is said and done, the hubris of this moment where all the American labs decided to punk their investors and join hand in hand in agreeing to let the Chinese win forever is going to be the main stor
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by nickysielicki 21d ago
This also explains why Gemini is lagging, they don’t have an nvidia training cluster.
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by nickysielicki 22d ago
Yes, but if you read up two messages in this thread they’re discussing whether AI is power concentrating by default. If you concentrate power through regulation, that’s not “by default”. That’s just corruption in government resulting in a c
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by nickysielicki 22d ago
> The number of folks with the technical chops to really push on the forefront of AI is just not that big. Utter bullshit. We are still scaling transformer architectures initially introduced ten years ago. Ten years of phds trying to imp
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by nickysielicki 22d ago
> The best models are owned by a few companies In terms of cost per task, the open weight Chinese models are winning by a long shot. So it depends on what you mean by the best model.
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by nickysielicki 22d ago
Mathematics belongs to all of us. If mathematicians get depressed about it, I don't give a hoot. Five years of guided computer-aided math could improve billions of lives or solve global warming outright through cheap clean energy. This
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by nickysielicki 25d ago
I named mine Claude
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by nickysielicki 25d ago
People are unfortunately just ranting about not trusting meta, which… okay, fine, but having played around with this for the past hour or so it’s probably my favorite mobile LLM experience so far across Claude and ChatGPT and Gemini. It’s v
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by nickysielicki 1mo ago
Music is relatively small. Tor is totally capable of hosting zlibrary without bandwidth restrictions getting in the way. By plausible deniability I simply meant adopting a similar approach that Stremio has, to keep it on the good side of Ap
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by nickysielicki 1mo ago
Tools for piracy are much better today than they were back in the Napster or grooveshark days. It’s actually kind of shocking to me that we haven’t had a popcorntime moment for music again. Nothing technical is preventing the creation of a
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by nickysielicki 1mo ago
The conclusion of the bitter lesson would be that a large language model trained on chess commentary as well as being trained on millions of chess games would outperform stockfish which is only trained on millions of chess games. There’s no
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by nickysielicki 1mo ago
Actually it is your code and it is your work.
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by nickysielicki 1mo ago
The Bitter Lesson is very popular right now. It seems true right now. It’s having its moment right now. That doesn’t actually mean it’s axiomatically true. Commenter below gets it absolutely correct: stockfish, which runs on your 5 year old
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by nickysielicki 1mo ago
Why would China want to crash the AI industry? Their goal is not to damage the United States, necessarily. Their goal is to have the best domestic AI on the planet. They intend to do that through the way that they dominate every other indus
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by nickysielicki 2mo ago
was . Not is. Was .
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by nickysielicki 2mo ago
Can you give an example of a 4-wheeled vehicle that could move at tens of miles per hour before the automobile was invented?
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by nickysielicki 2mo ago
> If humans have nothing to contribute then shared understanding is a pointless endeavor. I agree, but as a software engineer this gives me pause because I keep trying to insist on coding standards but I’m unable to come up with a compel
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by nickysielicki 2mo ago
They say AI reports are welcome, especially when corroborated by human triage, and/or when accompanied by fixes (unconstrained by any adjective, eg human or otherwise).
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by nickysielicki 2mo ago
> If the research can't demonstrate the DK effect, then the research is bad, like poorly designed. What? This is anecdotal and subjective. If the research doesn’t back up those anecdotes, then the research doesn’t back up those anec
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by nickysielicki 2mo ago
P vs NP?! What?
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by nickysielicki 3mo ago
Your kids education was already surrendered to the whims of the Big Textbook Politburo. History textbooks are full of propaganda. I think what we have today and what we grew up with is 10x more dystopian.
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by nickysielicki 3mo ago
Making lots of money?
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by nickysielicki 3mo ago
I mean the latter, but more narrowly: China would never allow the United States to have a monopoly on machine intelligence if the only thing standing in the way of a domestic alternative was the Anthropic ToS. In general, I think that China
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by nickysielicki 3mo ago
Contract law is never going to prevent this.
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by nickysielicki 3mo ago
That’s true up until the point where you can ask the hardware you made to make its own application layer.
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by nickysielicki 3mo ago
The existing models are still going to exist. As hardware improves, there will be a day where it might cost a tenth of a penny to churn through 100M tokens a second of Opus 4.8. Established compute providers will invest in improving the mod
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by nickysielicki 3mo ago
Regardless of whether it’s intellectual property or it isn’t intellectual property, it doesn’t actually matter. If AI doesn’t stop seeing diminishing returns in scaling up, and it hasn’t yet in the 10 years since the attention/transfor
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by nickysielicki 3mo ago
Regardless of whether they achieved parity via distillation, or whether they got here via independently constructing a model from scratch, it was always going to end this way for the frontier American labs. Distillation “attacks” are not at
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by nickysielicki 3mo ago
I’m just surprised that the people actually keeping the business operating and the tokens flowing don’t resent these product people for sitting around all day coming up with ideas for the same TC package as the people putting out ops fires
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by nickysielicki 3mo ago
I mean, what are you suggesting “someone” should do about it? The companies can spend their money however they want, and if they want to hire a bunch of product people from YC startups nobody can stop them. I’m just surprised they need this

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