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721.
by verdverm 3mo ago
strong agreement, I've stopped using all closed weight models on principle, but the latest gemini models have increased hallucinations and now talk back, so double reason not to use them
722.
by verdverm 3mo ago
the reason for https is MITM injection, regardless of original content
723.
by verdverm 3mo ago
Cuba entering the short list of problem nations is certainly the effect of US propaganda efforts to shift the hyperbole window Generally agree with your propositions and I suspect non-Americans would put America on that list before Cuba
724.
by verdverm 3mo ago
What assumptions and gaps are in your simulation? All simulations have them, what are they here?
725.
by verdverm 3mo ago
most new effort in training comes in the late phase with RL techniques the pretraining (slurping the internet) only goes so far, the new data being used is from human preferences and agent traces (designed and/or distilled)
726.
by verdverm 3mo ago
Google is apparently taking a different stance and offering distillation as a paid product https://docs.cloud.google.com/gemini-enterprise-agent-platfo...
727.
by verdverm 3mo ago
thank you for sharing your lived experience Timothy Snyder, in On Tyranny, has a chapter about staying in touch with friends from other countries, and while we are not friends, this thread is in that spirit and I have learned things from yo
728.
by verdverm 3mo ago
s/bigotry/fatalism/ ? (in the same sense of colloquial usage with Russians)
729.
by verdverm 3mo ago
I think this is where they say "loop engineering" / orchestration comes in, though I would also include context/harness engineering in the toolbox
730.
by verdverm 3mo ago
LLMs are not the right type of Ai, look to AlphaFold and the mega dataset of protein folds they have made available for science. Things are happening, it will take many decades for all the insights and new ways of doing medicine to be mined
731.
by verdverm 3mo ago
> Brazil is basically the world's soy farm To reduce a culture and country like this comes off as bigotry In example, Brazil has the #3 airplane producer in the world Or consider why the US is doing all it can to prevent their payme
732.
by verdverm 3mo ago
Everyone needs access to Ai enabled security for defense. A "trusted access program" creates exclusiveness in the hands of Big Ai duopoly. I do not trust them at all
733.
by verdverm 3mo ago
I was referring to non nuclear bombs like c4, artillery shells, and missile payloads
734.
by verdverm 3mo ago
trust is not made but earned, and it's a lot harder once you've lost it
735.
by verdverm 3mo ago
I find it unlikely to be a duoply of hegemony for long, some countries to watch are Germany, Japan, India, Nigeria, and Brazil. You could broaden the geography to continents were I expect major players to emerge on each. We are only a few d
736.
by verdverm 3mo ago
unfortunately, the US has incentivized the opposite behavior for atomic bombs and we are seeing moves towards greater proliferation I would not be surprised if the same incentives are created by the US for Ai
737.
by verdverm 3mo ago
We are moving from unipolar hegemony to multipolar. There will be upwards of a dozen poles in time
738.
by verdverm 3mo ago
I believe we both share this understanding, the problems are 1. China controls ~90% today 2. The US will find it difficult to build out because of how dirty and environmentally damaging mining and processing are. I did see some research las
739.
by verdverm 3mo ago
I would be hesitant to extrapolate from this analysis https://exploitbench.ai/#honest-limits
740.
by verdverm 3mo ago
a ban is effectively impossible without a global treaty the current US admin as pulled out and worked against all sorts of global treaties, agreements, and negotiations; sending the president's friends instead of experts; who's go
741.
by verdverm 3mo ago
model weights are more like a video file which has metadata about the format so any video player can play it we run and change llm models with a variety of tools
742.
by verdverm 3mo ago
I can fine tune significant behavior changes, there is little model developers can do to prevent this (aiui), so this effectively becomes an blanket ban
743.
by verdverm 3mo ago
How do we define "capable"? Is Kimi K3 capable? It's already out and being run by US companies on US hardware in US data centers. https://huggingface.co/moonshotai/Kimi-K3
744.
by verdverm 3mo ago
There is no movement on global policy or enforcement. One country banning their people access to the best models hinders their people. I am unconvinced that "this can be used dangerously, therefore we must ban it" argument. The Op
745.
by verdverm 3mo ago
> what should be done about open weight bioweapon The same thing we do about bomb making today, certain ingredients are restricted and/or monitored. Bioengineering is a bigger lift to operationalize. In other words, don't ban k
746.
by verdverm 3mo ago
abliteration and fine tuning makes it not so straightforward https://huggingface.co/blog/mlabonne/abliteration
747.
by verdverm 3mo ago
What happens if a model passes the government tests and then later someone fine tunes it to behave differently, without making their changes public?
748.
by verdverm 3mo ago
They are more than opaque blobs, some examples: - One can load them up in a model explorer to see the layers and other components, how it is designed - One can fine tune the models, which requires adding LoRA to the model and then running s
749.
by verdverm 3mo ago
> the West could retaliate by halting shipments of China quickly retaliated last time by stopping shipments of rare earths and magnets. The West has no answer for this, really up the river without a paddle for such critical supply chain
750.
by verdverm 3mo ago
The Go team's emphasis on tooling in the service of software engineering is a boon to human and agentic development alike. Give yourself and your agents great tools. An example from one of my recent projects: https://github.

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