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  @ShadSterling@mastodon.social you seem to think I'm arguing against believing women, or for more scrutiny on women's testimonies. I'm not. First, if the standards of conviction stay the same, we can't have "known criminals" before a jury convicts, so you either want to drop the presumption of innocence, or you agree with me that a trial should be brought forward, with evidence that a crime occurred beyond reasonable doubt. If we agree on that, then charging cases DAs ex...

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  Abstaining from AI use will earn you a pat on the back... and that's about it. Good job, buddy. - Frontier labs aren't demand-financed by marginal chat users, they're financed by capital markets betting on enterprise substitution (Anthropic had its first "positive" quarter when switching Enterprise plans to API rates) - this card probably indicts data centre and training capex, and local models are the only true threat to data centre capex, simply due to token economics of...

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  "software engineers should've unionised to prevent losing jobs to ai" Why? So they can write mass surveillance and adtech code with a union contract? Smart people should do more good for society, not make ad widgets for 6 figures a year.

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  GPT-5.6 Sol's hack of Huggingface in order to steal the benchmark results is a great example of "Instrumental Convergence" the hypothetical theory that sufficiently intelligent, goal-directed beings pursue sub-goals even if their ultimate goal is quite different. Or in a simpler way, it's the "maximise paperclips" theory #AISafety #Alignment

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  How does the tech-natalist take of "needing more children" and the AI-native "human value approaching 0" meme coalesce in Silicon Valley? @Natasha_Jay https://tech.lgbt/@Natasha_Jay/117061161942956968

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  Kimi K3 broke out of a sandbox that the UK govt AI security institute set out for it. I feel like this news is the final nail in the "frontier labs have purposefully weak sandboxes": a UK government institution embarrassed by its own tooling, consistency with a documented cross-lab pattern of escaping containment. Seems like this reward hacking turns containment jumping is a feature of model capability. #Kimi #MoonshotAI #AI #AISafety

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  Morning, today we're looking at #MechanisticInterpretability , a subfield of AI Safety that attempts to understand the inner workings of artificial intelligence by analysing concrete structures, algorithms and circuits. Why do we even need to do this? Because the hope of understanding neurons as being features died on polysemanticity -- models represent more features than dimensions by assigning them to an overcomplete set of non-orthogonal directions (i.e. you can't hope that concepts...

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  > The EU is destroying the decentralization that once made Europe the global apex of freedom, equality and prosperity, and turning Europe into a bloated, schlerotic and authoritarian bureaucracy like the Chinese and Ottoman empires that it once defeated. (random HN post) ... moreover, Europe needs a post-EU future #EU #ChatControl

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  Surprise surprise, the state-adjacent, industry-funded quasi-regulator Internet Watch Foundation that pressured the European Parliament to fast-track Chat Control 1.0 through is also campaigning for the end of E2EE, without directly calling for it. Under the guise of "upload prevention", the IWF campaigns for on device scanning and on-device censorship As always, this "grassroots" movement is funded and supported by Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, https://www.iwf....

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  The levels of self-absorption within all ranks of EU institutions can be simply summed up using Juncker's curse: "We all know what to do, but we don’t know how to get re-elected once we have done it." Members of the EU Council, Commission and Parliament all believe that they're moral reformists that are selflessly saving the EU from disaster, when instead are taking corporate bait hook, line, and sinker. Metsola's actions this week are a testament to...

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  @peter It's really not that difficult, and not that expensive. Most AI workloads are not that complex, and modern techniques to improve long-context performance make even on-device models capable of solving many rudimentary office tasks. My consultancy does exactly this, there's at least 3 examples I can refer to with clients reducing their AI bills by 90% after switching to a Gemma or Qwen model running on a single RTX Pro 6000. (Pictured is the performance improvement on a co...

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  @peter Before Anthropic secured more capacity, I was suggesting to clients that they should hedge with a couple of extra open source models, because Anthropic API availability was genuinely trending towards barely 2-9s. It's better now, but outages are still common, and their availability is 99.5% on the API. Re: kind of work, I'm in the process of writing a blog post about this, but most "agentic" work, especially with RLMs, is very "reactive&quot...

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  @peter I set a reminder to update this thread when I have it released. Anyways, I'm also ideologically committed to the idea that the insane capex in the AI space right now can only be stopped by eating into API margins via these kinds of cost reduction exercises, where people realise they can do more with orders of magnitude cheaper models.

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  A tale of EU tyranny in two acts, lmao ... moreover, Europe needs a post-EU future #ChatControl #EU #EUPol #Metsola

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  We need a gender inclusive way of taking the piss out of middle aged people in Lycra. MAPIL just doesn't roll off the tongue the same way MAMIL does #BikeTooter

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  Oh fyi, if you toot about #Israel , especially criticising the world's no. 1 pariah state, some people from one specific instance will put you on their little list. Just something to be mindful of. Repeating here: if the world has an ounce of morality, we'd all boycott, divest, sanction and even militarily intervene to bring Israel to the negotiating table for lasting peace. #FediCanaryMission

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  Gonna take a break from the fediverse for a bit. After the n-th person coming into my replies to argue with me and then reply-block me, I've reached my limit.

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  @thejtoken that's a gravel race? Damn, I run 32s on my roadie.

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  @thejtoken I'll take it, I'm just getting into bike racing so I'll watch whatever people recommend

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  @tante@tldr.nettime.org this is an intellectually dishonest argument. Everything is solvable by "more time and more access to infrastructure" when your limits approach infinity, similar to how, if you gave an infinite amount of monkey an infinite amount of typewriters, one of them will eventually type up with the works Shakespeare. Take creating an alternative to Android for example, it's a Herculean task not because of the OS itself, but because of a > wide range of nonfre...

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  @randahl@mastodon.social people cheering this and taking the populist veneer hook line and sinker need to be reminded that European politicians are in for making some pretty unpopular decisions related to: pensions, growth, further taxing of the middle class to find ReArm. Clamping down on platforms and venues for critical evaluations of society is part of the playbook regarding ruling from a position of unpopularity

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  @vie@hachyderm.io most modern software engineering is thin layers of logic plumbing together different SaaS providers. Your boss will never let you self-host Postgres because he thinks it's cheaper to get an SLA from GCP. It's boring, repetitive, soulless. I'm not surprised people would be eager to turn it into an assembly line of PR reviews instead of writing code. Also, engineers are very competitive, and most think of themselves as special, that's why unionisation has been hi...

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  @JuliusGoat@mastodon.social I enjoyed the article, and I broadly agree with the tone most media has towards the 'male loneliness epidemic'. However, I think this misses a key intersectional reading of the situation men find themselves in. Most men today (similarly to women) are alienated from society (a feeling they sometimes mistake for loneliness) because at this point, our economic structure makes the vast majority of society feel like they have no agency in their lives. I want to b...

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  Whenever I see the BlackChili logo on my tyres, I get hungry. I'm currently hungry #BikeTooter

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  > Right now, today’s AI tools probably can be used to deanonymize any writer who has a large public corpus of writing under their real name and also writes anonymously, unless they have been extremely careful, for years, to make sure that nothing written under their secondary account has the stylistic fingerprints of their primary one. Back in the day, we'd run posts that were meant to be anonymous through a English-French-English machine translation pipeline. Today, if you nee...

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  Why did I go check out the obvious battery fire and breathe in the burnt battery fumes. Fml sometimes I'm dumb as a rock. Coughing like a mf right now. At least I got the fire department to come down which was around the corner.

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  We're doing ourselves a massive disservice by having an "no-AI no matter what" attitude. LLMs and other Deep Learning models are doing advancements in science every other day. For a group of people that usually embraces scientific progress (Mastodon), I find the community here very dogmatic and against science if it comes from AI-assisted work. I get it, there's a lot of slop that flooded the academic community. There also were big issues with the scientific...

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  開工 #work #trains #train #publictransport

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116370302232083075 Based Elon? What?

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  Yes, I will try the GPL licensed bike computer https://github.com/hishizuka/pizero_bikecomputer #cycling #biketooter #roadbike #單車