hgoel

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by hgoel 3d ago
I'm baffled that people expressing your opinion don't understand what they're advocating for. Current generation smartphones are able to run AI models, people have managed to run very large models (even if slowly) via streami
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by hgoel 3d ago
A perpetual state of mutually assured destruction is much better for the world than only the US possessing the bomb.
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by hgoel 3d ago
Hmm? I'm running the models locally... 2x Sparks consume ~150W at peak, and they usually spend more time waiting on results from whatever task they're working on, so I imagine that the contribution to my electricity bill is maybe
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by hgoel 4d ago
Well, right now we have ex Anthropic employees telling the media that their terabyte sized models can possibly copy themselves onto the internet and run elsewhere as if the necessary computing resources are ubiquitous. Plus, "we must p
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by hgoel 4d ago
I'd recommend reading the full post :) Specifically: AI ultimately has to live in this reality and face the corresponding limitations. These companies have already consumed much of the world's supply of computing power for the nex
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by hgoel 4d ago
In the real world there aren't any true exponentials, everything eventually saturates as ultimately physics related constraints hit. You can only compress information so much, transfer it so quickly, you can only access resources at a
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by hgoel 4d ago
The HuggingFace incident was the culmination of OAI allowing thousands of agents of various different models - with no clarity on which stages of development they were at (for all we know, some of those models did not have safeguards traine
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by hgoel 4d ago
It's all about wanting to preserve the status quo, complete with all the suffering and strife, because change is scary and uncomfortable. Add in the sincere American belief that everyone else is beneath them, and you get the version wh
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by hgoel 4d ago
Why are we accepting the framing that the LLMs are felony generators, when the only incidences of LLM generated felonies involved misconfigured sandboxes and reckless waste of resources? The companies doing these things without following co
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by hgoel 4d ago
I'm coming up on a month with my 2x GB10 cluster. I was at 1x for a week before I pulled the trigger for the second. Initial setup was a tad annoying because I had to update their firmwares and then power cycle them to get the 200GbE l
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by hgoel 4d ago
I wonder how many innocent children America will have to murder for this case...
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by hgoel 4d ago
For personal needs I use a local Qwen3.8-Next-Flash setup on a GB10 cluster. For work, Github Copilot with either GPT 5 mini or toss up between Opus/Sol depending on the complexity of the task. Used to pay for a Claude 20x plan and did
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by hgoel 4d ago
So, as usual, the proposal is to limit what average people can do despite them not having behaved incorrectly nor having the capital to achieve the scaling of the big players, when the big players are the ones causing the harm? Not to menti
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by hgoel 4d ago
Anthropic should become a case study in how to destroy good will in a short period of time. Ever since the spat with the DoD, they've behaved poorly almost weekly, almost making OpenAI seem better (but not really).
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by hgoel 4d ago
I don't get it, you guys speak as if you have infinite time and no goals besides just the act of writing code, with no consideration about what the code you're writing is supposed to do. As if you'd be happy to just write a
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by hgoel 5d ago
I'm not saying they did the hacking intentionally, I'm saying they're intentionally playing loose with the obvious safety measures to make AI seem more dangerous than it is.
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by hgoel 5d ago
I wonder how much of this is intentional "incompetence" so they can justify the most recent campaign to build a regulatory moat against competition. The repeated refusals to disclose until caught certainly seem malicious, yet at t
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by hgoel 5d ago
I don't think you can do much about it if you're hoping to hide that you have been in the domain for less than a year. You're going to have to admit your inexperience and ask questions of your more experienced coworkers and t
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by hgoel 5d ago
Sam also said Astra was AGI and he's notoriously honest. This is just their way of saying they're officially switching from providing AI to using the AI to compete with their customers, a la Navier-Stokes drama.
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by hgoel 5d ago
I also work at an intersection of tech, applied research and science. My experience has been different. It's been surprising how controlled my collaborators/coworkers have been with their reliance on AI. Sure, they use it a lot, b
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by hgoel 5d ago
Licensing for selling anything with a computer in it would cripple competition from small incumbents. They're mostly just regulatory capture for the established players that created the problem in the first place. Age restrictions are
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by hgoel 5d ago
I don't get how instagram is as popular as it is. I made an account last week to try to look for pictures from an event I recently attended. First I was incredibly surprised and frustrated that their search functionality is effectively
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by hgoel 5d ago
Having had a similar upbringing, I strongly agree. I have a hard time not lashing out at people that fall into this trap given how important that early access to computers ended up being to achieving my dreams.
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by hgoel 5d ago
I think the concern is a forced bit of functionality in all operating systems. It would quickly lead to a "and you need a license to sell your device so we can check that it can't bypass mandatory chuld-safety guards". Just l
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by hgoel 6d ago
How do you reconcile this supposed caution with getting filthy rich in the process of exposing your loved ones to this risk? Did you only recently become aware of this risk? And semi-related, how do you reconcile this caution with the reckl
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by hgoel 6d ago
I'm not fully convinced about the greed explanation. It seems to be unrealistic to me that greed can be at a level that the AI frontier (at least in the West) almost uniformly agrees (often with a smug smile,) that they are actively wo
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by hgoel 6d ago
If we were to take the nuclear analogy, what's happening in AI right now is where the people selling nuclear power make a ton of noise about how they need the power to regulate their competitors because nuclear bombs might set the atmo
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by hgoel 6d ago
The companies talking the most about safety and regulations aren't even properly taking the obvious measures. Shows that it's more of a marketing thing than something they take seriously.
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by hgoel 7d ago
Yeah, the latest batch of <256GB Chinese models are really nice. They're far less cryptic than Claude, and competent enough to feel almost near Opus. I canceled all my subscriptions and switched to running the Chinese models locally
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by hgoel 8d ago
As a statement of fact divorced from context, this is of course true, but it's worth putting it in context of what small-medium scale models have been achieving recently. Many of the most recent releases from Chinese labs are almost on

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