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by nosuchthing 7mo ago
This paper is an incredible read: TESCREAL hallucinations: Psychedelic and AI hype as inequality engines https://akjournals.com/view/journals/2054/7/S1/article-p22.x... > "Researchers
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by nosuchthing 7mo ago
LLMs can't access the training data that's less than the statistically most common token, so they use a random jitter. With that randomness comes statistically irrelevant results.
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by nosuchthing 7mo ago
It's a type of cognitive bias not much different than an addict or indoctrinated cult follower. A subset of them might actually genuinely fear Roko's basilisk the exact same way colonial religion leveraged the fear of eternal damn
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by nosuchthing 7mo ago
It looks like most of Peter's projects are just simple API wrappers. Peter's been running agents overnight 24/7 for almost a year using free tokens from his influencer payments to promote AI startups and multiple subscription
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by nosuchthing 7mo ago
Peter has been running agents overnight for months using free tokens from his influencer payments to promote AI startups and multiple subscription accounts: Hi, my name is Peter and I’m a Claudoholic. I’m addicted to agentic engineering
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by nosuchthing 7mo ago
OpenAI has deleted the word 'safely' from its mission (November 2025) https://theconversation.com/openai-has-deleted-the-word-safe... Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008560
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by nosuchthing 7mo ago
either way there's a lot of money pumping the agentic hype train with not much to show for it other than Peter's blog edit history showing he's a paid influencer and even the little obscure AI startups are trying to pay ( ht
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by nosuchthing 7mo ago
Can you elaborate on this more or point a link for some context?
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by nosuchthing 7mo ago
That's not actually research though. The LLM API is only requesting a few of the top search results from a search engine and then adding those web pages to its context window. That might work for simple tasks, but it's easily susc
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by nosuchthing 7mo ago
"Is curing patients a sustainable busines model?" - Goldman 2018 https://www.investmentwatchblog.com/goldman-sachs-asks-in-bi... Many of the biggest medical innovations have come from publicly funded university re
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by nosuchthing 7mo ago
LTO9 is only 18TB. The LTO compression ratio is theoretical and most peoples data will be incompatible with native LTO compression method used.
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by nosuchthing 7mo ago
"The Dawn of Everything" by David Graeber is a great, more recent alternative with a lot more context around the non-linear trajectory of history - the modern myths of linear progressive societal progress from savages, to agricult
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by nosuchthing 7mo ago
Manipulating the The Keynesian Beauty Contest is the metagame, especially after the era of /r/Wall-street bets swelled up. What do you think Jim Kramer gets paid to do, report facts? By 2017 teenagers were running quantitative tra
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by nosuchthing 7mo ago
In a post-industrial economy there are no more economic problems, only liabilities. Surplus is felt as threat, especially when it's surplus human labor. In today's economy disease and prison camps are increasingly profitable. How
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by nosuchthing 7mo ago
upwards of 60% of the ethanol used in combustion engines is completely wasted.
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by nosuchthing 7mo ago
Mass layoffs and the wellness camp industry will easily account for $600+ billion a year in contracts, for at least a few years. https://www.teenvogue.com/story/rfk-wellness-farms-us-disabi...
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by nosuchthing 7mo ago
Slop influencers like Peter Steinberger get paid to promote AI vibe coding startups and the agentic token burning hype. Ironically they're so deep into the impulsivity of it all that they can't even hide it. The latest frontier mo
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by nosuchthing 7mo ago
New York City had hybrid in-person and remote as an option, so only about 4 months were remote for most students. Seems like a perfect A/B test case to test the theory that a remote learning was actually associated with cognitive decli
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by nosuchthing 7mo ago
Funding for schools is often based on Average Daily Attendance.
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by nosuchthing 7mo ago
Most studies are showing children with neurological damage from continued exposure to covid outbreaks in schools multiple times a year. Lockdowns did not last more than a few months for the vast majority of school districts in the US.
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by nosuchthing 7mo ago
Most schools across the US were available for in person teaching by April and June of 2020. By August of 2020 the vast majority of schools were opened back up. https://ballotpedia.org/School_responses_to_the_coronavirus_...
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by nosuchthing 7mo ago
Debunked and no evidence, all claims came from biased sources: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-2-debunked-accounts-o... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_and_gender-based_violen...
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by nosuchthing 8mo ago
Isn't ATProto just a compromised version of Activity Pub, basically designed around an excuse to force all users into a data mining firehose structure like twitter used to have only there's no privacy features or federation for mo
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by nosuchthing 8mo ago
The game is social engineering to "exit" for early investors to bag holders through an IPO just like an ICO. The irony is with crypto everyone knows it's a scam, but with IPO's there's still true believers who think
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by nosuchthing 8mo ago
Metadata is never deleted, only copied to more and more archives and databases. You're always being added to a list, and all of your metadata decides what lists you'll end up on in the future.
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by nosuchthing 8mo ago
Thanks. That's not really bypassing iPhone before first unlock. It says only 'partial' metadata, so it's likely just looking at encrypted blobs and making guesses just like file recovery tool would on an encrypted drive.
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by nosuchthing 8mo ago
Where has there been any allegations iPhone before first unlock has been bypassed? GrapheneOS isn't quite as secure in the real world. Pixels continue to have baseband and OOBConfig exploits that allow pushing zero interaction updates,
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by nosuchthing 8mo ago
Okay fair point, so it seems we're miscommunicating the semantics. In math, there's proofs, so I'm not sure what term is better to say other than disprove, or to say the original claims of the Tragedy of the Commons has been
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by nosuchthing 8mo ago
I guess that's a fair point. It will be interesting to see how unregulated AI plays out. It seems like one other aspect to this is a question of how these systems are all very new and we're already seeing addiction and psychosis f
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by nosuchthing 8mo ago
Elinor Ostrom proved The Commons can be collectively owned and managed. It's nothing to do with the scale being small or large if you actually read her research studies and the game theory models she published you would know that but i

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