Ozzie_osman

AI psychosis + "founder mode". Deadly combo.

What is it about AI psychosis that makes leaders act like assholes?

I definitely think that me and my team need to push ourselves to rethink how we work. Sometimes I have to push top-down, but I'd rather this happen in a measured way that's a combination of bottoms-up and top-down.

I call it Toddler Soccer Syndrome. Ball's over there? Let's all chase it. Oh, moved over here now? Everyone run the other way.

Yes but has it broken out of its sandbox and hacked anyone yet?

So does this help alleviate the dementia symptoms? Or do those remain but at least the patients get better sleep?

Build the technology and the platform. Let others figure out how to leverage. Pick and choose which of those verticals to do yourself.

Kind of like Amazon.

Seems to be doing fine as per Openrouter rankings: https://openrouter.ai/rankings#leaderboard-table

It's the top model for classification.

We've found that you can fine-tune confidence scores for your domain into existing models. I think the way this works is that you basically help the model understand what types of inputs it tends to get right and which ones it tends to get wrong. This seems like a reasonable thing you'd expect a model to be able to learn

"You will love this next piece of software. Completely hand-made. Each line of code, each piece of the visual design, was carefully and artisinally crafted by a real human, using techniques passed down for generations between craftsmen. Some of those techniques survive in books like Code Complete and such. They don't make 'em like this anymore. "

Excellent question. It seems likely because:

* The state of Israel does authorize spyware sales (eg NSO Group has to get a license from the Ministry of Defense, and Israel's Defense Export Control Agency states that its decisions take national security / foreign policy into account).

* In the case of Pegasus, NYT had reported that Netanyahu intervened to make an exception allowing sale of Pegasus to Saudi Arabia (as political leverage). NSO group execs used Israeli diplomatic passports when they traveled and stayed at the Israeli embassy.

* The government doesn't crack down on these industries, which it would do if it really considered them criminal.

* In this particular case, one of the main targets was Al Jazeera, which seems unlikely that a criminal company would want to target vs. a state actor.

So yea, the government seems to allow these companies to engage in what other countries would consider criminal activity. You can then kind of choose your spot on the spectrum of: "I think this is some broad conspiracy the government purposefully designed for large-scale espionage" or just "The Israeli government thinks it would be good to have great cybersecurity skills in the country so they bend the rules a little".

A good well-researched read is The Palestine Laboratory by Antony Loewenstein.

I'm saying they shouldn't do that, because there is a decent chance those Israeli companies may do things at odds with their customers' best interests (because they cannot or would not say no to a government request).

Obviously not the first time an Israeli tech firm is responsible for these types of exploits, and at this point I'd go so far as saying that any Israeli-based tech company (especially cyber security ones, of which they have a strong industry) should be considered beholden to the government of Israel and hence, probably not trustworthy. How could you be sure whether they will act like a trustworthy independent entity, or compromise your data for the benefit of the state?

I loved how when I'd see the dentist, they'd have their assistant put together a "treatment plan", optimized over time to maximally milk my dental insurance.

You need to understand the system you're working on enough to make well-informed decisions about its current and future states.

In some cases you can get away with not reading the code. And maybe in the future that will be more common. But for now, I personally prefer to read (or skim) the code, and not abdicate to AI.

I mean, it's obvious in retrospect, and technically not too hard to implement... Combining the power of LLMs with the constrained nature of classifiers. But no one did it well, and they did it first, and it took off.

It's possible that Jev has more in the pipeline. I mean, for shipping something so paradigm-shifting, this would be a bet on the founder/team continuing to do things faster or better.

I'll admit it's hard for me to debate which war crime is worse. I see your point, but I just can't fathom scores of dead children, even if it's negligence rather than purposeful.

It's one thing to say: "We will not recognize or abide by ICC verdicts".

It's another thing to say: "We will dismantle it if it goes after Americans".

It's also extremely hypocritical since Rubio himself co-sponsored a resolution backing the court's jurisdiction over Russians accused of war crimes.

So it's really more like: "If it says things we agree with, we will be on board. If it says things we disagree with, not only will we not be on board, we will erase the whole thing".

Or strikes on Iranian schools killing hundreds of kids, later blamed on AI.

I'm not a very talkative person. I have a relative where conversations can go like this.

Me: "so are we getting lunch today?" Them: "well, I called your aunt and she didn't pick up. Then she called me back. Then she said X. Then I said Y. Then we did Z. {15 minutes of conversation later}. We agreed to meet at X for lunch."

I find if fascinating and quite frustrating but if I ask them to get to the point, they get frustrated and say "this is how I speak, just be patient".

> The US never ratified a treaty establishing the authority of the ICC, so it has not consented to that diminution of sovereignty.

True, they could ignore the ICC, but they shouldn't go around sanctioning and punishing and threatening its judges.

Sometimes a recruiter or hiring manager wants to do outreach as if it's coming from a more senior person, with the assumption that the candidates are more likely to respond.

Assuming this is what was intended, there are far more secure ways of doing this.

Also very curious to know these questions, and the ongoing cost/maintenance/bookkeeping to maintain 501c3.

This is amazing. I'm curious how you provide oversight. I imagine with Amwirite there was a lot of trust, but how can you be ensure the money is actually being used properly as you add more students?

I'd imagine that in many parts of the world where money is tight, you might encounter families who just use the money for other things or all sorts of schemes.

I'd also love to learn more about the 501c3 process and how easy/hard it is.

I love my Kindle. Changed my life. I read so much more now. No need to order or go buy books, no need to plan ahead which books to take on a trip, etc.

That said, it is so buggy (constant freezes, occasional white screen of death) and so slow.

The Nature of Tyranny, by El Kawakibi (a Syrian scholar). The book is 100 years old, and originally in Arabic, but there are some very good translations.

Great read on tyranny and it's adverse effects. Very relevant to what's happening in the world day.

Unfortunately unavailable on Kindle.

It's sad that so much of this conversation has devolved into technicalities of whether this is a genocide.

You can't look at this, at reports coming out of Gaza and the West Bank, at Israel's own government officials' statements, and not, at minimum, believe that brutal war crimes were committed on a massive basis here. Whether it's "Holocaust level" or "genocide" is a red herring. It needs universal condemnation, it needs to stop, and the people who did it need to be held accountable.

  > The US is morally superior in every way that counts.

This in a thread about how the US bombed a school.