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which if you know why fei fei is famous, perfectly lines up. she was the first to turn from better algs to diverse data for training, even for super specific image classifiers. what is this, but an attempt to, like humans, make anything we can experience training data and thus a native "language" of the model.

yes, thank you for the correction! i read it when it came out, so it's been a while! fun to imagine karpathy labeling images versus what he's doing now!! her first edition (unsigned, tragically) sits on my shelf of reverence!)

Dr Fei Fei Li's book The Worlds I See is a great read about both her life and the history of early AI and her role in it, which is major (Ilya was one of her phd students, along with the Alex of AlexNet) so if you don't already know the history of these systems, it's a great read. Very inspiring stuff. Great read and learned about it here so passing on the good word

as someone who upgrades frequently i keep two one as a backup for travel and what not so my past two gens i keep third oldest trade in.

> alternatives...

Well, maybe start fixing problems at home before spending tens of billions not fixing things anywhere else? we can't even change ourselves for the better, an adjudicated rapist, alleged pedophile rules us, and we're going to reform other countries? what grounds do we have to be casting stones ? "they're killing protestors!" I hear many westerns say, while ignoring the americans we're jailing for 30 years, calling terrorists for protesting the extrajudicial killings ICE are doing. we have millions without healthcare, above subsistence employment, food security. Why are americans worried about "changing" iran?? Let's look in the mirror, folks.

> how are yall carrying context...

Personally I just , in the orchestration loop, have all decisions be constantly reviewed and deliberated on and the decisions logged in a permanent way, that way everything is auditable, the model if needed can go back and look at why x or why decision was made or x or y tool used, and they're all labeled as D-1234 or whatever.

Plus I have it log the council discussions and always include provenance or the opinions so fable can go back after every major implementation and review how the orchestration loop could be improved. Basically have it log as much thinking in an organized compartmentalized way is better than any memory feature I've found though I haven't tried many. Auditable logs for every major decision, use 5.5 with reckless abandon (still have 3 resets myself).

Not claiming this is perfect but it has led to a very easy time of any fresh agent picking up the project. I also keep a task queue and project status and agent playbook that also get refined based off the logs of how a run went

> they do need to actually consider that 5 year olds might have guns.

hilarious accidental commentary on the US

> no way to prevent this - only nation where this regularly happens [0]

> The AI companies were all asking for the government to regulate them pretty shallow take. they asked for sensible, transparent, tech aware regulations. this is not that.

"democratically elected" being an extremely load bearing sentiment if you know anything about what people's lives are actually like on the ground. did you know a large majority of the populace didn't even vote in 2006? since 2006? there hasn't been elections since. The median age is 18.

Pulled all their military out? Oh, they still controlled their airspace, critical infra, borders tho? Sounds very self determined!

Serious, bad faith or extremely reductive misrepresentation that I can't tell is borne from ignorance willful or accidental.

your comment is the equivalent of acting like cuba's economy is all their own choosing, without analyzing the immense damage sanctions (and why sanctions were there in the first place) have done to the country, or accosting haiti without knowing why their struggles exist. context matters.

that's a forward thinking robotics company right there. putting in weakspots for when the centaur robot revolution begins. so we have a chance.

it's gotten scary out there for purveyors of truth and knowledge. book burnings, banning, retributive use of the judicial system, etc..

If you read anthropic paper on "functional" emotions in llm's you'd have a lot of fun. there's so much research that would be so fun to do if we had the compute to spare

https://transformer-circuits.pub/2026/emotions/index.html

if it helps it's from his novel imperium about cicero. the rest of the quote is great. "...Cicero had stuck to his principles and rejected joining pompey, crassus, and Caesar in their triumvirate to supplant the state. He denounced their criminality in public...in response, he suffered banishment, poverty, and heartbreak. "What good am i to my family or my principles, exiled here?" something like that. from memory. great little trilogy of books btw. got the rec off here actually

404media is good stuff, one of the few news outlets I pay for. I didn't dig too deep on the above comment because I have a deep respect for journalists despite admittedly many of them servicing things I dislike by choice or coercion or for remuneration or fame, etc. Reading about journalists in more authoritarian countries was seriously depressing

for a good counterbalance to those just finding out the nyt is a state dept mouthpiece at best, read about real journalists and why there seem to be so few of them, read Pegasus by laurent richard. Spoiler alert, real journalists who expose powerful peoples' wrongdoings simply get killed.

"how easy it is, for those of us who play no part in public affairs, to sneer at the compromises required of those who do" - robert harris

Not making any value judgements, but I can see how one might value their interpretability research higher than what the ceo says in a time where the corrupt, criminal executive branch is muscling in to everything from what's written on currency, to journalistic sources. I generally blame fascists before i blame those unable or unwilling to resist them. though obviously, ideally, we'd all lock arms and, together through friendship, crush authoritarians and fascists.

But not all are IN decline..

In an empire in decline, sure.

When the only question is how precipitous the empire's fall will be, it's not looking good, regardless.

the end of proprietary blobs has to be the oddest set of words that excites me

In retrospect, was there a better place to learn about the cruelty of the world than runescape? Must've got scammed thrice before I lost the youthful light in my eye

I'm sorry for your loss. Beautiful memorial and portrait you painted though. Thank you for sharing.

What's even crazier is the technological pursuit of EUV and what a moonshot it was. Chip wars by chris miller chronicles it and it is absolutely crazier than sci fi.

Luckily I am US based, but unfortunately looks like there's no way out of the developer grind for a few years.

I have presentation skills and plenty of soft skills but no experience building complex b2b systems. I've, for many a year, done a very basic version of my understanding of the role for non profits, business and individuals. designed technical solutions of all sorts but mostly just met their needs with existing software along with education.

I was hoping I could enter straight into customer facing roles but I suppose I was simply really holding out hope I could avoid what I've heard called, so lovingly, "the code mines". Any further suggestions would be greatly welcome.

Thank you again for taking the time to respond and offer this wisdom.

>Sure, if you're some sort of tyrant. I thought the left was against colonialism... but you guys really just one a more clever, subtle colonialism eh? Figures

Drastic misrepresentation. I made no value judgements. I simply offered reasons why the above commenter may be wrong. from different points of view. You misunderstand or are naive to the spectrum of how parasitic to symbiotic those soft power relationships can be

> What you're saying is that no cuts can or should be made, unless they are your favorite cuts first. And maybe after you get those, no others need be made at all.

Nope, just saying there's pretty clear science behind where money could be better spent besides billions in forever wars. Maybe start there? 9$ trillion on pointless wars in the middle east comes to mind? google a map of countries we've overthrown the democratic leader of if you want more examples. all the shahs men is useful too. i could go on.

> I've committed no atrocities. Going to guess that you've committed no atrocities. What atrocities did occur, most of those who committed those are dead, the rest are senile in nursing homes. I have no guilt and certainly feel no guilt for those events

It's not about that. someone simply had to pay that debt. sorry to tell you those bills they wracked up to accumulate wealth are coming due for the rest of us right or not.

is there anyway you'd be willing to field a few questions from a soon to be cs grad interested deeply in this specific career path after realizing they'd been doing it in a way for free already. good experience, but unconventional experience who aspires to a position similar to yours?

> The US taxpayer has no moral obligation to send welfare "around the world".

I mean, by way of the atrocities we've committed around the world, we kinda do.

Even if we buy your thesis, foregoing morals, geopolitics, and history, it's a useful soft power strategy...

I'm not saying fund USAID before healthcare for all in america. I'm saying of all the insane things our government wastes money on, USAID was far down on the list of most egregious.

also remember it's pretty much the only addiction you are compelled to partake in even when "cured". No other addiction are you biologically compelled to do it (that i can think of) but for those with addiction issues and food as one of them it's often the hardest to shake because shaking addiction is easiest done simply by never touching it. Don't have that option with food. Even healthy food can be eaten in excess.

paying to train* and fund the research for the tools to replace us

The only man to successfully battle and defeat glp-1's in war. his getting fit series is genuinely motivational. But not for any of the right reasons, lol.