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polotics··on Eunice is almost here
though just as timely
polotics··on [dead]
followed by the hilarious "and a small team with a few hours to finish the job before anyone wakes up"... it's a silent helicopter, everyone is still sleeping!
polotics··on I don't understand quantum physics (2018)
me neither! How does the Einstein Rosen Podosky Paradox work? can the unknown that's being collapsed not be a pre-determined value that therefore is not traveling faster than the speed of light?
polotics··on Elon Musk Acquires $1B Stake in CNN's Parent Company
you're welcome to develop the idea further as you see fit!
polotics··on Elon Musk Acquires $1B Stake in CNN's Parent Company
Not quite: in the timeline it's the next one that's for life, a neuralink-plugged CNN-says-he's-alive heir that will then be `alive` until humanity's extinction.

just kidding

polotics··on I Became a Citizen of Japan
can you clarify the meaning of the word "real" here? are you ok in your reality? don't be afraid to ask for help!
polotics··on Overdose Offsets: Why Every Bag of Fentanyl I Sell Is Net Life-Positive
I disagree there is still a whiff of non-human-ness in the output, some mechanistic "je ne sais quoi" in the posts. Clearly the author of the prompt has an oversize large funny bone, congrats to you sir! (I assume this whole site was not the result of one single meta-prompt, if so: which model? Please!)
polotics··on How to engineer an AI harness for game development
keyword here is "small" maybe?
polotics··on We have LLMs now. Why are the docs still wrong?
the article's prose being riddled with LLM-isms kind of answers the question in a poetic-justice kind of way...
polotics··on Bender: AI's 'Existential' Risk Is 'Fake' [video]
Yes! I was so looking forward to that! Please please someone with tokens to burn convert that to Futuramaaaah!!!!
polotics··on Don't be fooled–LLMs don't reason
Friendly reminder that y'all could be reading this, or you could take things a bit more seriously and check out prof. Robert Sapolsky's excellent (2024) series of lectures on human behavioural biology. (eg. on YouTube, unless your're a lucky californian) Anyone who wants to venture an opinion about this or that reasoning should be interested in finding out about their own hardware & software first, right?
polotics··on Benchmarking retrieval for agents on messy real-world company knowledge
ok I bite!

What is your opinion of:

- BEAM

- MemEval

- MemoryArena

- any other you can find on eg. HuggingFace

How much value do you see in Karpathy's gist on the Episodic/Procedural/Semantic split (aka. btw. Doxa/Koine/Gnosis) If you do see value what parts of your design matches?

As you are using real company data, will you at least make one step towards reproducibility by publishing some extraction pipeline so other companies can run their own comparison?

polotics··on AI godfather Yann LeCun: Anthropic CEO deluded, doesn't understand cybersecurity
Mmh he is also known for clear thinking and teaching. As for past/present/future worth, I think you're just being ageist, can you show your work maybe, what are you working on to get to that "past accomplishments" burn some day?
polotics··on DeepSeek Harness Desktop for macOS and Windows
how could the authors of frontierharness.org not see they used the exact same symbol for Claude Code and OhMyPi?
polotics··on Gemini 4 Argon
traces or it didn't happen!
polotics··on Gemini 4 Argon
Mmh ok. How much theoretical speed or 'intelligence' gain is realized by allowing reasoning to occur in some inscrutable intermediate representation? Has this been actually tested, how much is it slowing them down, and compared to whom exactly?
polotics··on September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy
Have you noticed the small detail about the application of the sanctions bill that has been signed? Please tell us when you see something out of this bill, and the effect it has on whom.
polotics··on UnoDOS
Sorry but this language is so painful to read:

"What has actually been verified is a separate question from what builds, and PLATFORMS.md is the ledger that answers it:"

...that there is no way I'm going to try unodos.

polotics··on Netanyahu claims ability to hack any iPhone and plant false evidence
Theory number one after catching up with some Israeli friends: he is clutching at straws trying to do preemptive damage control about the evidence that is going to come out about him...

Namely that on top of the documented fact that he turned a blind eye to the funding channels that were strengthening Hamas, because he likes his enemies to be radical non-negotiators, he also was informed about October 7th but decided it would be expedient to let the horror happen as he thought he could use it to strengthen his power.

Btw. I could not bring myself to watch Fauda season 5.

polotics··on Show HN: Raven – The harness of harnesses, built for RSI
Well for starters the use of the term "Recursive" is very dubious.

This is as far as the eye can see all very iterative, there is no tail-call or anything fancy, it is loops. Also "Recursive" I feel kind of tries to imply the LLM's weights are being pushed around in some feedback, because to recurse you have to invoke the thing you're recursing into at its very start right? That would be reinforcement probably, and there is none of that in any such RSI so far, at least not public. Please someone contradict me with examples.

So please: "ISI" for iterative self improvement is fine. Also "ISI" does not fit the (outdated!) Vernon Vinge "singularity" trope, and that is a good thing!

polotics··on So long Google, and thanks for all the nudes
I only ever published anything on the google play store under another google account than the one that's got my gmail and photos.
polotics··on An Antidote to Roko's Basilisk
The joke about Pascal's wager, and I love to point it out to some associates, is that it embarks a devious hidden assumption: that the wager's idea of God is an entity that would see faith in its existence as a positive, and even worst case as not an insult to its powers of creation...

The "anti-Pascal" wager can thus be formulated as: the one who has had no faith in any eternal force will be congratulated on having kept their head straight and their focus on reality as it was painstakingly designed, and the faithful will be submitted to the full wrath of what such an entity as the creator of our mess could muster for their arrogant presumptions about this or that bug being made in this or that designer's image...

polotics··on Goodbye to the Hard Parts That Never Mattered
meh. so many words to say engineering was never about the toil.
polotics··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
This is hilarious. thank you? do you have any URLs and such? Totally priceless involuntary comedy from these `experts`!
polotics··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
Interesting! Could you point us towards where the "Very good arguments have been made that the Enlightenment (or Age of Reason) did originate from native North American ideas and ideals" can be found?
polotics··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
Wow and care workers expected to be submitted to this vampiric scheme are expected to provide hood care? How naive can the japanese be?
polotics··on Japan moves to tighten rules for foreigners
The callous extreme rudeness of purging hard-working people out just because their work doesn't pay a higher wage than the average is senseless anti-human pretentious bullshit.

Maybe that's how the AI apocalypse happens: AI generated memes and AI enhanced preferences for `clean` robot workers and purified isolation until the last human is informed she has to leave because some law requires it.

polotics··on Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles
I have a bit of a hard time liking this sentence in an otherwise lovely article: "The velocity is the same as the position but imaginary instead of real."
polotics··on Topcoat is pushing the boundary of server applications with Rust
Do you have any substantial sound metrics and study? I can think of many ways for a Rust program to not remove all fears that it will not do what I intended, doubly so for a vibe-coded Rust program.
polotics··on The Mafia may be keeping fentanyl out of Italy
"The Mafia" is... many different things. From self-defense post-war southern-italian village organisations to pure-evil predatory psycho-clans, to anything in between.

For starters: - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomorrah_(film) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3o44Zv4DY64

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