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  • Friend, I’m going to be blunt: I think you may have spent time creating this with help from an LLM, and it told you too much of what you want to hear because that’s what they're literally trained to do.

    As an example…”relativistic coherence?” Computational cycles and SHA512 checksums and bit flips and prime instances? You are mixing modern technical terms and highly speculative, theoretical concepts in a way that… just isn’t really compatible.

    And the text, from what I can parse, is similar. It mixes a lot of contemporary “anthropic” concepts (money, the 24 hour day, and so on), terms that loosely apply to text LLMs, and a few highly speculative concepts that may or may not even apply to the future.


    If you are concerned about AI safety, I think you should split your attention between contemporary, concrete systems we have now and the more abstract, philosophical research that’s been going on even before the LLM craze started. Not mix them together.

    Look into what local LLM tweakers are doing. With, for instance, alignment datasets, experiments on “raw” pretrains, or more cutting edge abliration like: https://github.com/p-e-w/heretic

    In other words, look at the concrete, and how actual safety systems can be applied now. Outlines like yours are interesting, but they can’t actually be applied or enforced.

    And on the philosophical side, basically ignore any institute or effort started after 2021, when all the “Tech Bro” hype and modern LLMs muddied the waters. But there was plenty of safety research going on before then. There are already many documents/ideas similar to what you’re getting at in your outlines: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_safety

  • I don’t really understand what the documents are practically supposed to be or how they could be “red teamed.”

    1st is a bunch of quotes, 3rd is QA.

    Is the 2nd one a system prompt?

  • So what?

    What if Canada joined CSTO and signed some pact with China. Does that give the US justification to invade and annex them? Because it violates some handshake from 36 years ago?


    If Russia doesn’t like all this NATO expansion, they can drag someone controversial into an alliance or do some other controversial thing. Have at it. A war is not a rational response, unless you’re a tankie.

  • Not going to get into logistical analysis (I am behind on that). Nor will I dispute the hypocrisy of focusing only on a "white war." That's fair.

    But I'm fervent that the justification for Russia's action is total baloney. I can, and absolutely will, write it off.

    To put it another way: even if Mexico was provably 100% Nazi, and they worshipped China and drug cartels and whatever boogeyman we have like gods, I would still be ashamed if my country, the US, invaded them as Russia invaded Ukraine. It’s beyond preposterous to think they pose a military threat to the US, or that it’s our job to purify them, much less to breathlessly excuse such an invasion as (say) Russia’s fault.

    That's what I mean by "Tankies."

  • Good.

    Meanwhile, I'm eagerly waiting for the local Tankie to, once again, explain how so much death is justified by the dire threat Ukraine poses to a 17 million square kilometer country with 5,459 nuclear warheads. And, apparently, to their own people. I'm sure NATO is still making them do it, yep.

  • Not in terms of energy use, ~110 Megawatt hours. Even if you multiply that for production costs, test training runs and such, its less energy than an airline flight, or the yearly power consumption of a few homes. And it only needed to be done once.

    It's not a trivial financial cost though, no.

  • Staring down big American cars in full contact races is literally the Mini’s pedigree.

    POV: https://youtu.be/QAo1ylm304g

    It has no fear here. It knows what to do.

  • I lived in Manatee County for a bit, and never heard of this place.

    It seems cool though.

  • Check the battery health.

    If it was thrashed (like in Uber driving or cold weather or something), and it needs replacing, the car could be basically totaled. Or so I hear with Teslas.

  • No politician should be simped for.

    Unfortunately, simping has proven to be very effective :(

  • Same with germanium.

    And boron.

    …I was gonna say I wouldn’t want a giant cube of boron. But actually, I kinda do?

  • Short answer: Yes.

    Long answer: Yes. Tune all of that nonsense out… But don’t fret if you own a tiny bit, either.

    I kind of like Warren Buffet’s ramblings on it:

    Gold gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.

    You could take all the gold that's ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. For what that's worth at current gold prices, you could buy all -- not some -- all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 Exxon Mobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money. Or you could have a big cube of metal. Which would you take?

  • …and not really much else that has any kind of revenue potential.

    I stopped reading there.

    Yeah, Nvidia is up to some shady, circular cash flow, literally criminal financing. They’re all in on AI Bro.

    But this blogger is totally ignorant of what they’ve been up to the past decade. They’re still a graphics company. They have huge gaming and workstation markets; hell, almost a monopoly in them.

    And they’ve been pushing virtual spaces for a long time. Stuff like industrial robotics, synthetic data generation before AI got popular, simulation, all sorts of things. If every single LLM disappeared tomorrow, and their financing scheme implodes, Nvidia would be just fine, and carry on as usual.


    And while I’m ranting, they’re wrong about CUDA too. It’s a monopoly for the research space, but absolutely not for production inference/training. If you want proof, see one example of many: https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.04519

    As well as the massive NPU-trained MoEs on huggingface now.

    “AI” is already moving off of Nvidia, but the cutting edge of whatever is en vogue next will still be on Nvidia. I don’t know if that’s bullish or bearish, and I don’t really care.

  • There’s something to be said for its scripting accessibility, too. Hence the many fabulous VSCode extensions.

  • https://www.comparitech.com/kodi/kodi-piracy-decline/

    https://www.digital-digest.com/news-64644-Netflix-Amazon-Join-Forces-with-the-MPAA-to-Sue-Kodi-Box-Maker.html

    Based on our research, comparative search volume for “Kodi” has fallen around 85 percent from 2017 to 2022. Google Trends data reveals the dramatic decline started in Q2 of 2017 and has, for the most part, continued that trend up to this point. Consequently, the decline in people searching for Kodi directly relates to the appearance of the coordinated attack against piracy in the form of ACE.

    And this is with Kodi furiously distancing itself from pirates at the time.

    Attacks don’t have to be direct. Though they absolutely can be, too.

  • That’s particularly interesting.

    MH is notorious for being unoptimized, right? Maybe DXVK and the sane linux scheduling is working wonders there.

    I use DXVK in Windows, on rare occasions, and the gains can be pretty dramatic in (for instance) janky DX9 games.

  • Eh I disagree with the power usage point, specifically. Don’t listen to Altman lie through his teeth; generation and training should be dirt cheap.

    See the recent Z Image, which was trained on a shoestring budget and costs basically nothing to run: https://arxiv.org/html/2511.22699v2

    The task energy per image is less than what it took for me to type out this comment.


    As for if we “need” it, yeah, that’s a good point and what I was curious about.

    But then again… I don’t get why people use a lot of porn services. As an example, I just don’t see the appeal of OF, yet it’s a colossal enterprise.

  • But if we can stop people from looking at the illegal/dangerous stuff, and use AI to create it, let those people watch that instead, I think that would be a net positive. Of course you’d want to identify them, tag them and keep them separate from the rest of people; it’s not a solution to the problem they create, but if you can reduce the demand for it, I dunno, I want nothing to do with that kind of stuff, but I feel like there’s a solution in there somewhere.

    CP detectors got really good well before image gen was even a thing. They had to, as image hosting sites had to filter it somehow. So that’s quite solvable.

    Look at CivitAI as a modern example.

    They filter deepfakes. They filter CP. They correctly categorize and tag NSFW, all automatically and (seemingly) very accurately. You are describing a long solved problem in any jurisdiction that will actually enforce their laws.


    If you’re worried about power/water usage, already solved too. See frugal models like this, that could basically serve porn to the whole planet for pennies: https://arxiv.org/html/2511.22699v2


    IMO the biggest sticking point is datasets… The Chinese are certainly using some questionable data for the base models folks tend to use, though the porn finetunes tend to use publicly hosted booru data and such.