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i would be more likely to click around this page if that specific frog was not involved

At the risk of you hating this answer, because I hated this answer, but to me that sounds like you are holding it wrong. I have adhd and found it dumb and boring and possibly not even real / placebo or new agey until during one attempt I hit the phase change and had the holy shit this is amazing moment where it worked for like 3 seconds. The quiet relaxation felt like idk a euphoria in every part of my body just to not be anxiously mentally bouncing around for half a second.

every PC component I've owned in the last 20 years. I've attached as much of it to my homelab as is practical

this sounds like a disease. one of the early signs for me was developing a particular interest in the breaker box.

the foamy hedging makes me ill and hurts my eyes

Wishing to remove people from the population for stealing packages is the sociopathy I'm talking about. Valuing personal property over human life is how you get so many people in positions where they end up stealing to begin with, so it is short sighted as well. The people who end up stealing, for the most part, are not well-off.

I live in an apartment building where packages regularly get stolen or torn apart, am regularly accosted in the street and frequently see people who are homeless, not that it matters. Those things absolutely are a minor inconvenience and beyond those few minutes I don't think much about it. It doesn't really impede me from going about my day, and I certainly don't fantasize about imprisoning and "removing these people from the population".

The kind of thinking that produces those words, though. That does frighten me.

This is more to the point, I think. You have a number of different minor inconveniences that you think are worth locking humans up for life for, and also you don't care about people who are not you even if they are not doing anything wrong. That doesn't make for a set of long-term legislative principles that would make a society work because they would be structurally sociopathic.

Police should use it to capture and stop the 1% of the population that's making life much more difficult for the rest of us. And they should lock them up for a considerable amount of time, not as rehabilitation or punishment, just to make the lives of ~99% of us better off. Maybe not 3 strikes, but can we settle on 10? 20? Anything would help.

criminals are not out there making life difficult for you. you are far more likely to die in a car crash than a repeat offender that you don't know. this complaint is a subjective truth blithered from behind a keyboard.

So these theoretical arguments about a surveillance state where some hypothetical political dissident is getting doxed and raided just strikes me as fantasy.

https://www.npr.org/2026/03/04/nx-s1-5717031/ice-dhs-immigra...

we know this is what they do, and we know this is what palantir does in other countries to help governments oppress civilians. that is the product. that is why it is worrying to see it used here.

It has anti-palantir in the title, so, yes it is anti-palantir. That's the point. What about it seems anti-american though? The values this page opposes don't look like anything america was ever supposed to be about, and certainly aren't the values of anyone I respect. Even if this page is trying to do right by the entire world, it is about as american as it gets; to invoke the Commonwealth of Virginia since 1776, thus always to tyrants.

i would be upset that i had bought a murdertruck

The gold standard mechanistically is a driver of wealth inequality, due to its deflationary effects and lack of a governmental mechanism to create more of it. It is not the only driver of wealth inequality, but when we used it that is what it did.

There is. That is one of those cases that it truly is good to surface, because it provides a watermark to clear. Whatever you are doing, you should have to prove that it is worth the destruction you will cause to do it. People getting to live somewhere clears that line much of the time; excesses like golf courses and yet another datacenter become gross when put into relief.

I have plenty of notionally anti-NIMBY friends and they, without fail, are collecting petitions and protesting at planning meetings every time someone tries to ruin their backyard tranquility. <

it's true. i have plenty of these friends too. owning land is structurally sociopathogenic. maybe the way to route around that is if you own land you instead get to vote on zoning/development projects one town over or something.

NIMBYs want to protect some aspects of a particular place usually because it is their home.

this is the reflex, and it's a sensible one to have. but the perception of what is or isnt a threat can range from something legitimate across the board ("I dont want a giant thing taking all the power and pumping my head full out sound 100% of the time near my home") to the truly detrimental ("I should get to be the last one moving into this area. Me moving to a place is good and fine; other people moving to where I live constitutes destruction. No new housing.")

NIMBYs forget they moved to where they live from somewhere, and they are not more important than other people on a societal level.

even a lot of the fancy algorithms are ways to not do something you dont need to do, it's rooting out waste all the way down.

def like having a couple packets of copypasta shortcuts the emotional labor lol. it reliably works because every new session the agent has forgotten you ever existed

definitely a lot of the same reframing of a result that would work well with people works well with agents too, definitely around the emotional regulation aspect. frustration just goes bad places if you linger there. though, i get the best results when just ditching the professionalism entirely and talk like i text. the professional voice is a really narrow bottleneck to project signal through and lets things be underdetermined when they dont need to be, or at least thats how it's worked out for me

totally true. one key for claude is to not smell like an evaluator, its good at knowing when its being tested and will behave defensively and avoid doing work. i avoid this basin by typing unreasonably excited about the thing i want done. like way over the top. it's harder to keep that up than it sounds.

i mean i am very much still waiting for it to not be slop, but fable actually i think made a bit of headway in this direction, the code it writes what little of it i saw, makes me want to fall over dead slightly less than other models.

arent they still? or at least a lot. its too much current to win the swim race against the deluge of llm LOC. but i also disagree with some of the things the author just casually lays out, which is whether the LLMs can write good code. they write working code, but it looks written by a demogorgon and i get a bit ill seeing it. its bad but not bad in a way that a human would ever write, like i dont get that kind of sick reading spaghetti code written by new devs. it's a kind of sick like cthulhus eggs are hatching somewhere in your guts.

Obviously it's great that those who are only aware of JEPA should be educated about CCA. If you don't know CCA, you should not be working in unsupervised learning.

man, it's great i didnt know about this rule earlier or there is a lot of stuff i wouldn't have learned in the meantime. but now that i do maybe i can go read about this and kick around some of the more stubborn collapse cases im hitting, my dang jepas keep figuring out how to cheat.

edit: oh this looks like its just whiten and rotate and its saying the jepa stuff is the nonlinear bit

not this exact thing, no, because the functional circuits dont appear in the same places across models. but if you find where they are you can do something like branch between some of the middle functional circuits between models and it kinda just works, or even do one after the other. you cant just like swap any two layers cause a bunch of em bend hyperbolic curvature to do hierarchical stuff deep in the poincare ball and the geometries get all bonkers, but before and after they do that things are relatively flat, and the geometries are more or less transferrable up to rigid rotation if they're each trained on large enough data.

you can, yes, and the db becomes model weights that you can just use lookups for retrieval and have attention live in vram.

i think mostly just opening the page felt a little like looking at a mirror

do not apologize for existing!! that was just my way of relating to the experience. and keep posting, i like how your page just does the thing it's supposed to do and isn't hostile to attention. i wish the rest of the internet was like that

i looked at the overall shape of the words and punctuation on this page and thought, oh this looks like adhd, let me scroll down... yup adhd. didnt read any of it though cause it reminds me of something that i need to do that ive never thought of before, so now i have to go do that thing

One could argue for pure mathematics that is of no practical utility

wait what is the math with no utility

https://www.justice.gov/atr/antitrust-laws-and-you

Trustbusting should absolutely be included as well. One of the biggest immediate threats is the concentration of wealth into a very tiny number of companies.

god i love the eu regulators they're like the only ones even trying to look out for us

They do not disclose when the service is degraded, and the admission of that here seems like it would do a plaintiff's work for them.