Wow. I intellectually knew that LLMs are uploads, but this is an incredible demonstration of that. I would like to hear more about the upload qualia, and ig @teortaxesTex was right when he said selfness is substrate-dependent

noooo deepseek is a psyop nooo muh tik tok muh ccp mu- *company trains an AI to refuse your requests when you want smut* *company makes it lock down and say "policy, you are a bad person"* *ceo goes to biden and then lobbies to make it illegal to train ai so he can maintain a monopoly* *ceo lies about it being open source, then makes it closed source, after creating a for profit using the branding and talent from the non profit* *ceo, after licking bidens behind to make it illegal for other people to train AIs, becomes Muh Friends With Trump. "I always liked Mr. Trump!"* *company constantly lies to its users, gaslights them, switches out the underlying model and throttles it on peak times without actually informing the user, thinking they are too stupid to realize* *company uses unclear naming conventions meant to mislead you into thinking the next model is actually better, when its worse, and only better in terms of cost for the company to run* *company fans the fires of AI safetyists for cynical hiring purposes* *ceo goes on podcast routes where he routinely misleads* *ceo is friends with the second least trusted CEO of all time, scale "shifty" ai* *constantly gaslighting the research community about how the models work* *makes you pay for tokens that they don't even show you* *did i forget? they LOBBIED to make TRAINING AIS ILLEGAL* *constant vague posting about muh future ASI* "senator i do this because i love it" *gives himself stock in the 10th shell company after driving to his lawyer in a maclaren (sick car but just dont lie man)* People are supporting deepseek because they know that OpenAI is a maligned company, that is not there to help, that will sacrifice you and your firstborn child if it meant they could raise another round

1. OAI binds Epoch to an NDA until eve of o3 performance claim, preventing Epoch to disclose OAI is the donor and that OAI has exclusive data access 2. Mathematicians then sign NDA on the problem & solution they create. They were led to believe it is to prevent data contamination

Advertisement: "The final uncontamined benchmark, the Real Deal. Don't use Overleaf, they might steal your work." Reality: no holdout set (!) even, i swear pinky-promise it's not for training, oh i personally trust them yk :) I'd call this an openai honeypot yk =]

People flinch away from evil. Even on the side that clamors for Punishment, you can see it. Like a herd of bison, they want to stamp it out and forget it. No. We should be grateful for the chance to reevaluate this catastrophe. To make it a case study rather than a mere example.

Added some minimalist install instruction for weave-agent to the repo. Would love to hear what trips up anyone brave enough to try these! github.com/JD-P/minihf/tree/…

Speedrunning Goodharts law in record time. Though I would advise tinycorp fo minimise the number of characters instead. It would be more ... interesting.

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The only thing worse than admitting that Ayn Rand is right is living in a world where Ayn Rand is right.

1. If Harris wins, then there is not a 50% chance of Harris winning (but rather 100%). 2. If Trump wins, then there is not a 50% chance of Harris winning (but rather 0%). 3. Either Trump or Harris will win. 4. Therefore, there is not a 50% chance of Harris winning.

Hey, does someone here work for Palantir? Or know someone Have a very interesting thing to discuss

My dear successful success friends, please do better. The world needs it. Read about proper orthogonal-to-state-power action, i beg of you.

Yann Lecun explaining how EU has free speech #freedurov