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1/ On p (doom) tl;dr a) Everyone is making up the numbers b) nobody knows anything (least of all the experts), c) don't worry about it d) there is nothing you can do to stop it e) most things you can
This is a diary entry to myself, so I remember what AI was like today. It's just going to be a bullet-list stream of consciousness. - There are still so many leaders that have never seen an agent run
Harvard University just voted to limit the number of A grades given in undergraduate classes to about 20% of the class. I’m not in favor of this. It deeply runs counter to how I believe education shou
Sam Altman cannot be trusted. • The OpenAI board fired him because he was not always honest with them. They said he should not control powerful AI. • A major report talked to over 100 people and saw s
I hear so often: “the right must unite”. The rally on 16 May is not just an opportunity for politicians to unite but also for us to meet our boss - the British people. If we, servants of the people, w
Existential risk mongers are a small, very vocal cult with a lot of very clever online astroturfing skills. Politicians never waste a good fake crisis, which is why they're perfect for Bernie to try t
Judging by my tl there is a growing gap in understanding of AI capability. The first issue I think is around recency and tier of use. I think a lot of people tried the free tier of ChatGPT somewhere l
arXiv:2610.17507v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: More than 1.5 billion people have hearing loss. When several people talk at once, hearing aids amplify every voice alike. Auditory attention decoding (A
arXiv:2610.16946v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Descriptions of how people use AI are becoming training data for the next generation of models. We ask whether what a model reads about its users change
This post is to let people know about a workshop/tutorial on Machine Learning that will run on the (blue) math discord server: discord.gg/maths. The place is nice, people are cool and helpful, and as
A lot of people say that AI makes people dumb or whatever, and while it might be true, AI is a tool. You have to use it properly. In my case, I currently use ChatGPT to make lecture notes, plan my stu
arXiv:2610.04736v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: A pedestrian with a phone could be shown where nearby people will be in the next few seconds, if the forecast stays on the ground while the phone moves,
Note - This is translated from the actual blog link right at the bottom. A few days ago, DeepSeek v4.1 was released. It raised the ability of small models to a new level. AI is improving much faster t
Both good and bad things have come from a subreddit that was lot more niche than for example r/flashlight rapidly transforming into the largest online forum about an increasingly core part of the infr
So me and various other people have implemented their own Sparse Attention nodes and you can see many people argue about what % you should actually run these nodes on to maintain prompt adherence etc.
We are seeing every so often people mentioning using Kiwix or offline Wikipedia for training. It is not something Kiwix is actively involved in (as in, people found us rather than the other way around
I made a Discord for people who are genuinely into AI and want a decent place to talk about it. It’s still new, but the idea is to build a large community without arbitrary bans, hidden moderation dec
This Meta campaign is a case study in strategic reframing, with 4 major examples: 1) REFRAMES THE AI RACE FROM “who builds it the best” TO “who distributes it to the most people”: Instead of fighting
I swear some AI doomers have never actually used a local model. They watched one flashy keynote, one YouTube thumbnail with a guy making this face 😱, read three headlines, and suddenly civilization is
Socialists imagine a class struggle. In their made-up fantasy the CEO is in competition with low level workers, the wealthy entrepreneur is stealing from the underpaid nurse. In reality, workers do no
Elon Musk explains one of the most optimistic futures imaginable: Neuralink and Optimus restoring lost human abilities through real-world cyborg technology And the first people this could help are the
The creator of Linux just publicly called out the AI hype. Word for word. Linus Torvalds took the stage at Open Source Summit 2026 and said this: 'When I see people saying 99% of our code is written b
For a long time, academic researchers being at the cutting edge of new technologies has been a great social equilibrium. Neutral, unbiased technologists have been the people to spread new ideas to the
just as i feared AI can be a powerful tool for opening people up to new perspectives, yet we find that people actually prefer to use “sycophantic” AI systems that reinforce their pre-existing beliefs.
Trump: “I took a lot of heat for saying drugs were going down 500%, 600%, 700%. But we also say sometimes 50%, 60%, it’s a different kind of calculation, and people understand it better.” The dumbest
So true. “Being right too soon is socially unacceptable” I remember reading this from Heinlein as a young man and it took experience for me to fully understand it. People and institutions will persist
What happens when you systematically oversell the value of your product for years, while pretty much screwing society along the way? Eventually your customers figure it out. Surprisingly, people see A
El Salvador's homicide rate per 100,000 people declined dramatically from 103 in 2015 to 2.4 in 2023, representing a reduction of over 97% during that period. This sharp decline is widely attributed t
arXiv:2604.08479v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Recent research shows that greater numbers of people are turning to Large Language Models (LLMs) for emotional support, and that people rate LLM respons
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arXiv:2610.00583v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: People are increasingly delegating tasks to AI agents, and those agents are increasingly encountering other people's agents over shared resources such a
I’ve been experimenting with family photographs taken 90–110 years ago, using AI to imagine what the people might look like if the photos were taken today — modern hair, makeup, clothing, body size an
If I were given one final message, and the premise were that I genuinely understood what was happening—that this was the last thing I would ever say, with no possibility of another response—I don’t th
ok i think i finally figured out why alignment has gone basically nowhere after 15 years and several billion dollars. the problem is hard sure. but have you met the people in charge of it 1) the leade
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Update from : https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1wis23s/update_small_model_engram/ It's been about a week so I'm back. People were asking me about the model. People wanted code, or models,
Hey everyone, I wanted to share a story that changed my perspective on what's possible with modern AI tools, especially for everyday people with no background in software development. My brother Ben h
I've been thinking a lot about the idea of how a human mind is similar to a digital neural network. Seeing videos of the fruit fly brain scan, and the crazy things people have done with it probably co
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this this this The focus on AI causing extinction is going to get people killed. AI lab employees talk about how hard security is, not to point to some new solution, but to say security won’t work. On
arXiv:2609.14849v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: We characterize how people are turning to LLMs as oracles: all-knowing authorities on subjective personal questions. Motivated by risks to users' auto
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Some people says terminal bench reflects model intelligence better than the intelligent index. From the look of it, the ranking does seem to reflect how people feel about the open and closed models. F
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One of the other posts today by user u/Howard_banister confirmed what I've been seeing from the other AI subreddits as well. Most of these other subs are 90% trend hopping crypto-bros equivalent peopl
arXiv:2609.00510v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial intelligence systems increasingly enact market-facing promises through chatbots, recommendation systems, automated decisions, and generative
Apparently the peak of ROBOTICS in 2026 is a 399 duck on roller skates. Microduck pre-orders topped 2.6M in 24 hours. Now there’s a 4–6 month backlog. Not a humanoid. Not a warehouse robot. A duck. Th
arXiv:2608.14522v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: As AI systems make more morally loaded decisions across society, one response has been moral preference elicitation. In this approach, researchers poll
This is a HANDWRITTEN post. I spent way too much time trying to get fast inference on Apple Silicon. This post is for people who want to know what's the latest on running local models on their mac, an
Poll at beginning of the year: https://www.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1qj935h/poll_when_will_we_have_a_30b_open_weight_model_as/ The least voted option, 6 months, wins in my opinion, with 18 vot
“poorly evidenced sensationalism makes for bad policymaking, politics, philanthropy and much else.” beautiful coda for a weekend in which people went completely nuts without even asking for a control
A few people asked for this after the bandwidth thread, so here it is on its own instead of buried in a comment. The dense rule was simple: every token reads every weight, so tokens/sec ≈ bandwidth ÷
Since a lot more people are trying to build their own multi-GPU machines, I thought I should help to prevent a common mistake people make with building multi-GPU machines. Which is using an Intel cons
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on a per capita basis, @si_pbc mogs, and it's not even close I asked people which companies have the highest density of talented people they know: 1st. Cognition - 9 votes Equal 1st. Anthropic - 9 vot
arXiv:2607.02672v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Local pairwise comparisons are a standard tool for learning how people want decision rules to work, e.g., in participatory design or alignment. However,
arXiv:2605.06142v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: When people recount personal memories, they often refer to people, places, and events indirectly, relying on con-textual cues rather than expl
spending the last week at @aidotengineer was awesome. too many great convos to cover them all, but jotted down some things that stood out: - Lots of discussion around open source models. I spoke with
🎂 Happy birthday, @elonmusk. Humankind's guardian Angel. >be Elon Musk >richest man alive >could buy anything and sun his Balls >decide to spend the whole fortune fighting for the human race instead >
So many such stories that were suppressed by the legacy mainstream media … Let this be a lesson of what these people think of white people , in 2017 21 year old Hannah Cornelius was carjacked in Stell