Dylan Summer @dsumm_

When a corporation can unilaterally cut you off from accessing the most valuable resources in the world, you are not free. You are a peasant. You are a serf. This is technofeudalism. We need mandatory access to AI as a right enforced by citizenship. We need sovereign AI. We need local and open AI. Actually open AI. Not 'OpenAI'.

log4j @log4j

4 days ago

banned for reverse engineering work? that’s wild oh well, -$500, and a bunch of banked resets) but gained motivation to get 3 more machines and finish my cluster. i have never used openai to exploit or find vulnerabilities, only local reverse engineering which tripped daybreak.

keyboard_arrow_left Previous keyboard_arrow_right Next

448 931 16K 2.7M 3K

Capital controls are a worse problem overall. It’s hard to justify investing money in China (if you’re not Chinese) when you could invest in a free market country. Especially if you can never get the money back out of China. A better version would be something like no remittances if you’re receiving welfare, which i think Treasury dept. enacted this year? I’m sure there’s more that could be done that doesn’t cause capital flight but it’s a balance of markets and social policy.

@MatthewParrott 🎯, perfect encapsulation. Followed 🫡

Rush inspectors into AI labs? These people literally have no idea what they are talking about

Jon Ossoff @ossoff

a month ago

A capable president would move swiftly to secure and reassure the American people, rush inspectors into frontier labs, fortify the nation against bioterrorism, demand legislation from Congress, and lead the world toward an AI treaty. But President Trump is compromised.

1K 2K 7K 1.3M 630

Regret the tone of my post on data centers yesterday. What I should have said: There were reasonable concerns about data centers 18ish months ago: water, taxes, jobs, electricity prices, the environment and what they would do to small towns. Well-structured data center projects have largely addressed these concerns today and we should be celebrating this. On balance, data centers are awesome for America in every way. On water: U.S. data centers use a fraction of what golf courses use. A lot of the numbers from 18 months ago were off by over 1000x. Newer data centers use closed-loop systems or recycled water. Should be required by every town approving a data center project. On taxes: looking only at sales-tax exemptions, as Ronan Farrow did, is the wrong way to evaluate this. Data centers pay significant property taxes. Loudoun County, which is the wealthiest county in America, now collects on the order of $1 billion a year from data centers. In Quincy, WA, data centers are more than half the property-tax roll. Over time, property taxes can go to zero while government spending increases in these towns. On jobs: this has been unambiguously awesome for blue collar Americans. Demand for electricians, plumbers, welders, HVAC techs, and contractors has gone vertical, and it is not a one-time construction job. These buildings get upgraded and expanded over time. That is why the building trades are fighting for them, and why some unions are now treating opposition to data centers as a reason not to endorse politicians. On power: the original fear was that households would pay for the incremental electricity demand in the form of higher prices. That is why the ratepayer-protection deals and the new large-load tariffs exist. The right structure is: the data center brings or pays for new generation and signs a contract long enough that existing customers are protected. Where that is happening, utilities are cutting or freezing residential rates and saying so on the record. Where it is not, people are right to object. Electricity prices are going down *today* in a number of large states because of data centers. 
On the environment: data centers overwhelming use natural gas today, which is the cleanest power source outside of nuclear, solar and wind. And the companies that are building the data centers are committed to carbon neutrality such that an equivalent amount of solar will likely be built. Maybe more importantly, the data centers need batteries to function effectively and these batteries can also sell energy back into the grid (which recently prevented blackouts in Texas). Over time, data centers will run on solar plus batteries. On the towns: Poverty in Quincy, WA fell from 29% to 6%. Data center taxes paid for a new high school, a hospital, a library, police and fire stations. This is happening in many left for dead former mill and farm towns that had no other bidder for the land. Data centers are actually reindustrializing parts of America and creating the kind of working-class jobs both parties have spent decades claiming to support. That should not be a partisan issue. Data centers can and should be awesome for America and they increasingly, overwhelmingly are. Supporting the outsourcing of data centers to China will likely age just as well as support for the outsourcing of high quality, blue collar manufacturing jobs to China has aged. When the facts change, I change my mind. I hope that reasonable people who had good faith reasons to oppose data centers at least consider updating their beliefs given the change in the facts over the last 18 months. This really matters for America. I will say I also think the idea of making data centers beautiful is a good one that has yet to be implemented. Data centers should be just as beautiful as Grand Central Station. We can learn a lot from the railroad buildout. Neoclassical revival ftw. Might write up open-weight AI tomorrow as this is equally essential to America.

Instant disqualification. Vance should not be president with that asinine statement

Phil Magness @PhilWMagness

2 months ago

JD Vance wants to end the US dollar's position as a global reserve currency, because he thinks it allows Americans to consume too much and do so too cheaply. Keep that in mind the next time you order a $20 burrito on door dash.

2K 2K 12K 10.4M 4K

Personally a fan of GPT 5.6 sol rn - for basically any coding/productivity it’s at least as good imo - The hate is always around copywriting, I’m not an expert so won’t opine. If you’re already comfortable in make/n8n and it works for you, probably don’t bother with Hermes/openclaw. There’s some cool stuff it can do but I find myself in the chat/claude app more than using Hermes(I have multiple, both local and cloud based) If you’re not a coder you’re basically trading that direct control from make/n8n for expanded capabilities, but you’d be stuck trusting the model did everything correctly (not 100% true yet). (some agent wizard kid is likely going to hard disagree w me but so be it)

@johnnyginkle_76 G I’m up

France vs. England is another World Cup match where one country's flag appears inside the other

@y_popravka @LottoLabs My guess: Qwopus v3 , the Carnice x Hermes agent one, and I’m not sure the third

@HumanHarlan @logangraham Isn’t the stop and assist clause the contract equivalent of vaporware at this point? Didn’t fact check , but read someone saying Microsoft can just veto it

@LottoLabs Can you elaborate on why? Concurrency/throughput or just cheaper way to load 27B locally? I’m gpu middle class and want to know if I should get 1x3090 or a 2nd 16gb card (current 4070ti super)

@starks_arq @Mho_23 Access This is sick 🔥

@jukan05 Cry me a river, you pirated humanity’s knowledge and trained your models on it!

@DrStevenPhD @b9347da1 @sporadica Right, but also in theory you can predict that over time it will average out to be ≈50/50. Call it predictably random?

@WiFiMoneyGuy Is it foolish because his use cases are bad? or because glm is cheap af and this is just insanely slow vs api costs? something else?

you pity the moth confusing a lamp for the moon, yet here you are confusing a screen for the world

@boringmarketer handy.computer is an free open source one, I use the nvidia parakeet model. Feels just a bit slower than whisprflow on my setup, which is worth the trade.

There really should be a movement to blame environmental activists for rising energy prices. It's more accurate than blaming data centers.

Charlie Kirk's Murder is a Tragedy For All of Us