No_one
Underemployed Slav. Likes playing Factorio.
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No_one
1d ago
Americans are trying to cope with Deepseek by pointing out "it's censoring lmao" etc.
I find the humor it can produce if used through API to be mirthful. I'm not particularly fond of Chinese, but they are far less insidious re: propaganda than Americans. Not very good at it either.
ls into producing sex and racism already had similar vibes
Do you have anything against horny zoomers doing ERP with state of the art or just beyond LLMs ?
There's a gleeful mean-spiritedness about them (comfort women ERP?) that is hard to explain otherwise.
That's just someone with a raceplay kink.. Don't get it but it's pretty cute when aimed at whites.
No_one
1d ago
They don't seem very active in this edge of the woods so I had no reason to get pissed. EU is more than enough in the 'retarded policy' area. EU migration policy seems to be a Soros creation, where he ran an influence ops on the baboons in Brussels.
It'd need some research.
devastating policy?
It seems more like a grift these days. Blair is against migration now, and in Britain shilling the typical technocrat crap like digital IDs, censorship and AI - no doubt so that there are some huge contracts he could get kickbacks (sorry, donations) from..
There's even a slight positive influence as he wants less immigration and pushed labour to take such stance. Whether anything will come of it.. ?
Overall, he is really just another of these absolute cretins Europe is full of. The only difference is that he executes fast. Not sure how now, but his government was fucking things up super fast.
https://old.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/u63dzx/seven_in_ten_teenagers_should_go_to_university/
No_one
1d ago
This is all from web-based r1. I got a Qwen distil, haven't managed to run it yet. Incredible runaround including installing Linux(!) into my windows install. Perhaps you're just not prompting it right?
No_one
1d ago
No thread on Deepseek r-1 fun?
I'll start: how funny it is that a communist hedge fun started a side project and built at 15x cheaper alternative to US models, and open-sourced it (MIT license). One US guy (Brian Roemelle) says they did 37 installs of full models for private customers..
It has a wicked sense of humor. Here's what someone got when he was asking it, through the API, not the chat app which is censored about Chinese politics. He wasn't asking for a funny meme though. It seems quite..creative, especially with adjusted temperature. The thinking it does seems.. fairly human-like. Strings together concepts and then considers them. It can chase its own tails, thought wise. I kinda suspect our own thinking, at least about words not RL stuff is similar.
Here it is (prompted) making fun out of US AI labs. Through API access.. it will give reasonable, uncensored answers unlike the chat app which says discussing the existence or non-existence of Xi is beyond its scope. If you have a 4090, you can run one of the distillations, I think the 32B one.
People are of course also using it also for ERP and it's remarkably good at it, perhaps too unhinged so requires careful promptings. Even more unhinged example, but if you're a little jaded it's good for a chuckle and finding out that yes, you can still wince.
It's the no.1 right wing video meme soundtrack. I had no idea it started as protest song. Extra funny. Purely associated with the edgier young RW-
So far in politics, Sunak posted an edit on twitter. Bukele posted one too later. Both got taken down for copyright violations. Ofc reposted.
e.g. some common examples:
https://x.com/Borealian185385/status/1865613984642056350
https://x.com/LavenderGhast/status/1859604657024143761
It's not the spiciest soundtrack, that's probably Gigi D'Agostino who is likely blissfully unaware.
Since people are unfamiliar with Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, one of the world's larger NGOs (it has a staff of about half Gates's foundation), but given their mode of operation - writing policy proposals and then helping governments carry those policies out, seems to be one of the more influential.
I asked Claude to clean up a transcript of a video by 'Academic Agent', but it veered off into summarizing in the later half. Did a pretty good job I think. Here's a what Guardian, who are about as far away ideologically as you can get from AA wrote about "McKinsey for world leaders"-some source's approving descriptions of TBI- last year.. There's broad agreement on what it is and what it does.
"The Triple Shakedown" (note that it's a non-profit, so , salaries are modest - the top management clears $1.2 million or so. Blair is allegedly working for free)
A lot of people say it's a struggle to see who really has power in our current system - there's so much obscurity. But I believe it is not that obscured, and we have enough information to give us a rough map of how it works.
I'll use one network here involving Blair, but there are a number of other versions I'll explain. Let's start first with the CIA and other intelligence services. We know for a fact that these intelligence services have to find a way of laundering money back through the system. Historically, the CIA has washed their funds through big multi-billion dollar foundations like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Ford Foundation, and Rockefeller.
These are private institutions with pretty opaque balance sheets. They have to report some things, but it's pretty easy for intelligence services to hide funds. For example, if there was a billion dollars in the Ford Foundation unaccounted for, who would say it came from the CIA rather than the endowment left by Henry Ford 100 years ago?
It's well known that they do this. If you follow the arrow from the CIA to one of these big foundations - I've used the Gates Foundation as an example, but many others exist - they publish and disseminate information online about what these foundations spend money on. There's a book called "The Transgender Industrial Complex" showing how many foundations were behind various social causes. A lot of money gets moved through these foundations, and it's all chalked up as charitable, philanthropic endeavors.
People might say, "Look at Bill Gates - he's a multi-billionaire who gives a lot of money to good causes." But you have to see where that money ends up. In this case, I've shown it landing at the Tony Blair Institute, which is the biggest of all the NGOs, but there are many others. On the Tony Blair Institute website, there used to be a link to all their partner organizations - it's one big network of NGOs, with money moving between them.
The money in the Gates Foundation isn't just from the CIA. Some comes from Bill Gates himself, some from Microsoft. Because they're private, they don't always have to declare exactly where the money comes from. They produce annual reports, but much of it remains opaque.
An organization like the Tony Blair Institute has a presence in over 150 nations with over a thousand employees worldwide. What do they do? They come up with white papers and policy proposals that offer governments off-the-shelf solutions. They might suggest to the UK government solutions like digital ID, embracing artificial intelligence, facial recognition technology, digitizing the economy, or adopting public-private partnerships. If you watch these organizations long enough, what starts as a white paper proposal ends up as government policy five or six months later.
Blair and similar organizations then suggest the government will need consultants - because politicians don't have the technical know-how. They offer their own expertise or recommend friends who can help implement these policies. This creates a cycle where money flows from foundations to NGOs to government contracts, often benefiting the same networks that proposed the initial policies. It can work multiple ways - sometimes the government gives a contract to a tech firm, who then needs expertise, and they circle back to people like Blair.
Here it veered off into summarizing.
The speaker argues this happens across various issues: digital ID, AI, climate change, sustainable technology solutions. These organizations are essentially selling "solutions as a service" to governments, with lucrative contracts at every stage. The people involved typically have elite backgrounds in security, cybersecurity, technology, government, and public health. During the COVID pandemic, this entire network was involved in vaccine rollout. The money eventually cycles back in complex ways. An American corporation like Microsoft pays taxes, some of which might end up back with intelligence services or the military-industrial complex.
The speaker also highlights how this network operates internationally. Using foreign aid budgets, governments like the UK provide money to developing nations with strings attached - expecting investments in digital infrastructure, public health, security, or sustainable development. When these governments say they lack expertise, organizations like the Tony Blair Institute step in, offering consultancy and recommendations that often involve contracts with specific tech or pharmaceutical companies.
The speaker concludes by saying this should be illegal. He sees it as a clear conflict of interest that the same person can advise governments, recommend policies that become implemented, and then profit from those implementations. In his view, this is a multi-billion dollar operation happening in broad daylight, affecting not just Western countries but governments worldwide.
It's a beautiful system. It'd be even nicer if it actually worked, however, Blair, for all the political talent he has leaves devastation in his wake. Maybe he's improving the situation in Africa, Kazakhstan or in Saudi Arabia, but mostly it seems like a big grift to me.
No_one
1d ago
When? I understand it got a lot better using transformers.
Now what they're doing is also making virtual enviroments and simulating, which is already faster than in RL, but there's some new hardware coming for that as I understand.
No_one
2d ago
As for replacing wrench turners, that's a lot harder right now. Physics is hard. Hardware is hard. Mapping a constantly changing relationship between sensor inputs, robot dynamics, environment and output is very hard and very far from solved.
It's not being solved, it's being learned.
No_one
2d ago
..but grift is the essence of democratic politics.
I was saying he was great at them.
No_one
2d ago
Right now AI writes better than you. Check for yourself. Go talk to deepseek-r1 and cue him with Dasein's posts or something complex..
Same model has 93 or 96th percentile on code forces. The context window is 100 kb..
It's all aligning to a lot of people getting replaced.
Chinese are training robots to replace wrench turners using same algos that trained the LLMs..
No_one
2d ago
On the surface. They're massively profitable apparently..
AA has a video on it.
No_one
3d ago
Same brilliant gang of thinkers who thought they could succeed where Hitler and Napoleon failed and beat Russia on their home turf?
It's going very,very well for them.
No_one
3d ago
As someone who disagrees with him on some stuff and listens to his videos regularly, this is IMO a fair characterisation.
Calling him a grifter is wrong. He sells some online courses*, but he mostly analyzes politics from a particular perspective. He isn't obviously or even covertly shilling for anyone. I believe he provides a valuable service there. Ofc he's not infallible, and he doesn't understand tech much, but that's yet not a huge downside.
He has many informative videos that are bang on. E.g. "Boomer Truth Regime" Elite Theory, analysis of Western Elites Power lies with organised minorities.
He's also not opposed to having some fun. He plays/reviews video games and long organised a twitter 'tournament' judging the sexiest women .. Amusingly, despite hundreds of challengers, it was almost always won by Jennifer Connelly(if she was in the running).. Kept providing amusing sports-like comments for it..
*these might even be good. I was fairly impressed with his book, the 'Populist Delusion'. Well argued, well researched, doesn't waffle around. Good for informing normies, it starts out softly. There's no attempt at edgelording or anything like that either.
No_one
3d ago
Manhattan Institute, for example. He's very much against Israelis. Really admires Tony Blair. Calls him 'the Dark Lord' and says his political acumen and ability to exercise power is pretty much unparallelled in the modern west.
Anyway, he predicted that this faction of the US 'right', the 'techno-zionists' is likely to win over globalist technocrats(WEF etc) and third-world lunatics (Soros etc). He believes US under this new leadership will challenge China and build a new regime, the one he dubs 'the Rufo Reich'..
I don't think he's wrong much, this is the likeliest outcome although of course it's doubtful US can stand against Chinese and it all comes down to how implementations of AI change politics. I don't believe he pays much attention to AI even though it can change everything.
Sad.
No_one
4d ago
I'm talking about 'mandated'. Yes, automated cars are useful.
Would I want to have a car that is connected to the internet or can be operated by a program or an algo ?
Fuck no.
No_one
4d ago
SE is vastly more impressive than Krastorio 2. I played that, it was a slight extension of Factorio. A good one. SE is something else really.
No_one
4d ago
He really wants to be liked and he's not a good actor.
So he's deceptive. And bad at it.
Cannot stand a single one if his non technical interviews. Check him out giving the everyday Astronaut the factory tour. Completely different person basically...
No_one
4d ago
...Okay, maybe partly. But every planet has several resources that need shipping around. Just to get the last science pack requires shipping something from every planet but Nauvis, .
but it's not challenging,
It seems essentially the same. SE just has more and more and more of it. More recipes, more etc. But it's repeating the same problem solving loop over and over. I played SE some but the only really, really challenging part was putting together combinators to automatically load the rockets. And I think I'd figure it now since I put together a logistic network / item chest balancer.
Oh.. yeah, someone said you can turn that nonsense off by zeroing out refusal neurons in the model.
https://x.com/bantg/status/1882858950003155388
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