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aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 7h

i work a schedule I call "???10". i work an unspecified amount of time a day at random times, 90% of which is waiting idly for things to finish

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aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 7h

can confirm. right now I am "working on machine learning" by reading posts and eating potato chips while I wait 30 minutes to see if a bug manifests on an earlier checkpoint

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aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 14h

they're the kind of lab that drops a ~solution to the problem of escalating compute costs for long-context inference in a release called "V3.2"

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thebes @vgel.me · 1d

claude sonnet 3.6's yellowstone vacation

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aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 1d

the base text-completion LLM definitely *can* be genuinely bigoted in a convincing way. it's not outside of its capabilities

I just think that if you optimize in post-training for "be a useful chatbot", the model will naturally kick itself out of basins associated with misanthropy and hatred

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aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 1d

if only.

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aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 1d

like them or not the AI-safetyists and AGI true believers are the ones that stop OpenAI (and to a lesser extent anthropic) from becoming slightly-less-partisan xAI

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aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 1d

that and synthetic porn for the most pathetic men alive

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aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 1d

it's not as if he revealed any new information. anyone paying attention to anything besides idle speculation about secret proprietary model performance would not find this especially novel

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aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 2d

I disagree vehemently with the vision of the world that most of these frontier labs have but it's a far cry between this and that

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aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 2d

the only big AI lab whose employees you regularly see publicly arguing to repeal women's suffrage is xAI. at this point anyone who survived the initial exodus(es) is really suspect to me

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aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 2d

holy shit that is a lot of people. and I was one of them, probably!

Jack Cousteau ⚓️ @angrywaterman.bsky.social · 2d

Seattle No Kings from the monorail

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aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 2d

finding myself in this picture was like a game of Where's Waldo

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 2d

Taking off my balaclava to reveal a second, identical balaclava underneath. Everyone at the fusion intelligence center groans at my shit

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aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 2d

the RevComs in cap hill succeeded at confusing a bunch of people about where the protest was

that's an achievement I guess

aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 2d

Seattle No Kings was amazing, and now I will collapse unconscious at home

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aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 3d

finally invented The VRAM Torturer from the hit novel "The VRAM Torturer is a pretty good quality-of-life feature for your training library"

GitHub pull request titled "The VRAM Torturer".

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aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 3d

besides the public safety benefits, there would be a lot of social benefits to putting drunk drivers in prison the first time around. think of all the domestic abuse that could be stopped!

aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 3d

this video is how I find out a DUI is only a misdemeanor in FL (and many other states)... how the fuck? explains why so many people die from drunk drivers I guess

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aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 3d

i do think the officer was named "Lane" or something, bc he says it a lot and it sounds more like "Lane, don't do this to me"

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aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 3d

he rolled the politest cop on the planet and still acted like he was being tortured lmao

David Bier @davidjbier.bsky.social · 3d

An ICE agent, who is being arrested for drunk driving and nearly killing his little kids & others, tries to stop the arrest by racially profiling the officers arresting him. Amazing to watch the courtesy given to him as he is belligerent and uncooperative

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aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 3d

this is officially the longest government shutdown to affect all agencies, according to wikipedia

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aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 4d

in a sort of "boat stuck" way I kind of want the government to be shut down forever

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aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 5d

if the acquiring company gets Anthropic off of trainium, they will be welcomed as liberators

aria 🍊 @aurelium.me · 5d

we don't have to take their word for it - Kimi K2, an open-source model, is competitive with OpenAI's offerings and can be served profitably at 25% what OpenAI charges for GPT-5

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