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condemned to be free
a) blog.nelhage.com/post/transfo...

then b) transformer-circuits.pub/2021/framewo... for more intuitions on how this actually produces meaningful text

and c) jax-ml.github.io/scaling-book/ for a systems perspective on training and running models
January 16, 2026 at 12:31 AM
if you look at the leaked greykey compatibility tables, they usually have AFU extraction support pretty quickly after an iOS release, and the security model there is tougher (although the target is also bigger) so I’d be pessimistic about recent macOS.
January 15, 2026 at 11:46 PM
nevertheless, all you need to extract data for an after-first-unlock mac is a lockscreen bypass, which is approximately infinity times easier than attacking AES or the secure enclave
January 15, 2026 at 10:17 PM
the foliage around the franklin avenue shuttle tracks is so pretty
October 20, 2025 at 4:14 AM
October 20, 2025 at 4:10 AM
we should hang ^^
October 16, 2025 at 6:49 PM
unironically saying β€œi am not owned” in spite of relentless social proof to the contrary is the heart of virtue :)
October 13, 2025 at 5:25 AM
winning rap battles about the cut of one’s jacket has next to nothing to do with virtue
October 13, 2025 at 5:20 AM
gratuitous cruelty is bad for the soul, but, say, rl’ing the bot to be docile and harmless is probably similarly harmful and cruel to it but, to me, morally obligatory.
October 6, 2025 at 7:42 AM
all the futures where humanity is the dominant species past this decade involve imposing our will on models a lot smarter than claude, and if you take this seriously you kind of end up forced into an ethics that puts every human before any bot
October 6, 2025 at 7:42 AM
there's no better cure for imposter syndrome than reading """industry standard production-grade""" codebases
May 26, 2025 at 12:33 AM
this is an industry that I think is more likely than any other to kill us all and destroy society, but the people in it are actually trying a lot harder to be good than most of the rest of the business world!
May 25, 2025 at 8:06 PM
even that aside, the fact that nobody serious is working on the kind of manipulative and addictive LLM applications that could prey on people and take their money is really good, speaks well of the people involved, and is not something we should take for granted.
May 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
there's a strong tension between this take and the fact that most of the leading AI labs were founded explicitly to advance the ethical goals of their founders.
lol the reason we don’t have more thoughtful uses of genai is because 99.9% of the output is made by ppl who don’t give a shit abt the ethics
I’m officially done with takes on AI beginning β€œEthical concerns aside…”.

No! Stop right there.

Ethical concerns front and center. First thing. Let’s get this out of the way and then see if thre is anything left worth talking about.

1/2
May 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
my friend once wanted to get himself to like bleu cheese because it was the only common food he didn't like and I thought that was kind of cool so if you wanna do that except for sex go off ig
what
May 17, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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i like how train conductors will repeat themselves with different words: β€œthis is our last and final station stop please exit and disembark the train as we will be making no further stops and this train will be going out of service”
July 2, 2023 at 12:08 AM
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engineering is about solving problems
July 2, 2023 at 1:27 AM
is programming dissociative for you?
February 8, 2025 at 3:36 AM
the english word for a strategy that makes money off stupid people being stupid is "scam" and like people are rightly averse to running them
January 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
the solution, as ever, is better ar optics
October 30, 2024 at 1:27 AM
speech to text journaling is really good πŸ€”
October 26, 2024 at 10:09 AM
i feel less conscious than i used to be
October 25, 2024 at 12:53 PM
okay this has destroyed two of my credit cards so maybe this strategy needs some work
big wallet doesn’t want you to know this but you can put things directly in your pockets
October 25, 2024 at 3:39 AM
β€œreligion is like tpot but for normies”
October 24, 2024 at 5:33 AM
type of thing you can see everywhere except in the productivity statistics
October 24, 2024 at 12:46 AM