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Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 9h

The issue is, in such a scenario, there is basically no money for consumption. How can the economic system go on?. Current power concentration and mechanisms to acquire power do not give great prospects of a smooth transition to a post-scarcity society. Sooo ... they would buy land and ammunition?

Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 9h

If you consider alignment as only related to explicit user preference feedback, it's less related. If you consider alignment as "making LLMs work as tools that do what we want then to do" then it's more related.

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Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 9h

"Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration"

Well now is more like 40 / 60

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 17h

"the AI bubble will collapse because the technology has plateaued and cannot improve"

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"we are on the verge of superintelligence"

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Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 12h

Also classifiers can *not* generate images or "steal" anything from you. "They could be using a VLM" nopes, its orders of magnitude more expensive and too slow. "One day ..." likely not, when scaling and speed is so critical and the problem is mostly contextless or context is metadata

🍅🥔🫐🌽 hoopy frood 🌶️ 🥑🍫🌵 @huwupy.kawaii.social · 14h

This is one of my favorite takes. I’m sure people would love a 30-day delay on having their images posted so they can be reviewed by hand and also it’s Good Actually to make humans look at some of the most heinous images in existence all day

The Bluesky Head of Trust & Safety admitting that all posted images are processed through an Al autolabeller that presumably employees have no access to or control over? (And probably steals every image to be used in an Al "art" generator, who knows?)
Seriously, this is outrageously irresponsible.

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Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 12h

(repost welcome) The Generative Model Alignment team at IBM Research is looking for next summer interns! Two candidates for two topics

🍰Reinforcement Learning environments for LLMs

🐎Speculative and non-auto regressive generation for LLMs

interested/curious? DM or email [email protected]

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Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 13h

It's a cat and mouse game and I guess long term ... fake team will win? ... at least for text that battle feels lost already.

Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 14h

Joking ofc, it will take a bit longer.

Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 14h

even if we agree on this, it will be useless because half of the world population will be 24/7 sampling pleasant realities from that thing, not even looking at the internet. Well, they will connect to get videos from other people, buy pizza, and do some data annotations (to pay for the pizza).

Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 1d

Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.

Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 14h

even if we agree on this, it will be useless because half of the world population will be 24/7 sampling pleasant realities from that thing, not even looking at the internet. Well, they will connect to get videos from other people, buy pizza, and do some data annotations (to pay for the pizza).

Quantian @quantian.bsky.social · 1d

Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.

Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 17h

It's amazing to me that, in 2025, pythons pdb still doesn't let you configure the amount of lines of context shown and display colors ... Yes, there is ipdb but it is somehow super slow

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Chris Paxton @cpaxton.bsky.social · 23h

You can buy a unitree g1 on Walmart now, wtf www.walmart.com/ip/Unitree-G...

Robot or human?

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Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 21h

Also, it's the only plausible explanation for this weather. A 27 C day again?? In October??

Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 1d

You think I am exaggerating but look at this other one and tell me it does not look evil

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 1d

Reading @simonwillison.net's lobsters thread on changing the "vibecoding" tag to something more sensible, like "llms"

several people say the quiet part out loud — the *point* is to make AI enthusiasts feel uncomfortable and unwelcome. Accuracy didn't factor in

lobste.rs/s/gkzmfy/let...

Let's rename the "vibecoding" tag to "llms"

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Sean T. Collins @seantcollins.com · 1d

CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors.

ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't

CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart.

ISILDUR: true

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Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 1d

You think I am exaggerating but look at this other one and tell me it does not look evil

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Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 2d

Granite?

Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks!

Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 2d

Artificial intelligence and crowd intelligence better grow hand in hand.

Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 2d

there is also the "lets return to the timeline where we did not fuck up the internet as a tool for democratic empowerment and non-transactional value creation" folk. There are many of those. Where I put "internet" you can also put "AI".

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Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 2d

there is also the "lets return to the timeline where we did not fuck up the internet as a tool for democratic empowerment and non-transactional value creation" folk. There are many of those. Where I put "internet" you can also put "AI".

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 2d

This post about Waffles that’s going viral doesn’t credit (what I believe to be) the source, Bravo Coolee, on Twitter a few years ago. Just wanna shout out the original. Still viral thru another person’s rewrite today.

Twitter screenshot from @BravoCoolee

“Twitter is the only place where well articulated sentences still get misinterpreted.

You can say “I like pancakes” and somebody will say “So you hate waffles?’

No bitch. Dats a whole new sentence. Wtf is you talking about.

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Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 2d

My only gripe with Claude Code is that it should embrace better the zen of python, in particular

- Explicit is better than implicit.

- Errors should never pass silently.

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Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 2d

You should go to Portugal 🤣

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Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 2d

What's the handle?

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Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 2d

Also I missed the part of your first statement where you gave the specific context of your case ... otherwise I would not have asked.

Ramon Astudillo @ramon-astudillo.bsky.social · 2d

I recall reading this. I get it but this is a different context than what I had in mind. Also we will have to adapt ... Probably we will get better at spotting these in the future.

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