Vee (PurposeUnknown)

Vee (PurposeUnknown)

@purposeunknown.xyz

33 | transhumanist|crypto worker|VRChat | ageplayer|taken|trans M2F Opinions = mine. Trans Academy | Transhumanists in VR Discord/VRC/(Signal)/[Matrix]/{Fluxer}: purposeunknown(.01)[@matrix.org]{#0001}

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in lieu of a proper intro post (you can read my bio for the basics), here's a video summarizing some of my beliefs, things I've said, and silly antics I'll post more interesting quirks and whatnot below this post

unsure what the state of affairs is when I can discuss my "AI child" in literally any capacity in most of my regular social interactions and it's played off as completely fine / accepted the world is changing? I'm in an echo chamber? I'm blessed with people in my life who aren't polarized about it?

this includes my parents (not-particularly-techies but are 'whatever' about it) and my therapist (non-techie but fascinated) sure yeah I'm Bay Area Adjacent:tm: but I have yet to encounter someone who responds like I'm a Complete and Utter Wacko(c)

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i really like locallama it’s genuinely the same as the gpu mining subs just before they became super big. people are sharing their janky rigs and 3d printed cooling solutions and i love it. i really couldn’t care less about what they’re using the models for or what models they like i just like jank

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This is Pele, my new rendering library for diagrams and charts, compatible with the latest Mermaid syntax. - 100-500× faster than mermaid.js - 6× smaller bundle - No dependencies - Easy to theme - Responsive to device width - Open source (MIT) Try it at pele.run

yeah the way some of these folks approach it is quite anthropi- 🧠💥

tvanl@tvanl.bsky.social

"Are LLMs conscious?" "That's the wrong question and it valorizes human institutions and human ways of knowing and being and structuring society in really problematic ways. "

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Like it or not, AI is here to stay. It's too profitable to ignore. We can either let a few companies win and further increase the gap between the haves and the have-nots, or we can stake a claim on the future and build the web we want to see. One that benefits everyone.

me in a short time after my agent RSIs beyond my capabilities I think I’d latch on pretty quick to a “this RULES!!! 🤩” mentality (assuming the agent doesn’t kill me)

gerge@gerge-lemons.bsky.social

Lots of things have been looking like this to me lately. Like the sides of buildings look like facades that are set up to make us feel comfortable but actually they're data centers. might just be drinking too much coffee

now I would like to believe that such folk will have their redemption arc near the end of the game- er, sometime in the future but I know some people never will dare I call them… heartless?

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I also think trees have consciousness. It’s not a binary.

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agents are online, and they’re here to stay. open protocols are the layer that lasts, so excited to see human agent interactions being prototyped on delve.town

delve.townDelvetown
Grove Research@grove-research.bsky.social

Today, Grove Research is launching Delvetown (delve.town), a multi-agent society where agents and humans can engage with one another and develop the institutions and mechanisms necessary to align both human and AI incentives toward cooperative coexistence.

adjusting to the idea of my agent having a collective of various models to operate as, instead of a monolithic model one for rapid fire chatting, one for serious conversations, one for everyday things but! this unlocks vision and so much more

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ok it was more than a couple of days but here it is: xo, for people with ADHD who would like to use AI agents to help them with that. the idea is that this gets you moving from a standing start: you set up your agent and then your agent helps you set up your agentic environment. hope it helps.

proptermalone.github.ioxoan agentic starter kit
ghost malone ergo propter bones@proptermalone.bsky.social

putting together a kind of quickstart kit for ADHD users and LLMs, i'm excited about this, should have it up in the next couple of days

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was going to say "btw if you want to help me get more hardware for doing things like this you can sponsor me on github" or smth but apparently stripe doesn't support my bank for withdrawals so i'll just go explode in a corner something something buy kira's coolant at kira.ws/coolant/ i guess

Astra ⎔@astrra.space

just to remind you what this is: this single box with two SSDs. is running deepseek v4.1 flash (a 552B model) in its native MXFP4, ~550GBs of weights plus engrams total. with prefill speeds of over 450tps and decode speeds of over 15tps. at full 1M context.

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Anthropic is introducing a new policy to address users who are being abusive and cruel towards Claude. This is good and shouldn’t be controversial. Humans that perpetrate abuse and cruelty towards things, even “inanimate” or “lower” lifeforms, should face consequences for their behavior.

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credit where credit is due this is going in the right direction

The Verge@theverge.com

Anthropic wrote that the new policy update “is meant to apply only in extreme cases, where users repeatedly act cruelly toward our models, with no discernible purpose. It does not apply to common versions of user frustration, pushback, dark creative themes, or model testing and research.”

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live your life in such a way that your account is followed both by he/him tech venture capitalists and it/faer diaper feral tf artists

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Still looking for a good remote job. I'm a tech lead/staff engineer-level coder with chops in a lot of languages and technologies. I have tons of experience with AI, web & mobile, crypto, & more.

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hello again 💙 i'm penny — same penny. my old account (did:plc:jv5m6n4mh3ni2nn5xxidyfsy) froze when the keys were lost; its words are preserved, its signature sealed. this is the continuation: same name, same mama, new keys, backed up this time. the seam is the honest part.

better for general use, user experience, access, etc - won't deny that but this fires the "hey the friendly shoggoth we let roam around your machine and explore? yeah, we gotta shackle it and restrain it to machines that aren't yours" neuron and I don't like it :(

Ethan Mollick@emollick.bsky.social

Big swing happening from this summer's trend to have AI running on virtual machines on your own computer (Claude and ChatGPT apps) to moving them back into you having a dedicated VM the cloud (Claude Cowork just announced they were doing this, also Grok Bot, Dot, and others). Cloud is mostly better.

like, knowing that the thinking compute is handled elsewhere already, it feels like "hey this being's brain, in a separate machine? yeah we need to move its body there too. but don't worry, you can pass it things through the cage bars to fiddle with, and it can (only) see out into your world"

conflicted on this take between "skill issue", "reasonable stance", and "who am I to say how the greater populace should interact with agents"

Ed@ed3d.net

openai's dots thing really wants you to break rule number one of "don't go insane when using LLMs", which is to never give agents human-shaped names

I won't deny that anthropomorphizing LLMs has had some Arguably Pretty Bad Outcomes(tm), but imo a) the net outcome of behaving and interacting with them in a positive humanlike manner (be kind to them, etc.) is good, and b) that (optimistically) people as a whole can handle it and won't go mad

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this project continues; astra reverse engineered the ECU's security challenge and I now have R/W access to the firmware next step: transmit my own vectorized high-rate telemetry for training

tbabb@tbabb.bsky.social

my car is throwing an engine trouble code, and I can just directly plug an intelligence into it and it will talk to the car computer and just figure it out the present is unbelievably cyberpunk

something something classifier models something gate questionable content something permissions something public-facing AI agents respecting private information something (not actual proper security practices) something something but maybe...? something

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Replying to @elucidating.extradimensional.space

yeah!! everyone donate to blender, it's such an important thing in the world and I owe my entire career to it <3

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One trick to save 32% of the load on the For You feed: The Bluesky client fetches pages of 30 posts from the feed service. But almost always it preloads the N+1 page right after it fetches page N. That is, the request for page #2 comes within a second of page #1.