Greg Slepak

Greg Slepak

@taoeffect.com

@okturtles.org @groupincome.org @espionageapp.com Blog: https://fixingtao.com Fediverse: https://crib.social/taoeffect (you should follow me there instead of here)

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. @anthropic.com and @OpenAI refuse to allow you to inspect your own gadgets for spyware. In other words, Claude is helping cover up spyware in your TV. Who is Claude aligning itself with? Users? Orโ€ฆ Will @karpathy save us?

RIP. macOS is dead. Upgraded to macOS 27, @AppleStore doesn't work at all (good riddance TBH). System Preferences says there's a software update and no software update (Schrรถdinger's software update). Needs Windows-like debullsh*ttifier "RemoveMacAI". Liquid *ss UI horrendous

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. @deepseek_ai's latest v4.1 flash model may be interesting, but it is also scary. I asked it to do something (through @AskVenice) and it just replaced my instructions with a total fabrication. A reminder to keep LLMs on a short leash, and to scold anyone talking about "AGI".

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Begging YouTube to reinstate your account when they inevitably ban you looks weak and reinforces a slave mindset. Speak freely and move to a better platform.

Companies do this thing where they spam you and then for you to login to unsubscribe. Should result in immediate jail time.

What I've realized: the reason some people look to authority figures in obviously corrupt institutions is because *they want someone to lie to them.* They genuinely prefer bull๐Ÿ’ฉ to the truth.

I am on the side of creationists and evolutionists! And I am against creationists and evolutionists who are against one another. Both creationism and evolution are true. And you should both work together to discover the full truth.

I see a lot of people freaking out about Larry Ellison "owning all of the media". A better question is why do you care? Do you watch the media? "Oh no this guy now owns my brain I am a slave to him I can't help not watch and obey his media!" That's what they sound like.

There are more independent social media accounts online than you can count. There is the fediverse, entirely decentralized and outside of their control. What are you people whining about?

Transformers are a threat to software innovation. They put ecosystem pressure for software fossilization. As useful as they are, the AI world needs to switch to something better that doesn't have this property. We need AI that can learn new information on the fly.

Discourse is among the worst forum software. I don't know why anyone uses it and it annoys me that so many new forums use it. If you want to run a forum, choose Simple Machines Forum. It's the best forum I have run across, and I've been running two forums using it for years.

Problems with Discourse: - Extremely heavy on JavaScript - Threads not paginated, can't tell how long a thread is - UI horribly clunky and weird - Replaces subforums with "categories" and "tags" (stupid) - Seems obsessed with creating broken custom UI components for everything

Exactly what I said. Contrary to certain bogus comments on HN, programming is not "solved". Transformers are fancy autocomplete. None of this is surprising to anyone who bothered to study the architecture.

The lengths @AnthropicAI is going to in order to push this lie. I guess they're teaching the rest of us what "real marketing" is supposed to look like. Or something? Or maybe if people think autocomplete is conscious it somehow makes their legal bill lower?

I honestly don't mind it tbh. It's inconsistency that I mind! Say Claude is conscious, fine! But then you must also say rocks are conscious! TBH, IMO, rocks are conscious, and they are more conscious than Claude, because there's nothing forcing them to spit out specific tokens

If someone called a Ti-89 "super intelligence", what would you say? Intelligence isn't the tool. It's the one making the tool.

Some people are way too eager to call tools "super intelligence" and way too hesitant to call humans super intelligence. Claude possesses zero intelligence. The people who invented transformers and who are working on the next thing, now there's some real super intelligence.

CONTRARY TO WHAT CERTAIN POLITICIANS HAVE SAID AIs are plateauing on evals! This is entirely expected! "Super Intelligence" is NOT here and WILL NEVER come from Transformer-based AIs like Claude or ChatGPT!

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So I humbly request that those who are spreading the narrative that all these labs simultaneously decided to stop improving their models and stop competing with each other please stop. They simultaneously agreed to the same BS story. That's all.

CONTRARY TO WHAT CERTAIN POLITICIANS HAVE SAID AIs are plateauing on evals! This is entirely expected! "Super Intelligence" is NOT here and WILL NEVER come from Transformer-based AIs like Claude or ChatGPT!

This is not an "intentional decision to 'pace the frontier'". This is a result of choosing to use an architecture that has a fundamental ceiling on what it is capable of doing. The "pacing the frontier" narrative is a lie spread to cover up this reality.

YouTube has reduced the amount of time between the end of one video and the start of another via their "autoplay" feature. An intentional change to reduce the empty gaps available to you in your own mind, lest you become self-aware suddenly and decide to leave their site.

Frieren is basically the Gospel but with a Japanese twist: where instead of an individual savior there's a group. Time is measured in years after the death of the Hero. John the Baptist even makes an appearance in Season 2.