Working on a Ph.D in integrated photonics among other things. Studied Physics and Astrophysics. Latin Mass attender.

Joined September 2023
We live in an era where cars have to compute their own backblast.
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Grok has gotten worse in basically all aspects over the last several weeks. Imagine is worse, search is worse and pulls in 10x more sources than would be required to get the information it needs, it doesn't talk well, and it misses subtext. Seriously considering cancelling.
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Windows Vista was the best looking Windows.
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Matthew Malaker retweeted
I have conducted an audit of Anthropic's finances. What I have found is so shocking that I am calling for a Congressional investigation. Anthropic is not just seeking regulatory capture. It has built a regulatory capture machine that cannot be turned off. Structural financial incentives make it impossible for Anthropic -- I call it the Anthropic Network -- to turn off its own AI doom cycle. It starts with METR. Dario Amodei proposes "third-party evaluators" to assess the risk of Anthropic's models. He proposes METR for this purpose. But METR is financially dependent on the Anthropic's success -- specifically, on the explosive growth of more than $7 billion dollars in Anthropic stock. Dustin Moskovitz invested this stock into Good Ventures Foundation, where it represents the majority of that organization's portfolio. And GVF is the overwhelming funder of the entire Anthropic Network ecosystem. This stock was worth $500 million early last year. It is worth more than $7.7 billion just ~16 months later. METR -- and all of those building a career its parent organizations -- cannot afford to disrupt that growth. Because if Anthropic goes under, many of the organizations that fund METR go under as well. But if Anthropic succeeds, METR and its parent organizations become more richly financed to regulate AI -- something those at METR want very much. The "third-party evaluator" is not "third-party" at all. The evaluator is on Anthropic's payroll. If this were the end of it, that's bad. But that isn't all. The same organizations that fund METR also fund the many organizations, such as the Tarbell Center, that promote AI Doom. The Tarbell Center publishes AI Doom articles in The Verge, Science, LA Times, The Dispatch, TIME, and others. They are selling the problem, and then selling the solution to the problem -- from the same money pile: Anthropic's. All of these organizations are financially dependent on the same exploding $7 billion money pile. As Anthropic grows more and more powerful, its AI Doom Machine grows better and better financed -- louder and louder. Meanwhile, the regulatory regime seeded in METR grows larger to solve the increasingly loud -- now hysterical -- problem of AI Doom that the Anthropic Network itself created. From this standpoint, as Anthropic becomes more powerful, AI might be getting scarier, sure -- but the positive feedback loop also becomes more deafening -- independent of objective facts. This itself is an objective fact. The deafening AI Doom is part of an business model, that, as it expands, so too does the AI Doom messaging -- there is simply more money to do it. But the problem also goes in the other direction: If Anthropic dies, the Regulatory Regime and the AI Doom Machine are crippled or die. Neither METR nor Tarbell nor the other organizations in the Anthropic Network can allow that to happen. Hence, neither METR or the AI Doom Machine can be trusted to provide independent assessments of Anthropic's models or AI more broadly. They simply are not organizations independent of Anthropic. And Anthropic cannot detach itself from METR or Tarbell or countless other safety orgs (not shown here), either, because they drive hype for the models and the possibility of eventual regulatory capture, and Anthropic will not give that up willingly. What's more, the people at all of these organizations are all the same ecosystem, the same community. They just shuffle between organizations. The Anthropic Network is therefore, so long as it is successful, locked into a self-amplifying feedback loop inside an ideological monoculture. And that feedback loop is winning. That's what Jacob Coxon is. China is keeping messaging tight. That is why optimism for AI is so high in China. America has Anthropic: a massive company pushing anti-AI propaganda at a state level. Anthropic will either create hysteria until American AI slows down and China wins, or it will create fractures throughout American society with severe political consequences. Ironically, because of the structural financial incentives underpinning the Anthropic Network, it has become the same kind of self-amplifying virus that it fantasizes AI to become in the future -- while hiding its tracks just as carefully. It is the mirror of the same AI virus that it hypothesizes to consume America. Anthropic's business model, models itself after the very thing it claims to fear. Except Anthropic's ideology infects humans, not computers. Congress must investigate. Evidence and Github in next post. Then some supplementary figures.
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If someone asked me what the greatest threat to continued human existence/civilization is today, other than evil itself, my answer is "urbanization." It nearly single handedly is the reason for the complete collapse in global birthrates.
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I've noticed that Muse Spark 1.3 writes in a more smooth and natural way than other models. It isn't just flashbanging you with jargon, terminology, etc. It just sounds normal. That by itself makes it my go-to for anything prose related. It actually sounds different.
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Humanoid robots are going to be super useful for dangerous jobs. Why send a person into an arc flash risk situation when they can remote control a humanoid robot with a motion capture suit?
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I just started using @bot, and I absolutely LOVE the little animations the avatars do when they're thinking. It might be my favorite part about using the service.
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This new clock icon is substantially worse than the old one. I'm not sure how new it actuslly is, but it just showed up on my phone.
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How log has the android Grok app had build mode? This is super cool and reminiscent of the TUI. Were they waiting on Cursor origin to ship it?
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You know, after humanoid robots come out and at least can be remote controlled by motion capture, I see no reason why I should ever have to work with ultra-dangerous chemicals like HF personally. Just remote into the bot and have it do it.
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I just had the most bizarre experiences once with Grok Build where Grok refused to make edits because it claimed to be 'in Ask mode' when that isn't even one of the options of the harness. Is there something weird going on in this version? This hasn't happened before.
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So. I just used 93.3 million tokens on Muse Spark 1.2, and it only cost 32¢ because of the contributor pricing. That's wild.
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I figured I'd try Muse Code because of how cheap muse spark 1.2 contributed is, and it's pretty cool. Set set up a whole 6 phase plan by itself and is executing them smoothly one by one until it needs input. It's pretty neat, but it could use the ability to paste images in chat.
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One interesting thing I noticed from coding with Grok 4.5 is it assumes you know exactly what it's saying and holds nothing back. You can't skim past anything it says. It expects you to keep up with it. That's super refreshing. It actually keeps me engaged.
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I sent one prompt to Grok 4.5 with my Hermes Agent, and I already know this one is a banger.
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Is anyone else getting a bunch of random, unrelated posts they don't care about? I'm getting 1 or two every time I refresh my feed, often one after another about 5-6 posts into my feed. Was there an algorithm change?
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Hermee Agent with Grok is awesome. It's way faster than the local models I was using before. It does need steering, though, but that may come from my system prompt. Funnily, it asked me to patch code manually instead of using the patch command because of character matching.
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On the last part, it found using patch on a large and complicated code base annoying because it had to get the exact code to delete perfectly right (including indents) and found that harder than having me do it. Is there no way for the agent to copy/paste lines?
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It seems to me like the SpaceX IPO is more of a way to generate short term capital than anything. Elon still has control, insiders get an exit, and SpaceX gets a cash injection to get Starship over the finish line, Terafab, and SpaceXAI, all of which are taking lots of money
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