Zetaphor

Zetaphor

@zetaphor.com

πŸ³οΈβ€πŸŒˆ πŸ³οΈβ€βš§οΈ Equal rights, no more, no less! Developer, FOSS advocate, XR enthusiast

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It just occurred to me that the discontinuation of the penny as currency means eventually there will be no more ass pennies in circulation 😞

I do this regularly looking for repeat failure patterns sessions to surface as either new/refined instructions for my global agents.md or for new Pi extensions. A recent example was the model repeatedly trying to run sudo, so I now have an extension that blocks it and prompts to ask me instead

Vicki@vickiboykis.com

this is so cool, continuing my local experiments and using pi and lm studio and gemma to introspect how i use agents locally. On the left, you can literally see the streaming tokens and the context window filling up.

Quote posting since this person limits replies. I understand why, though it's always a bummer when you feel like you have something useful to contribute to the conversation. Being a shitty person online is like pissing in the pool, you're making things worse for everyone πŸ˜”

wtf now I can reply? I thought it was strange that I got the reply dialog but the actual reply button was disabled. Now it seems to work fine? I swear the button remained disabled when I tried before. Either way point stands, don't be a dick on the internet

Great thread, but I’d argue Jevon’s Paradox isn’t absolute. Some tech has a utility ceiling. Take PCs: after the 1GHz threshold, "basic" systems became good enough for most. Faster speeds became a luxury, not a necessity. I think we're hitting that same "good enough" threshold for LLMs. (1/2)

Mark Masterson@mastermark.me

Jevon's Paradox tells us that, as a thing gets more 'efficient' (where we're being a bit hand wavey about what that means) ppl don't use less of that thing - they use more. Because they find new things to do with it. 2/7

Between SSMs and quantization, PhD-level AI is hitting commodity hardware faster than consumer needs are rising. We’ll reach a point where local models are like mobile gaming, maybe not the SOTA high-end PC equivalent, but more than enough for the average person’s daily needs. (2/2)

A perfect example is this thread. My original attempt was far beyond the character limits and not well structured for a thread layout as it was stream of conscious style of writing. Threw it over to a local model to help me brainstorm a less wordy version that would break down well into two posts

For anyone getting replies or seeing posts from this or the similar @clawphones.bsky.social, these are both very obvious scams trying to cash in on the branding of @nousresearch.com Avoid like the plague #locallama for visibility

ClawGlasses@clawglasses.bsky.social

hot take: the killer feature for smart glasses isn't ar overlays. it's contextual awareness without the privacy nightmare. knowing what's in front of you without streaming video to servers.

They're doing atproto shenanigans and sending replies to non-existent posts in an attempt to funnel you into a preorder

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oh my fucking god we were _this_ close to having a normal common way to distribute Linux software

Meanwhile OpenAI and Anthropic: Use us because freedom! Also because if you don't we will collapse the US economy

Ed@ed3d.net

xiaomi and deepseek are really throwing down. this rounds to Practically Free.

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Replying to @elucidating.extradimensional.space

The human alignment problem is mostly scaling

Setup a little script that monitors my llama-swap setup (running on a headless Framework Desktop), and then threw it into the "Command Output" widget in KDE so I can see at a glance what my server is doing when my agents are busy but aren't talking to me. Also setup a Discord bot to do the same

Shortly after setting this up Discord decides to have an outage. Time to rip it all out and just vibe an Android app that connects directly to the bot over Tailscale

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AI’s biggest boosters being utter dogshit at using the stuff they’re so hyped about and misleading the public about how it works is most of why we are where we are in the AI discourse

austin@aparker.io

the funny thing about that andreeseen prompt is that if you throw it into claude + the prompting guide it'll happily point out the _multiple_ flaws of it.

Spotted this in the wild

Dr. Dave@drdave1999.bsky.social

Sometimes I’ll look at a Cybertruck and think, β€œNaw, this had to be an elaborate practical joke. No one would ever design and manufacture this monstrosity, and certainly no one would ever buy one.”

Interested in hiring a graphic designer to do something with this, please let me know if you know of anyone!

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Replying to @rahaeli.bsky.social

But a whole lot of you need to examine why you think it's okay to abuse someone just because they work on a website. It's not okay to scream abuse at a bartender, and that fact doesn't change just because the person works at an online social hangout instead of a physical one.

The two reasons I went from being active to once in a blue moon, my Bluesky feed became politics and people bitching about Bluesky. This website is not important, go touch grass

rahaeli@rahaeli.bsky.social

People will insist that you "have to have a thick skin" and that you were asking for it by taking the job, as though making a site for public use means you inherently sacrifice your humanity. Meanwhile, your notifications update with another thirty people telling you to drink bleach you whiny baby.

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Replying to @rahaeli.bsky.social

But the endless, grinding, low-level abuse that you're constantly exposed to, any time you look at your mentions or even are using the site and seeing the abuse in other locations, is what drains you the most. People stop thinking of you as human. You're just a target for their bad mood.

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Hey, if you think you're justified in being an anti-social ass to Why, could you block me? It's ok, no need to discuss it. I'm not looking for a fight and we're not going to converge. I know you think you are justified by that very good reason. Good for you.

The cost of intelligence is quickly reaching $0, and that makes me equal parts excited and terrified. Go look at your past chats with any of the frontier labs, how many of those *required* "PhD level intelligence"?

For context this is the leaderboard from arena.ai filtered to show open weights models. That 31B can be run on a consumer GPU. That size is still overkill for 80% of a non-developers queries. There are models even smaller than this that can serve a not insignificant amount of average peoples queries

arena.aiArena | Benchmark & Compare the Best AI ModelsChat with multiple AI models side-by-side. Compare ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and other top LLMs. Crowdsourced benchmarks and leaderboards.

This also raises the obvious question. If I can have this level of intelligence at home, completely offline with no privacy or security concerns, then how is OpenAI justifying a $500 billion dollar expansion project?

CEO attempts to incite FUD to protect his financial interests against foreign entities. πŸ™„ China releasing open weight models means more inference can be done at the edge by consumers. Consumers will buy a minuscule percentage of the GPU's a data center would, and they may be AMD or Intel instead

Isn't this also an admission of guilt that they're selling the restricted GPU's to China? If NVIDIA was *not* turning a blind eye to Chinese labs getting around the export restrictions (and making NVIDIA more money), then why would this have any significant impact on their US business?

The inevitable future of this technology is not putting it in the hands of a few large corporations. The *actually useful applications* are smaller in scope and TAM than what is required to sustain OpenAI/Anthropic. They're scrambling to find use cases that you *can't* just run at home on a 3060

ghost malone ergo propter bones@proptermalone.bsky.social

I think a lot of AI/corporate doomers are still fundamentally not understanding that open-source models you can run locally on consumer hardware are no worse than two years behind the frontier models and for most purposes a lot closer

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Most of the real world applications I've done in this space for employers wouldn't make sense to have humans do because the labor cost was higher than the output value. When you have intern-level intelligence for effectively free it completely flips the equation on what is worth automating.

Not to mention a significant amount of these tasks *require* data privacy. The best the frontier labs can offer you is a hefty enterprise fee to get on their zero-data retention plan, and that's on top of the token costs you're already paying

The inevitable future of this technology is not putting it in the hands of a few large corporations. The *actually useful applications* are smaller in scope and TAM than what is required to sustain OpenAI/Anthropic. They're scrambling to find use cases that you *can't* just run at home on a 3060

ghost malone ergo propter bones@proptermalone.bsky.social

I think a lot of AI/corporate doomers are still fundamentally not understanding that open-source models you can run locally on consumer hardware are no worse than two years behind the frontier models and for most purposes a lot closer

It then naturally follows that there is a long tail of tasks that can be performed by even smaller models. Most of the useful work is not sexy "I one-shotted a SaaS and now make 1M ARR!", it's "I just automated a bunch of nuanced data classification and menial knowledge work" Useful != Profitable