the_confused_teacher
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the_confused_teacher
@AlephOneAI
Teacher, futurist, hopelessly clumsy programmer
Germany Katılım Mart 2025
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Alcohol fucks you up. It's legal.
Psychedelics unfuck you. They're illegal.
That tells you everything about what society actually values.
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@alz_zyd_ You should Build for yourself and not others.
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.@DavidSacks @elonmusk
The Chinese models are distilling off American models… my guess is American models can’t legally do this without being sued by Chinese AI companies in American courts .. 🤔.. and distilling a Chinese model is really theft from an American company…
What should American AI and IP policy be here?
If distillation isn’t enforced against, then everyone should be able to distill from everyone else.. otherwise one arm tied behind American models’ backs.
Maybe systems need to get better at preventing distillation techniques, and problem solves itself?
Denise Wu@denisewu
There’s a large grain of salt!🧂 Kimi is still calling itself Claude.
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It looks likely that Kimi K3 was heavily distilled from Fable
If that can be proven, the U.S. government should act aggressively against the theft of American IP
It cannot ban Fable for a month, then do nothing when a foreign competitor releases a distilled copy
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@Noahpinion Maybe the leading people do not want to run the country effectively?
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The U.S. basically has three live political movements:
1. Woke progressivism (now fading)
2. Socialist leftism
3. MAGA
NONE of these movements has a viable plan for actually governing the country effectively.
noahpinion.blog/p/americas-pol…
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@twid This is the story Nvidia should think about every day.
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I am old and was around for Sun's demise. Aravind's reasoning is 100% true. Sun sold web servers that cost a million dollars each, with expensive services wrapped around them. They could do incredible things small Linux servers could not. For example, you could hot swap cards out of a Sun server WHILE it was running.
But a fully loaded Linux web server cost maybe $10,000, so you could buy ten and still save 90%. People rushed for the cheap Linux boxes. Sun tried to adapt, but the whole org was built around million-dollar servers. They just couldn't change. This all happened very quickly, about two years if I recall correctly.
Lots of parallels to expensive cloud AI and local AI. If Kimi K3 ships open weights as promised, you could run it on a couple of future Mac M5 or M6 or M7 systems (whatever ends up shipping) for maybe $50,000.
And local AI is the worst it will ever be today. Think where it is in two years. I don't think Fable 5 at $50/MTok output is sustainable.
Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivas
At its peak, Sun Microsystems was valued at 205B (394B if inflation adjusted). Sold software in enterprise servers. Got disrupted by Linux, x86, and commodity hardware. Ended up selling to Oracle for 7.4B, losing 96% of its value. Open source models running on local hardware can have a similar impact given what’s going on.
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@EtienneToGo Ich glaube gelesen zu haben das am letzten Tags des Transferfensters das gute alte Fax sehr oft verwendet wird.
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Finden Verhandlungen unter Vereinen und Spielern eigentlich mit Briefpost statt?
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@davepl1968 As a teacher I can tell that C is really the first programming language that someone with interest in programming should learn. Simple Syntax and most important concepts Like men Management are not hidden.
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@mark_k Do not forget that this is Not a new thing. Especially not in Germany. RAF, the anti AKW thing in the 70s and 80s etc.
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Based. Far-left violence is becoming a real problem. Not just in the US though.
Karoline Leavitt@PressSec
Trump Administration Unleashes Global Campaign to Crush Radical Left Terrorism whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/…
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Achso 😊 Ja da wird er sich wohl anpassen müssen. Allerdings sehe ich da kein Problem. Jede Position die du inne hast bringt eine neue Brille mit die dich Dinge anders sehen lässt. Von Außen mag das inkonsequent wirken, aber selbst in meinem kleinen Berufsleben habe ich das schon selber an mir erlebt. Mit neuer Verantwortung kommt eine neue Sicht.
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@AlephOneAI Es geht nicht um die Maßnahmen an sich. Klopp hat sich als Vereinstrainer mehrfach mit Nationaltrainern bezüglich Nominierungen angelegt, den Africa Cup runtergemacht, die Nations League verteufelt. Genau diese Dinge wird er in Zukunft verteidigen müssen.
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Um diesen Gedanken fortzuführen: Der Nationaltrainer Klopp wird nur Erfolg haben, wenn er Dinge tut, die der Vereinstrainer Klopp gehasst hätte. Heißt: Nations League loben, halb verletzte Schlüsselspieler einberufen, Spieler in anderen Positionen einsetzen als beim Klub etc.
Tobias Escher@TobiasEscher
Was ja eigentlich nur eine alte Weisheit bestätigt: Dass Verbandsfußball kein Vereinsfußball ist. Der Trainerjob bei einem Klub ist ein ganz anderer.
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@mawilms Das ist aber leider nur die halbe Wahrheit. Sehr selektiv und irreführend.
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Da in diesem Bereich, insbesondere bei den Grünen (denen mit dem hohen Bildungsgrad, sie sind ja so stolz drauf!) ja Unsicherheit herrscht:
Wasser wird auf der Erde nicht verbraucht, sondern zirkuliert in einem geschlossenen System. Die Gesamtmenge bleibt dabei immer konstant; das Wasser ändert lediglich seinen Zustand oder seinen Ort durch Verdunstung, Wolkenbildung, Niederschlag und Versickerung.
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@DaveShapi This only works when the fear mongering stops. Making models US only does also hinder progress.
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We need a Marshall Plan but for AI.
This goes beyond Manhattan Project or Apollo Program.
The investment in AI has already eclipsed those budgets.
But what we really need is a set of strategic policies that create a virtuous cycle of AI innovation, investment, and deployment.
David Sacks@DavidSacks
This is concerning. For the first time, a Chinese model Kimi K3 has taken #1 on the Frontend Code Arena and is scoring at or near the frontier on other benchmarks. Meanwhile America is tying itself in knots: politicians and bureaucrats are banning new data centers, piling on state regulations, and pushing for new federal agencies to pre-approve frontier models. This is how you lose the AI race. The rest of the world won’t play by our rules if we bog ourselves down. Permissionless innovation is how America won the internet and became the technological envy of the world. We can do it again with AI -- while addressing risks in a targeted way -- or we’ll watch our lead evaporate.
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@mark_k @Nate_Esparza Absolutely. A lot of people think it just a new way to google. But what makes me really sad is that even my students, 18 to 20 years old in the IT and E-Commerce Field, do Not Care at all about what is happening.
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@Nate_Esparza And yet, most of the general public is completely oblivious to the progress, or what AI can do for them.
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Its honestly insane how good AI has gotten in such a short period of time.
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@sri9s There used to be a startup with that idea founded by an ex Apple designer. Failed completely.
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@mark_k Do I still need to own a license for the games? If yes, this is the biggest obstacle before the Netflix moment comes.
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Cloud gaming is the future of gaming. You may not like it, but the direction is obvious. GeForce NOW has improved by miles. It’s excellent now, and with a good connection there are basically no meaningful drawbacks compared to playing locally.
Most people won’t keep buying expensive hardware just to run games on one device. They’ll open any screen, launch instantly, and continue exactly where they left off.
Local hardware won’t disappear, but for the mass market, the console of the future is a data center.
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@mark_k That was basically the story of my failed startup 😂
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* Browsers will go away.
* Websites will go away.
* Software will go away.
The only thing we directly use will be the AI agent.
This is already close to the reality for heavy AI users now.
Rational Aussie@rationalaussie
I think web browsers are going to die way sooner than people think. They are already archaic for heavy AI users like me. Everything is going to be done within the AI agent itself. Your AI will have its own identity, you'll define the permissions for what it can and cannot do, and that'll be it. There will be an equivalent to Google My Business, whereby every business will create their Claude account and have a Claude AI that represents them with its own unique name, identity, contact details, etc. Then, the final piece of the puzzle is the coordination layer: both individuals and businesses will be able to opt in to a massive multiplayer online network of human and AI hybrids, where the AI goes off and finds exactly what it is you need by talking to other AIs and humans in the background. Once you have this, it's all over. Browsers die, websites die, most SaaS dies - the AI subsumes everything.
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@rezoundous Because I need many many Tools that do not exist out there. No one offers the tools I need. And of course there is no lock-in and I can cistomize everything as I want to.
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@EMostaque @ssi @ilyasut Why would they Not Rent AGI out? I would assume, or at least hope, that politics will rule against too much power in a single or just a few hands.
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I have quite a few thoughts on this but one of the main ones is how does it apply to @ssi etc?
@ilyasut is never going to release AGI, just laser focused on building it
Once you have AGI most wouldn't want to rent it out tbh, economics & logic point against doing so
Demis Hassabis@demishassabis
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I didn’t know who Joseph Campbell was until I was 25 or 26.
But once I did it changed how I see everything.
Read The Hero with a Thousand Faces, Campbell studied myths from every culture on earth — Greek, Buddhist, Native American, Biblical.
And underneath all the different costumes and settings he found the same story being told everywhere.
He called it the monomyth.
It’s about the human psyche and the dragons you have to slay in your own mind to be free.
One line from the book that I’ve never forgotten: “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
How many times have we avoided something we desperately wanted because of fear of failure — or fear of success?
That’s the hero’s journey. And it’s yours too.
Read this book.
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