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Established AI research Resource 17d ago
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Lynn Cherny Kashmir Hill Sasha Costanza-Chock Reuben Binns Dare Obasanjo Ben Williamson Meredith Martin Aram Sinnreich +4
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“are you in the weights? Hilarious and fascinating including the mess ups intheweights.com”

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“LLMs never fail to simultaneously impress and disappoint. Two searches for my name at intheweights.com showing completely different results with one accurate and one containing hallucinations.”

4 experts discussed this · 6 posts
austin: fun? I am in there. intheweights.com
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Well, my strategy of having an incredibly common wallet name is still rendering me invisible to information systems.
austin: weirdly enough my github handle actually had a better score than my wallet name
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Qwen/Qwen3.8-27B · Hugging Face

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Ted Underwood Tim Kellogg Sung Kim Julien Chaumond Evangelos Kazakos Chubby Isaiah Bishop austin

“Qwen 3.8 27B weights are finally out includes low, med & xhigh reasoning efforts fully multimodal (image and video), seems better than Meta’s Muse Glimmer huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...”

“Alibaba's Qwen3.8-27B (open-weight) huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...”

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Tim Kellogg: Qwen 3.8 27B weights are finally out includes low, med & xhigh reasoning efforts fully multimodal (image and video), seems better than Meta’s Muse Glimmer huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.8...
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Do they have a paired speculative decoding model for max performance?
Tim Kellogg: i don’t see an official one, it’s also not even an MoE (so seems like there should be an official draft model)
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Togelius AI beliefs change essay

Losing my religion

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Julian Togelius austin

“A personal essay about how I’ve been feeling and thinking about this new technology that I’m contributing to and what it might to do to us all. togelius.blogspot.com/2026/08/losi...”

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Julian Togelius: A personal essay about how I’ve been feeling and thinking about this new technology that I’m contributing to and what it might to do to us all. togelius.blogspot.com/2026/08/losi...
Julian Togelius: Of these, I’m most familiar with Banks. I initially thought it sounded fun but the more I think about it the more I hate the scenario. togelius.blogspot.com/2025/08/star...
austin: A personal essay about how I’ve been feeling and thinking about this new technology that I’m contributing to and what it might to do to us all. togelius.blogspot.com/2026/08/losi...
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11 experts · 78 posts · 14d ago
Mike Masnick SE Gyges Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) jake Arseny Khakhalin Doll austin Alex Gude
Reaction converging Opportunity & adoption · 3 Concern & critique · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
mackuba.eu: FFS, this is so fucked… 😩 Would it kill the people here to not chase away any tech person who comes here and says something about AI?… I really want tech discussions and communities to hang out her…
Mike Masnick: And now I'm getting shit upon for merely repeating what people told me, which some jackasses are misrepresenting. 🙄 Doing a lot of blocking unfortunately.
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7 experts · 39 posts · 14d ago
Olivia Guest Ali Alkhatib Eli Sennesh SE Gyges tweety fish austin mackuba.eu
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
SE Gyges: oh there's lore. you have only begun to see how weird this is. would you like to know more
SE Gyges: "Gretta, pictured here, is Eliezer Yudkowsky's primary partner, and draws a salary from his AI research nonprofit while also doing this. All events are held at Lighthaven, the Home of the Rationals…
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3 experts · 58 posts · 12h ago
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) Doll austin
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): for an engineer like me who is maximally using Sonnet, and hasn't yet switched to a local model, it's about $6k a month, or $72k a year. it is a very very hefty fraction of the salary, & is going t…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): this is definitely not technology that, at the moment, you want put in the hands of the average white-collar worker right now, you'd be better off just hiring more workers, rather than pay for the …
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4 experts · 26 posts · 8d ago
Hypervisible VE, cybersocial occult investigator austin Teresa Heffernan
Shared emphasis Building & implementation · 2
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Something I notice watching top trending github repos and the eng discourse on bsky (on an alt acct) is that a significant amount of the popularly socialized software engineering behavior now is fu…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: That’s pretty much what a lot of skills, agent frameworks, harnesses, etc amount to at the end of the day. And it’s not that these sort of artifacts do nothing at all — I have enough hands on exper…
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3 experts · 41 posts · 15d ago
Colin austin tj mahr 🤘
Colin: You're going to think this is a reach but I think that trypophobia burrito is a good example of a kind of subtle dehumanization that's hiding inside of a lot of ragebait. The image is disgusting. I…
Colin: The feeling of disgust at something that appears to be rotting, maggot-filled, etc., is a universal human experience. Anyone who looks at the trypophobia burrito can see that it's disgusting. What …
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4 experts · 11 posts · 18d ago
Ted Underwood SE Gyges Colin austin
Ted Underwood: > Tell Fable you'd prefer a simple bootstrap model of uncertainty, not "a Bayesian meta-model." > It replies with a bootstrap loop ... that makes draws from Bayesian models. > JimHalpertLooksAtCame…
Ted Underwood: so many of the pathologies of this thing can be explained if we assume the original SFT dataset came from a bunch of Bayesian statisticians who were herded into a Severance-style basement and told …
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3 experts · 12 posts · 6d ago
VE, cybersocial occult investigator austin Abstract Tesseract
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: I had lately found my anger about technofascism to be so much that it was making it hard for me to feel in community with other tech people—just in general, not even ones who support fascism—so see…
Abstract Tesseract: yeah I get that it's not sustainable for everyone to be angry about everything all the time, but given how much these communities have historically been willing to overlook, it does make me feel be…
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2 experts · 20 posts · 4d ago
VE, cybersocial occult investigator austin
Shared emphasis Concern & critique · 2
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: I think the frame we should really be exploring is that the world is suffering from a crisis of _what the software is actually being produced to do_; such as fascist surveillance, behavioral and ps…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: This is entirely orthogonal issue to both the quantity and quality of software produced, and actually driving up either the quantity of software production OR the quality of software production mak…
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4 experts · 7 posts · 11d ago
Dan Hon Doll austin mackuba.eu
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1
mackuba.eu: Yeah, OpenAI launched 5.6 as "Sol is the best, but Terra is for normal everyday stuff", but in practice it's totally fine for me to just have Sol set permanently and use it for everything
Dan Hon: Claude make me an artifact that illustrates price elasticity
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