building n learning software | applied AI
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no thank u, id rather fall victim to chinese propaganda than the westerns
Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.
Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.
After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.
The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.
Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: nousresearch.com/arete
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tech ppl experiencing being the minority for the first time:
It is alarming to see how much anti-AI sentiment is gaining traction, and deeply regrettable, too.
With this technology, we have the potential to change everything for the better, forever. Yet, in the comments sections here, I find myself debating the most trivial matters, as if the majority still fails to grasp the immense power and possibilities that AI brings.
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where can i donate
An underground activist group says it plans to start openly doxing billionaires as part of a phased campaign against what it calls the American oligarchy—starting with Elon Musk and Tesla’s board. wired.com/story/anti-oligarc…
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if ai > human intelligence, and if we give it more agency in our prompts, arent we practically doing work more efficiently by being dumb?
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this is exactly how i imagined ai to take over our consciousness, whatever opus decides we consume, we consume. even more countless scrolling, except ai decides this time
Weekend hack: HackerTube. I was annoyed with YouTube's recommendations so I had Claude filter down 43M comments over 20 years of HN to 6,454 videos that keep being recommended. *Significantly* better viewing experience, ~2 hours with Opus 5.5:
hackertube.org/
- Excellent recs without any logins (state is kept in local browser session)
- Thumbnail is a representative frame from middle of the video instead of the super duper A/B test hyper-optimized user uploads
- Underlying data from the comment analysis as one zip file, point your Claude at it and ask for your own version
- HackerTube Longs ✊
A bit more on the process:
I use Claude Code (desktop app for Mac), Opus 5.5 on Medium effort as my default. I only talk to Claude and have it do everything, the only "manual work" I helped with in tandem was in the browser (reminiscent of MenuGen): 1) I had to create some kind of API key from Google Cloud UI to query YouTube for video metadata, 2) I booted up a VPS box for serving and 3) I bought the domain name. Once the box was up I gave Claude the IP and told it update, secure, harden, deploy and optimize the code, and it did the whole thing.
Many awesome projects that would have normally taken weeks/months even can now be few-shotted for breakfast. What else are we not thinking of.
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there is no meaning to all this, science maths whatever u wanna call it is all a scam, ur not going to understand anything better, einstein went crazy for a reason, stop trying to find a purpose, there is none and its okay, im in stem btw
If P = NP but all the things we thought were not P just have huge constants, then the only reasonable conclusion is that we are in a simulation and these constants were chosen to be inaccessible to denizens of the simulation
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no way yall mfers are realising this now? its called marketing every company does this
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That's the creators campaign docs I got from Kimi AI after their Kimi K3.1 pro release and thats the narrative they want creators to push, of course I'm out and I'm never gonna say something I don't test myself and give my honest opinion about and I don't want to be involved in this China vs US political situation.
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you are a dumber, slower, and more pathetic human if you use gen AI for literally anything at all no matter how small or mundane, i do not care how "convenient" it is, you are a bad person actively contributing to the death of your own brain and the planet we all live on
ai native ai enabled ai assisted so many buzzwords when nothing has really changed except for the rate of work aka power aka faster progress to the end of the world! what a great time to be alive
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is it just me or does reading texts from LLMs feel like a dream? you forget what you just read right after u close the tab just how u forget about a dream when u wake up. ive been trying to use AI to learn new concepts and im realizing traditional learning routes are still better
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by stack of cells it meant cells in a spreadsheet not you 😭 exactly how i imagined karens to be reacting to claude
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if u really think about it, ai isnt replacing anything, dumb ppl stay dump, intelligence stays with intelligence, jobs are safe afai can look into the future
a weird inversion with LLMs is the models improve faster than the tinkerers
when i see people with custom workflows and setups they're all addressing problems that don't exist anymore
the person naively using vanilla codex is more likely to be experiencing state of the art
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