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Leary

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About Leary

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    Uploaded my code base and it forced switched to Opus 4.8 after thinking for 5 minutes even though I prompted it to not work on cybersecurity related things. Amazing.

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    news from 2025

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    Comment #45186697

    “Large frontier developer”: a frontier developer that together with its affiliates collectively had annual gross revenues in excess of five hundred million dollars ($500,000,000) i…

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    Except that does make sense because the new country would be the weighted average of the average CO2 contribution for both Americans and Nigerians.

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    Amazing analysis, except for the fact China was dirt poor before communism.

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    No way. I read Noah Smith (number 1 economist on substack) every week and he says one must measure China in per capita terms for all the good stuff: GDP (preferably nominal), and i…

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    But how are you gonna foresee the total annihilation of the Chinese semi industry without Jordan the necromancer interpreting party documents for you?

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    Does anyone know which technology on this tree has the most descendents?

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    https://metr.github.io/autonomy-evals-guide/gpt-5-report/

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    Comment #44827457

    METR of only 2 hours and 15 minutes. Fast takeoff less likely.

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    GPQA Diamond: gpt-oss-120b: 80.1%, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-2507: 81.1% Humanity’s Last Exam: gpt-oss-120b (tools): 19.0%, gpt-oss-120b (no tools): 14.9%, Qwen3-235B-A22B-Thinking-…

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    Comment #44780799

    Did it with https://sites.google.com/site/jiaxiongyao16/nighttime-lights... USA (2013-2023 CAGR: 2.3%) 2014: 6.2% 2015: -5.3% 2016: -1.8% 2017: 15.2% 2018: -4.9% 2019: 4.5% 2020: -…

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    Comment #44260795

    0:10 into the video, that's light skinned to you?!

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    Translation: You provide the capital and the data, we'll co-own the data centers share the models until Trump and the US government decide to shut it off as a bargaining chip.

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    They are not "English-first". Deepseek-R1, for example, reasons in Chinese when you ask it a question in Chinese.

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