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SimianSci

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About SimianSci

Always a student, learning things the hard way.

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    Comment #49025869

    How can we close pandora's box, now that its open? Safety is not restricting access to only people favored by the government. The greed of AI executives opened pandora's box. Now t…

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    Comment #49022310

    What a soulless take. Morality is determined socially and does not exist in a vacuum. Stealing the livlihood of artists and creators so that you can offer competing products is not…

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    Comment #49022145

    This has more to do with two seperate approaches to innovation. One which favors a small handful of firms establishing full control over a monopoly on the market. And another favor…

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    Comment #49021865

    so back when the stakes were low to non-existant? If your principles are only available on display when there is no consequence, they arnt your principles, they are a mask.

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    Comment #49009316

    > to over optimize for a happy path easily solved on a company website rather than solve the issue that made me call them This issue you mentioned of the in-built sycophancy being …

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    Comment #49009227

    This article was incredibly hard to parse before I eventually realized they built a virtual support agent. The unintended consequence being that now im more cautious than ever to t…

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    Comment #48982872

    With their models being open-weight, any two-bit firm in the world with enough capital to invest in a few servers can become a provider capable of carving out their own little nich…

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    Comment #48982635

    The cost of inference is not insurmoutable for many corporations who may run a small datacenter out of their headquaters or branch offices. Larger models absolutely have a higher b…

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    Comment #48927535

    Trust is lost when trust is abused. Mistakes, even if made unintentionally are something that should make reasonable people be skeptical of any further dealings with someone. This …

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    Comment #48927448

    You didnt even address my link, this is why you are being called out as a bad-faith actor.

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    Comment #48927257

    The open source and open weight models. Surprisingly, despite their motivations in doing so, the Chinese models being open-weight and therefore able to run locally on your own hard…

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    Comment #48927172

    The many controversies are not hard to find as the children to your comment will show. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/grok-x-ai-elon...

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    Comment #48927077

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    Comment #48896830

    My team fully abandoned our attempts to make OpenClaw or Claw-like agents work for us. We invested a sizable chunk of our R&D budget to setting various Claws up to help our softwar…

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    Comment #48678877

    So the trend here is government slowdown of AI releases to the public. No discussion around monetary incentives either. I expect a negative response from markets as this basically …

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    Comment #48650981

    There is an understandable gap between the capabilities of closed models and those of open models. The current difference is primarily expressed in the cost of hardware necessary t…

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    Comment #48650611

    More signal that the open-weight models should be our destiny as an industry. These proprietary models are being used to usher in more surveillance and gatekeeping across the indus…

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    Comment #48650058

    > "To support the claim that coding agents can displace human code review, we survey evidence of agent capability across three dimensions: benchmark performance on softwareenginee…

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    Comment #48649628

    When someone is expected to be wizened and does not have the knowledge to keep up with the needs of those around them, they in turn become Shamanistic in their practice. The speed …

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    Comment #48646638

    There are a lot of nutritional blind spots in vegan diets. It is a diet that requires exceptional planning and intentionality to be at a baseline of health similar to a balanced om…

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    Comment #48574960

    Asian countries have governments that are at least seemingly vested in the interests of their populace. They have significant political and economic safety nets in place that can a…

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    Comment #48545171

    This is unlikely to happen in any meaningful fashion for quite some time. (TLDR; Distributed compute for models will require hardware at a level only really possible with data-cent…