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frabcus

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About frabcus

I'm Francis Irving. Cohosts "Imagine an apple" a podcast about our inner mental worlds.

Made lots of the mySociety democracy websites - TheyWorkForYou, WhatDoTheyKnow and so on

Email me francis@flourish.org

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    Comment #49244652

    Likewise the Inkling open weights announcement, Thinking Machines model, was also not criticised. The comment about Meta is because of particular dislike of Meta, because of their …

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    Comment #49244609

    Of the two competing models Meta compare Glimmer to in the post, one is Google's Gemma 4. At this size open weight model, a Western company was already state of the art, Meta is jo…

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    Comment #49194013

    At least join PauseAI or similar. Or give money to them. Write to politicians. Read Plan A and tell people about it.

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    Comment #49185867

    Hmm. And the AISI unintended model hacking yesterday was also just marketing for the British Government? At some point we have to all accept that powerful AI is most likely dangero…

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    Comment #49166055

    I guess we'll have to fall back on the plan of hoping one of the 7 Anthropic co-founders has secure power in this world, and decides to use EA principles to give us all a bit of th…

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    Comment #49166033

    Because the implied alternative of the comment is that people will carry on having jobs, which breaks the entire premise that there is AI that replaces all human labour. The commen…

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    Comment #49120199

    They're not being especially careless to industry norms. It is partly that software engineering has no professional standards, and partly that AI is fundamentally dangerous in a ve…

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    Comment #49120175

    I hope someone does sue soon. The AI companies are making a very dangerous technology deliberately, and at minimum should be accountable for those dangers. Some will really try not…

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    Comment #49120145

    I think it is the cost of moving fast. Air gapping would slow down their partner evaluation system hugely . All the engineers would have to go and live next to the model. They need…

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    Comment #49120135

    They do in general! The post is about when the tactic you suggest went wrong. Humans are imperfect and make mistakes. That's exactly the point - AI is fundamentally unsafe because …

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    Comment #49120103

    Quite! It's worse than that - the AI companies all release tooling that deliberately gives AIs as many capabilities (arbitrary code execution) as possible to be really sure it is n…

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    Comment #49120085

    It seems completely unsurprising to me that there is one security company whose software is sufficiently badly written that it executes the code in every package published to PyPI.…

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    Comment #49094759

    Random sampling of compute activity. https://ai-2040.com/supplements/verification-plan#appendix-p...

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    Comment #49094742

    See detailed supplement to Plan A which talks entirely about this: https://ai-2040.com/supplements/verification-plan

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    Comment #49094652

    Also, in reality above a certain power level the Governments will stop giving us access anyway. This already began with Mythos.

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    Comment #49094644

    You need AI capabilities to the point where the US and Chinese leaders get scared enough that they do a deal. There are detailed specific scenarios in Plan A https://ai-2040.com/

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    Comment #49094626

    There's a decent amount of stuff in Plan A. Especially if you read the supplements. https://ai-2040.com/

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    Comment #49032663

    I can't find similar rules at SourceHut, can you point to them? They use Anubis and block LLM scraping, but that sounds useful to me!

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    Comment #49004156

    Given a German court talked about not having the prompt logs making it hard in a specific case to prove it had sufficient human input, maybe someone could do an open source hosting…

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    Comment #49004113

    Germany copyright law feels like the relevant thing here - Codeberg is a non-profit based in Germany. Best quick English language overview of status that I could find: https://www.…

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    Comment #48940868

    Umm, Fable only really came out 2 weeks ago, and GPT-5.6 Sol only 1 week ago. Yes, Kimi K3 appears a touch below them both, but above all other models. So I'd say a few weeks behin…

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    Comment #48933714

    The advent of the internet was collaborative and based on introducing shared protocols for a couple of decades. It deserved criticism when globalised capitalism got involved, and m…

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    Comment #48843502

    I'm trying sourcehut at the moment https://sourcehut.org/ and it seems really good - very simple and fast. And does seem to be free for hosting open source projects. Anyone else us…

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    Comment #48795218

    Better and easier to understand and use UX.

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    Comment #48756768

    This being a news site for hackers , I should point out you can use browser plugins to change the default feed. And (if you use an Android phone, but maybe there's a way with Safar…