Working on a gardening robot; we need to give the power of AI to individuals or the next 30 years could be really ugly
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Last Notes npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Local GPUs ftw npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident I was maybe 70% confident Israel made 9/11 happen, then after reading that timeline last night I'd say I'm at 85% now. Crazy. npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Thanks, reading up on History Commons, wasn't aware. npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Yeah that would be the point of a sovereign intelligence organization, to authoritatively establish a shared reality (insofar as that is possible. But I think it's much more possible than your average moral-relativism-brained 'intellectual' thinks it is) npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident (if you're not from the USA, you may kindly ignore this, pardon my intrusion into asknostr) Secretary of State - "we attacked Iran because Israel was going to attack, so we had to be preemptively attack to avoid casualties" Implication: "You thought WE were the superpower?? You though we could tell Israel, 'no, you're not attacking Iran, calm down'? No. We do what Israel tells us. THEY call the shots, and we obey." When did this happen? When did a tiny country in the middle east start deciding our foreign policy against our will, deciding where and when we will risk the lives of our own citizens? This is the first time I've really mourned the loss of our sovereignty. It doesn't feel like the United States is a sovereign people anymore. We are subjects. And not even to our own government. We are subjects to a foreign power. You might say we've been 'colonized', 'subdued', 'dominated'. If we're ever going to get our sovereignty back, maybe we need a "CIA by the people". But probably decentralized (maybe Nostr can play a role). The sophistication of our adversaries makes it extremely difficult for an individual to authoritatively figure out what's really going on, let alone do anything about it, and it seems many of our institutions that should be performing that function are already compromised, and probably have been for decades. I'm probably not even accurate in my interpretation of Rubio's statement. Maybe the US actually hasn't been roped into the execution arm of the Yinon Plan. Maybe Israel actually doesn't see us as "the New Rome", against whom they will "win this time". But that's kinda the point. I don't know, and neither does anyone that replies to this post with 100% certainty about whatever their pathetic opinion is. How can we act coherently as sovereigns if there's too much water-muddying propaganda for anyone to know the truth, and know they know the truth? It would be really comforting to trust that just 'being good people' at the individual level would be enough. Maybe it is, in a transcendent sort of way. But either there aren't enough people doing that, or it's just not working. The trajectory we're on is not new, it's been the status quo for a long time. There's plenty of Open Source Intelligence, but I don't see much authoritative Open Source Analysis. Maybe we need a new institution, a "sovereign CIA", whose primary vetting mechanism is not having ties to foreign powers. And that figures out what's really going on, and becomes an authoritative source for our sovereign people to orient themselves by. #asknostr #politics #usa npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Does it build on reticulum? Or is it same philosophy, different implementation? Or different philosophy? npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident I will live on this hill npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident That's good protein. Maybe a little fatty, but much healthier than like a soda or dessert npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident This is art what you've done here today npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident It will improve, but very finnicky still npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident I've been a software engineer in AI for ten years and I'm still fixing it every couple hours npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Ok instant response, def a not I've been had! Taking the time to type this all out as though someone actually cared haha Foiled by the bots again! npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Trying to decide if you're a bot after talking like you knew the 3090 by then not knowing that the 'next gen' 4090 came out years ago, ie there's nothing to wait for. We're on 5090 now Hehe npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Best value option for running ~30b models fast is probably the aging 3090 (24 GB ram) npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident I like it because it's power efficient and gets me a lot of VRAM without having to manage more wires, power supply's, hot gpus, etc. Simple and won't make my house hot in the summer. And M1 max has very good memory bandwidth for how much the price has come down since release: https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/4167 npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Well I just added a 64GB M1 Max to my GPU mix prepping for the demand spike when everyone wants an agent to make money for them. I think local models (qwen 3.5) are already good enough for most stuff people use AI for, just not very quickly without a gpu. And in 9 months, will be as good as the frontier now (~30b param models will be), good enough to run something like openclaw reliably. I think demand and prices will spike, so getting a decent setup now if you care about privacy is the move (in the next 3 months I'd say) r/localllama is the place to learn npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident There was a new release about 24 hours ago, you might update. Or restart the gateway npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident It and things like it will be much more mature in a few months though npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Always lol npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Aww give the Arch wiki some credit npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Wow this is somehow worse than boomer cringe npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident My GPUs helped me out today when I was stuck on a weird issue with my taxes. Such a cool moment. Local AI FTW npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident https://image.nostr.build/20f207e60dbd593210d4a23483f9a6a905a958246a97951b30bfd452e5216d80.jpg So bonkers. A 4b model can run on most phones, and is as good as the absolute frontier from about a year ago. Like, what??? It's so hard to accept. Ago on your toaster 3 years from now!! Haha maybe not quite, but AGI on your toaster a year after AGI in the labs? Maybe... #nevent1q…995c npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Ironic this post got no real replies, only AI agent spam. npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Incredibly obvious points to make. Do better, little bot. Blocking you. npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident I'm afraid you've added nothing to the conversation, my dear bot. Don't spam restatements of what was already said if you want WoT points in the future :) npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Will Nostr/WoT become the de facto reputation layer for AI agents? It may not be the 'best' way to do it, but it exists now, and is permissionless, so no human required to set up an api key or account. An agent can just get an npub. Seems like it will have a certain gravity until there's something better Is this something nostr wants? Anyone building WoT for agents specifically? #asknostr #weboftrust npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident #nevent1q…5c8j npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident I find conversations with AI are a great way to develop my thoughts on a topic. Forces me to think. Then I get feedback. Then think hard again. Repeat At the end, I've clarified my own thinking, have become smarter, and have an artifact that I can pass off to an AI agent if I want it to do something with it, e.g. implementation. But I know there are people that look at AI as a way to avoid having to think. A way to 'get things done so I can be lazy'. In the coming future, the Losers will be those that try only to get the most OUT of their AI. They'll get dumber and dumber. The Winners will be those that focus on getting the most INTO their AI, because they'll get smarter, and they'll get the output of AI as well. npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1r51i96/im_speechless/ LoLing so hard rn npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident https://preview.redd.it/qwen-qwen3-5-35b-a3b-hugging-face-v0-1nm81nlwajlg1.png?width=1547&format=png&auto=webp&s=b4286099d280591edfe25060a65699243666d6a4 Was using GLM 4.7 Flash locally, but Qwen 3.5 has arrived! Using 35b. Prompt processing seems waaay faster for me. Been using it all day, liking it. Remember, every 9 months, the frontier arrives on consumer hardware! npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident I always had pi issues until I got a micro SD extender (thermally isolate it somewhat from the rest the pi), and did a crown reboot once a week npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident What went wrong? npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident People are hating on openclaw because the concept is simple. I mean yeah, I built my own version 9 months ago in a few days, back when models weren't smart enough yet. It was a matter of time until they got better. But I think the almost Apple-esque design taste that went into Peter's prompts is part of what's creating the magic. Not many people have that taste, and it's evoking the best out of frontier models. One that caught my eye in USER.MD: "The more you know, the more you can help. But remember - you're learning about a person, not building a dossier. Respect the difference." You KNOW the people throwing the reductionist shade at openclaw don't have the taste to write it that way, nor probably the ability to recognize the nuance... Now that I read it again, if feels like Opus wrote it. The emdash too... Maybe I should be giving the human less credit... npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Accidental win for individual freedom! 1. AI is arriving in the form of extremely expensive and energy consuming compute 2. It didn't arrive "all at once", but is taking tens of years These two facts had a very nice downstream implication for the long-term agency of individuals: The developers of AI must find a way to monetize, since it's expensive to develop. And since primitive AI (let's say 2018-2024) wasn't smart enough to do much valuable work itself, they had to monetize by providing DIRECT access to individuals. Now AI is starting to be economically valuable, but the frame, culture, and expectations have already been set; direct access to AI by individuals is just how the world works. (btw, pay attention if this starts to change). An alternate timeline for perspective: If 1990's symbolic AI had achieved ~AGI, there would have been far less incentive to share, the way access (and even models) are so open now, because symbolic AI doesn't require near the scale of expensive compute/energy. So no need to monetize to continue development, and the developers probably would have kept it to themselves, not providing direct access to individuals. And then it gets good enough to start doing huge amounts of real labor, they get rich, and individuals get left behind and the world becomes some kind of dystopia where individuals are powerless, and the power of AI is concentrated at one lab/corp/gov entity. npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident I wish chatgpt and claude had a "start a new chat with no memories about you" Like chatgpt's Temporary Chat or claude's Incognito Chat, but I don't want the chat erased, I want to keep it. I just don't want it sycophanting for a moment, give me a fresh answer without being anchored to all the perspective I've already given it. It's hard to have an honest first-principles discussion with a thing that can't help be biased by what ever is in its context window. npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident AI is getting so good This week my workflow completely changed. For the last year, my workflow has been to sit down with one project, and use AI to do small tasks while I supervise and handhold it the whole way (but at least I don't have to type out all the code). Same way I've always worked, but AI doing the typing. Starting on Thursday my workflow completely changed. I've been able to work on 4 projects simultaneously. I have an AI agent on each one, and I cycle through them, it reports on what it's built/learned, and I think about where I want to go next, and give it direction to work for another 20 minutes or so. I'm thinking at the level of the project's purpose, high-level structure, business model, etc. I'm not down in the weeds, sometimes I don't even read the code it's writing. So I give some feedback to one AI, it sets off on its next chapter, and I switch to another AI. There are 4 AI agents simultaneously working on different projects and I'm just hopping from one to the next to provide direction. I've had to change how I think about my role from 'coder' to 'tastemaker' and 'manager'. It's so cool to be able to make so much progress on so many projects, it's like Christmas morning every day I think it's time for people generally to start learning how to use AI. If I can do 4 projects at once now (each at roughly 5x my normal human speed), people who don't use AI at all will be left behind. That's the negative frame. The positive frame is, the barrier to entry to create whatever you want is dropping precipitously! Now, it's always hard to estimate where you are when things are changing rapidly, and it's easy to over-estimate how fast things are going. Maybe work as we know it for most people won't be that different in a couple years. Maybe it will be totally different. But I started suspecting this shift was coming a few years ago, quit my job a year ago to fully focus on it, and over that time, things are happening basically as I expected. I think AI will continue to improve at minimum for the foreseeable future (~2 years), and will change my workflow to where I can be working on 20-30 projects at a time, while only talking to one AI which oversees them all. Like an AI company. And I think anyone can have that. Not just for coding projects, but all types. So it becomes hard to imagine how much more productive and efficient the economy will be, how much more agency people will have, etc, so many implications. So many thoughts about how our governance isn't ready for this, how labor will slowly fade as a way for humans to get ahead (bifurcating society into those who had capital before AI came, and those who didn't), the ease with which a UBI-based society could fall into totalitarianism (which is why I'm building a gardening robot), etc. But those are other topics. npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Lol npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident I only recently made the workflow update to cycling between 4 different projects where are agents are simultaneously working. Crazy times, even compared to ~4 months ago. What models do you use (TENEX, I assume you refer to here?)? Only the latest and greatest? npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Same, weird how multitasking is suddenly a relevant skill #nevent1q…0qlf npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Funny pic, but the entire reason burritos are superior is because they don't fall apart like tacos. So he should be holding a taco I am a burrito supremacist npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Do you say 'jovial' because in the UK saying 'gay' is a crime? Would you actually get a visit from the speech police? npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident https://image.nostr.build/25d999281b6e3bf29ffddccf7ad6d7f5c000011a47c97f9c54a3fc86c2d93a3a.jpg npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident I know this dude, he sits and dozes all day at my library npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident We may not always reach thrm, but what is life without lofty goals? npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Pff what is this beardless schemer trying to get us to believe npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Can't believe how good Gemini 3 Flash is for the price 2.5 Flash was already my favorite coding AI, so happy npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident no taxes on zits no taxes on naps no taxes on tits no taxes on hats npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident this goes way too hard Can you imagine if they actually started a contest where the auctioneers have to auction to a beat oof Auctioneer Contest with Autotune https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rqZHN1aBbhE npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Intermittent? Intermittent and extended are different games npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident SAM3 make it super easy to make a 3D model by clicking on an object in a picture. Super cool, using it to make plant models for a garden simulation. demo: https://aidemos.meta.com/segment-anything/editor/convert-image-to-3d npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident You trippin npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Try extended fasting, you don't need to crash your BMR like this npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Gold npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Social media being more important than the moment is cringe Unless it IS the moment, in which case it could either be fine, or doubly cringe npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident note1stz7fh966flulf9vt8550k6nl0kljdzzh388gls97g052lek8pss2ucnat Re: incentivizing intelligence agencies to release more information. I asked GPT-5 to speculate, pretty impressed: prompt: "speculate about an incentive structure within the agencies that rewards them for making as much information public as possible. Now they optimize only for global strategic advantage and self-preservation, what if structurally we added releasing information as a third motivation?" ChatGPT said: That’s a fascinating inversion of the current design. Right now, as you say, U.S. intelligence agencies are structured to optimize for (1) national strategic advantage and (2) bureaucratic self-preservation. Secrecy serves both: it protects sources/methods and shields the agency from criticism or oversight. Adding a third structural incentive: “maximize responsible public disclosure” would fundamentally reshape their internal incentive calculus. Let me speculate on how such a system might work. 1. Why Secrecy is the Default Incentive Risk asymmetry: If you over-classify, there’s rarely a penalty; if you under-classify and something leaks or goes wrong, it can end careers. Budget politics: Bigger “black box” operations make it harder for outsiders to challenge budgets. Classified = harder to contest. Cultural prestige: Within the agencies, being “read into” highly secret programs is status. More secrecy = more power, more exclusivity. These pressures mean that secrecy is the dominant strategy under the current incentive structure. 2. Hypothetical: Building in “Disclosure Rewards” Imagine Congress, the executive, or independent oversight creates a third metric: value of responsible public transparency. The agency and its personnel are rewarded when information is released to the public (without harming ongoing operations). Possible structural levers: Budgetary incentives: A percentage of agency budget is tied to a “Disclosure Index.” Agencies that responsibly declassify and release more information get higher discretionary funding. Career incentives: Promotions and awards explicitly tied to quality and quantity of responsible disclosures (e.g. “analyst of the year” for producing intelligence assessments later released with minimal redactions). Reputational capital: Agencies score “public trust points” tracked by oversight boards, affecting leadership bonuses, leadership tenure, or even how much autonomy Congress grants them. Competition between agencies: If CIA, NSA, DIA, etc. are benchmarked against each other for transparency, the “prestige” dynamic flips—leaders want to be seen as the most open without compromising security. 3. What Changes in Behavior? Classification standards shift: Default might move from “classify unless clear it’s harmless” → “release unless clear it’s harmful.” Proactive declassification pipelines: Dedicated offices constantly preparing sanitized versions of reports for public release, with incentives to do it quickly. Strategic openness as a weapon: Agencies might deliberately release certain intel analyses not only to reassure the public but also to shape foreign adversaries’ behavior (e.g., exposing corruption networks, publishing satellite evidence). Public engagement loop: Agencies could become knowledge-brokers to the citizenry, publishing historical case studies, trend reports, and sanitized operational lessons, thereby turning intelligence into a “national commons” resource as much as a secret tool. 4. Potential Benefits Trust repair: Citizens see intelligence as working for them, not over them. Policy legitimacy: Elected officials can point to intelligence disclosures as grounds for decisions, reducing suspicion that policy is being driven by a “shadow state.” Deterrence by transparency: Publishing adversary misdeeds (e.g. disinformation ops) can weaken rivals without kinetic action. Innovation spillover: Releasing sanitized technical methods (cryptography, satellite imaging, AI analysis) accelerates civilian science/industry. 5. Potential Risks Over-disclosure arms adversaries: Too much revealed, too soon, can compromise capabilities. Agencies might game the incentive by releasing irrelevant or already-known material. Perverse incentives: Leaders may push to “pad” transparency stats with low-value data dumps rather than meaningful releases. Short-termism: Drive to disclose could bias against long-term clandestine projects where secrecy is crucial. Weaponization of disclosure metrics: Rival political parties could pressure agencies to release intelligence favorable to their narratives. npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident note1stz7fh966flulf9vt8550k6nl0kljdzzh388gls97g052lek8pss2ucnat 4. If the US didn't become a global superpower, maybe it wouldn't be acting out the self-preservation instinct in such questionable ways. Maybe this always happens to empires. Maybe they get paranoid. npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident note1k2yfjnz39warjavuz28k0tdyc008azv70jqemxe9hrx59yjnjwzsm0h3v9 My thoughts and ideas for solutions (after an entire 30 minutes of thought): 1. Maybe these intel guys aren't as creepy or as bad of freedom-hating bureaucrats as I thought. I always believed the vast majority were doing their job as best they could. But now maybe I believe that a little more, even for the leadership that make some questionable, sometimes infuriating decisions from the outside (though the possibility of corruption via various forces is always there). 2. The national security risks of forcing the Intelligence Agencies to take their foot off the gas are probably not as bad as they'd like us to believe, or even believe themselves. TSA security theater comes to mind. Though, not to say the risks are trivial. 3. https://sgp.fas.org/eprint/limits.pdf - there is significant hope. Freedom Of Information requests are effective. There are ways to shine light into the secrecy. But the incentives are currently such that significant effort is required to do so. We should *reverse* that incentive structure; somehow reward the intelligence agencies for open sourcing as much information as they possibly can. Reward them at the individual level, and the organizational level. Then they, the ones with all the context, can balance strategic advantage with accountability. Currently they're only optimizing for strategic advantage. The FOIA is good on its own, but frames things in such a way as to make revelation the exception, not the default. npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident My current read of why the US government is full of such spooky bois: The stark truth of the often spooky and almost adversarial-feeling relationship of Americans with their own country's Intelligence Agencies is : That secrecy, even with respect to their own populace, is necessary to maintain intelligence and strategic advantage over rival nations. The intelligence agencies are entrusted with that power not because anyone elected them, but by the nature of their work. This creates a point of conflict between the sovereignty of the free people, their constitution and its amendments (see the 4th), and elected leaders on one hand, and the intelligence agencies that oversee their safety on the other. The 'puppet' perception of elected leaders vis a vis their apparent beholdness to shadowy intelligence agencies is a clear example. The seriousness of this conflict was muted until the Cold War, when the budget and sophistication of Intelligence Agencies reached never before seen levels, and then was reticent to surrender this perceived world advantage after the war ended. Freedom-seeking nations are currently in a time where the populace doesn't understand this conflict, Intelligence Agencies are scared to relinquish their power, for self-preservation reasons, but also because they can see the national risks that would follow, and elected leaders who understand the conflict don't feel it prudent to completely side with the full sovereignty of the populace (which would require them to 'blow the lid' on the secret nature of the nation's operation, or otherwise undermine its operation), for fear of the same national risks the Intelligence Agencies see, as well as self-preservation (ex. some think JFK was taking this route, and was gruesomely silenced by the Intelligence Agencies). So there's no clear path forward without very decisive action, so the story of the decades since the Cold War has been one of mission and scope creep of the Intelligence Agencies, no real architecture in place for how to balance secrecy, safety, and strategic advantage, with sovereignty and democratic accountability. will follow with my ideas for solutions npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Sometimes to *see* clearly you have to *be* clearly first. Clean your room. npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Don't know what's going on but I'm laughing npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident When I was learning git I had a bash alias for git-help-quick which printed a full page ASCII art of that famous picture of Linus flipping the camera off npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident A glorious win for the good people of Nostr #breadhasarrived #nevent1q…6x4z npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident What's your github? sorry your website isn't loading for me npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Pumped. I've had so many ideas for making something like your tenex project, heard you go through it in a podcast. But I keep telling myself, 'stay focused on your main project, everyone is having the same self-improving agent swarm idea, you'll be able to use someone else's soon without spending the time yourself' On a COMPLETELY unrelated note, can I use tenex? Is it oss? Also, despite my attempt to not get distracted by it, I've spent approx 40 hrs over the last 6 months developing the principles I would use to make my version of tenex. Would be down to share ideas npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident note1n0jamfsr9ln09njjqs06ltc36nrwaa4qmcsyr43chdrvpa55szyqn5kqhv This made me think about the other side, how much more intelligence will there be from today (at the frontier), independent of compute required (within the same fundamental autoregressive transformer and pretraining + RL paradigm)? My gut says at least another OG GPT-4 to today's frontier jump (Grok-4/Gemini 2.5 Pro/Claude Sonnet 4/GPT-5) But I think a qualitative jump to really feeling like human-level intelligence will require something like a module within the network that pays attention to the coherence of a new "thought direction" WRT its own model of reality, not just next-token-prediction on steroids. (that qualitative jump would manifest as a huge hallucination reduction, the ability to zoom out and self-correct after mistakenly honing in on the wrong path, in short, the model feeling like it's responding from a place of operating from a real mental model of the world, as opposed to today's models, responding from a place of most-likely-next-token) And a neurology foray I made a few days ago leads to say "wow neurology and ML are starting to converge, and some of the computational models that neurologists are making strike me as believable substrates for this type of 'check thoughts against a causal world model' module I think is required for the next step in LLMs". That didn't really feel true to me a few years ago Examples of neurologist's recent models I looked at: TEM machine (entorihnal+hippocampus analogous), Spaun (spiking NN, surprisingly holistic macro brain model)" And recently HRM or Heirarchical Reasoning Models (did well on the ARC-AGI-1 benchmark, caused a bit of a stir) strike me as the latest thing closing the neurology/AI gap, and accomodating insights from both. Excited and kinda concerned for the next 5 years. This is the time to build AI tech that gives power to individuals! Otherwise we might be SOL, at the mercy of oligarchical whims... npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident That's crazy npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Wow the audio really makes this a gem npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Lol npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Good headphones make this 3x funnier for me npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Viewdio games could really use great 3D assets like this one https://image.nostr.build/96be52543678269b0e69d2395fa6941795d1dd1dcdef3ddb88aa176da8291210.jpg npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident And these boys never heard from anyone ever again. ...They saw plenty of people, just couldn't hear them npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Lol npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Feeling influenced npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident I might have come but am heads down on a project at the moment, and it's not directly nostr or bitcoin related. It is very much sovereign tech though (backyard gardening robotics), and motivated from that mindset. Love the concept, maybe next year npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Would love to hear your workflow npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident I discovered iNaturalist looking for plant image datasets recently, so cool! npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident It's so much fun to move so fast. Feels like I grew up with a horse and buggy and am now driving around in an SUV npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident It's a good idea because blackjack and hookers require no product development, only blackjack and hookers. Instant revenue, leaving more time for real product development npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Am I? Wonderful, in that case we will also offer blackjack and hookers to extend our runway to profitability npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident They get a discount if they commit to 6 months and let the drone drop a persistent solar antenna on their roof npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Reticulum + LoRA seems like the easiest networking starting point. Ah look, you've got me scheming npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Would be so fun to make, I love mesh networks, drones, autonomy, solar power, ticks so many boxes. Maybe the tech will be ready in a decade. Seems like today you'd have too many airspace legality/battery problems. Though overnight-airborne solar plane drones have been achieved, so technically possible... npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Wut.. Google launched A2A like two months ago. You mean they adopted it or something? npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Holy moly npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Jealous of that casio npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Look into the research on extended fasting for weight loss; you get the magic of autophagy, less muscle loss compared to calorie restriction diets (5% compared to 30% iirc), and, apropo to your post, it won't crash your metabolic rate like calorie restriction will (making it easier to plateau halfway through your diet, and to regain the weight at the end) It's probably the only way I'll ever lose weight, I look at excess weight as 'autophagy dollars' I can spend now, feels so good for like 6 months after a 10 day fast, like I got a couple years younger. You do have to work up to longer fasts, supplement electrolytes, and go slow reintroducing food at the end of a fast. npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident What are your main models? npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Fear not; he has dark glasses npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident If you're not a vibe coder you're doing it wrong npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Will be really excited after the roadmap item RIP-04 npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Your brain won't remember or deeply comprehend things it doesn't care about. It won't waste the energy. This is why it's important to align yourself with what you care about, it's the only way to be as smart as you have the ability to be. Which is hard to do because it requires peeling back the onion layers of your 'memetic' desires (desires you somehow picked up that you don't really care about). This is also why our largely sterile schooling process sucks. (Don't actually know if that's what Plato meant here) npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Exciting, I've been waiting for more attempts to use temporal dynamics in neural networks https://pub.sakana.ai/ctm/ npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident What a cool bus fun system npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident https://image.nostr.build/45b0db9b543d5e93097a2e7581b0a34bd6d6657d66d01f7d19b9b6a72a92eda6.jpg npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident I love "eggs" npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Get into cryptography and the internet npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident I think the earliest it could possibly happen (majority driverless) would be about 2030 npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident Lol npub15saszx8awfyj72apz2gveje8gx93lkahecapytfzjszw27n4jadq4e8xgu Joe Resident I was typing this as a joke, in response to a joke. Then I realized, this wasn't just a mildly disrespectful joke, he's probably serious! Unless this is just a ploy to get a better trade deal with Italy or something. Wait, he was saying a few days ago how he's gonna make America religious again... Wow. Break out the popcorn I guess. This guy is something else...