we think it’s just words, but our brain will seamlessly weave inner monologue into concepts

Are you familiar with latent space representation?

Because yes, that’s how LRM’s work, cycling tokens in latent space multiple times before sending to upper layers and decoding into human words

https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.06769

wrong again, my man, this is way more real / but since you know everything, I’ll cut someone else a deal

chat bots

Fair, we need to get terms straight; this is new and unstable territory. Let’s say, LLMs specifically.

it did not debug anything, a human debugged something and wrote about it. Then that human input and a ton of others were mapped into a huge probability map, and some computer simulated what people talking about this would most likely say

Can you explain how that is different from what a human does? I read a lot about debugging, went to classes, worked examples…

Why didn’t you debug it yourself?

In my case this is enterprise software, many products and millions of lines of code. My test and bug-fixing teams are begging for automation. Bug fixing at scale

It’s still not reasoning. It’s running a simulation

As Daniel Dennett once asked: “What is the difference between a simulated song, and a real song?”

You say it’s not reasoning, but I’ve seen it debug and fix a core dump

Posted by the hackers:

Dear Google, please please pretty please continue to attack them. I so wanna see the fuck getting destroyed out of you

Have you been to Mexico City or (even more so) Guadalajara since the Pandemic? Multinational techs are investing and building up campuses like crazy. Reminds me of the go-go years of Bangalore in the 2000’s.

Mexico has a real possibility of moving up the value chain and gobbling up all the good stuff Trump is pushing away from the USA

I don’t think you have read the relevant papers or are familiar with LRM (Large Reasoning Models). Which is basically all model AIs (GPT5, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek). It’s new in the last ~18-24 months

In a nutshell, they include logical thinking and correct chains of logical thought to the LLM training data, along with tasks like recognizing dogs and predicting next words.

So yes, they are literally trained to reason the exact same way they are trained to write stories and summarize books.

You can say “it doesn’t really reason” but it has exactly the same value as the assertion “it doesn’t really write stories or summarize books” … maybe not, but there will be a story or a summary (or a logical chain of thought) in front of you if you ask for one.

don’t reason

Actually, they have been doing that for about a year now

https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09686

Honestly curious how you concluded this

I work for one of the world’s largest proprietary software companies.

100% agree with you

Countries should fund open source OS, browser, mobile OS. It is in their best interest.

Yeah, the newer thing to counter that is WebTunnel which came out last year. There’s considerably more setup than just starting a snowflake proxy process, and I am ashamed to say I haven’t set one up yet

This particular coding leaderboard matches my own personal experience. Llama4 is hitting ~15% ; Claude Opus4 ~70% (I haven’t used others personally)

If you really want privacy, use Tor which is free-as-in-speech-and-beer

In general real-time games are not great for Tor, because it introduces lots of network latency – which makes you safer

For most applications, the easiest way to Torify is via using SOCKS from the Tor Browser Bundle, which would let you simply pick Snowflake when Tor Browser starts up. I asked Perplexity for directions on running Minecraft over Tor, here ya go

a whole new country relying on the snowflake protocol.

That would put them in the company of China, Russia, and Iran. Getting unrestricted Internet to people in those countries is why I am among those who run a snowflake node on a dedicated VPS (the link also has a simple browser addon – it’s easy to support the network, everyone should)

Yes, these moves suck for UK youth. But, anti-censorship tools do exist, and volunteers like me want people who could benefit from them, to know about & use them.

any sane adult should never send a copy of their id to anything but the government, bank, insurance or employer.

100% agree, take my upvote

Even AF_BLUETOOTH sockets are… sockets, where one machine ("server’) opens to listen, and the other (“client”) initiates the stream

“Floppy disks” were 8 inches a side in my youth and went in the minicomputer

Then along came Newfangled desktop PCs with their 5.25" floppies

Tom Bombadil remembers first acorn and first rain drop

This is how you get under-18s to use Tor browser

My mistake

hold on I am still somewhat new to Fedi & not fully used to people being polite

ofc a lot depends on the precise definitions of terms, state corporatism is not synonymous with generally free markets operating under the regulation of a basically diverse inclusive democracy – but both are referred to as “capitalism”