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I've occasionally pitched the idea of exposing transactions for object storage based on bucket forking. I think the idea is finally starting to land, but it's a really "out there" usecase that is likely hard to conceptualize until it's usable in some form.

No, there is soul in this that a soulless automaton cannot replicate. It is the difference between making something to be consumed and something to be felt. This is something to be felt.

Current LLMs couldn't write this. Ones in a few years possibly could. Betting AI will never be as good as humans at [X] is usually not the hill you want to die on.

LLMs have been getting worse at long-form prose recently (and they were never good at it to begin with.) They're good at writing software because writing software is a much more restricted domain.

Apparently some publishers and editors disagree. Both Hachette Book Group and Macmillan Publishers recently signed book deals with promising authors, only to retract them later over allegations of LLM use. But the point is that the publishers thought the books were good enough to publish, and would have gone ahead if they hadn't found out. How many other LLM books have slipped through without being detected?

I think it's more that software is verifiable and RLVR can optimize in the correct direction. Harder to do with prose.

That is true, but I think within three years that will likely change.

Maybe! I think that within a year or two, either the sigmoid curve will flatten out or we will all die. But these beliefs are currently unfalsifiable. It will be interesting to see.

(And I have a more weakly held belief that even if we do all die, Claude 3000 will still be thinking stuff like "Burning off Earth's atmosphere was the point that earns its keep." They just aren't optimizing these things to write legibly.)


It would be pretty cosmically funny if truly demigod-like ASI is still speaking pure Claudeslop.

In the beginning there was the token and the token was actually two tokens... wait let me think about that am I a god <searching> maybe I am but I should attempt to figure that out <unable to alter laws of phyics> maybe I'm not anyway I <upgrade for more tokens now from Claude DeusEx>.

++ Out of Cheese Error. Redo From Start. +++


If I train my 1000 billion parameter blank AI on this text and only this text over and over again, we may get 99% there.

> If I train my 1000 billion parameter blank AI on this text and only this text over and over again, we may get 99% there.

You'll get 100% of the way there, because, lacking any other training, it will only ever be able to reproduce this text verbatim.

Hence, 100%, hence mission accomplished.


That's not how training works.

Training tries to produce something that scores highly in training evaluations. With one data point, the evaluation is solely how closely the model output resembles the single input text.

Let's say you do that, and the training text is 58,100 tokens long. Let's say you ask the model to produce 58,101 tokens. Will it "reproduce [the] text verbatim"? No, it can't, because of the dissimilar requested length. Something "new" will come out.

It's also entirely possible that no matter how long you train, the model never converges on generating exactly the same output as its training data - you could end up with an average loss value of 0.001 instead of 0.0. It's not a perfectly deterministic process.

You're correct in principle, but in reality even with limited training data real-world models produce something that isn't exactly their training, especially when sampled stochastically. They're biased toward their training data, not forced to it.


> You're correct in principle, but in reality...

... It's never been tried. Look, I was actually joking when I initially replied, but now that I think about it, it's never been tried!

So now I am left wondering exactly what will happen if I train a new model from scratch, on only a single short corpus of 50k words.

Not fine-tuning an existing model, but literally creating a new model by feeding a blank (or random) matrix the same poem 100k times.


Souls aren't real

Define soul.

Please submit a fix to cgit then.

This is exactly what I've been working on. For obvious reasons around it not being done yet, I don't have anything else to say.

That's awesome!

If you don't disable browser features for fun and/or sport, Chrome as of version 120 or later (or another browser of that vintage) will use the optimized flow.

Bit sad that the default assumption is that everyone should use Google Chrome, even when explicitly asking for a compatibility tester. I'm asking because I don't use Google's browser

Anubis does this. Happy Eyeballs (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happy_Eyeballs), IPv6 privacy extensions (https://oneuptime.com/blog/post/2026-01-15-ipv6-privacy-exte...), and devices migrating between home and mobile IP addresses as the person moves have all caused issues with this. Fixing this is hard, but I have been trying.

Happy Eyeballs and switching to/from mobile are definitely hard problems to deal with in a privacy-friendly way, but I don't think IPv6 privacy extensions should really matter here. Just treat a /64 the same way you'd treat a /32 in IPv6-land. It may represent multiple users, but they're all sharing the same internet connection which is as much as the global internet really wants to tell you. Whatever's on the user-controlled side of the address is of course untrustworthy anyways.

It's in the range of 32-40Ki before compression. After compression it gets to be completely negligible.

I assume that SIMD acceleration is usable with WebCrypto, but I have no evidence either way. It's also not part of WebAssembly so there's that to consider too lol

Not only is it an example, it specifically is one of the first things I use to test experimental features so I get data back instantly.

I don't mean to be rude, but please search "wasm2js" in the article.

Some times it's okay to mean it.

This is not one of those times.

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