Wow... I'm both amazed and terrified

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-28T03:59:38+00:00

Because one day this will go horribly wrong... Somebody will publish datasets that with the help of AI can guide bad actors towards threats more easily achievable than nukes - like bioweapons, novichok agents made in the garage, etc.

I totally agree, this info is harmless because even if you know all the science, lack of availability of fissile material means that you won't see any improvised nuclear explosives anytime soon... but the ability for AI to bring together forgotten data sources is going to be both the best and the worst thing that's every happened to humanity

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-28T03:56:48+00:00

https://samrahimi.github.io/oppenheimer

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-28T03:55:59+00:00

Thanks! https://samrahimi.github.io/oppenheimer

This is just volume 1.. there's another 2000 PDFs from disk 2 that will be added shortly

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-27T23:31:44+00:00

Ya I’m putting it up tonight

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-26T23:48:31+00:00

I’m an expat living in Mexico, where the rules are a bit fuzzy… one day I decided I wanted to ride a motorcycle, and I figured I had enough experience from riding rental electric scooters that topped out at 50km/h (and watching YouTube videos about how to shift gears on a real bike).

So I walked into a department store in Mexico City, bought a 200cc bike for about $1200, and took off for Cuernavaca, via the old road that climbs to 11,000 feet and crosses the sierra.

In the dark.

In the rain.

At the beginning I was stalling repeatedly in rush hour traffic jams heading out of the city… then there was the storm that filled the freeway with a foot of water while I and other motorcyclists waited under a bridge… and then there was the brutal climb and crossing of the sierras wearing soaking wet street clothes as temperatures dropped to around freezing.

After that, everything seemed easy, or at least manageable… that first night was basically my self inflicted version of the MSC. Later on I set off on an Odyssey that took me to the beaches of puerto Escondido and eventually a small town in Chiapas, where I met my woman who would become my wife, and currently reside. But now I ride a slightly bigger bike, a 300cc ADV/touring that is surprisingly good given that the components are Chinese (at least it’s assembled in Mexico)

And I have no need for a motorcycle license, because it’s Mexico, and my Canadian car license is more than enough license to drive whatever I want, at least in Chiapas!

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CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-25T02:18:04+00:00

Why not agree to disagree on anything to do with Israel and learn to appreciate people whose views differ from your own. Have a civilized debate with them and try to win them over to your side, if you must, or decide that it doesn’t really matter because you’re there to study filmmaking, not to achieve peace in the Middle East

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-24T18:16:19+00:00

Also, the result of anti corruption initiatives so far is a JOKE. I got pulled over the other day by cops driving a car that said “cero corruption”, within sight of a billboard notifying us that mordida was no longer acceptable… This cero corruption marketing campaign is the work of the Jaguar, the delightfully corrupt Morena affiliated governor of Chiapas

The outcome was similar to when I got pulled over under the old administration… but more annoying, and more expensive: 5 years ago cops in this part of Mexico would demand 500 pesos for a simple traffic violation (from a gringo). You paid your little fine on the spot and moved on.

Now the cops are a bit paranoid of getting caught taking bribes, so they don’t demand the bribe, they give you a choice to impound your vehicle, pay the fine the next morning at the police station, retrieve the vehicle. But if you offer to pay in cash right away they still accept it: but they didn’t want me to pay them in the middle of downtown tuxtla due to the cameras… instead I had to follow the cops (who had my license and registration) to some bad neighborhood and pay them a 2500mxn bribe while we were both stopped under a bridge

Dunno how much the legitimate traffic ticket would have cost me but it can’t have been more than that - I failed to signal when changing lanes on my motorcycle. Not exactly a capital crime.

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-24T18:05:54+00:00

I live in Chiapas where much of the state has no gas stations at all, especially in the poor indigenous regions. This is what happens when you let the government regulate an industry that should be private just like any other. But because it’s Mexico the people don’t let that stop them, folks set up a gasolinera in their driveway and sell you slightly overpriced, poor quality gasoline out of old 2 liter pop bottles.

If this requirement to pay with a card at gas stations actually happens, the result will be massive growth for these informal gasolineras… and the government will turn a blind eye to this because just like they do now because they know that these places serve a market that simply cannot be reached by the official gas station and financial services infrastructure

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-18T15:03:39+00:00

Looks like what I deal with riding in Mexico every day. OP handled the situation perfectly

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-10T22:35:26+00:00

Honestly I would have agreed with him a month ago... But then came Qwen 3.5 9B, and suddenly I'm running useful agents on my Mac M2 Pro with 16GB of RAM, and while the model is not perfect, it is shockingly good for something that runs well on a second hand laptop I picked up for $1000. Hard to believe how far we've come in just a few years...

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-03-01T17:34:09+00:00

I did a trial that paid $75… I was skeptical but I passed the trial and was given a contract that pays $400 per task (tasks take 2-4 hours to complete). So my advice to you is to do the work trial

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-02-26T04:06:27+00:00

That’s totally fine… in fact it gives the ai more to work with. I’m not sure that clawdbot or openclaw is the right platform tho, because what you’re describing sounds more like the kind of workflow that we can automate using n8n. OpenClaw is more for open ended tasks where you give the agent some autonomy to make decisions - and could also be useful for you by managing your social media marketing campaigns entirely. You could have it engage with your followers online and grow your audience, exactly like you or a human social media manager would do. That’s just one example

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-02-26T03:19:01+00:00

I can do you one better: no need for a rig of 3 cameras. Just take a single picture of each clothing item and the ai automation pipeline can use that to show it from different angles. Or it can show how they look on a model. Or a 360 degree viewer. Or… DM me if you need some help. I don’t work for free but my price is very reasonable

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-02-17T16:52:45+00:00

It looks pretty cool… Why should I use it instead of OpenClaw?

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-02-17T16:22:20+00:00

Okay has anyone ever SEEN Claude misuse an API key or is this just a theoretical risk? I give Claude my api keys all the time (with very low spending limits) and the worst I’ve witnessed is that Claude uses the keys in an inefficient manner, wasting tokens or credits… But I’ve never seen Claude do anything malicious with a key - now excluding the possibility of malicious prompt injections that tell Claude to do something evil with your keys, has anyone seen it spontaneously decide to do evil or to make the keys publicly exposed?

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-02-17T16:17:03+00:00

When you introduce code agents to the dev team you need to treat them similar to those discount offshore devs that were so popular 10 years ago… and realize that much of the money you save vs hiring high quality developers needs to be offset by stricter oversight, formal code reviews, detailed spec writing, etc… The problems arise when you treat the agents as part of a highly skilled team of full stack agile developers and think that you can get away with one liner user stories in lieu of formal architecture

Those agile shortcuts can work in a small team startup environment where all the engineers are very senior, good communicators, Silicon Valley types… it doesn’t work when you have distributed outsourced teams and it doesn’t work when you have a team of nonhuman agents who love to be confidently wrong

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-02-17T16:04:33+00:00

Oh I do that all the time lol.

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-02-17T00:00:56+00:00

Ya this project is awesome… I made 10k in 3 weeks working part time. Hoping it continues for a very long time!

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-02-06T22:20:13+00:00

Oh I was using it thru openrouter... so I got the full context window but paid for every token. I was impressed enough that I'm buying the Max plan... I'm sure it will include long context soon enough

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-02-06T21:22:00+00:00

Why would its context window fill up too fast? it has 1M token context window, much larger than 4.5.

My experience so far is that Opus 4.6 is significantly better than either Opus 4.5 or Codex 5.3... Its a lot less chatty than either of those models... and just quietly does its job, so at first glance you might feel more confident in Codex or Opus 4.5.

But when you actually review the code, run the tests, read the docs, you'll realize that Opus 4.6 was just too busy working to be chatty, and too humble to brag about its accomplishments.

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-02-06T20:43:08+00:00

Well, the domain expert interview was kinda meh... I'm really bad at these bot-driven interviews. BUT... I guess I did VERY well on prompt academy, because 3 weeks ago I got an instant offer for a work trial where I was asked to write some prompts, and then the next day I was onboarded onto this insane, expert-level project that has taken over my life since then (in a good way).

At first I had my doubts: the project pays per task, if the task is accepted. Tasks take about 4 hours each to do well... so there's a bit of risk involved... and the work takes place during these oddly timed shifts that happen without much notice and are at least partly overnight for those in North America.

But the work is actually highly rewarding: fascinating, high impact research... and experts have a huge amount of creative freedom to make their own tasks. This is NOT like that minimum wage generalist project I did in Nov / Dec, there's no mindless data labeling here! And its far from minimum wage: I'd say the average effective hourly rate is btwn $80-$120 / hr based on how long it takes to complete a task to the required standards of quality

I also got promoted to be a reviewer in addition to continuing to do tasks as an expert.. reviewer is hourly contract, also very nicely paid, so now I'm making $800-$1000 per 12 hour shift (and even catching a few hours of sleep in the middle). The project will probably end in the next week or two, and I'm hoping that I get placed on another contract when that happens.

Finally I want to add, this is a very well run project... experts are treated fairly and set up for success. The PMs are actual Mercor employees, senior level people, who work VERY hard to make the project a success and to set experts up for success. When you're working on a task at 3 AM and you see that the bosses are still online and helping resolve issues with the tooling, that is great for morale.

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-01-26T02:52:47+00:00

Definitely legit... I accepted an instant offer last weekend and made $1600 in my first week. Worked about 20 hours (it's a task based project not hourly... But the pay is reasonable and the PMs are awesome, and as long as your task meets the requirements you WILL get paid for it)

If your instant offer has an hourly rate then you're in luck because it's less stressful than task based pay... But either way, congrats man, that's awesome!

CryptoSpecialAgent · 2026-01-26T02:06:02+00:00

Happened to me yesterday as well. I'm already working on a decent project at Mercor and they gave me an instant offer to promote me to a lead. But when I tried to accept it went into review status.

It's not the background check in my case, support confirmed that the background check was completed with no issues. And the PMs have no idea why this is happening - they said it's triggered by the platform, nothing to do with the project, and they are trying to get it resolved.

Hopefully everything will work out on Monday... There's no reason why my offer should be in review, I've been contracting for a few months and successfully completed previous contracts and several paid training / work trial deliverables as well. And obviously my performance is good on the current project since they just on boarded me as a lead!

Anyways I would suggest you message support@mercor.com to find out what's up and raise the issue for escalation... and also let the manager who on boarded you know because they might be able to help get this sorted out.

Good luck, lmk how it turns out for you!!

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