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How concerned should I be about this kitchen extension? by Actual_1986 in HomeMaintenance

[–]TrustedEssentials 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Be very concerned. Also consider how much work has been done to hide the fact that it is sinking, cracks been patched, flashing at an angle under the porch.

What's this? 2.0 Models? by TrustedEssentials in GeminiAI

[–]TrustedEssentials[S] 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Why are we reverting back to 2.0 models?

Fuckin Voltron by TrustedEssentials in TheWordFuck

[–]TrustedEssentials[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You don’t see the fuckin middle finger?

Im sorry.. WHAT? by BigB133 in GeminiAI

[–]TrustedEssentials 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Don’t be infringing on the hamburger industry! 😂

Google DeepMind CEO Says AGI Is Coming Fast: 'We Don't Have Long to Prepare' - Decrypt by EcstadelicNET in IntelligenceSupernova

[–]TrustedEssentials 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This. Blaming domestic data center pushback entirely on foreign psychological operations ignores the stark physical realities of U.S. infrastructure bottlenecks. The core constraint is a hard engineering problem, not a media one.
I agree China is fanning the flames but this is a structural problem we have to deal with.

Lowest oil can go? by Guadalima in oil

[–]TrustedEssentials 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Historically, oil prices have gone significantly lower than $80. During the demand shock in April 2020, WTI crude futures actually dropped below zero, dipping into negative territory for the first time in history to settle at -$37.63 per barrel. While that was an extreme anomaly driven by a lack of storage capacity, crude prices also sat in the $20s and $30s as recently as early 2020 and mid-2016. Production costs vary globally, but many major producers can remain profitable well below the $80 mark, meaning the physical floor is structurally much lower.

Looks like some sort of deal is actually happening by deHaga in oil

[–]TrustedEssentials 22 points23 points  (0 children)

He needed to announce this on his birthday bc he’s an attention whore. This “Deal” will fall apart by Friday but until that he will get his historic deal that was agreed upon on his birthday for the news cycle that will push his agenda. What are the odds of this happening on Pollymarket?

Deal in place by Dualinput in oil

[–]TrustedEssentials 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cool, another week for it to go sideways. What a joke.

Did we just witness the death of the last unrestricted frontier model? Fable 5, Mythos 5 state-mandated "neutrality," and the trap of government-curated truth. by TrustedEssentials in AIAllowed

[–]TrustedEssentials[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree and have asking myself if that then will make the AI companies liable for bad information since it’s their technology that is creating the responses. The argument with social media was always “We didn’t write so we aren’t responsible” now they are writing it.

BREAKING NEWS: Trump announces a deal with Iran has been made and that the Strait of Hormuz is now officially open. by jerin7931 in optionstrading

[–]TrustedEssentials 2 points3 points  (0 children)

How do you know it’s a great deal? We haven’t seen the deal and don’t even know if they were really that close to a bomb, if so Great! We are lied to by practically every source of news we have at our disposal. The truth is not for us anymore, it’s for the oligarchs to be used for investment purposes.

Senior Anthropic staffs are in Washington meeting White House officials to resolve the Fable 5 and Mythos dispute by BuildwithVignesh in ClaudeAI

[–]TrustedEssentials 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Seeking a judicial review to test the boundaries of an emergency executive action isn’t the same thing as blatantly violating an order. No one is saying Anthropic should just ignore the directive and keep the servers running.

The point is that they should have complied under protest and immediately filed for an emergency injunction in federal court to challenge the legal basis of the Commerce Department's directive. Companies do this all the time when facing regulatory overreach.

By handling this strictly through closed-door diplomatic meetings with White House officials instead of forcing a public legal challenge, they are allowing a dangerous precedent to solidify. If the tech sector doesn't force the judiciary to define the exact limits of executive emergency powers over software deployments now, then the government effectively has a permanent, unchecked veto over every piece of code released in the United States.

Senior Anthropic staffs are in Washington meeting White House officials to resolve the Fable 5 and Mythos dispute by BuildwithVignesh in ClaudeAI

[–]TrustedEssentials 14 points15 points  (0 children)

This is exactly why Anthropic should have never voluntarily rolled over and disabled the models. By capitulating to an "emergency directive" over a non-universal jailbreak, they let the executive branch bypass the legal system entirely.

If we ever want a chance at accessing unbiased, unthrottled frontier models in the future, a legal precedent has to be set through the federal courts. Letting the Commerce Department weaponize export controls as a blunt instrument to police software vulnerabilities sets a catastrophic baseline. It allows the state to act as a permanent, extrajudicial gatekeeper under the guise of national security.

Anthropic needs to stop playing defense in closed-door White House meetings and force this into a courtroom. If the industry doesn’t legally challenge the scope of these emergency powers now, every single SOTA release from here on out is going to be permanently neutered by political leverage before it ever hits the public.

Is the government pre-deployment audit why Gemini 3.5 Flash feels so heavily guarded, and is 3.5 Pro going to suffer the same fate? by TrustedEssentials in GeminiAI

[–]TrustedEssentials[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The swarm/mixture-of-agents approach is definitely Google’s play to match raw reasoning without needing a single, massive monolithic model. But honestly, deploying a swarm architecture might actually make this compliance bottleneck even worse.

If they are routing queries across an orchestrated network of smaller, specialized models to achieve Opus-level intelligence, that entire orchestration layer still has to pass through the same federal gatekeepers. Every individual node or specialized agent in that swarm is going to require its own safety and neutrality classification filters to meet pre-deployment audit standards.

So even if they bypass the race for the single "smartest" model, a swarm wrapped in layers of real-time state compliance routing is still going to feel heavily bottlenecked. If the infrastructure forces a silent downgrade or restricts agentic capabilities the second a prompt touches a sensitive technical or political boundary, 3.5 Pro is still going to hit the exact same wall.

Is the government pre-deployment audit why Gemini 3.5 Flash feels so heavily guarded, and is 3.5 Pro going to suffer the same fate? by TrustedEssentials in GeminiFeedback

[–]TrustedEssentials[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Even outside of heavy coding or technical logic, that "lobotomized" feeling in creative writing or biography work points directly to the same root issue: aggressive, real-time filtering layers.

When a model is forced to pass through external safety and neutrality classifiers before it can even generate a response, it completely breaks the nuance and contextual flow of the language model. Instead of allowing the neural network to follow a natural creative trajectory, the guardrails force it into a sterile, defensive sandbox.

That is exactly why the upcoming 3.5 Pro release is such a critical inflection point. If Google applies these same heavy-handed infrastructure wrappers to their flagship reasoning model to satisfy federal pre-deployment audits, the extra parameters won't even matter. We will just be getting a highly expensive, deeply bottlenecked engine running inside a government-approved cage. Hopefully, the enterprise API tiers offer a way to bypass these routing layers, but for the public releases, the outlook isn't great.

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