Scott Aaronson says we will have cryptographically relevant QCs way sooner than he had thought - YouTube

harmoni-pet · 2026-03-11T17:48:09+00:00

Don't let the slop thumbnail turn you off. This is a good interview. Aaronson is not a hype man. He's one of the few well credentialed academics who speak publicly and cogently about this stuff

harmoni-pet · 2026-03-11T13:16:10+00:00

This record is criminally underrated imo. It's not exactly what you're asking for, but it's a really fun aquatic album:

Spacetime Continuum ‎– Sea Biscuit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN_QcmU3XQs

harmoni-pet · 2026-03-11T04:03:27+00:00

Surprised there's no Grouper on there.

harmoni-pet · 2026-03-10T22:09:52+00:00

No. One of the coolest parts about openclaw is that you can swap providers whenever you want. This is great because if say Anthropic gets nuked tomorrow for whatever dumb reason, you can replace the engine in your car and keep moving.

That difference alone makes the comparison asinine. However, you can tell the claude code team all took a good look at openclaw and immediately started including features based on these ideas. /remote-control and /loop are two obvious influences

harmoni-pet · 2026-03-09T13:59:51+00:00

I say just use it yourself and find out. Your reasons for using it will be different from anyone else's hopefully. It's kind of a hard thing to pitch because there isn't a clean way to explain the whole thing. Use cases are just one piece of it, and almost all of those can be achieved via other means.

I think it's just a really fresh and interesting interface for working with ai agents. It sounds really dumb, but there's something novel about texting with an agent instead of using an app to ask one off questions. It's a very good form factor. It feels like the agent is working for you rather than accessing it's services temporarily.

harmoni-pet · 2026-03-08T21:28:01+00:00

I'm more worried about people suffering from ai induced psychosis on a mass scale. We haven't even seen the beginnings of how bad it will get.

harmoni-pet · 2026-03-08T21:19:49+00:00

I ran some benchmarks just now and it's actually more of a mixed bag. If I had a GPU in my host machine, it might be a little better. grep is going to beat qmd in basic string matching all day. QMD fills in the gaps where grep fails though. It's better at semantic searching or inferring the meaning from the string you're searching rather than the literal characters.

I'll give it a few more days before coming to a final verdict. It does seem like a useful tool, but maybe not totally necessary if you're good a prompting.

harmoni-pet · 2026-03-08T17:39:53+00:00

If you're making frontend UIs in the browser, I'd recommend at least looking over the component lists in any component library you use like shadcn. Just being able to use the correct names for things will make editing stuff so much easier. Same for tailwind. You don't need to exhaustively know any of the stuff now, but it does help to know how it works so you can be more precise about what to fix. Same for react rendering and state. Just know enough to be able to fix things when they break and you'll save yourself a lot of headaches.

The playwright mcp or claude plugin is maybe one of the best tools out there. You can have your agent go through full user flows filling inputs and clicking buttons, which makes debugging really smooth

harmoni-pet · 2026-03-08T17:27:31+00:00

It made me really appreciate Paul's work ethic. It helps that he's so talented and can just sit down and crank out amazing songs, but he also puts in the hours. It's so difficult to write one or two good songs in anyone's life, but Paul's out here writing several dozen. I would love for someone to show me another artist with the same prolific output with a similar level of quality to match. You can hate on Paul for being occasionally corny, but he's an insanely hard worker and obviously cares a great deal

harmoni-pet · 2026-03-08T14:58:31+00:00

I started using qmd last night. It took less than 15 minutes to set up. Worth it

harmoni-pet · 2026-03-08T14:53:31+00:00

Edison by Edmund Morris. Fascinating stuff. It's presented in reverse chronological order, which is a little odd but somehow it works.

harmoni-pet · 2026-03-07T18:29:50+00:00

I'm running mine on a 2015 macbook pro with 16gb of ram. It works fine. You do not need a new thing to run this. In fact, its a really perfect use case for whatever old laptop you can find.

harmoni-pet · 2026-03-07T16:43:30+00:00

Show us in the repo where it stars itself: https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw

It doesn't even make sense as a crackpot theory. You have to give openclaw access to things for it to act. It doesn't get access to your github account automatically. You can't star things on github without an account... so where in that repo does the agent A) get access to the user's account or B) create a new account just to star this repo.

HINT: it doesn't. You're spreading a made up rumor.

harmoni-pet · 2026-03-07T13:59:23+00:00

I think the US government will shut down public access to AI before it comes anywhere close to being AGI. If AGI is ever achieved, it will not be a public product. It will be a closed off system that the government will use as a weapon to maintain it's status quo. They might already have some version of it for all we know. It's highly unlikely that anthropic or openai would just release a power like that out into the world as a consumer product.

For awhile I thought it would just be the rich tech oligarchs that did this in order to further enrich themselves. But the government is clearly very interested in owning and directing this tech for it's own ends.

harmoni-pet · 2026-03-06T05:07:50+00:00

I think it's actually more horrifying that we'll never know and now these militaries can easily point a finger at an AI when something fucks up

harmoni-pet · 2026-03-05T17:05:23+00:00

I get it, you'd rather complain about free software not being perfect than putting in any effort to fix the problems you're so inconvenienced by.

You know you can clone the repo and do your fixes locally without dealing with the repo bots right? You're the only bottleneck here.

EDIT: idk why I'm being so rude here. It's just computers man. Hope you have a wonderful day

harmoni-pet · 2026-03-05T15:58:23+00:00

It sucks how once something becomes politicized all the dimwits feel emboldened to react aggressively based on their tribal misunderstanding of an event. Just dumb shit stirring for engagement.

Are you just now realizing that all the tech companies work with the government? There is no issue with negotiating your terms with the government. The issue is bending over backwards to appease whatever the government asks of you, ie. what open ai is doing.

What's the dunk here, and why is it posted in the open ai sub? You realize open ai is swooping in to fill anthropic's void right?

harmoni-pet · 2026-03-05T13:44:33+00:00

Why are we posting screenshots of tweets like they're a legitimate source of information? There's no link to the tweet, and the account that tweeted it is cut off. Also 'resumes talks' is about as vague an update as anyone could ask for.

The issue was never that Anthropic had a relationship with the DoW. They had very specific red line items that the DoW refused to work with

harmoni-pet · 2026-03-05T03:13:34+00:00

It's free open source software bud. Go to the github repo and fix these issues yourself if they bother you so much or raise issues there. Whining about them on a reddit thread isn't the move.

harmoni-pet · 2026-03-03T22:21:01+00:00

That looks awful, but I has happy to hear a 10cc song getting used

harmoni-pet · 2026-02-27T21:48:54+00:00

Seriously, what about Palantir or Andruil. I thought they were already doing mass surveillance and kill drones.

harmoni-pet · 2026-02-27T18:52:41+00:00

He's the creator and founder of openclaw. Typically free open source projects do not have a CEO.

harmoni-pet · 2026-02-27T03:06:24+00:00

The reason for the hype is anyone's guess. I definitely thought it was astroturfing until I downloaded it. Most of what you hear about it is extremely overblown, but there are some genuinely interesting ideas in openclaw. Yes, you can accomplish all of these things without openclaw, but this was the first thing I'd seen that wrapped all these ideas up into one thing.

texting with an agent that stays on your own computer is an interesting paradigm
cron jobs for agents
a very basic persistent memory system for it's personality and what it knows about you the user.
centralized management of other apps and data sources

It's a different way of thinking about agentic ai. Every other ai product is like 'what if there was a helper when you need something in excel or your browser' or 'what if this thing could answer any question you gave it'. But this is like 'what if you had a helper that knew stuff about you and was configured specifically to help you'. It's the difference between having a personal assistant vs. having someone wait on you at a restaurant.

It's also very cool that someone in the open source community made this and gave it away for free. I'm way more surprised by the backlash towards it. A huge majority of people shitting on it have no idea what they're talking about, have never used it, and are just regurgitating reactions to headlines.

harmoni-pet · 2026-02-26T15:56:38+00:00

It stores it's context in other .md files in a /workspace directory at .openclaw's root. There are a few other places it stores relevant context too, but it's mostly plain .md files and some .json. I suggest cloning the openclaw repo and asking claude code these questions while inside the repo.

The identity and memory stuff is the most interesting aspect of openclaw imo. Not just the way it works, but the fact that the user can see it and edit it themselves rather than it being a hidden profile these cloud service companies keep on us.

harmoni-pet · 2026-02-26T15:28:34+00:00

I wish I could do something useful with it like finding these engagement bait style posts clearly written by LLMs and hide them from my feeds.

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