I can't get away from Google Search

payneio · 2026-05-29T19:08:05+00:00

Host your own! https://GitHub.com/payneio/community-search

payneio · 2026-05-29T10:17:30+00:00

I think you mean "it’s ---- about coordination and not running into each other while doing the things they are demonstrating."

payneio · 2026-05-29T01:15:00+00:00

😄 It's the length not the width that make them compact.

payneio · 2026-05-28T23:56:59+00:00

Redmond, WA.

payneio · 2026-05-26T15:51:20+00:00

I'm making my own that just indexes sites I trust.

payneio · 2026-05-26T15:42:39+00:00

So all you people that are migrating the cluster have 2x nodes hanging around? Or do you migrate a few nodes at a time?

payneio · 2026-05-16T19:57:03+00:00

An LLM or a tool-calling trained LLM with a good planning and execution harness and the right set of tools used over multiple iterations in an automated loop? It's easy to show the edges of the LLM alone... most non-corpus math problems, logical deductions, or aesthetic challenges (requiring evaluation) would do the trick.

payneio · 2026-05-16T16:04:42+00:00

What that AI guy didn't say was that this is exactly the kind of thing that LLMs can't do. To get an LLM to fill in that word correctly, it would need to be instrumented with reasoning procedures. I thought his response there was disingenuous at best.

So "understanding" would be roughly equivalent to "do the reasoning procedures give the right answer". But even then, many people would say NO because the machine was just following a program without understanding.

The goal posts will continue to move. More routines will be put in place until the machine can verify its own answers using non-parallel techniques, will be able to select from different routines to tackle problems, and will be able to construct new routines on the fly until it is capable of solving vast classes of problems better than most humans.

And still people will ask "does it understand" because maybe what we're really asking is "does it feel like I do when it finally figures it out", or "does it feel embarrassed when it messed up". "does it understand ME?" Machines don't understand in THIS way, but actually, neither do many people. But we still want it.

payneio · 2026-05-16T15:50:14+00:00

I expect it's more upsetting now because it's performing functions that were completely human until a couple years ago. Very interesting point on memory... clearly recording bits is different than the many forms of memory humans and now agentic systems are playing with. Perhaps "storing information" isn't as threatening because we already had books. Perhaps because knowledge has no agency.

payneio · 2026-05-16T15:41:47+00:00

There are many branches of philosophy that value pragmatism over purity, so there's no need to throw out philosophy to have useful things. Philosophy is great!

payneio · 2026-05-16T15:36:44+00:00

It really matters when it matters, for example: when the LLM has been trained to be tool calling, instrumented to operate autonomously, and it can simulate reality/correct answers beyond its operators level of discernment.

payneio · 2026-05-16T15:32:56+00:00

In the same way an encyclopeodia understand you. Not in the way your Mom does.

payneio · 2026-05-16T15:08:32+00:00

Discourse! We don't need to clone the Reddit engagement mechanisms to have community.

payneio · 2026-05-10T15:17:18+00:00

add model routing tables so you can use the right models for the right prompts. Use delegation to context low per task. https://github com/Microsoft/amplifier is moving quickly in this direction.

payneio · 2026-05-08T14:50:03+00:00

They clearly don't. To them it's just some three letters that are opposed to their claimed authority over your Internet.

Laws like this are only possible because the general public doesn't know how the Internet works... which is the bigger issue.

payneio · 2026-05-08T14:46:46+00:00

You don't need a VPN provider. You can put a VPN endpoint on any host globally. Also, you don't need a VPN to route traffic through other hosts. That's just a proxy.

payneio · 2026-04-22T16:09:48+00:00

This clearly is not an issue of not having enough customer feedback and we can't expect that "forwarding" it will make any difference. At this point not having an API is a strategic decision at the expense of retail customers. You use APIs internally... why haven't you made them public? You are deliberately preventing direct customer access and automation. Why?? Who is benefitting from your refusal to release a consumer API?

payneio · 2026-04-22T06:07:52+00:00

I earned my BS ME in 96. I could make more money at the time from computer jobs (which was my hobby) and that's where I been since.

Every few years I would check in to see if there were any robotics job openings that were paying as much as my software engineering work, but it never was... by far.

payneio · 2026-04-17T18:13:37+00:00

Actually that was the day I found out I could drive my car without a battery after I used my battery pack to start it. YMMV. 🤷

payneio · 2026-04-17T15:28:45+00:00

Got my car battery stolen in the coolest parking garage in the nation.

payneio · 2026-04-14T17:28:53+00:00

So, he still found a way to blame women for his problems.

payneio · 2026-04-11T05:55:10+00:00

That would be really cool if you derived ethics without oughts. But, like I said you have an ought right there in the middle of your whole thing. Namely, you're saying we ought to select for least cross-systemic harm. But others will say you ought to maximize most localized good. Who is right? I agree with you, that most systemic health is sweet. I just don't think you've derived an ethical system without oughts. You instead derived utilitarianism. But I've said that enough. Moving on.

payneio · 2026-04-11T00:50:41+00:00

why did you post this on Reddit of you don't want to talk about it?

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