PeterStuer's comments

On: A tool that removes censorship from open-weight LLMs

[PeterStuer]

Already censored for sharing on FB Messenger?

On: Why XML tags are so fundamental to Claude

[PeterStuer]

"<" ">" and "/>" are indeed single tokens.

On: If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?

[PeterStuer]

The session might contain many artifacts that are not suited for open sourcing. The additional fine grained curation effort required might be more of an obstacle to open sourcing than the perceived benefits.

That said preserved private session records might be of great personal benefit.

On: Layoffs at Block

[PeterStuer]

Lord, here comes the flood. I'm sure there will still be lots of denial, and ofc it isn't just 'ai takin our jobs', but my gut and personal experience is saying this is just the first wave.

On: What Claude Code chooses

[PeterStuer]

"does not think and is not intelligent. It just statistically predict next token in a sequence. It is all statistics"

Technically correct, but pretty useless as a working model. Like sayin humans are not intelligent. It's just biochemical and bioelectric reactions. It's all physics.

How would you, from a Searlian perspective argue against "humans are just statistical next token predictors"?

[esailija → PeterStuer]

We don't know what humans are because they are a black box, we use some imperfect models that have limited usability in specific contexts.

LLM is white box that we know for sure is just a statistical next token predictor and nothing more. It's not a just a model of some black box we are trying to understand but the whole actual thing. That people think it's something more or could be something more is on them. If you understand that then you understand the flaws, limitations and vulnerabilities which is very useful.

On: Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

[PeterStuer]

As an insider, do you think this is Altman playing his infamous machiavellian skills on the DoD?

On: Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)

[PeterStuer]

Could you expand on the Teams remark? What exactly is the lock=in?

On: Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."

[PeterStuer]

Twitch has been speedrunning their own demise. Maybe the people on charge have personally invested heavily in Kick?

[jeffwask → PeterStuer]

When it stopped being about people playing games and became discount reality TV, it's death nell was rung.

[throwaway85825 → jeffwask]

The trashiest moved to kick. Twitch is mostly soft porn now.

[neko_ranger → throwaway85825]

Thank you for telling me where they went so I know not to go there

[slumberlust → neko_ranger]

Right, but which streams specifically...so I can block them of course.

[throwaway85825 → slumberlust]

There is an online community forum that discusses the individuals in the trash streams that will go unmentioned.

[duxup → jeffwask]

Even when it was about games there was an absurd amount of "games ... but the host has almost uncovered boobs pointed at the screen" content.

Felt like Twitch was always teetering on the edge and really nobody with any power cared to avoid the inevitable.

[impish9208 → jeffwask]

*Its death knell was rung :)

[dogleash → PeterStuer]

> Maybe the people on charge have personally invested heavily in Kick?

Twitch is owned by Amazon. AWS sells the streaming tech Twitch uses to Kick.

Amazon would probably rather sell IVS to Kick than try and figure out how to make Twitch profitable. Or the just don't care enough to notice the people at Twitch are just LARPing at business.

[Ekaros → PeterStuer]

I think fundamental truth is that live streaming live content was never financially great business. Most popular creators could make it out, but platforms have heavy costs.

[quickthrowman → PeterStuer]

It’s owned by Amazon, a publicly traded company. They squeeze as hard as they can, and then some to hit those quarterly numbers.

On: Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge

[PeterStuer]

We wont push forward unless you push forward is textbook market collusion.

Even if it were ever done with good intentions, it is an open invitation for benefit hoarding and margin fixing.

Do you realy want to create this future where only a select few anointed companies and some governments have access to super advanced intelligent systems, where the rest of the planet is subjected to and your own ai access is limited to benign basal add pushing propaganda spewing chatbots as you bingewatch the latest "aw my ballz"?

On: Sovereignty in a System Prompt

[PeterStuer]

"the tech industry is sleepwalking into it"

I would say the opposite is closer to the thruth. They were/are enthousiastic enablers and supporters of (their prefered) political messaging.