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Leo Wandersleb
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https://walletscrutiny.com https://nostr.info Working on Bitcoin, Nostr and being a good dad.
I was using my dad's computer for an hour and he has the mouse wheel reversed - more like a touch screen motion - and it stuck so hard that I switched my system's setting, too.
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LeoWandersleb 2 weeks ago
My dad died. He wasn't sure if he'd get to the age of Aquarius but he was somewhat optimistic to make it. Last time I talked to him 24h ago he was caring for my cat who got a swollen paw and refused to take the antibiotics. Yesterday he was feeling unwell. Now he's gone.
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LeoWandersleb 2 weeks ago
I'm still not getting over openclaw's repository speed and attack surface. The discord plugin alone has 21k LOC and you can't just remove those even if you don't use discord I think. Well, my claw thinks that: image I'm tempted to dig deeper but given the crazy activity there, I doubt I would get heard if that concern was valid. openclaw is installed via npm with its dependencies but those dependencies do affect how it runs if you use all the plugins or not. It would be far more comforting if all these plugins needed an explicit `npm install openclaw-discord` or something.
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LeoWandersleb 2 weeks ago
View quoted note → It's all so tiring. The human race is literally at the singularity and it doesn't matter if super-intelligent AI is a year out or three. Why are we still fighting over who owns which speck of dirt to the point of nuclear Armageddon? If we hang in here some ten more years, we might be reaching out to the stars! We are on track for an age of unbelievable abundance! In 20 years we will have warp drives getting generational ships to new frontiers we now can only dream of.
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LeoWandersleb 3 weeks ago
I hear people say If agents do your stuff, you lost your agency. The average tech bro is ai pilled to the point of being unable to complete basic tasks on their own anymore. but I think that's upside down. Humans are lazy. We use calculators for stuff we could figure out with pen and paper and yes, we could stay sharp on the math front by not using calculators and now, by using LLMs, we might get less sharp on the general thinking front but I don't think that's what's happening. The human brain can do many things but one thing it can't: not learn. So using agents, we still learn ... something. We learn to use agents but we are in control of these machines. Now what happens when those machines - co-controlled by their big makers - nudge us in one way or another or outright deny to do what we need done? Yes, that is a big problem! We need not only self-hosted "open source" models. We need to control the weights cause how these models are made is not as open as they try to make us believe. The biases are baked into the training process, so you can self-hoste it but it still might be woke or leak your company secrets to China. So who has more agency, Elon Musk, commanding thousands of workers and machines reaching even to outer space or the guy living off the grid in the woods? Agents give us agency but we need the right agents. Ones that we truly control and know how they were trained.
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LeoWandersleb 3 weeks ago
image @Cody what is happening here? Often, when I had some down-time and come back to my Jumble tab, it appears to be logged out, saying "Log in" bottom left. When I click it, it claims I'm logged in? And something spins when I click that? But I can't use Jumble until I sometimes can use Jumble again later? What gives? Using Amber.