darkpicnic

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Head of Engineering @ KaiPod (YC S21)
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Comment · 3 months ago
If payloads to LLMs are being passed around to various nodes, even trusted ones (like friends and family), it gets awkward if you send something very personal. Think sending a medical question to medgemma:27b.
Comment · 3 months ago
Does Mesh LLM encrypt the payload between nodes? Is it possible to read requests from other users?
Comment · 3 months ago
Good point. I know cocompute is working on splitting, but it’s not there yet; I was referring to the round-robin delegation within a trusted pool. Mesh LLM looks great too!
Comment · 3 months ago
cocompute.ai is already doing this really well.
Comment · 7 months ago
Just do what I did: ignore your orthodontist and wear them only at night, smashing them into your mouth like some kind of idiotic brute. 4 years later, great teeth!
Comment · 8 months ago
LLMs won’t lead to AGI. Almost by definition, they can’t. The thought experiment I use constantly to explain this:

Train an LLM on all human knowledge up to 1905 and see if it comes up with General Relativity. It won’t.

We’ll need additional breakthroughs in AI.

Comment · 1 year ago
I created an open source tool to help apps stay near the Dunbar Number: https://highlyprobable.io/articles/ten-cubed. I think the concept of social networks is interesting, but the ultimate unbounded result is a disaster.

Edit (missing link to github repo): https://github.com/darkpicnic/ten_cubed

Comment · 2 years ago
I've always been confused by this First Amendment argument with regards to TikTok: they're an organization that has been tied directly with an adversarial foreign state. How is this a rational take? Using this logic, Russia should be allowed to foment unrest through fake hate groups on Facebook (which they've done).

People should familiarize themselves with Gresham's Law: bad actors will always beat good actors if bad actors suffer no penalty. If bad actors leverage the rights and freedoms of a democracy to perform attacks without repercussion, we're toast.

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