Jai
@jaiwithani.bsky.social
This is Jai. Almost no one is evil almost everyone is broken.
Trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up for 38 years.
Trying to figure out what I want to be when I grow up for 38 years.
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Jai
@jaiwithani.bsky.social
· Nov 19
Notable life accomplishments:
- trained and deployed a model that removed the Declaration of Independence from Facebook
- expelled from college three weeks before classes started due to an incident involving poorly conceived JavaScript and Homestar Runner gifs
- trained and deployed a model that removed the Declaration of Independence from Facebook
- expelled from college three weeks before classes started due to an incident involving poorly conceived JavaScript and Homestar Runner gifs
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✍️ New article: “Foreign aid from the United States saved millions of lives each year”
For decades, these aid programs received bipartisan support and made a difference. Cutting them will cost lives.
For decades, these aid programs received bipartisan support and made a difference. Cutting them will cost lives.
September 30, 2025 at 9:20 AM
✍️ New article: “Foreign aid from the United States saved millions of lives each year”
For decades, these aid programs received bipartisan support and made a difference. Cutting them will cost lives.
For decades, these aid programs received bipartisan support and made a difference. Cutting them will cost lives.
Holy shit the rapture was today
📊 Data update: We've just updated over 450 (!) of our charts with the latest data from the World Bank’s World Development Indicators dataset.
September 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Holy shit the rapture was today
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September 22, 2025 at 5:12 PM
"fiery lawsuit"
My modest proposal for how to acknowledge AI work is to use the Latin phase "Fieri Iussit," which means "commanded to be made." It acknowledged the Emperor's orders on Roman buildings.
You didn't make the thing, but you commanded it be done, so the proper acknowledgement is "Ego hoc fieri iussi."
You didn't make the thing, but you commanded it be done, so the proper acknowledgement is "Ego hoc fieri iussi."
September 22, 2025 at 5:30 AM
"fiery lawsuit"
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No one has been more vindicated than normie resistance Dems, women’s marchers and never-Trump Republicans. They were right all along about the threat. The anti-anti-Trump Republicans and reactionary centrists, and the far left “it’s always been this bad” folks have been proved wrong over and over.
September 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
No one has been more vindicated than normie resistance Dems, women’s marchers and never-Trump Republicans. They were right all along about the threat. The anti-anti-Trump Republicans and reactionary centrists, and the far left “it’s always been this bad” folks have been proved wrong over and over.
Rewatched Dr. Strangelove last week, a movie about a superpower losing control of armed aircraft and subsequently coordinating to shoot their own craft down to avert a potentially catastrophic conflict.
September 10, 2025 at 12:11 AM
Rewatched Dr. Strangelove last week, a movie about a superpower losing control of armed aircraft and subsequently coordinating to shoot their own craft down to avert a potentially catastrophic conflict.
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I sent her a response today: Washington state will not be bullied or intimidated by threats and legally baseless accusations.
August 20, 2025 at 12:04 AM
I sent her a response today: Washington state will not be bullied or intimidated by threats and legally baseless accusations.
A horrible thing about the modern Internet is that it algorithmically punishes curiosity. If I look into a weird idea, my feeds and search results will be stuffed with content from the same cluster. I'm never asking "do I want to look at this?" but "do I want to look at stuff like this for a week?"
August 18, 2025 at 9:12 AM
A horrible thing about the modern Internet is that it algorithmically punishes curiosity. If I look into a weird idea, my feeds and search results will be stuffed with content from the same cluster. I'm never asking "do I want to look at this?" but "do I want to look at stuff like this for a week?"
This is exactly in line with what I expect out of Meta's internal community standards. No one actually wanted this outcome. Emergent failure from pursuing concise, consistent, objective rules that reflect common sense. This is impossible - but there's no common sense metric, so it gets cut.
August 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
This is exactly in line with what I expect out of Meta's internal community standards. No one actually wanted this outcome. Emergent failure from pursuing concise, consistent, objective rules that reflect common sense. This is impossible - but there's no common sense metric, so it gets cut.
Ozy Brennan's piece on the various cults that have spun out of the Bay Area Rationalist community is well-researched, insightful, and has some just generally good life advice.
asteriskmag.com/issues/11/wh...
asteriskmag.com/issues/11/wh...
Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults?—Asterisk
There’s a lot to like about the Rationalist community, but they do have a certain tendency to spawn — shall we say — high demand groups. We sent a card-carrying Rat to investigate what’s really going ...
asteriskmag.com
August 14, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Ozy Brennan's piece on the various cults that have spun out of the Bay Area Rationalist community is well-researched, insightful, and has some just generally good life advice.
asteriskmag.com/issues/11/wh...
asteriskmag.com/issues/11/wh...
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes" points to them being frequentists, but the Jedi insistence on letting go of observation and trusting in an opaque process also doesn't bode well for Bayesianism. I think maybe force sensitivity precludes statistical aptitude.
Would the Jedi or the Sith be more likely to develop Bayesian statistics?
Saturday morning reflections: would the jedi or the sith be more likely to apply control theory to moral philosophy?
August 2, 2025 at 6:38 PM
"Only a Sith deals in absolutes" points to them being frequentists, but the Jedi insistence on letting go of observation and trusting in an opaque process also doesn't bode well for Bayesianism. I think maybe force sensitivity precludes statistical aptitude.
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This plus the scamming dichotomy — people on Bluesky DM me to try and exploit my charitable nature with dubious gofundmes, while twitter users DM hoping to exploit my vanity and greed with crypto/investing, work from home or sugar baby scams — is still kind of fascinating
It’s funny to me that the X version of the Self-Righteous Doordash User is “my time is so precious as an entrepreneur that I would be losing money if I cooked” and the Bluesky version is “I have a disability that means even looking at a stove would kill me”
July 26, 2025 at 11:44 PM
This plus the scamming dichotomy — people on Bluesky DM me to try and exploit my charitable nature with dubious gofundmes, while twitter users DM hoping to exploit my vanity and greed with crypto/investing, work from home or sugar baby scams — is still kind of fascinating
An intense AI race is probably an energy demand spike, which means significantly increased energy prices, which suggests political instability. It also means that China's significant lead on energy generation could become a really big advantage (if nothing else, they'll be rich).
July 25, 2025 at 1:07 AM
An intense AI race is probably an energy demand spike, which means significantly increased energy prices, which suggests political instability. It also means that China's significant lead on energy generation could become a really big advantage (if nothing else, they'll be rich).
20k?!
Kimi K2 paper is out!
lessons:
1. they explicitly suppressed long CoT
2. more MoE experts > more attention
3. 20k MCP tools (17k synthetic)
4. agents all the way down
github.com/MoonshotAI/K...
lessons:
1. they explicitly suppressed long CoT
2. more MoE experts > more attention
3. 20k MCP tools (17k synthetic)
4. agents all the way down
github.com/MoonshotAI/K...
July 21, 2025 at 11:15 PM
20k?!
I'm just saying that if you told someone in 1995 "in 21st century humanity will be roiled by The Replication Crisis; our best scientists will race to find a solution in time", you would expect something much cooler than what we actually got.
July 21, 2025 at 7:48 PM
I'm just saying that if you told someone in 1995 "in 21st century humanity will be roiled by The Replication Crisis; our best scientists will race to find a solution in time", you would expect something much cooler than what we actually got.
Coming soon:
Co-dex: A robot companion that assists in dexterous tasks
Code-ex: a follow-up to Musk's waifus, OpenAI pioneers artificial exes.
Co-ed X: Deprecated in the announcement post
Co-Decks: An AI assistant for pitching your AI startup ideas
Co-dex: A robot companion that assists in dexterous tasks
Code-ex: a follow-up to Musk's waifus, OpenAI pioneers artificial exes.
Co-ed X: Deprecated in the announcement post
Co-Decks: An AI assistant for pitching your AI startup ideas
OpenAI has released
- codex (deprecated coding model, removed from the API)
- codex (a CLI for agentic coding)
- codex (a feature on ChatGPT for agentic coding)
- codex-mini (a coding model currently available on the API, no benchmarks)
- codex-1 (unavailable, but has benchmarks)
don't be confused
- codex (deprecated coding model, removed from the API)
- codex (a CLI for agentic coding)
- codex (a feature on ChatGPT for agentic coding)
- codex-mini (a coding model currently available on the API, no benchmarks)
- codex-1 (unavailable, but has benchmarks)
don't be confused
July 19, 2025 at 1:43 AM
Coming soon:
Co-dex: A robot companion that assists in dexterous tasks
Code-ex: a follow-up to Musk's waifus, OpenAI pioneers artificial exes.
Co-ed X: Deprecated in the announcement post
Co-Decks: An AI assistant for pitching your AI startup ideas
Co-dex: A robot companion that assists in dexterous tasks
Code-ex: a follow-up to Musk's waifus, OpenAI pioneers artificial exes.
Co-ed X: Deprecated in the announcement post
Co-Decks: An AI assistant for pitching your AI startup ideas
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MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs?
VOUGHT: I reject the assertion
MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
VOUGHT: I reject the assertion
MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
June 25, 2025 at 8:03 PM
MERKLEY: How do you feel about being responsible for hundreds of thousands of kids dying because of your sudden interruption in these key programs?
VOUGHT: I reject the assertion
MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
VOUGHT: I reject the assertion
MERKLEY: I find your response both ignorant & callous. Few Americans have had a more devastating & disastrous impact
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I prefer "wander and dig"
Explore vs exploit always sounded aggressive to me. They should’ve called it search or savor
June 19, 2025 at 6:43 AM
I prefer "wander and dig"
How do vampire powers track property rights for entrance permission mechanics? Does residency matter? Disputed property rights? What exactly is a threshold or inside, precisely?
June 18, 2025 at 6:11 PM
How do vampire powers track property rights for entrance permission mechanics? Does residency matter? Disputed property rights? What exactly is a threshold or inside, precisely?
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The dominant narrative of DeepSeek was importantly wrong.
Zvi does a great job of capturing the reasons why the DeepSeek moment happened the way it did.
Zvi does a great job of capturing the reasons why the DeepSeek moment happened the way it did.
June 10, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The dominant narrative of DeepSeek was importantly wrong.
Zvi does a great job of capturing the reasons why the DeepSeek moment happened the way it did.
Zvi does a great job of capturing the reasons why the DeepSeek moment happened the way it did.
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did u know u can prompt inject the ai overview
May 30, 2025 at 4:28 AM
did u know u can prompt inject the ai overview
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When it's just an endless field of negativity it's actually worse than useless because my energy is sapped and those actually important things I could do like attend a protest or call reps end up buried under a paralyzing totality of the whole network screaming.
May 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
When it's just an endless field of negativity it's actually worse than useless because my energy is sapped and those actually important things I could do like attend a protest or call reps end up buried under a paralyzing totality of the whole network screaming.