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Llm9p: LLM as a Plan 9 file system

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17 points·by mleroy·4 months ago·3 comments

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mleroy
·2 hours ago·discuss
Instead of chasing and flagging AI content, you could just use Self-Labeled Original Content. Let authors voluntarily tag their links with [Handmade], [Craft-Article] or [Artisan-Thinking].
mleroy
·13 days ago·discuss
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mleroy
·3 months ago·discuss
Since you mentioned biohacking but are wary of "wetware" risks, consider Personal Bioinformatics via 30x Whole Genome Sequencing. Now that sequencing costs have dropped significantly, you can use AI to take a deep dive into the latest research surrounding your own genomic data.

While severall open medical databases and open-source tools exist, they are often fragmented or built for academia. There is significant room to contribute by hacking together better toolsets, localized databases, or AI-driven interfaces to make this data truly accessible.
mleroy
·4 months ago·discuss
Following the recent discussion on files as the ideal interface for agents [0], this might be an interesting exploration.

llm9p is a small, experimental 9P server that lets you interact with LLMs as a filesystem.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47286408
mleroy
·7 months ago·discuss
Ontologically, this historical model understands the categories of "Man" and "Woman" just as well as a modern model does. The difference lies entirely in the attributes attached to those categories. The sexism is a faithful map of that era's statistical distribution.

You could RAG-feed this model the facts of WWII, and it would technically "know" about Hitler. But it wouldn't share the modern sentiment or gravity. In its latent space, the vector for "Hitler" has no semantic proximity to "Evil".
mleroy
·7 months ago·discuss
Schleswig-Holstein (pop. 3M) shows that Open Source in government is viable. We need an EU that shifts its focus from compliance frameworks to actually investing and building.
mleroy
·8 months ago·discuss
A key takeaway from this ruling is that "the systems contain copies of the original works." Does this mean that offering any open-weight model capable of reproducing copyrighted text snippets or lyrics will be prohibited? That would be a big setback for AI development in the EU.
mleroy
·8 months ago·discuss
The Dunning–Kruger meme has basically turned into a way for people to laugh at others for being “too dumb to know they’re dumb.” But that misses the point completely. The whole “I know that I know nothing” idea applies to everyone. So when people use the meme to mock AI or AI users, it just shows they haven’t learned that same lesson themselves.
mleroy
·9 months ago·discuss
Review of 1X Neo by the WSJ:

https://youtu.be/f3c4mQty_so?si=pkdj9q5ieoj7pzPc
mleroy
·last year·discuss
The Rust Belt's just one part of the story, not the whole US economy. Globalization actually created tons of wealth for the USA, but that money hasn't been spread around fairly. It's all piled up in coastal cities and with rich folks while factory towns got left behind. Cutting off global trade wouldn't fix anything - it would tank the overall economy while only helping a few powerful players pulling the strings. The real problem isn't trade deals; it's that the USA never properly invested the profits back into the communities that got hit hardest.