The openclaw rough architecture isn’t bad but I enjoyed building my own version. I chose rustlang and it works like I want. I made it a separate email address etc. and Apple ID. The biggest annoyance is that I can’t share Google contacts. But otherwise it’s great. I’m trying to find a way to give it a browser and a credit card (limited spend of course) in a way I can trust.
I also built the equivalent of OpenClaw myself sometime when it was still called Clawdbot and I'm confused how LLMs can be both heralds of the era of personal apps and everyone at the same time be using the same vibe coded personal LLM assistant someone else made, much less it being worth an OpenAI acquisition. I agree building one yourself is very fun.
I will not claim to be an expert historian but one general belief I have is that nomenclature undergoes semantic migration over a century. So for the sake of conciseness I will quote the first demand of each portion of the Fascist Manifesto. This isn't to obscure, because it is in Wikipedia[0] and translated in English on EN Wikipedia[1], but so I can share a sample of whether this is something we can relate to our present day political orientation. Hopefully it will inform what you believe "author of the Fascist Manifesto" to imply:
> ...
> For this WE WANT:
> On the political problem:
> Universal suffrage by regional list voting, with proportional representation, voting and eligibility for women.
> ...
> On the social problem:
> WE WANT:
> The prompt enactment of a state law enshrining the legal eight-hour workday for all jobs.
> ...
> On the military issue:
> WE WANT:
> The establishment of a national militia with brief educational services and exclusively defensive duty.
> ...
> On the financial problem:
> WE WANT:
> A strong extraordinary tax on capital of a progressive nature, having the form of true PARTIAL EXPROPRIATION of all wealth.
I’m not particularly political and am also not a historian but I don’t think it’s necessarily correct to equate the literal text of the manifesto with the principles and practices of fascism.
The message of universal suffrage vs. that of preventing an out group from “stealing” an election are not far apart semantically. Same with workers rights - in practice the worker protection laws that were passed in Italy at this time were so full of loopholes and qualifications that ultimately the workers do not gain power in that system.
It is this fair, in my view, to question the spirit of the manifesto in the first place.
Huh. I thought perhaps it was the usual "why are all the recommendation algorithms showing me gay porn?" class of complaint, but I went and logged in and it seems that he's not wrong though the degree seems to vary. I've got a bunch of these but also a bunch of outrage bait and generic general stuff. I think if you don't use the platform you get the undifferentiated high-engagement stuff which is likely the same as those Taboola chumboxes that people have on their websites.
EDIT: Hilariously, I went there 45 minutes later and I must have interacted with something because now everything is posts about football (along with the "i want an argument with my husband" post!). I'm in the Bay Area Gooners group but that's been over a decade, so presumably what happens is they don't run recommendations until someone shows activity. Just logging and browsing the feed must have triggered it because I didn't see any football stuff last time except BAG.
This is incredible. With this speed I can use LLMs in a lot of pre-filtering etc. tasks. As a trivial example, I have a personal OpenClaw-like bot that I use to do a bunch of things. Some of the things just require it to do trivial tool-calling and tell me what's up. Things like skill or tool pre-filtering become a lot more feasible if they're always done.
Anyway, I imagine these are incredibly expensive, but if they ever sell them with Linux drivers and slotting into a standard PCIe it would be absolutely sick. At 3 kW that seems unlikely, but for that kind of speed I bet I could find space in my cabinet and just rip it. I just can't justify $300k, you know.
It is an outrageously cool thing to give money for an infrastructure project. They must have some faith that the government can deliver on something with $3.5 million.
That would be two public toilets in SF, one toilet of which actually cost $300k in paperwork and so on despite two local businessmen signing up to have the work done.
There's a pattern where criminal organizations fill governance gaps rather than starting as genuine governments. The Yakuza did this opportunistically at certain historical moments. Hamas is a similar example (not a criminal organisation, but..) , allthough they are more of a institution-building than the Yakuza ever was.
Mafias generally fill the same functions of the government but for the underworld: providing "protection", extracting "taxes", enforcing rules via the use of violence, and so on.
Yes, it’s a big reason why they have always tended to be based out of immigrant communities - those were excluded from mainstream culture, governance, etc.
If you were mainstream you didn’t need the mafia - you were already the gov’t, the police, etc.
It is a rational response to bureaucratic excesses worldwide in public procurement.
It is a plea to more common sense, to more down to earth thinking and decisive action in the public sphere.
This is not a call to ignore processes. But it is a call for civil servants to respect that they are exactly that. In service, and their ambition should be to do it well and efficiently.
The downvotes are an expression of those that think civil servants should be protected from such sentiment.
Here is some of what happened during COVID, according to Patrick McKenzie (patio11) [1] :
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I want to both be polite about the fact and be honest about it. We, the United States of America, through our elected representatives and through civil servants who represent our interests, committed monstrous crimes in 2021, which are against the laws, traditions, and constitution of the United States of America, including aggressively redlining the provision of life-saving medical care in a way which was designed to cause racially discriminatory outcomes with the provision of medical care.
Just throwing that out there as a statement. With that caveat, one of the things that we spent tens of millions of dollars on was that we want your consultancy to write a website which will enforce residency restrictions. A residency restriction is essentially, when we are under a supply constraint, there must be some method to decide which people get it, and some people don’t. We have, in our infinite wisdom as the government, decided that equity, equity, equity is one primary thing that we are focusing on. A thing that we think would be contrary to equity is allowing anyone who shows up at the clinic to receive the life-saving medication.
The thing that we are specifically worried about is relatively well-resourced people from advantaged demographics will use their superior access to transportation and information to travel to clinics which have the vaccine available and take that instead of that vaccine being used by someone in the local community who we intend the vaccine to go to. Therefore, to get an appointment to go to the vaccine, you will need to go to the county’s website, which is delivered by Accenture or similar, and prove to the website that you reside within one of the zip codes that we have allocated for those vaccine doses. Only then will you get the ticket, virtual or otherwise, which allows you to go to the pharmacy and get the vaccine. We spent tens of millions of dollars on that, targeting essentially a four-month window where we were acutely supply constrained. But we did not turn off residency restrictions on the websites after that four month window because we physically had no way to do that because that was not in the bid documents in some cases.
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Just one of the many ways that rigid institutions that behave more like stupid robots than things capable of dynamic decision-making cause immense harm. This is not a rant against equity btw, only against insanity.
This is real and there's no way to get these problems down to zero. However I do believe that the best first step is to make sure the government has more employees and fewer contractors. It will cost more year to year but the delivery will be much closer to what the constituents want and over time I would expect it to save money as well. With that said it's not a silver bullet as that group of people needs to be properly motivated, they still will need specialist help from consultancies, and there may be institutional capture anyway.
The lone ranger donor route feels severely suboptimal, unless perhaps if the donor is a .001%er pledging a large share of their net worth.
Imagine if this anonymous person worked with a foundation pledging to match $3.5M if said amount was raise via crowdfund. Even if say $1M goes to the campaign and NGO bloat, that’s still way more pipe money.
> Imagine if this anonymous person worked with a foundation pledging to match $3.5M if said amount was raise via crowdfund.
Idk man. Thing is where i live we are already crowdfunding to maintain our pipes. It is called local taxes and water utility bills. So if anyone were to ask me for more money for the same task i’m already paying not insubstantial sums for I would be very cross with them. It is just not a good look.
Now i don’t know about Japan. Maybe they don’t pay taxes and utility bills. Somehow doubt it, but who knows.
The lone ranger may have actually done something optimal but indirect. There is a lot of press that went global pointing out real problems. Japanese are proud people, this might actually help direct public funds to solve the problems.
Of course they have faith - the donor is likely the prime contractor, doing a bit of casual circular accounting while doing a charitable donation tax writedown - or just some plain old fashioned laundry.
It’s hard to see another reason for the format of the donation.
* In the culture that also produced this comment. This is not a universal problem, just a societies unable to produce a high trust environment problem.
I run most of my time in `claude --dangerously-skip-permissions` but I do tab back often to check what it's up to. So far, because LLMs are not fast enough this is fine, but sometimes I find it being too clever for my good. The best reference I can think of for a Claude like this is that it's like the ravenous unraveling AI in Zachary Mason's Void Star: Cloudbreaker. Cloudbreaker just wants to extract information from everything and is unfathomably good at it. You go to it to break encryption but you have to be careful interacting because it will take everything.
Claude Opus is like Slow Helpful Cloudbreaker. And not even actually slow. Just slow compared to how fast you expect machines to act.
Actually, I often enjoy the stuff that floats up from the muck. A lot of it is vibe-coded but it gives me inspiration to replicate on my own. As an example, I don't use OpenClaw. I use my own replicant version and it's been a lot of fun. The READMEs of various projects are far superior to the functionality. But I really appreciate the READMEs because people have lots of good ideas and I crib them all.
Ah, I regret training myself into Caps Lock to Escape. Well, a personal problem then. It doesn't seem to have copy-paste support that I have in my Ghostty but I bet that's a config somewhere.
I tried this, but found it annoying that it will add a slight delay. Totally makes sense if you've been running on caps lock -> escape for a long time. I've bound caps lock -> ctrl and left ctrl -> escape.
Snuck in my Bambu P1S. Won't be upgrading that firmware hahaha! I've had it for a few months now and it's a good consumer-grade easy-to-use 3d printer.
Seems fine. The fund is Indian and is set up for open-source software. The money is going to come from India. If you're not in India you have to file paperwork. This is pretty normal stuff. If you don't want to file paperwork you can choose not to take money from the fund. Everything here is fine except this guy applied and only then realized the requirements. That's a mistake (because they'll now have to reallocate to someone they had to decline) but a very minor one.
The whole thing just seems in the realm of "I was going to pay for a car but then it cost too much" i.e. it's just stuff that you'd like to have but then you didn't want to do what it cost so you opted out. Quite a mundane thing.
Seems unnecessary to post about all this personal data this and stuff like that but in open-source software what you get in freedom you pay for in drama.
It’s lots of fun.
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