💻 Full-Stack Developer. 🚀 Space Enthusiast. 🎻 Classical Music Enjoyer. 🏎️ F1 Fan.
northamerica-northeast2
Joined April 2021
- Tweets35.4K
- Following7.3K
- Followers1.3K
- Likes141K
Nathan retweeted
“we were made aware of multiple attempts to exploit our permissive licensing to hijack our work”
what did y’all think permissive meant? vibes? papers? essays?
Asahi Linux is moving everything from the MIT licence to GPLv2-or-later.
Asahi is the volunteer project that reverse-engineers Apple Silicon Macs so they can run Linux. In today's Linux 7.3 progress report, developer James Calligeros explains why: people have been using the permissive licence to take the team's work. "In some extreme cases, in-development feature code was being lifted straight out of our personal forks and published without attribution or lazily rewritten with LLM assistance to obfuscate its origin."
The report points to WINE, which switched from MIT to LGPL in 2002 for the same reason: "Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it."
The same report brings real wins too. M3 Macs now install without the EXPERT flag, Thunderbolt support (USB3 and networking for now) is shipping to users, and the team got GTA IV and Fallout: New Vegas running outside the muvm VM using Google's per-process page size patches.
Nathan retweeted
Over six years ago, I joined SpaceX with a dream of helping humanity reach the stars.
Today, I got to hear my own voice and see my own hands in a SpaceX documentary, testing a piece of Starship that traveled to space and made it home. That’s my Lab!!!
It’s hard to put into words what that means to me.
I spent years dreaming of being part of something like this. Now I get to help build the future I once only imagined.
I used to dream about the day we'd bring a Starship home. Now I get to hold a piece of the proof that we can.
Nathan retweeted
David Sacks predicts Democrats will use AI legislation and frontier-model approvals to create a surveillance and censorship state 'turbocharged by superintelligence'
“It’s 100% that Democrats are going to make a major push for AI legislation in the next Congress. The question is what that looks like. And I don’t think you have to speculate too much to understand where it’s going.
“I believe that Democrats want to create a surveillance and censorship state that’s turbocharged by superintelligence. I mean, that’s ultimately the end state.
“How do you get there? You create a department, a federal department of AI. You require that all the so-called frontier models have to be reviewed and approved by that. The regulators give their notes on it. You can’t get a model released unless you address their concerns.
“And their harms will include all the things that the government is telling us that social media companies should be concerned about, like disinformation and misinformation and dissonant thought. All the things that the government was pressuring the social media companies to crack down on and censor during COVID. How quickly we forget all of this.
“They’re going to basically reenact that whole regime again using AI, and it’s going to be infinitely more powerful because we’re talking about superintelligence here. So I do believe that that is the regime that we’re headed towards.”
Chamath explains how a data center slowdown turns the hyperscalers into kingmakers and squeezes the neoclouds and foundation models:
“Now, they’re doing smart deals because that’s what made sense. But I think what the incoming governors are going to say is these things are off the table. And instead, we want to have directly measurable economic impacts before we even entertain this.”
“I think what it means is we’re going to see a slowdown. And I think what that does is it benefits the hyperscalers because they have existing capacity. I think it’s very bad for the neoclouds because they’re renters. And it’s pretty bad for the foundational models because they are so short this capacity and they need it to grow. So to the extent that these frontier models are so much better than everybody else’s product, they are the ones that need this capacity. It sets the hyperscalers to be a kingmaker, and they have this interesting game theory now.”
[Jason: “Can you just say who the hyperscalers are, just so people understand the difference between them?”]
“Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, Google, SpaceX. And what they’ll be able to do is make a decision. Path number one is continue to rent in the way that you’re doing it today. So the status quo, rent to some customers, large corporates, right? Rent to the neoclouds, rent to the foundational models. That’s what they’re doing today. Everybody does that.”
“But then there’s the path less traveled, which all of a sudden becomes really interesting. You could decide to take all of the incremental compute and advantage your own products. So Google has a ton of capacity coming online. They could say, I’m going to give it to Gemini. What does that do? It actually allows Gemini to catch up in quality relative to the foundational models.”
“Why? Because if you constrain the amount of assets that can actually generate compute, and a smaller surface area of it is available to the leading companies, those leading companies will have to pay more, the user experience will decay, and then other products can have time to catch up.”
“And now that is important, because Anthropic and OpenAI are in a very fast recursive loop. They’re on a 60 to 90 day loop in improving their models. So now all of a sudden, without an infinite amount of supply coming online, you can slow these folks down.”
Nathan retweeted
The EU hasn’t built a single global tech giant in 30 years.
So it does the next best thing, it shakes down the American ones for €14.4 billion in fines.
Google, Apple, Meta, Qualcomm, Intel, and X.
Because Europe can’t compete and refuses to admit it, they resort to legalized theft under the guise of consumer protection.
While the EU lectures the world about “digital sovereignty,” its entire tech strategy is just taxing companies it could never create.
Nathan retweeted
“Businesses have been flourishing in our state. We’re about to change that.”
Amazing that you can sell that to so many people as a positive development.
Musk-run companies like SpaceX and Tesla have flourished in Texas thanks to white-glove treatment from elected officials. But that is about to change, Texas Democrats say. on.wsj.com/48FLwxY
Nathan retweeted
People realizing the importance of local AI.
The right to bear ARMs & GPUs shall not be infringed.
This is the new second amendment to prevent govt tyranny
Dems said they want to ban super intelligence. Dems said there should be a 20 year mandatory jail time for violating their new laws.
Altman said the individual shouldn’t have inference at home. It all belongs in data centers for the world.
I went out and bought a 5th DGX Spark.
Buy what you can. Download a library of models.
@nvidia @NVIDIAAI
Nathan retweeted
Team is in the final sprint to get sprint core activated. Today we are actuating the sync rings that steer the variable guide vanes and calibrating the position sensors.
Nathan retweeted
It’s ridiculously cool that Nous took an open source Chinese model and removed all of the propaganda from it so that those in the Western Hemisphere can use this open source model without having to worry that it's going to be aligned to Chinese interests
Feel like @NousResearch team is living in the future they keep delivering
Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.
Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.
After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.
The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.
Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: nousresearch.com/arete
Nathan retweeted
I actually did not expect this much hate over an open-weight research (!) release with an open dataset (!). It is really, really sad to see how many people:
a) can't separate science/research from personal political views and judge the work on its actual results
b) celebrate "uncensored" fine-tunes and praise hacks and tricks "unlocked" models can do, yet criticize researchers for releasing a model with a different alignment. Surprise: it is open weights! You can simply choose not to use it. Or fine-tune your own perfectly opinionated LLM that agrees with everything you believe, so you can stay in your bubble forever
c) get absolutely mad at the mention of anything "Western" (often while living in Western countries themselves and facing no gov pressure, repression or censorship)
d) have no idea how the real world works. Not every company or organization is okay using a model not aligned with political or cultural values they share, even if the weights are open and the model is good
e) it is (almost) impossible to train an unbiased language model since it is trained on data produced by real people, each with their own opinions, values and biases. Even the choice of training data and alignment methods introduces researchers' own biases. That is literally the beauty of open weights: you can fine-tune the model to reflect your own preferences and biases instead of expecting everyone else to share yours (and there is nothing wrong with that!)
f) forget that you can learn something even from ideas, papers and discussions you disagree with
It is really depressing to read all this hate. The only benefit of scrolling those replies is that I found a few accounts to block, so hopefully I will never encounter them again, hahaha
Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.
Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.
After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.
The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.
Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: nousresearch.com/arete
Nathan retweeted
Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God
Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.
Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.
After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.
The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.
Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: nousresearch.com/arete
Nathan retweeted
If any elected leader opposes data centers or the reindustrialization of America, just say you support them in Chinese. Make every reply below their posts in Chinese.
They will eventually go insane.
Nathan retweeted
Once these sociopaths lost their advertisers they suddenly changed their tune 🙄
Back channel is
@profgalloway and @karaswisher are already apologizing to their advertisers and trying to save their 30m+ podcast business
Nathan retweeted
>"post-trained to reinforce Western values"
qwen pov during fine tuning:
Introducing Arete-27B: Qwen3.8-27B, post-trained to reinforce Western values.
Chinese open models are currently the strongest available, but they ship with state-aligned behavior in the weights. We built an 803-prompt eval across seven value categories, including freedom of expression, democracy, and privacy, and measured how often a model adopts China’s party line.
After fine-tuning on roughly 53 million tokens, Arete-27B's propaganda rate fell from 22% to 1%, in line with the Western models we tested. Its Hermes Bench score shows no significant performance tradeoffs.
The values in an open model are one fine-tune away.
Our eval, weights, and training data are available now along with the full blog post: nousresearch.com/arete
Nathan retweeted
>AI causing RAM shortages
>Devs start giving a fuck about memory optimization again
>AI starts coding extremely efficient apps across all platforms
This is accelerationism in action
Nathan retweeted
Obviously, what’s getting all the headlines here is Galloway’s comments on executing an innocent person.
But I think what actually deserves more discussion is his belief that we have a terrible idolatry that celebrates innovators.
This guy is such a hypocrite.
He literally became rich and famous because of the technology built by the innovators he thinks shouldn’t be celebrated.
Podcasts and social media—prior to that, his best bet would have been to write a book and speak to an auditorium.
His millions literally come from the creations of innovators he hates.
How does he not recognize that???
And isn’t he an investor now? Literally putting those millions he earned from the work of innovators, back into the work of new innovators to make more millions?
Make it stop.
Scott Galloway calls Elon Musk a “traitor to the West” and invokes the Rosenbergs, who were EXECUTED after WWII.
GALLOWAY: “We took the Rosenbergs and put them up against a wall and executed them for being traitors.”
“And I realize this is an incendiary statement, but I’ll make it and I believe it. I think Elon Musk is a traitor to the West.”
“If this had happened in any other age where we were not obsessed with innovators and money, a much different reaction would be playing out to Elon Musk.”
These people are absolutely unhinged.
CONTEXT: Scott Galloway is not some random but a bestselling author with a top podcast who regularly appears on cable news. His net worth is over $100 million, and he’s openly suggesting Musk deserves death.
This is what the Democratic Party has become, and people voted for it.
