QuantumFunnel (u/QuantumFunnel)

QuantumFunnel commented on The Waymo World Model waymo.com/blog/2026/02/th... · Posted by u/xnx

mattlondon · 6 days ago

Suddenly all this focus on world models by Deep mind starts to make sense. I've never really thought of Waymo as a robot in the same way as e.g. a Boston Dynamics humanoid, but of course it is a robot of sorts.

Google/Alphabet are so vertically integrated for AI when you think about it. Compare what they're doing - their own power generation , their own silicon, their own data centers, search Gmail YouTube Gemini workspace wallet, billions and billions of Android and Chromebook users, their ads everywhere, their browser everywhere, waymo, probably buy back Boston dynamics soon enough (they're recently partnered together), fusion research, drugs discovery.... and then look at ChatGPT's chatbot or grok's porn. Pales in comparison.

QuantumFunnel · 6 days ago

Also known as a monopoly. This should terrify us all.

QuantumFunnel commented on Heathrow scraps liquid container limit bbc.com/news/articles/c1e... · Posted by u/robotsliketea

jandrewrogers · 16 days ago

This just adds confusion as to the purpose of all this.

The motivation behind the liquid limits is that there are extremely powerful explosives that are stable water-like liquids. Average people have never heard of them because they aren’t in popular lore. There has never been an industrial or military use, solids are simpler. Nonetheless, these explosives are easily accessible to a knowledgeable chemist like me.

These explosives can be detected via infrared spectroscopy but that isn’t going to be happening to liquids in your bag. This reminds me of the chemical swipes done on your bags to detect explosives. Those swipes can only detect a narrow set of explosive chemistries and everyone knows it. Some explosives notoriously popular with terror organizations can’t be detected. Everyone, including the bad guys, knows all of this.

It would be great if governments were more explicit about precisely what all of this theater is intended to prevent.

QuantumFunnel · 16 days ago

TSA has always been security theater

QuantumFunnel commented on All-optical synthesis chip for large-scale intelligent semantic vision science.org/doi/10.1126/s... · Posted by u/QueensGambit

bastawhiz · a month ago

> would be a great moat

I hope we never find good moats. I hope that progress in AI is never bottlenecked on technology that centralizes control over the ecosystem to one or a handful of vendors. I want to be able to run the models myself and train them myself. I don't want to be beholden to one company because they managed to hire up all the people building fancy optical chips and kept the research for themselves.

QuantumFunnel · a month ago

Pepper your angus because that's the endgame of all the people playing this game right now

QuantumFunnel commented on Microsoft Copilot AI Comes to LG TVs, and Can't Be Deleted techpowerup.com/344075/mi... · Posted by u/akyuu

QuantumFunnel · 2 months ago

And this is exactly why I never connect my TV to wifi

QuantumFunnel commented on I ignore the spotlight as a staff engineer lalitm.com/software-engin... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti

marcinzm · 2 months ago

It’s not a scam. It’s a system that exists for people and made by people. Period. Money, outcomes and so on only have value because people assign them value. If you remove people then what you do has no value or concept of value. Life is not some video game with an omniscient score counter. Other people are the score counter.

QuantumFunnel · 2 months ago

People are terrible at keeping score for others, because they're usually only paying attention to themselves

QuantumFunnel commented on In Re: 23andMe, Inc. Customer Data Security Breach Litigation 23andmedatasettlement.com... · Posted by u/toomuchtodo

tzs · 2 months ago

It's not clear to me that I should care if my data was in the breach. For my data to have been in the breach the following must have happened.

1. I opted in to sharing my information with everyone that 23andMe identified as relatives. "Relatives" in this context means genetic 4th cousins or closer. For me that turned out to be 1500 people, all of whom are as far as I know complete strangers to me (I'm adopted).

2. One or more of those 1500 people used the same password on 23andMe that they used on some other site that suffered a breach that gave up plaintext passwords.

3. That password was included in a credential stuffing attack that let someone get into their 23andMe account, where that intruder downloaded the account owner's relatives list which included my information.

When I chose to share my data with 1500 strangers I was pretty much conceding that I didn't really care who got it.

QuantumFunnel · 2 months ago

Well of course someone dismissing this would be the top comment here

QuantumFunnel commented on Redmond, WA, turns off Flock Safety cameras after ICE arrests seattletimes.com/seattle-... · Posted by u/dredmorbius

estearum · 3 months ago

You don't understand the logic of "there are some crime problems we're willing to accept more intrusions to solve than other crime problems?"

Seems like something virtually everyone believes, and all that changes is where they draw the line of balance between intrusion and safety.

QuantumFunnel · 3 months ago

"Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."

QuantumFunnel commented on OpenAI's H1 2025: $4.3B in income, $13.5B in loss techinasia.com/news/opena... · Posted by u/breadsniffer

piskov · 4 months ago

Google and trust are an oxymoron

QuantumFunnel · 4 months ago

The only thing I trust google to do is abandon software and give me a terrible support experience

QuantumFunnel commented on Open Social overreacted.io/open-socia... · Posted by u/knowtheory

nightpool · 5 months ago

Every one of these "How AT proto works" explainers focuses on data ownership—which is where ATProto shines—and glosses over data processing, where ATProto is decidedly weaker than ActivityPub. ATProto is built on a global, public view of the world, where all events are visible to a trusted global "AppServer" that can make all of the decisions for you—how to create your feed, who can see who's posts, etc—all of those decisions have to be made by a trusted intermediary. ActivityPub is more like RSS or email—your local server only has to manage the feeds you subscribe to, and your inbox is directly built from all of the posts you have access to. People you subscribe to send you your posts, and you don't have to process them at all.

This is why Bluesky could never have "private likes" in the same way Twitter or ActivityPub does—every AppView needs to track the like counts of every post in the network manually. It's a huge hassle! I just don't see this architecture winning out in the long term, when compared to the AP feed-subscription architecture.

    primarily because multiple programs can access the same identity

Actually, this was how AP was originally designed as well—it was just that the most popular early implementations took shortcuts to remove that functionality to fit them into their existing architecture. This is a direct consequence of the fact that the biggest AP implementations when it was initially adopted were descendants of older OStatus social networks, and not built to be "ActivityPub-native" from the ground up.

QuantumFunnel · 5 months ago

Private likes are the only way forward on social media if we're to finally decouple free speech from the vindictive outrage mob feedback loop

QuantumFunnel commented on Microsoft is officially sending employees back to the office businessinsider.com/micro... · Posted by u/alloyed

danaris · 5 months ago

Well, then show the evidence.

If this is a shareholder action, of a publicly-traded company, then (IIUC) shouldn't that be publicly-available information somewhere?

QuantumFunnel · 5 months ago

This is probably better evidence than any public filing

https://wolfstreet.com/2025/09/01/office-cmbs-delinquency-ra...