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Show HN: Mini-AGI – Dynamic continual learning model trained on 8GB VRAM

277 points · 81 comments · volotat

bubblegumcrisis · 1789996575 · focus · HN ↗
Very interesting - I have a tangential question.
What motivated you decide to release this. OpenAI or Anthropic will just hoover it up, maybe scale it up and use it if they are interested.
You probably won't know if they do, and the chance they will give you something back is near zero. Why did you release rather than try to scale and build yourself?
(I've been working on some thing, not similar, but not dissimilar in goal - and I just can't get over the fact that tech will steal without giving back)
1. volotat · 1789998289 · focus · HN ↗
  I have no practical means of scaling it up at any compatible scale. I will not make any money on it either way as well. So there is absolutely no reason for hoarding it. And as I said I did use Claude in the process, so Anthropic already has full access to it anyway and could steal it just as easily if they really want to.
  I also doubt it is really that valuable on the OpenAI/Anthropic scale, at the same time if people will use it and it will work for them on the personal scale it is already a major win for me. New ideas and optimizations I could never have thought of might bring this up from a toy model to an actually useful model trained locally. Then people could add RL and RLHF and other cool things to it to make it even better.
  1. bubblegumcrisis · 1790019177 · focus · HN ↗
    Hey, do me a favor - can you reply to this and say, just "yes" if you can see it. If you can see my other reply, could you say "yes 2" - thanks
    volotat · 1790032870 · focus · HN ↗
    Your both comments are visible.
    bubblegumcrisis · 1790045936 · focus · HN ↗
    There are three.
    The first starts with: Thanks for your response. The second starts with: Hey, do me a favor And the third starts with: I had no idea HN censors
    If you can see all three - then you can also see the censorship by starting a private browser and looking at this story.
    There will only be the second and the third.
    I've tested in private sessions on firefox and safari and through a few different ip proxies.
    I'm going to do some testing in other stories/comments to see whether they detect words, or general sentiment. And I'll get some statistics on if this is predictable censorship, a one time deal, or whether I just hit a race condition in their code somewhere.
    nextaccountic · 1790065056 · focus · HN ↗
    Yes, you have a dead comment. It's probably due to some spam filter. <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=bubblegumcrisis">https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=bubblegumcrisis shows up other comments of yours as dead. (at least when logged in with my account)
    Maybe hit up hn@ycombinator.com and ask to remove your shadowban of sorts. Idk how effective is that.
    Anyway something more concerning is that you have at least two flagged comments (in the first page at least). Flagged comments means your comments violated HN rules, at least according to other HN users. It's hard to understand the HN social etiquette but in short, if you are being mean to other people, you might get flagged. So it's largely about the tone of your comments rather than their substance. You may want to read the guidelines (the section "in comments") here <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html">https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
    bubblegumcrisis · 1790076668 · focus · HN ↗
    How do you tell which comments were flagged?
    nextaccountic · 1790150654 · focus · HN ↗
    In my profile settings, I have showdead: yes. It makes [dead] comments show up and I guess [flagged] too. (But I think it only applies to comments of other people, not your own comments)
    Keep in mind that you need karma to do many functions in this site. For example, with enough karma you can flag other people's comments, and with enough flags the comments become hidden. With more karma yet, you can vouch for comments so you can make removed comments reappear on the site
    Actually I just vouched for this comment <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790164">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49790164 because I think it's fine. It was previously [dead] but not anymore
    (note, it's not usual to tell you vouched or flagged a comment, I'm commenting because it's what this tangent is about)

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