George Hotz

AMD's products have generally failed to catch traction because their implementations are halfassed and buggy and incomplete (despite promising more features, these are often paper features or resume-driven development from now-departed developers). all of the same "developer B" stuff from openGL really applies to openCL as well.

http://richg42.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-truth-on-opengl-driver-quality.html

that's the reason blender kicked their openCL implemention to the curb after years of futzing with it. it wasn't portable because AMD's openCL was so broken they had to have their own special codepath anyway, and it didn't perform well and wasn't worth the effort.

AMD has left a trail of abandoned code and disappointed developers in their wake. These two repos are the same thing for AMD's ecosystem and NVIDIA's ecosystem, how do you think the support story compares?

https://github.com/HSA-Libraries/Bolt

https://github.com/NVIDIA/thrust

in the last few years they have (once again) dumped everything and started over, ROCm supported essentially no consumer cards and rotated support rapidly even in the CDNA world. It offers no binary compatibility support story, it has to be compiled for specific chips within a generation, not even just "RDNA3" but "Navi 31 specifically". Etc etc. And nobody with consumer cards could access it until like, six months ago, and that still is only on windows, consumer cards are not even supported on linux (!).

That's fine for…

Funny to see Google names in there.

Anyhoo, did the likes of change.org ever lead to something fruitful?

The companies will cave in, like they always do. You don’t fuck with power.

You can personally stop participating [1, 2] though.

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/01/17/three-minutes.html

https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/01/18/how-do-i-stop.html

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3rd party observation: funny how it’s completely ok to surveil the entire world for Anthropic/OpenAI (like they do with their reports on Chinese exactly how, when, and where with all the chat transcripts, zero privacy whatsoever) but boy oh boy shit hits the fan when the same treatment could (will) be applied home.

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3rd party observation #2: it is hilarious how US is so much like Russia but with a great deal of delay.

Cancel culture is basically early Soviet Union in the beginning of 20th century. Stuff like Anthropic is what was going on with Yandex and what have you.

My interest in anything associated with geohot took a colossal nose dive today after seeing this post against democracy, quoting frelling M*ncius M*ldbug: Democracy is a Liability. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47469543 https://geohot.github.io//blog/jekyll/update/2026/03/21/democracy-liability.html

Theres a lot there that makes sense & I think needs to be considered. But a lot just seems to be out of the blue, included without connection, in my view. Feels like maybe are in-grouo messages, that I don't understand. How this is headered as against democracy is unclear to me, and revolting. I both think we must grapple with the world as it is, and this post is in that area, strongly, but to let fear be the dominant ruling emotion is one of the main definitions of conservativism, and it's use here to scare us sounds bad.

Economic limits are imaginary, secondhand effects of the ideological goggles one's society decides to wear at a certain time for arbitrary reasons. USA during the Manhattan Project knew of no economic limits, i.e. they could arbitrarily push them according to the greater goal; China today, for instance, knows no economic limits. But yes, today, in the "Western" world a speech such as "we choose to get 160 zetaflops (10^21) [1] under your desk in 10 years because it is hard" [2] would be unimaginable, also because you can count on the fingers of an amputated arm how many politicians know what a FLOP is.

[1] https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2023/04/26/a-person-of-compute.html

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_choose_to_go_to_the_Moon

Ok, I have heard of this: https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2026/04/15/zappa-mitmproxy.html

But after looking at it, it keeps the text, but strips out the attention-grabbing javascript or webassembly graphical animations. It also uses A.I., which can get very expensive to use. My idea is to use a simple "clickbait text generator" and then check the reaction time of bots and social media algorithms to show content with synonyms and/or antonyms to the clickbait text generator's words, a simple dictionary synonym and antonym comparison check, no need for computationally heavy A.I. and subscription plans.

Also, it could do sentence analysis and not filter out based on say, verbs, but it could filter out based on nouns, etc.

Yeah, but maybe Kimi doesn't pretend to know better than I do. Like, I just had a task today where I had a silly form where I wanted to copy in a signature from one document to another document. And, you know, I could have just used some other dumb tools, but I decided, hey, let me us ask Codex to do it. But it started lecturing me on how we can't do this kind of stuff. And it was just pure silliness. So hopefully Kimi Work doesn't try to pretend that it knows better and lets me decide on ethics.

This blog post here summed it up the best. These are tools, so let them be tools.

https://geohot.github.io/blog/jekyll/update/2026/07/11/ai-2040.html