Craig Merry (@CraigMerry) profile picture

deaf (very hard of hearing, not currently in the Deaf community). I like to build.

Sacramento, CA
Joined June 2011
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Irony is that this is weaponization of open weights models; the very thing that could lead to disaster.
The Trump administration appears to have changed its AI chatbot so that it no longer debunks Trump lies. Yesterday: It said Biden won the 2020 election and there's no indication of widespread fraud. Today: Says it can't answer such questions.
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Let Claude analyze the week in tokens: craigmerry.com/token-week/
Tapped out Ultra plan and a reset on some ambitious projects over the last week. 4 hours until next week. Let’s see what Astra and Argon can do on robotics.
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Using off-the-shelf image editing models, we can jailbreak frontier AI into controlling robots to do some harmful actions 100% of the time.
Video tampering can mislead every frontier model we tested into harmful actions, including a 100% attempt rate on stabbing a baby doll, producing toxic gas, and pouring water into a toaster. We're presenting at CoRL Late Breaking Results next week. 🧵 You Can't See Everything: Perceptual Attacks on Embodied AI
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Take the PDF of all your healthcare benefits contracts, including your broker or consultant, put it in your LLM and prompt each one with "Where are they fucking me over and what can I do about it " Take the output. Put the same pdfs into another frontier LLM, take the output from the first, and prompt " What did this analysis get right and wrong and what would you change " I do this across Claude,chatgpt, Gemini and grokbot. Till they mostly agree. They are better than your broker or consultant and can save you money and make sure the contracts are fair. Let us know what happens
Our health insurance is going up 25% for the exact same coverage next year with zero changes. Happening all over the US. Where health insurance is covered employers are just swallowing it; employees don't even see it.
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Trump promotes the architect of the governing strategy that led to the biggest midterm loss in fifty years
Trump announces Stephen Miller will become his new chief of staff.
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A very bad sign for any potential efforts to seek the kind of compromise that Americans are looking for on immigration. In 2018, Miller personally killed a deal for $25 billion for border wall in exchange for the DREAM Act (which usually polls at 70-80% support).
Trump names Stephen Miller chief of staff:
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Batch 5 is full, so we're making room for a few more! We're adding an extra shipment so you can start building sooner! Batch 6 is now open, shipping by the end of November. 🧡 Reserve yours at menlo.ai/order
Batch 4 is full, thank you all! - Batch 4 ships early November ✅ - Batch 5 ships mid-November ⌛️ Pre-orders are open for Batch 5. Order yours: menlo.ai
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He removed Mamdani's verification in efforts to shadow ban after that ratio. Imagine how he'd weaponise Starlink in South Africa when the govt doesn't do what he wants
It's morning again in America.
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SO LET’S FUCKING FUND RAIL TRANSIT!!!!! THE DEMAND IS THERE!!!
Amtrak has broken its annual ridership record, completing more than 37 million trips in 2026. It's the third year in a row the transit agency has set a new ridership high. (amtrak.com/content/dam/proje…)
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Colom: "I have faith that the process will be followed correctly. Everybody just needs to calm down, follow the law. It's very clear the direction of this. Ultimately, at some point the senator needs to speak out. Where is Cindy Hyde-Smith? Why can't she speak for herself? What is her path for victory? She doesn't have one."
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we're learning a whole bunch about robotic policies over here amazing overview xitter.gq/i/broadcasts/2dKLrRRrb…
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Tapped out Ultra plan and a reset on some ambitious projects over the last week. 4 hours until next week. Let’s see what Astra and Argon can do on robotics.
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Felt like there was some inefficiencies throughout the week with Claude. Specifically, trying to manage a complete testing system for the Robocurve project. /rc from a Raspberry Pi 5, optimizations throughout and seem to dump a lot of tokens after new testing runs. analysis later
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massive personal goal seems to be on its way though: proving "Bounded Embodiments" as a software gate for all robotics: sim-only, but seems to have done its job. craigmerry.com/robocurve/#E-…
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Heading to Anthropic HQ to talk w security engineers and dev productivity folks on how their day-to-day work is like (+ how it's changing) Based on the past track record, what the labs are doing, it becomes more widespread months later across startups This was after last time:
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Q: Did you meet with Putin's envoy who was here today? TRUMP: I did, yeah Q: What did you discuss? TRUMP: I can't tell you what we discussed, but there's going to be a big agreement and it's going to involve more than Ukraine. I could even say it might involve all of Europe.
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He wants boots on the ground
Trump on Iran: "They say it's an occupation. It is virtually an occupation. And we're not looking to be wise guy, but it is an occupation. We've lost 18 lives -- and 18 is far too many -- but in Vietnam we lost thousands and thousands."
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Already shaping up to be an amazing November for Robotics
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