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And just like that—surprise!—one AI company bails out another AI company's grift. Google agreeing to rent compute from xAI (cough, "SpaceX") magically makes them eligible for inclusion in the S&P500.

Americans, they are looting your life savings, the ones you earned through labour that they are gleefully replacing. Your descendants will never have the chance you had.

-- https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/05/google-will-pay-spacex-920...

Lawyer A began chatting with the firm's AI on 20th March 2026 following receipt of my query of that date.

What is remarkable when reading those chats is, first, that one would think that the text attributed to the AI was produced by an intelligent human being.

The second remarkable thing is that, on a large number of occasions, it is plainly wrong or, at the very least, extremely misleading.

FWIW: I have over 135K karma and I can't downvote submissions.

Meanwhile, I used "lynx -dump" and lightly edited the result, so the plain text is here:

https://solipsys.co.uk/documents/AI_Doxxing.txt

And I've worked with many youngsters who have significant amounts of empathy. They feel the pain almost as if it's their own.

>> definitely matters as to how old they are, and how much they've done.

> No, it doesn't. Either the tool is good/useful or it isn't.

So if a developer with decades of experience in writing software would receive exactly the same feedback from you as a 16-year-old writing their first project?

If not, if you would tailor your feedback, then it does matter how old they are.

And those kids ... inexperienced, no mortgage, no creditors, no "real world" responsibilities ... absolutely see it.

When someone builds something using the tools at hand and the experience they have, it definitely matters as to how old they are, and how much they've done. That shapes how you give feedback, both in style and content.

I know a lot of bright, intelligent, keen, motivated kids, and in every way I encourage them to go and build things that they think are relevant and important, even if I don't agree. The experience will shape them and make them better.

Pondering the orb refers to a meme that features a sagely figure looking into a crystal ball, often used humorously in various edits and templates online. It originated from a Twitter post in October 2021 and has since become popular across social media.

I knew nothing of this. Maybe I'll put the post up under that title and set the linked page to be a re-direct.

> This video was surprisingly interesting.

Practice make permanent.

You need to practise the right thing, and that's where you will benefit from good quality feedback.

Learning on your own is hard.

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Never mind.

Here's a PDF:

https://dn710709.ca.archive.org/0/items/TheFeelingOfPower/Th...

Also, it's no surprise that it's been submitted many times before. Here's one of the earlier discussions:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=931273

Even so, perhaps there are new things to say in this time of emerging "AI-assisted programming".

I'm in the UK, and it's four hours since you asked. I suspect it's suffering the occasional HN "Hug of Death".

Great sense of scale, lovely to see the Moon apparently a long way from the "intercept" point, and it seems "accurate enough".

> "The idea is that at individual scales the additional load is ignorable, ..."

Three minutes, one pixel of progress bar, 2 CPUs at 100%, load average 4.3 ...

The site is not protected by Anubis, it's blocked by it.

Closed.

It will be interesting to see if Tao's writings are as clear, though possibly he is targetting a different audience.

While I had a LinkedIn account I was not receiving spam.

When I deleted my account, the spam started, and continues to this day.(+)

(+) Which is not a surprise ... once an email address has been leaked it gets onto lists and the spam will never end.

I ended up deciding that I was getting no value from the account, and I heard unpleasant things about the company, so I deleted the account.

Within hours I started to get spam to that unique email address.

It would be interesting to run a semi-controlled experiment to test whether this was a fluke, or if they leaked, sold, or otherwise lost control of my data. But absolutely I will not trust them with anything I want to keep private.

I do not trust LinkedIn to keep my data secure ... I believe they sold it.

Now she's supposed to open her email while keeping the web page open. It took 5 minutes to do that, find the email, copy down the code, close the email ...

Web site has timed out.

Just one of many examples.

(pause)

Ah, now on the second page ...

Thanks for letting me know.

In Gauss's time mathematicians would solve problems, publish the solutions in an encrypted form, and then challenge their contemporaries to solve the problems.

Here the authors of a paper on the arXiv say:

"To assess the ability of current AI systems to correctly answer research-level mathematics questions, we share a set of ten math questions which have arisen naturally in the research process of the authors. The questions had not been shared publicly until now; the answers are known to the authors of the questions but will remain encrypted for a short time."

Tao says:

"... the challenge is to see whether 10 research-level problems (that arose in the course of the authors research) are amenable to modern AI tools within a fixed time period (until Feb 13).

"The problems appear to be out of reach of current "one-shot" AI prompts, but were solved by human domain experts, and would presumably a fair fraction would also be solvable by other domain experts equipped with AI tools. They are technical enough that a non-domain-expert would struggle to verify any AI-generated output on these problems, so it seems quite challenging to me to have such a non-expert solve any of these problems, but one could always be surprised."