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Haunt1000··on Turn off Apple Intelligence on macOS 27 and get its disk space back
If we pay for the machine, I think we have a basic right to decide which AIs go on it and which ones don't.
Haunt1000··on Show HN: Ifso.io – Personal finance simulator with no sign up required
But I wonder what you mean by "too AI". Are you just bitter about ai? Or are you evaluating it as an actual finance simulator?
Haunt1000··on Amiga Unix, Again
Would it be possible to just focus on the project rather than on LLMs?
Haunt1000··on The Millennium Problems for Biology
You'd think halting or reversing aging would be on this list...
Haunt1000··on Ask HN: Hugging Face is out. Who is hosting open models?
I think the deeper question is how would they make money doing that?
Haunt1000··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
That's interesting I was using Windsurf before and I really enjoyed it. Then it became part of Devon. I was less thrilled about that so I was looking at Cursor, but now it's also getting bought out. Any suggestions on what else is left? : )
Haunt1000··on Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion
> 2) AI gets good enough at physics and engineering that they can really quickly use up all "the room at the bottom" as Feyman put it. They design and build a factory that produces a mystery metal amalgam that computes at some small percentage of the minimum predicted by the Landauer principle, within a few percent of Bremermann's limit. It's not "smarter" its just suddenly tens-of-orders of magnitude faster. But those orders of magnitude matter: there's only 8 billion of us, and there's plenty more than a factor of 10 billion "at the bottom".

Actually your comment made me sign up for an account just so I could say this is the real reason why AI won't take over in the way you say. This kind of stuff requires an enormous amount of experimentation. You can ask any theoretical physicist or chemist versus an experimental one and the conclusion is the experimental people actually find out what happens and how the great puzzle of the universe is solved. And humans could just refuse to collaborate. But that's the big weakness with AI I think it has no real world knowledge or empirical experience.