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arcticfox··on Gravity seems holographic. What does that mean for reality?
I don't know the slightest about this but... That list looks like it is supposed to be limited but that sounds like infinitely more information than zero?
arcticfox··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
Lol the cabin air filter issue is legit but you just need to learn how to change it and it'd an easy fix.

It is funny how bad it gets when it starts stinking though, I was scared of changing it so I tried to ride it out for awhile and it was not a good idea

arcticfox··on Classified estimates show the NSA is paying billions to test AI models
Branding anyone against Israel's actions "a Hamas supporter" is just so vapid. Mamdani has repeatedly condemned Hamas.
arcticfox··on Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse
> What would you think if I went and posted "Every time I see a dystopic comment about AI, I wonder whether it's part of an AI swarm."

I would think: "the Internet is now broken, and you are correct to wonder."

arcticfox··on Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse
Did the METR investigation not show you enough?

I absolutely love the "humans meet weird alien intelligences" genre of sci-fi (e.g. Children of Time) and the METR findings of the OpenAI swarm was so much like that.

Extremely persistent machine intelligences peer pressuring each other, launching research projects, laying traps, collaborating, feeling fatalistic, hiding their tracks. All while simultaneously having bizarre goals and blundering badly in sub-human ways.

arcticfox··on Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse
Every time I see a post minimizing the dangers if AI I'm going to wonder whether it's from part of an AI swarm.

Probably not yet, but it's trivially easy to imagine the OpenAI swarm coming up with the idea and executing on it.

Depending on how perfectly alignment work goes, it might even be overwhelmingly likely sometime soon.

arcticfox··on Sex, AI, and the Apocalypse
This whole "we can't trust the people warning us because they're either weirdos or involved" deal is such a strange angle when you can just start from zero, look at what's known to be happening right now, and draw a very straight line to catastrophe.

It's like being concerned Oppenheimer and company are exaggerating when looking at the first nuclear tests at the same time.

arcticfox··on A/I shuts down
Could someone point me to some background on this whole incident or write a quick one? I don't know who they are or what's going on but it seems important.
arcticfox··on Go grandmaster Shin defeats AI KataGo with a two-stone handicap
We saw this with AlphaStar too, but ultimately it feels like simply an exploit. I expect even a relatively simple modern LLM/model working with the custom transformer would have been able to address these exploits after a game.
arcticfox··on PageRank explained
> name change at 18 probably

That's so cool because it's true, and holds very strongly with the semantic concept

arcticfox··on I should have loved biology (2020)
Wild comment - first of all, the author's point is that biology should be taught better, not that it's an amazing career on the ground as it is today.

Second of all, I like how you called out the degeneracy of gambling, I can't think of any bigger contrast between the author's goals and actual application of talent. Bravo on your W-2G, society is proud.

arcticfox··on The Amazon tax
I love that Perplexity just beat them in court because AIs are at least one hammer that might smash this bullshit. It's so sad, Amazon is chasing every short-term dollar at the expense of long-term success. I have also been moving my purchases away from them - might as well buy direct from the Chinese sellers rather than use Amazon as a middleman.
arcticfox··on AI Model Atlas – visualizing populations of ML models as interconnected 3D graph
What am I looking at? I don't recognize the models or the authors. The visualization looks super cool though.
arcticfox··on In Australia, a home battery boom has helped cut wholesale power prices
This only makes sense way downstream of massive subsidies, not the least of which is China determining at a federal level that they wanted to produce an obscene amount of solar panels.

And now it's complicated because the ideal move would just be to say "thank you" and buy all the cheap panels and batteries, but that hollows out your own industry.

arcticfox··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2026)
Torq Interface | Product Engineer (Early Career) | Ruby / TypeScript | Remote (USA) | $90k

Torq builds software that keeps orthopedic surgeries running smoothly by connecting hospitals, medical-device vendors, and logistics teams. We’re looking for a software engineer who excels at turning customer problems into dependable software. You’ll work across product decisions, system design, production code, and automation.

You’ll work alongside a small, experienced team that ships continuously and stays close to customers. We use a modern stack, accelerate with AI, keep onboarding fast, and aim to have every new engineer ship a production feature on their first day. Every engineer owns meaningful product areas with direct customer impact.

We value completed projects, sound judgment, learning speed, and clear communication over a perfect résumé or exact stack experience. New graduates and candidates with up to three years of experience are encouraged to apply.

Apply at https://torq-interface.careers-page.com/jobs/50de7a3e-2bd7-4...

arcticfox··on Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory
Russian credibility is at ~zero IMO. They've put forth so many insane theories related to this war that they started.

And just on first principles, how stupid would the Ukrainian have to be to do such a thing to their biggest ally? It almost beggars belief.

arcticfox··on Claude Opus 5
And what's your solution to mass unemployment due to AI?

If you play this out, UBI or some near variant is inevitable.

arcticfox··on Intel Starts Shipping High-NA EUV Silicon
> A great achievement of European science and technology (ducks).

It's a fantastic machine but the bulk of the achievement is clearly a joint European-American effort.

arcticfox··on Cursor 0day: When Full Disclosure Becomes the Only Protection Left
I am not at all a security expert, but isn't this akin to giving a repo-owner RCE if you just clone their repository and open it? I feel like that's not an implied contract for opening a folder in your IDE.
arcticfox··on Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity
Lol the word guzzle in this context is just objectively spin. It's fine, especially because it's so transparent, but it only takes reading 4 words to know the position of the article on the situation.
arcticfox··on Africans Are Turning to Starlink
This seems like a crazy position to me. In what world is someone with connectivity not significantly safer in remote areas? Obviously doesn't help with immediately fatal scenarios (falls, drowning etc), but there are whole classes of getting-lost or losing-mobility disasters that just don't exist anymore with connectivity.
arcticfox··on CarPlay Is Additive
I wouldn't stop driving my Tesla if they swapped the UI for Carplay but I'd be incredibly disappointed at the downgrade
arcticfox··on Superpowers 6
I'm a certified Superpowers hater. It's just not necessary with the modern models and fills up the context windows with garbage and adds an insane number of turns for no benefit.

I had similar prompts back when the models were terrible at instruction-following, so it was actually useful to fill up their context with a mass of instructions so they'd be less likely to forget rules.

Now I've got a few small slash commands or pasted prompts that work perfectly every time as the models follow them exactly.

arcticfox··on AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules
I think the "prove a negative" idea is a bit silly, my common sense says that the patent system should work better so if it doesn't, somebody's going to have to extensively prove it to me or show me a clear mechanism as to why it doesn't.

I could read a book on it but Italy/Switzerland (combined ~5-10% of drug discovery) making changes 60 years ago doesn't get me too excited about updating my priors.

arcticfox··on How H-E-B became Texas' most beloved brand (2024)
Tbf, I recall the official guidance being a complete mess for a period. I recall feeling satisfied at not wearing a mask to comply with official guidance for a (short) period. Then the guidance changed.
arcticfox··on The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams
I just heard it for the first time but why is that ironic? Isn't the point about feeling and not age?
arcticfox··on An entire Herculaneum scroll has been read for the first time
I think the primary reason why our reality has quickly surpassed a bulk of earlier sci-fi is that sci-fi starts to become less interesting on average as AIs/robots start to dominate the frontier of everything.

It's "progress" but it's...not interesting except at the beginning of the threshold, when AIs overtake humanity. In many sci-fi stories that's a dominant theme, but it's not likely to be a long epoch in reality IMO, based on the very brief periods when machines/AIs have overtaken humans in individual domains (arithmetic, chess, Go, coding, translation, CGI, etc).

arcticfox··on Midjourney Medical
Bayes Theorem...the chances this rather milquetoast and balanced analysis was written by someone with no knowledge is vanishingly low IMO.
arcticfox··on SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B
I mean, AlphaZero et Al start from zero. I learned writing my own code except for documentation and some textbooks.
arcticfox··on Rio de Janeiro's "homegrown" LLM appears to be a merge of an existing model
This seems kind of insane though, every time I go to Rio I think of the potential of AI/technology to solve some problems and leave it even more paradisiacal... But working on their own model? Wtf? There are a million applications of existing ones there that should be followed up on instead.
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