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computerphage··on I resigned from Anthropic today
Why do you think global warming could kill literally every human being? What's the scenario in which that happens?
computerphage··on The Problem
Shouldn't we be trying to do something even better than that, where the superintelligent AIs help every human to live a meaningful and thriving life? Perhaps substantially maintaining human autonomy over the trajectory of the future, even while doing things like keeping the peace, preventing people from becoming victims of crime or random disasters or disease.
computerphage··on Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck
What is ingenuity?
computerphage··on AI companies are shredding rare books
Each individual book is rare, the purchase includes many different rare books
computerphage··on The Growing Compute Shortage
I read it as "was posted earlier this year. It claimed that compute has been doubling every seven months for quite some time, on average"
computerphage··on Qwen 3.8
What do you mean by "folded during wartime"? When did wartime start, and who folded?
computerphage··on The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate
Why do you agree?
computerphage··on The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate
They claim it has a very low false-positive rate, which is meaningfully more nuanced than "accuracy".

"Detect AI-generated content with 99.98% accuracy." -pangram themselves

computerphage··on The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate
https://www.pangram.com/research/how-it-works
computerphage··on Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
In my view, you're the one claiming to be able to tell the difference! You said, "You tend to see that more..."

...which I took to mean that there were threads where you can look at the comments and categorize them into the two categories and then assert that the size of the paid comments category was larger on posts for high margin than it is for low margin.

Like, it makes sense that the incentive is stronger in that case, but that's not what you said. You said "you tend to see that more"

computerphage··on U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device
Palisade Research demonstrated this capability, including fully copying model weights, on May 7th, 2026

https://palisaderesearch.org/blog/self-replication

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06760

computerphage··on Creatine raise brain energy levels and slow Alzheimer's cognitive decline by 30%
Do you?? Show me an HN thread where half the comments are paid for
computerphage··on Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study
That strikes me as a really poorly calibrated expectation. Who benefits? Who's paying? How could I get this job?
computerphage··on Vibe Coding Is Not Engineering
This is AI written, according to pangram, and also obviously
computerphage··on Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal
Show me a graph of your javelin skill doubling every six months and I'll start asking myself if you'll be the next champion
computerphage··on US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous
But how do you explain the fact that, before it got bad, it wasn't /already/ bad. You've gotta have some model for why there was a change if the rate wasn't previously at 100% and the claim is that the number "should be 100% unless it was regulated"
computerphage··on US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous
It didn't used to be regulated. How do you explain the fact that not everyone used to be an opiate addict?
computerphage··on Show HN submissions tripled and now mostly share the same vibe-coded look
> Barely passing body-text contrast in dark themes

This has been killing me recently. Apparently I need slightly higher contrast than some people, and these vibe coded UIs are basically unreadable to my eyes

computerphage··on Claude Opus 4.7
Yeah, when I'm writing code I try to avoid zeros and ones, since those are the most common bits, making them essentially noise
computerphage··on Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions
Do you? What's the technical detail here? Why can't you get the model's prediction, even for that first token?
computerphage··on OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable
Related: https://www.transformernews.ai/p/ais-next-big-blue-battlegro...
computerphage··on OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable
OpenAI wants to not be responsible for "accidents" that kill more than 100 people, despite some critics arguing that their current actions are likely to cause such harms.
computerphage··on Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge
Why are people dangerous? You can just not listen to them.
computerphage··on Amazon cuts 16k jobs
Why isn't the AI story believable? It seems to me that AI is getting more and more productive
computerphage··on Claude's new constitution
What's your point?
computerphage··on The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets
The usual thing is that the market ends up around $0.95 for things like that, if the actors are all solid investors. It only takes one overly enthusiastic yes buyer to break that ceiling, the smart money won't "correct" it down to $0.95

There's another idea, which is make contacts that pay out in shares of an ETF, but I haven't seen this idea put into practice

computerphage··on OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026
Why do you think they have not trained a new model since 4o? You think the GPT-5 release is /just/ routing to differently sized 4o models?
computerphage··on Ovi: Twin backbone cross-modal fusion for audio-video generation
Yep. Totally agreed that it's well defined. Only pointing out that the technical execution required will shift, which seems relevant because it's likely to make it take much longer than without this effect
computerphage··on Ovi: Twin backbone cross-modal fusion for audio-video generation
I think "blockbuster movie" is a moving target, so it's a bit hard to know
computerphage··on No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off
Because before buybacks there were dividends. Did the difference between buybacks and dividends really make the difference between doing basic research and not?
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