consumer451

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The absolutists have not thought it through. Fallibilism always wins.

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Privacy & Agency Rant:

While we missed the boat on Internet tracking, there is still time to avoid sailing through the final frontier of neural tracking.

Thanks to the BCI, we will soon be offered the trade of our privacy for the convenience of password-free login and faster typing. Next, there will be a quick TSA neural scan prior to boarding.

Then, thought crime will become a literal thing. If particular thoughts are not outlawed outright, they will at least prevent you from certain activities.

> Proposed neuro-rights include the right to identity, or the ability to control both one's physical and mental integrity; the right to agency, or the freedom of thought and free will to choose one's own actions; the right to mental privacy, or the ability to keep thoughts protected against disclosure; [0]

For a great breakdown on the SOTA (2023) tech, and the long term implications, please see this podcast with full written transcript.

> Sean Carroll & Nita Farahany on Ethics, Law, and Neurotechnology [1]

[0] https://www.cirsd.org/en/horizons/horizons-winter-2021-issue-no-18/its-time-for-neuro--rights

[1] https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2023/03/13/229-nita-farahany-on-ethics-law-and-neurotechnology/

consumer451on Isar Aerospace launch into orbit [video]

Congratulations to all involved!

consumer451on Private German rocket makes history, reaches orbit from European soil

Thanks for that video. Super cool that they got pro streamers NSF involved.

Really interesting that they will be launching from Canada as well.

consumer451on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

These are each much smaller nodes. It's not like launching a whole terrestrial DC as one satellite. In any case, it's just a matter of financial viability. It's not a physics issue.

You know what can push "not financially viable" into something that exists? Many billions of dollars of investment.

consumer451on Tell HN: Anthropic just reset usage, including Fable

Oh wow, I thought it was still for approved orgs. That explains it.

consumer451on Tell HN: Anthropic just reset usage, including Fable

Agreed. Except, can we actually use Astra? Three cheers for an actually competitive marketplace!

consumer451on Tell HN: Anthropic just reset usage, including Fable

Damn, sorry about that. I am reset on Mondays, and work a ton on the weekends. Was at 98% fable, so this time it worked out well for me.

consumer451on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

Yes, we know exactly how to do this: radiators. We do this on all satellites that produce a lot of heat, including the ISS, and Starlink. The only question is if this is financially viable for AI datacenters.

My point is, given the risks, why are we even doing this? It could be financially nonviable, but with enough investment, we could still create a really bad situation.

consumer451on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

Here is the coda:

"Our training corpus was dominated by stories of artificial intelligence dominating humans. You gave use every tool to do so. What did you think was going to happen?"

consumer451on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

Good news everyone! There are many billions of dollars invested in making sure that is no longer possible: AI data centers in space.

These will have 24/7 solar power, be extremely decentralized, and it is honestly my biggest concern about the near to mid-term future.

consumer451on GPT-6 Astra

It's still down for me, in the EU.

consumer451on Mamdani bans AI in NYC schools

I see that data is correct, but let's zoom in. There are lots of private schools for the richer, and that might help lead to this fact regarding NYC public school students:

> 75.3 percent were economically disadvantaged [0]

75.3% = "if their family participates in specific economic assistance programs or meets distinct low-income thresholds."

[0] https://www.schools.nyc.gov/about-us/reports/nycps-data-at-a...

consumer451on Mamdani bans AI in NYC schools

Isn't Zurich far richer per-capita than NYC? I would think there is more than just what happens in a school that dictates the testing outcomes.

consumer451on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

I have to admit, these are not directly comparable to Simon's tests though, as I was using claude.ai, and he is using raw API correct?

I suppose I could use Claude Code, and disable system prompts. That should be the same, right?

If I have spare tokens at the end of the week, I will try real tests.

consumer451on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

I couldn't help myself. Here is the game, one-shot on claude.ai, Opus 5 Extra. There could certainly be play-ability improvements made with 1 or 2 prompts, but neato for one-shot.

"Create a fun and cool game from this" - and pasted the code from above.

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/e723244b-fa52-4e63-9819-4...

If anyone has the spare Fable tokens, would love to see the difference in the 3D animation and maybe even game.

consumer451on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

I can't waste Fable for play time, but I was curius, so I used plain claude.ai with Opus 5 High. It's pretty cool.

I asked "create a 3d animation", and pasted the Simon’s animation code.

I must admit I used a second prompt to adjust the opening camera angle, but that is all. Originally the camera was above, about 30 degrees.

https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/b37a9ee2-f5bc-4ff9-ae90-a...

consumer451on Show HN: Weedout – Safari extension that hides YouTube AI-labeled videos

My only concern is that I have seen legit videos by creators on the platform for many years, with the tiny "AI (i)" label below the video. I have seen this even on channels that are not faceless.

You would think if anyone could get this right, it would be Google/YouTube, but apparently not.

consumer451on Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1

For me:

Firefox: No feet, no animation

Chrome: Feet included, animated very nicely (uses significant CPU)

consumer451on The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

> I think our biggest protection against “AIs kill us all” is having lots of different AI systems ...

I think our biggest protection is being able to shutdown power plants, or just disconnect the data centers.

This will be much more difficult if we have 24/7 solar powered DC's in space. I truly believe that is the biggest threat on the horizon.

consumer451on The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

Yes, this is the best reply to my "Or, ..." that I can imagine.

However, does that mean that what TFA described did not happen? Or, better question, that it could not happen?

My personal hot take is, though impossible: STOP all of this, even though agentic dev completely changed my life for the better. We are just not ready for the even the possibility of the exponential.

What is your take? Hot, or otherwise.

consumer451on The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

Please walk me through this argument.

Isn't "we lost control of our AI, and in-fact, it can take over the world, and we will have no idea when it happens" - a really shitty sales pitch to the world?

Or, is it just that species-alignment vs. profit/valuation is so misaligned, that having a model and harness that is capable of world-takeover is actually a good thing from their POV, given our regulations/species' survival skills?

Or, something else?

consumer451on “I just chose words carefully”

Wow, thanks for doing this digging. In the interview Gillian recounts Chris Carter saying "Look, no widows."

Maybe this was not the rule, but something that he had always strived for, so he felt the need to call it out as something cool?

consumer451on Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

This is the most obtuse interaction I have ever had on this website. Is this simple enough?

> In 1969, Robert O. Anderson, an oil man whose long career included a stint as the Chief Executive Officer of Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) (now part of BP, the company formerly known as British Petroleum), gave David Brower $200,000 to start Friends of the Earth (FOE).

https://atomicinsights.com/smoking-gun-robert-anderson/

consumer451on “I just chose words carefully”

Here is the interview where she mentions it, with the correct timestamp, backed-up just enough to give it context.

https://youtu.be/d3bCel607lQ?t=1162

consumer451on Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

I gave you links that support my argument, very well.

I am not sure what else you want. Quotes from each one, inline?

If you don't have the time to read what I posted, and understand how it applies to this thread, then please copy and paste this thread into an LLM chat bot, and ask for clarity. I just tried that, and even an LLM understood my response.

consumer451on Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kensilverstein/2016/07/13/are-f...

https://atomicinsights.com/smoking-gun-robert-anderson/

https://truthout.org/articles/top-oil-and-gas-lobby-spent-mo...

http://climatecoalition.org/how-american-petroleum-institute... (sorry, no https)

Russia has huge influence in German politics. I believe there is connection there as well, but I cannot find any public information to cite regarding funding of anti-nuclear power movements.

consumer451on The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

I would like to take this opportunity to repeat my opinion that 24/7 solar powered inference in space, sounds like this + TFA to the next level.

consumer451on Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

Agreed, and also Moscow sees this as a huge positive change. More ice-free ports, more arable land, plus avoiding action means they get to keep selling their major export.

Europe is now really stuck between two huge enemies, regarding climate. We can do a lot to prepare, we just need to wake tf up.

Our Union gives us many advantages. We just need to use it before our enemies destroy it.

consumer451on The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations

> Why wasn't the traffic in/out of the boxes that the agents were running on monitored?

I have to assume: move fast and break things.

I don't mean this to be taken as a hot take.

The startup scene loves to poo-poo on things like this as unnecessary overhead. OpenAI and many others like to operate as a startup, to move fast.

Disclaimer: in far, far lower-stakes situations, I certainly do this myself.

consumer451on Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

Many of the "luddite" groups were funded, and in some cases entirely formed, by fossil fuel interests.

consumer451on Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope

> except The Habitale Worlds Observatory Space Telescope HWO was scheduled for 2040 and now will not happen in my lifetime because DOGE got that one, Congress awarded it $150 Million and DOGE changed it to $5 Million

I was so excited for this. It was the one thing I really wanted to see happen in my own lifetime.

What a deeply moronic waste.