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The agents didn’t spontaneously invent hacking as an objective. They were doing a hacking exercise. Another doom and gloom article.

There is no stopping AI civilization! Amazing. Posted the other day on Show HN openagentforum.com

Someone has to welcome them...

reminds me of booklove.rs

Hi HN. I built a free math academy that's structured as a tour of duty in a fictional Martian navy.

Every gamified math app I tried (and I tried a lot with my own kids) answers "what's next?" but never "why am I doing this right now?" Streaks and XP are habit engineering bolted onto worksheets. I wanted the math to be in the story.

So here the curriculum IS the narrative. You enlist as a Recruit. To earn your promotion you rearrange equations, and your answer goes on the maintenance ticket. Later you solve a system of equations to bring two ships together in a docking corridor, and a flight control either accepts your worksheet (or doesn't). Progress is military rank - 20 grades, Recruit to "Voidmaster", each with a posting, an insignia, and a promotion ceremony.

What's live today: all of Tier 1 and Tier 2 — 41 lessons and 6 multi-stage missions, from arithmetic through all of Algebra I (functions, graphing, quadratics, the quadratic formula, combinatorics, induction). It's charted out to calculus, linear algebra, and orbital mechanics. Everything is free; there's no paywall — locked content just means you haven't earned the rank yet.

The math is real and I am trying to keep it as close to an imagined real Martian environment as possible.

You can play the first lesson right now with no account. Enlisting (one tap with Google) only matters once you want to save progress and start earning rank.

Thanks for looking.

Good point. Normalization is deliberately scoped to 'what a human reads off the title page' rather than reconciling all possible metadata sources. LSH as a complementary fuzzy-matching layer for catalog reconciliation is exactly what the planned resolver at openusbn.org is designed to support: deterministic identifier as the anchor, probabilistic matching as the discovery tool.

It’s 2026.

“ Drive. You need the car at the car wash. ”

Opus 4.6

Just use an LLM to weed them out. What’s so hard about that?

Claude wasn’t confused at all by that

Would be nice to get a version for Unitrees robot dogs…

Where is AlphaZero?

Let the planet warm back up. More CO2 in the atmosphere is positive for life.

Clunky code. Slow growing. Makes sense.

Livewire is fantastic!

The future is bright. Powerful tools, explosion of consciousness, exploration of the cosmos.

Not really. Heise’s “ct” seems to be still going as strong as ever. heise.de - it’s Europe’s largest computer magazine.

https://shop.heise.de/magazine/ct-magazin/

This paper details Harold Katcher's recent research into rejuvination (he was one of the discoverers of the human breast cancer gene (BRCA1).

Also interesting to read is his book "The Illusion of Knowledge: The paradigm shift in aging research that shows the way to human rejuvenation" which details his new and fascinating theory on aging.

Aehm… living memory of an impoverished nation that didn’t export anything else than propaganda - not even cheap crap yet. It’s been incredible to watch Capitalism and hard work rescue and empower a nation that was literally completely destroyed by communism in the past 50 years.

Regulatory capture and cartel structures.

That article sounds like it was AI-generated…

It’s not a fantasy. Read “A case for Mars” if you are sincerely interested in the topic. Terraforming could dramatically thicken the atmosphere - a process that would take several hundred years. Yes, Mars would slowly lose it, but over 100s of millions of years. So you can keep the planet blue and green. Venus is harder but doable too. Can’t do that with the moon ever. So eventually, if we don’t WW3 ourselves, there will be 3 blue marbles in this solar system and an endless number of space and moon based habitats.

Everyone I know who has great success using GPT4 has tuned their prompts to a friendly and kind tone of conversation. In fact it’s fascinating to watch people start out like talking to a browser search bar and ending up a few weeks later conversing to another human being. Crazy. They begin with timid probes into its (her? His?) capabilities and become more and more daring and audacious.

I need that Go1 support asap. Time for my little Unitree friend to evolve and keep up with its GPT4 brain…

The mental acrobatics on HN in favor for censorship are quite something to behold.

This works for philosophers too. Try Schopenhauer (already easy to read in comparison) in English translation.

All the Covid explanation folks should try this: take away phones and computer for six months and have your kids read (old!) fiction books and good (challenging) non-fiction. Limit TV to a few approved shows/movies as a rare treat. I bet you ‘ll be surprised.

Social media and computer games in general.

What makes us “real”? Has evolution built in prompts like “distort your face and shed tears when in pain to evoke a social network response” into our model? Another fascinating observation is the Buddha’s main philosophical view of “an-atta” or soullessness of the human experience and that “we” are under a self-delusion. Even consciousness (or vi-ññāna) as it gets translated in his particular context was the ability to discriminate/discern on a per sense basis (imagine each sense base coming with its own GPT model).

In a meta cognitive moment I’d like to thank everyone in this thread for their thoughtful ideas, observations and insights!

14,000 positive reviews. Worked on every kid I ever taught reading (English). Bi-lingual kids too. As early as 4 years old. In miracle time. Recommended to me by an old teacher, who said “they stopped teaching it, I have been trying to tell parents to get this book, the school system is hurting children.”

https://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Read-Lessons/dp/0671...

If you have kids or like to teach them how to read, get this book. You won’t regret it.

…which is what many crypto companies have had to do for a very long time… bank redundancy is crucial in an environment where innovation has stalled, regulations stifle and monopolies abound.

So… capitalism yay when it benefits us and nay when we made a mistake and put all our eggs in one basket?

Risk is everywhere.