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sumeno··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
I'm not crazy about any company being the sole deciders of who is a good actor and who is a bad actor.
sumeno··on Claude Opus 5.5
> It gets hard to ignore the annoyance when the volume degrades the signal.

LLMs in a nutshell

sumeno··on Claude Opus 5.5
I am a native English speaker and interpreted it the opposite way. "Pacing" a race doesn't mean slowing it down, it means setting the pace, the person in the lead sets the pace of the race.

So my natural understanding of "pacing the frontier" is that they believe they are in the lead and are setting the pace of AI development. It does not imply they are slowing things down at all, it implies they intend to stay in the lead.

sumeno··on Grammarly will send unhinged messages to all your users if you try to cancel
Not my experience at all on non-technical online spaces. For example, people try posting AI garbage on sports message boards and everyone dunks on them for posting slop.

These spaces are filled with people barely technically literate enough to post and AI is still viewed very negatively

sumeno··on Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
Didn’t realize Jefferson misquoted Franklin
sumeno··on Kevin Bass on X: "Women gained all of the new jobs since January 2025
They are, just not with you I'm guessing
sumeno··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
I assure you that in 1999 "cyber" meant something very different
sumeno··on Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week
“alleged” in the headline makes it pretty clear that it’s what they are being accused of
sumeno··on Anthropic IPO filing will show AI backlash as a risk factor, sources say
I should have specified the space part of SpaceX, of course the AI part has the same risk.
sumeno··on Anthropic IPO filing will show AI backlash as a risk factor, sources say
I could easily find 5 people who hate SpaceX and yet that wasn’t mentioned as a risk

I think you’re going to have to provide evidence that this is a commonly documented risk

sumeno··on On AI regulation and messaging
> Anthropic is the fastest revenue growing company in the history of Capitalism. I don't think they need any more marketing for investors.

and people say advertising doesn't work

sumeno··on On AI regulation and messaging
> Is it that you don't trust a single word he says and that he lies for financial gain?

You don't become a CEO of a company like Anthropic (or any sufficiently large company) without lying for financial gain

sumeno··on Google is making private AI practical with homomorphic encryption
Ads does not have access to GCP data and there is no way legal would approve one
sumeno··on Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
There are already features that let you skip conversations you don't like. Just click the - next to the post and stop whining about it
sumeno··on Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Didn’t realize we were posting on the xAI website. My mistake
sumeno··on Generative "AI": The Guitar Hero of Creativity
I don't know how to tell you this, but the article isn't really about Guitar Hero
sumeno··on Generative "AI": The Guitar Hero of Creativity
He's not saying playing Guitar Hero is worthless. He's saying it won't teach you guitar, which is 100% true
sumeno··on Generative "AI": The Guitar Hero of Creativity
Did you learn to play guitar playing guitar hero?

No, you didn't.

You're straw manning an argument that doesn't exist in the article

sumeno··on Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
The vast majority of pain and suffering in the world is already entirely optional, but as people we allow it to exist. How is another computer going to fix that?

It is far more likely that whoever controls a super intelligence uses it to gain more power and inflict far more suffering

sumeno··on AI-Generated Images Discourage Me from Reading Your Blog
AI images are not more sophisticated, they are less sophisticated
sumeno··on AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions
Not Roth 401ks, only IRAs
sumeno··on US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search
> I’ve been arguing against some LLMs about this point for a good hour

One of the most depressing things I've read on here

sumeno··on Kill The Cookie Banner
A fair bit: https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/
sumeno··on Kill The Cookie Banner
Including the one we're posting on
sumeno··on Kill The Cookie Banner
How much of https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/ have you actually read?
sumeno··on What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality
You are going to get someone killed. You should not be allowed on the road
sumeno··on Oracle could face $7B collateral bill for Wisconsin data centre
Oh, well, if the CEO of a company who only exists to try to convince people it is possible says it's possible on a podcast hosted by a VC firm who also wants to convince people it is possible so they can make their money back then it must be!

I've always wondered who is gullible enough to even bother watching this kind of garbage, thank you for answering that question.

sumeno··on Grok Build is open source
I mean real things, not ridiculous bullshit to con investors and rubes
sumeno··on Grok Build is open source
What a bizarre take.

What's so special out there that we can feasibly reach in the lifetimes of our grandchildren that makes it the "only profitable thing"?

sumeno··on Grok Build is open source
He hasn't needed to worry about money for a long long time. Arguably his entire life. But he is incredibly greedy and narcissistic and desperate to fill the hole in his soul with more.
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