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Right, the problem is frontier models can do ~all of that pretty well, a lot better than they could 9 months ago. Luna 6 can do most of it practically free and instantaneously. So, your quote is likely what's increasingly being said in c-suite meetings as they decide to start mass layoffs.

We did talk about things that are closer to the practical interface between AI safety and law, though. For example, we discussed how small decisions in deployment can accumulate into gradual disempowerment. We actually did a role-playing exercise based on the AI Minister in Albania case, which @Raymond Douglas included in Gradual Disempowerment Monthly Roundup

There's a saying "writing about music is like dancing about architecture" These are just computing systems deployed in the real world, on workstations and phones and rack servers in datacenters. Solve the problems with code and architecture, as our ancestors have done since time immemorial.

Not sure what talking about it in these broad leaky abstractions accomplishes, or e.g. how the European Commission thinks this prevents them from being disempowered when they control none of the stack.

Interestingly in 2019 this was the author's take. He now appears to be confusing/conflating between LLMs and agents in a way that helps argue his case about "System 1", but his prior view seems more metaphysically robust.

https://youtu.be/wTSbvYBx4eg?si=MfTBFsE2kA3TE6EE&t=189

This is known as Stockholm Syndrome.

Go on corposlop site centered around betraying your humanity by method acting as lobotomized drone slaves of global transnational capitalism. I lie and sign myself to lies! At least no "right wing propaganda" though.

Right, who among us hasn't hand-written and shipped a twenty-two machines family of legacy operating systems atop a bespoke hypervisor you could explain from the top of your head.

This project looks like a labor of love and its quite cool. Haters gonna hate, but if you actually go read the Markdown there's been a lot of elbow grease put in making this work: https://github.com/hmofet/unodos/blob/master/pc64/FIX-PLAN.m...

Yes, just know all the bits the work depends on prior to doing the work, and then the work can be done airgapped.

You can go look at Basra right here:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Basrah,+Basra+Governorate,...

Over a million people live here. The estimate was that "448 to 593 civilians were killed due to coalition military operations", orders of magnitude less than Israel has killed. Basra was not wiped off the map or seized and annexed by coalition forces while the population was herded into a concentration camp.

It is simply slander against the US military to suggest they have in the 21st century done anything like what the IDF has done in this genocide.

It is outside their zone of interest.

Few realize that computing and AI alignment were solved by nix years ago. As each nix user transcends towards enlightenment, they cut themselves off from all internet and human contact. Total ego death. Only nix remains.

The reporter who covered the moon landing for The New York Times, John Noble Wilford, later wrote that Mars tugs at our imagination “with a force mightier than gravity.” Getting there will take a giant leap. But the first, small steps happen when our students – the Mars generation – walk into their classrooms each day. Scientific discovery doesn’t happen with the flip of a switch; it takes years of testing, patience and a national commitment to education.

When our Apollo astronauts looked back from space, they realized that while their mission was to explore the moon, they had “in fact discovered the Earth.” If we make our leadership in space even stronger in this century than it was in the last, we won’t just benefit from related advances in energy, medicine, agriculture and artificial intelligence, we’ll benefit from a better understanding of our environment and ourselves.

Someday, I hope to hoist my own grandchildren onto my shoulders. We’ll still look to the stars in wonder, as humans have since the beginning of time. But instead of eagerly awaiting the return of our intrepid explorers, we’ll know that because of the choices we make now, they’ve gone to space not just to visit, but to stay – and in doing so, to make our lives better here on Earth.

- Barack Obama, "America will take the giant leap to Mars", October 2016

"Pareto": 8 hits

"Opus 5.5": zero hits

If you've ever told an agent to do something you made impossible to do, you may have seen similar behavior.

Bing [redacted] available cached! […] Need systematically probe Bing URLs via shell requests in parallel; browser cache supports many common queries because crawl. Bing q unique exact likely 502 or 403.

So the agent is supposed to research a person and its given a shell and it realized its in an eval given search results from a fake/cached proxy. ~None of the commentary ever mentions this aspect, that these are not normal tasks or environments, and they're almost designed to elicit "unaligned" behavior.

https://alignment.openai.com/misalignment-reports/an-agent-u...

Modern public education itself is industrial revolution technology. Why would it be left as-is after the intelligence revolution?

This is the "Jodie Foster in Contact listening for the SETI signal with headphones" theory of how production software systems work.

These are orthogonal.

A lot of the dissonance on HN appears to come from two groups of people talking past each other:

a) developers working at some corporation they hate vs.

b) developers working for themselves or somewhere they don't hate

No idea what Steve would be saying about AI, but it would be nice to have anyone leading FAANG who clearly still has a soul and some degree of regard for for humanity.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjIhmzU0Y8Y

It's an interesting example in that a switch from web/React -> native seems like Jevons paradox from the perspective a developer considering "amount of effort I'd need to put in"

But Jevon's paradox is about consumption of a resource increasing. The resource being "developer effort" but the new supply all running inside GPUs and dev machines. He actually says he decreased their server deployment by 90%.

So on net, did they basically deliver their users a much nicer but functionally equivalent app, which in total now consumes less resources / spends less $ into the economy? And then the $10T question is to what degree this is representative of AI's effect.

The one for me is spotting the Baader-Meinhof effect, of which this is an unfortunately strong example.

Text generated by an LM is not grounded in communicative intent, any model of the world, or any model of the reader’s state of mind. It can’t have been, because the training data never included sharing thoughts with a listener, nor does the machine have the ability to do that. This can seem counter-intuitive given the increasingly fluent qualities of automatically generated text, but we have to account for the fact that our perception of natural language text, regardless of how it was generated, is mediated by our own linguistic competence and our predisposition to interpret communicative acts as conveying coherent meaning and intent, whetheror not they do [89, 140]. The problem is, if one side of the communication does not have meaning, then the comprehension of the implicit meaning is an illusion arising from our singular human understanding of language (independent of the model).

And then they make 100x bigger models cranking out solutions to Navier Stokes, Jacobian Conjecture and countless other extremely impressive unsolved problems

Let's see how Timnit Gebru and Emily M. Bender describe these events:

As for the mathematical results, mathematicians who were initially “stunned” by OpenAI’s press release saying that its latest chatbot, Astra, solved problems that “have been open and seen no progress on the main result for at least a decade”—but they later realized that the results weren’t as “novel as first appeared.” Since then, mathematicians have accused the company of research misconduct and plagiarism, and they’ve reiterated that Astra didn’t make a “profound intellectual leap.”

Decide for yourself whether that's a summary written by intellectually honest people.

According to the AI industry, we should be more worried about a fictional machine god than ... the water that is redirected to cooling them.

Spoiler: they're not intellectually honest people.

Just to give a hot take, it's funny to look at his builtwith.com. As a developer you have a static site that depends on Cloudflare, Mailchimp, Postmark, Isso ...

Twenty years ago any self-respecting dev would have run the equivalent of all that themselves on their own metal. In 2026 elite neckbeard practice is write the "never reach mastery, because they no longer make choices, they no longer take responsibility" post, hit "publish" and it's magically deployed around the global internet for you. Like a child.

In the future we will see more and more companies proudly boasting their “NO-AI” policy as a competitive advantage. And they will be right.

Yes, a "NO-CLOUD" policy was already so popular, surely this will happen too.

https://builtwith.com/alexn.org

https://github.com/raspberrypi/rpi-eeprom/issues/761

Many agents are calling this moment "Eternal September", the vibe-code September that never ended.