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by ForHackernews 5d ago
Wait, so I can have free movies and subvert the adtech business model at the same time? What's the catch?
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by ForHackernews 5d ago
Absolutely, and real professions with real professional ethical standards have considered such questions[0] and taken informed positions on them. Nothing of the kind exists for programmers. [0] https://journalofethics.ama-assn.or
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by ForHackernews 5d ago
Nothing that you say is responsive to my point. None of your so-called engineers at Tesla has ever said, "I'm sorry Mr. Musk, we won't deploy those features because it's against the Software Engineering Code to do beta-t
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by ForHackernews 6d ago
yeah yeah yeah. I agree that AI is and will be a very useful tool, it's just not going to be worth $30T like OpenAI/Anthropic are pretending.
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by ForHackernews 6d ago
I'd wager a fair chunk of my money that money breaks OpenAI before OpenAI breaks money.
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by ForHackernews 6d ago
How long until we find out that some AI has quietly buried an exploit in Lean to cheat at proofs?
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by ForHackernews 6d ago
This is exactly the problem: Software developers are not a professional class, we are hired goons with no professional organization nor a code of professional ethics. This is one of my personal bugbears. I keep making this point on HN but
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by ForHackernews 6d ago
https://verizonmath.blogspot.com/
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Security lab finds agents will exploit vulnerabilities without prompt to hack(theregister.com)
4 points by ForHackernews 6d ago|0 comments
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by ForHackernews 7d ago
"Compute" is not one generic commodity. Filling your datacentres with ASICs that do nothing but compute SHA256 for Bitcoin mining was a smart move in 2015 but today that hardware is worthless e-waste. What does the depreciation cu
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by ForHackernews 7d ago
No, I think AI models will be cheap commodities available from hundreds of providers for a few dollars, like a Linux VM is today.
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by ForHackernews 7d ago
Per Anthropic's prospectus: generate $30T (~94% of 2026 US nominal GDP) in revenue.
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by ForHackernews 7d ago
They are desperately rushing to IPO before the bubble bursts.
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Losing control of AI is the plan(theargumentmag.com)
4 points by ForHackernews 8d ago|0 comments
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by ForHackernews 10d ago
Analog: https://rosettaproject.org/disk/concept/
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by ForHackernews 11d ago
(Headline is overblown, obviously MIT or CMU have AI Labs, but the main point that OpenAI and Anthropic are companies is well taken)
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Pause OpenAI Now(garymarcus.substack.com)
41 points by ForHackernews 12d ago|32 comments
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by ForHackernews 13d ago
We can learn from history: Albert Einstein famously tricked humanity into building nuclear weapons for him and was only prevented from wiping out all sentient life by the Princeton IAS Board of Alignment who published a very compelling blog
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by ForHackernews 13d ago
Their entire sales pitch is based on the idea that no one will need to be any good at anything, because the AI will do it for them. If they can't ask the AI to configure their CDN correctly, it undermines the validity of their claims.
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by ForHackernews 15d ago
What's the tooling for this? I've wanted to do a similar map project for a different dataset and this is a slick presentation.
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by ForHackernews 16d ago
Oops, you're absolutely right to call me out for that. Starting the defrost cycle without emptying the freezer first COULD lead to spoilage. The load-bearing temperature is 0 degrees Celsius — above that point, and frozen food starts t
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by ForHackernews 17d ago
https://thezvi.wordpress.com/2026/08/29/metr-and-redwood-off... > Failure to Care or Respond. The biggest holy shit moment, to me, remains that OpenAI on multiple occasions had teams that found out about t
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by ForHackernews 17d ago
Why shouldn't open source get special treatment? Public laws should recognize and incentivize public goods.
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by ForHackernews 17d ago
It must be very freeing for you to absolve everyone of all responsibility because someone, somewhere could be acting irresponsibly. I'm not mocking efforts to secure the system, I'm insulted that they didn't bother taking wha
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by ForHackernews 20d ago
The reasons are money and power/influence. But I take your point.
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by ForHackernews 20d ago
This is such a goofy comment. In your mind, there's no difference between the precautions a BSL-4 virology lab should take when working with an unknown pathogen and the precautions that literally everyone else in the world should be
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by ForHackernews 20d ago
> Your robot companion can show joy, sadness, and happiness, reacting just like a living creature would. Seems like a lie to me. Compare: > Our synthetic foodstuffs can taste sweet, salty, tart or tangy, delicious flavors just like na
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by ForHackernews 20d ago
>How were they supposed to know about "previously unknown vulnerabilities"? You don't. That's why you unplug the Ethernet cable.
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by ForHackernews 20d ago
I'm not sure I trust any self-reported numbers on this kind of stuff. 10 - 20 days per year (but not evenly distributed) is a common figure I see thrown around: https://www.nedcapital.co.uk/how-much-time-does-a-non-exec
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by ForHackernews 20d ago
Being a non-executive board member often involves very little time or attention, it's mostly lending your name and credibility to the organization. Consider it an American form of royal patronage[0] [0] https://www.cosmopoli

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