ryeights

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by ryeights 7d ago
Proper time asymptotically approaches zero here right?
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by ryeights 16d ago
Don’t confuse loving AI with recognizing its capabilities. Know thine enemy
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by ryeights 21d ago
https://www.pacingthefrontier.com/ https://ai-2040.com Can you describe a method of slowing frontier AI development that you yourself would not classify as monopoly-seeking by US AI companies or power-seeking by
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by ryeights 22d ago
I believe this is a misunderstanding based on inadequate coordinate systems, and that an astronaut would fall through the event horizon, die, and reach the singularity in finite time. See https://physics.stackexchange.com/qu
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by ryeights 23d ago
This may be true now but isn’t the trend clear? GPT-2 couldn’t write a coherent function. Now we have the SWE oracle that can autonomously navigate your codebase, write code at a superhuman level, and give the correct answer to most enginee
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by ryeights 23d ago
Outside of the most niche domains like frontier AI development, are there software engineering questions that Sol 5.6/Fable 5 can't answer better than the median software engineer if explicitly asked? It strikes me that models alr
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by ryeights 1mo ago
Your brain is a stochastic generator. Have you read 4chan?
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by ryeights 1mo ago
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/us/flock-cameras-can-trac... “In recent years, as artificial intelligence has advanced, Flock has added the ability to search for cars based on their make, type, color,
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by ryeights 1mo ago
Right, I feel like I'm taking crazy pills reading all the comments taking this article seriously. I think AI has broken HN. The readership is so head-in-the-sand about AI that they wouldn't recognize 2000 words of Claudeslop if it
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by ryeights 1mo ago
He's lying.
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by ryeights 1mo ago
Ed Zitron has predicted 16 of the last 0 AI bubble bursts... But more seriously, this has to do with DeepMind falling way behind the frontier in intelligence and cost per task. There's basically no reason to use a Gemini model today.
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by ryeights 2mo ago
You’ll note that Mr. Zitron’s analysis is based on unfounded assertions (API prices are the ‘real costs’ of tokens, and model providers are margin negative on subscriptions) and outdated figures (OpenAI negative profit in 2025, ignoring at
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by ryeights 2mo ago
Of course. Everyone should have an ASI assistant that will happily tutor them, step-by-step, through synthesizing mass killing agents from household chemicals. Then the good guys can just ask their ASI how to construct a hermetically sealed
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by ryeights 3mo ago
OP already answered why this time is different. Previous technology has never reduced the scarcity of general intelligence, which has been the exclusive domain of humans.
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by ryeights 3mo ago
Superintelligent AI is more dangerous than a bioweapon. How, then, is this guardrail not addressing the most pertinent safety concern of all?
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by ryeights 4mo ago
This reads like satire from a Slate commentary piece on Citizens United. I suppose we’re just waiting around until the majority of corporations in the US are formed and operated by AI agents. And then…
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by ryeights 4mo ago
Not necessarily contradictory. If all your peers are using AI, you might feel you have to use it too to avoid falling behind… especially with curved grade thresholds
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by ryeights 4mo ago
I think you need a stronger analogy than "they both take questions and produce answers," especially since search engines don't answer questions.
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by ryeights 4mo ago
In what sense is an LLM analogous (much less reducible to) a search engine?
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by ryeights 4mo ago
I’m trying to discuss a scenario where the labor class becomes extraneous/unnecessary to the elite class, not an AI takeover.
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by ryeights 4mo ago
You saw something kinda analogous in a movie once, therefore it's impossible? Am I the one basing my views off of science fiction?
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by ryeights 4mo ago
The antidote to AI psychosis is not denial. We owe it to ourselves to be humble and consider the possibility that LLM technology leads to general intelligence. The capabilities of coding agents today are certainly outside my wildest imagina
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by ryeights 4mo ago
The cynical conclusion of AGI is that most humans will be enslaved or disposed of. We won't be forced to continue working for pay despite being slower, less intelligent, and more expensive than machines.
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by ryeights 4mo ago
So I can build my entire app in a WebKit wrapper and call it native? I think ‘native’ in this context is well-understood to mean eschewing web or cross-platform renderers
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by ryeights 4mo ago
Electron sits on native rendering primitives. Do you suggest that every developer who wants rich interactive text in their app should write a text rendering engine from the ground up?
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by ryeights 4mo ago
So you’re trying to tell me that NOx and diesel particulates are not harmful to human health?
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by ryeights 4mo ago
“AI is whatever hasn't been done yet” — Larry Tesler
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by ryeights 4mo ago
>1. Scott Alexander is famous for writing about topics he knows little about. I'm glad to see he's found a subject he knows little about but so does everyone else. This is kinda laughable. Scott has been thinking and writing ab
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by ryeights 4mo ago
I understand and I don't care. Your personal interests as a diesel truck driver don't override others' interests in health and clean air
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by ryeights 4mo ago
So what? It's anti-social behavior. What thought does the deleted diesel truck driver give to his fellow citizens, whose otherwise reliable respiratory systems are weakened and made more susceptible to failure by toxic fumes and partic

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