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Re:GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research by AngryData on Thursday November 05, 2026 @11:39PM (#50388281)
Ive never used one, but why would the blade be destroyed? It is shoved into an aluminum block yes, but steel and/or carbide are way harder and unless the blade fractures it should cut fairly cleanly into the aluminum. Ive cut plenty of aluminum stock and blocks on wood working saws.
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Re:GPT-6 Astra covertly underperforms on safety research by oasisaimlessly on Friday November 06, 2026 @07:41AM (#50391658)
Typically you're feeding aluminum into the table saw blade slowly enough that every tooth only has scrape off a fraction of a millimeter of materual. If you shove it in 100x faster, the forces involved are ~100x larger. This will probably shatter the blade.

Also, the chip produced may be large enough to fill the air gap between teeth and have nowhere to go, resulting in the blade either instantly stopping, or plastically deforming/dragging the surrounding material.

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