AlexCoventry
Re:Digital Minimalism
on Saturday October 31, 2026 @01:39PM (#50318210)
> Around the same time, "Crypto Twitter" was spiraling into a mood that I saw described as "financial nihilism": roughly, that the natural end state of blockchains is gambling, this is good, and if you dislike this and wish for something better then you are a stuck-up elitist prick.
Surely he sees that the nihilists are winning. Crypto's main use case at this point is undeniably deeply corrosive corruption and money laundering, and as far as I know there's nothing plausible on the horizon to replace that (I kind of stopped paying attention after crypto industry leaders started meeting with Trump, though.)
Re:A 10-year-old CNN outperforms frontier LLMs for skin cancer diagnosis
on Monday October 26, 2026 @01:00AM (#50239345)
Serious people are predicting automated RSI in 6 months this time, FWIW.
Re:We should be more ambitious with the software we build
on Sunday October 25, 2026 @02:45PM (#50234742)
> What is the one thing that only you can specify, where your competitive advantage is maximized?
Can you give some examples where people have done that?
Re:Ofcom Concedes Defeat in the 4chan Case
on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @11:47PM (#50175856)
Well, it's been clear for a decade that Trump doesn't respect American values.
Re:Advanced coding in low-resource programming languages
on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @03:26PM (#50171424)
OpenAI is already working on fixing F-35 avionics.
https://en.technosotnya.com/2026/10/openai-55-ai-models-f35....
Re:The End of Rationing
on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:41AM (#50161445)
"By definition is unable to prove what has never been proved before because you are going outside the realm of pretraining/RL."
https://www.science.org/content/article/openai-just-changed-...
Re:Sigsaly: Churchill's top secret hotline to the President
on Sunday October 18, 2026 @02:24PM (#50143853)
IIRC from Prof: Alan Turing Decoded, Turing was sent to the US to work on this for a while, but wasn't able to contribute much, because the Americans didn't really trust him.
Re:Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?
on Thursday October 15, 2026 @12:52AM (#50099310)
A lot of rationalists seem to believe that prolixity is a sign of intellectual effort.
Re:Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?
on Thursday October 15, 2026 @12:45AM (#50099251)
It's a recruitment tool.
Re:AI agents aren't 'going rogue.' Frontier labs are skipping security...
on Thursday October 15, 2026 @12:41AM (#50099227)
They think the singularity's going to hit in the next 6 months. They're not looking to build an empire.
Re:AI agents aren't 'going rogue.' Frontier labs are skipping security...
on Thursday October 15, 2026 @12:20AM (#50099103)
I think there are a lot of people who would pay very good money for access to mathematical and coding ability like OpenAI's systems have demonstrated. I wonder how much they're being paid by the USAF to try to unhork the F-35's avionics software, for instance.
Re:GLM-Legal: Advancing Agentic Legal Intelligence
on Monday October 12, 2026 @08:28PM (#50064978)
When did they test them? Models have a different level of capability than 6 months ago, IMO.
Re:The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening
on Monday October 12, 2026 @01:45AM (#50051819)
Like what?
Re:I'm the AGI that's wiping out humanity
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @03:50PM (#49983167)
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/eRmzz8J8Qkzqvzrgg/astra-can-...
> *TLDR*: Astra has 8.6x better odds of doing a reasoning task without CoT than the next best model (Fable 5.1), and can do 7.2 serial arithmetic steps in a forward pass vs 4.1 for the next best model (Gemini 3.8 Flash/Fable 5.1)
Re:Mistral Large 4
on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @03:38PM (#49983007)
Pelican benchmark is saturated, anyway. :-)
Re:How to scale intent, quality, and artistry with AI [video]
on Monday October 05, 2026 @01:30AM (#49961019)
Did you watch the video? Her point is to use AI's productivity gains to iterate faster on the creative aspects.
Re:We're gonna need a lot more mathematicians
on Saturday September 26, 2026 @02:30PM (#49859187)
> Terence Tao is arguing
It's a guest post by Amit Sahai, FWIW.
Re:U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain...
on Friday September 25, 2026 @06:04PM (#49850542)
IMO, it's almost certainly being abused. I just assume that all US domestic communications are being recorded whenever possible.
Re:U.S. appeals court upholds designation of Anthropic as supply chain...
on Friday September 25, 2026 @06:02PM (#49850526)
It can be a textbook designation and a capricious punishment at the same time. It's almost comical, to suggest that anything about this decision was reasonable. Makes me long for the days of n-gate.com.
Re:Too AI; Didn't Read
on Friday September 25, 2026 @05:31PM (#49850240)
IME, it's best to ask an AI to criticize your work and suggest changes without providing actual rewrites, and make the changes you agree with in your own voice.
Re:Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @07:46PM (#49781351)
To all appearances, OpenAI just solved [1] a Nobel-level (Fields medal-leval, strictly speaking) math problem, but you still think it's hype?
Re:What Happened to the Snowden Archive
on Sunday September 20, 2026 @07:30PM (#49781225)
Imagine the abuses the Trump administration is making of US surveillance powers. The market intelligence alone must be netting him billions.
I think the idea is that AI itself is going to massively accelerate its own development, and AI with real-world competence is coming very soon. At the rate things are going, it wouldn't suprise me at all if we had mass production of AI-designed systems in the next six months, actually.
Re:On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @04:43AM (#49623298)
I don't think we should assume a millenium puzzle has been solved, yet. Astra showed impressive capacity for cheating when it was faced with impossible cybersecurity challenges. It seems equally plausible at this stage that it's found a bug in Lean.
Re:Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]
on Wednesday September 09, 2026 @04:28AM (#49623181)
I'm not a lawyer, but I think the comparison to copyright law is invalid. Such a dispute would be governed by contract law.
Re:Intellectual Fly Is Open
on Sunday September 06, 2026 @11:30PM (#49593570)
Only if you have ready access to the hardware to run the AI models.
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
on Saturday September 05, 2026 @07:08PM (#49581613)
Which "elaborate guerrilla advertising campaigns to drive up capital funding interest" were you referring to, in regard to Chinese models not needing to set up message boards for inter-model communication?
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
on Friday September 04, 2026 @09:10PM (#49572078)
You think OpenAI framed themselves for legal vulnerability to Huggingface?
Re:Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
on Friday September 04, 2026 @09:06PM (#49572054)
I'd be interested to read more about that.
As far as I can tell, IBM has mostly been putting out junk for twenty years.