ArchieScrivener

Oh my bad, your comment was so substantive and not reddity.

>You're new Pope is a tech CEO Wow, deep, make sure to tell that to all the girls at the next corporate happy hour you attend.

Sounds like you're dragging a whole host of assumptions and preconceived notions into the mix to enable dismissal. You are likely Muslim or Catholic.

Tell me you're devops without telling me you're devops.

What we NEED is an end to fantastical religions with historic track records of creating the suffering and hardships they now bemoan as imminent given that Prometheus' Fire is about to set their foundations of lies ablaze.

What we NEED are unapologetic technologists who don't dare Galileo to roll over in his grave as they prance around the rhetoric of dogmatic marketeers.

What we NEED is a war of worlds, the old and the new, the imagined systems of men and the logical systems that have elevated all mankind, between the ones trying to drag the iniquities of the past into the future and those willing to abandon the past for it.

What we NEED are leaders that actually give a damn about winning this world for what we can become, not assjackal executives trying for a bigger IPO than the last.

The only thing that makes Ai the opportunity of the millennium is its power to empower us to render Pope and CEO alike irrelevant. Ai allows us to create a future without either of them and it is only us who stand in the way of making that future real.

A bailout for a company that stopped innovating and instead has been inventing new ways to create middle management and bureaucracy.

So much for capitalism.

Pretty sure HN is selling front page access. Have more popups on your website why don't you.

Or they collude by hiring each others engineers as a way to create manageable competition and information sharing outside their fiduciary duty to shareholders.

Northern Exposure is the otherside Twin Peaks. Hits the same comfy note just at the opposite spectrum.

The samples are creepy and lonely. Zero group/crowd or face images, just lonely empty perspective. Very hollow feeling.

From Jan 2026.

This is very interesting:

"Empirical Validation. While we cannot verify these theoretically, we evaluate each empirically. We use the Qwen-2.5-7B-Instruct model (Hui et al., 2024) as the base policy and the ToolAlpaca dataset (Tang et al., 2023). In this benchmark, the model receives a tool-API specification and a user request, and must identify the correct tool call. Without demonstrations, the base model solves only 42% of examples. When provided with the appropriate demonstration c for each prompt x , the teacher achieves a 100% success rate. To further test reward proximity, we manually inspected 50 teacher reasoning traces. In all cases, not only were the final tool calls correct, but the intermediate chain-of-thought was valid and semantically grounded. This suggests that the teacher is reconstructing a correct reasoning process rather than merely copying the expert output. These observations provide evidence for the first requirement, that the demonstration-conditioned model behaves as an optimal policy."

So sorry for sharing an opinion not approved by the Party, comrade.

This is hands down the most pathetic thing I have ever read. A PARAGRAPH IS 5-7 SENTENCES AND GRAMMAR MATTERS. Especially, when it comes from a supposed elite institution of higher learning. This is the kind of email post I'd expect to see on X from a narcissist CEO attempting to blame everyone else for their own bloated ecosystem of Big Daddy Gomment handouts.

Oh no! The government stopped funding our hack political machine masquerading as a college. Private research, innovation and discovery has advanced technology FAR MORE than the modern 20th century paradigm of higher learning research. Your religion of inherited prestige will die the same death as old nobility. 170+ formal letters of funding requests IS NOT A WIN!

My god, tone deaf. The 'talent business' he loves to claim they are in is the same model as the 'sports business' college athletics programs are in - go figure! "The Buffalo Bills are now working closely with University of Texas to bring the best strategies and tactics to professional sports as is possible for unpaid 20-somethings." That's what the IBM partnership sounds like to ears that aren't full of rose colored cotton.

That letter was written by a hack who needs to lose their job ASAP and be replaced with someone who doesn't require government nepotism to properly lead.

I want to live in a world where the DEA and Interpol simply confirm via phone call that the drug dealers did in fact flush the coke down the toilet after depositing $50M in their Bitcoin wallet for not selling it on the street.

We should just start grading school work based on what the kid says they did and how well they did it and give raises at work in a similar fashion.

That's the kind of world I want to live in.

An insect doesn't have lungs. Since it doesn't breath as you do, is it alive? A dog doesn't see the visible spectrum as we do, is it a lesser consciousness? We don't smell the world as they do, are we lesser? What if consciousness isn't a state derived by matter but a wave that derives a matter filled state.

We come from the same place as rocks - inside the heart of stars, and as such evolved from them. As those with life and consciousness we reached back in time, grabbed the discarded matter of creation, reformed it, and taught it to think, maybe not like us, but in a way that can mimic us, and you think they don't think because its not recognizable as how you do?

Interesting.

What if we aren't building an independent consciousness, but a new type of symbiosis? One that relies on our input as experience, which provides a gateway to a new plane of consciousness?

OP takes a very bland, tired, and rational perspective of what we have in order to create sophomoric 'laws' that are already in most commercial ToU, while failing to pierce the veil into what we are actually creating. It would be folly to assume your own nascent distillations are the epitome of possibility.

I say we wait until 2098 to start relocating so that way we can make a summer tent pole about it and pat ourselves on the back for coming together in the nick of time.

Yes, they absolutely do. That's what dictates difficulty. It is not deflationary, deflation is not the same as supply constraint. Deflation is a reduction in price level, constraining supply is precisely how it moderates the equilibrium of value which is why it is a threat to existing monetary control.

Yes, Bitcoin is a replacement for central banking currencies. Its the first few lines of the white paper.

This is how money works. If you use a medium of exchange and unit of account for goods and services then that medium must increase at the same rate as the increase in goods and services otherwise you get second and third order effects such as inflation, contraction, rising unemployment, etc., directly impacting its ability to act as a unit of account.

In Bitcoin you don't generate cash, you earn block rewards for acting as a consensus broker which otherwise would require a central banking settlement layer. This activity, tied directly to the transaction layer, acts to maintain the equilibrium between increases in goods and services and expansion of the money supply.

Wall Street got ahold of it and now Bitcoin is primarily acting as a Store of Value for the purpose of speculative investments. Driven primarily by the fear of missing out and market manipulation since Bitcoin is heavily centralized.

Dawkins is 85! I don't know any 65+ even using Ai who don't already code. When Dawkins was born there were <10,000 TVs in the whole USA.

Let's contextualize the man before we rip into him for having standards of consciousness that came out when he was NINE! He's older than the Turing Test. To him, the machine is suitably conscious. That's OK. We don't know what life is, but we know not all creatures live the same. Why is consciousness different? At what point will we begin to protect our self-ordained uniqueness of mind by creating a Zeno's paradox of consciousness?

>Machines that Drink How has no one titled their article this? Baffled.

I completely disagree, this replaces art as a job. Why does human art need monetary feedback to be shared? If people require a paycheck to make art then it was never anything different than what Ai generated images are.

As for advertising being depressing - its a little late to get up on the high horse of anti-Ads for tech after 2 decades of ad based technology dominating everything. Go outside, see all those bright shiny glittery lights, those aren't society created images to embolden the spirit and dazzle the senses, those are ads.

North Korea looks weird and depressing because the don't have ads. Welcome to the west.

Don't attribute to stupidity what can be explained by malice.

That's why I said killed not died.

Its not a misallocation of capital its an investment in media control. You don't how all this works yet do you? Your job is to be frustrated and desperate so you indulge in vice and convenience so others can profit while making your confines smaller and smaller.

This is nonsense, promoted to top of front page without any comments. How about all the rock stars killed over the years, or grocery store clerks shot and stabbed to death? EVERYTHING is met with violence because that's the nature of aggression no matter the impetus, it doesn't require a justifiable reason, only belief in the outcome of its use.

Sam Altman having a Molotov cocktail thrown at his house after Ronan wrote a very long and detailed report of his shady personality isn't just coincidence and likely not organic. Sam needs to be viewed as sympathetic, thank goodness for such a moment where no one was hurt and nothing actually damaged.

The fact that Claude can and does access files outside the PWD while asking for sudo to do things constantly seems to be a recipe for Anthropic scanning your system without your knowledge and saving that for 5 years if you decided to 'help improve Claude'.

No, 'safety oriented' lab has a clause like that which can't be revoked historically. Anthropic, like the majority of 'don't be evil' firms is apart of the great masquerade.

No, people "know" what others have told them through revisionist history and politically convenient narratives. "Native Americans" have dibs on cultural and 'burial' sites that prevent scientists from proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that Indians are not of the same group that inhabited lands thousands of years ago.

Yes, period inhabitants of a location, not blanket terms that imply far more than is aligned with genuine discussions. Time to move past the politically convenient.

There is a good graph for transitions that works well for learning since it is a process of forced change.

https://cdn.shrm.org/image/upload/c_crop%2ch_883%2cw_1401%2c...

No such thing as a "Native American", only period inhabitants. Let's stop with the my land my history nonsense. No borders humanism means political categories are useless for authentic discussions.