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Ah yes it is the magic idea of the master mind Elon musk.

The guy who says the earth is not rescueable and therefore needs mars.

Let's just ignore what it really means okay?

It means relocating millions because a few pull out billions of liter for selling as water bottles, for industry while sending back the waste or growing crops in the a dessert.

And you do know how much musk loves poor people right? After all doge and usaid right?

Re:Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @03:25PM (#46697307)
So it's true.

Americans want to take Greenland by force

Good to know.

Re:Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @12:36PM (#46695002)
How can you mention Venezuela so u ironically?

So now the size of the us military is primarily there to capture ROI?

When are we next?

Time to cut ties with USA....

Re:Danish pension fund divesting US Treasuries on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @12:34PM (#46694957)
USA had this because it manufactured everything and got rich doing so.

NATO is / was USAs way of controlling Europe to have something against Asia.

It's time for us / Europe to let the USA being whatever and kicking them out

We (Germany) are quite well equipped making guns and tanks.

And btw it was our strategy to try to win over countries by NOT being the big bully but sure Russia and USA made it clear that this no longer works.

I hope USA leaves NATO and we kick them out sooner than later

Re:De-dollarization: Is the US dollar losing its dominance? on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @11:53AM (#46694208)
Hope so.

It's time.

Who is so stupid, racist and ignorant shouldn't be the world leader.

At this point we have the EU with the dollar and values and real freedom and don't forget the Chinese.

They might control there people and also do other shitty things but they are at least doing this for their people

Re:Two Concepts of Intelligence on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @11:26AM (#46693746)
That shocked me the most tbh

I had big hopes for one person until he copy pasted verbatim LLM responses to me...

Re:Two Concepts of Intelligence on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @04:56AM (#46690045)
It does.

If you have 1% of them and they cost you 50-100k per year than replacing them with computers make plenty of sense.

Re:Two Concepts of Intelligence on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @04:55AM (#46690033)
I know plenty of people who are shittier in writing code than Claude. People with real jobs who are expensive like 50-100k/year.

People whom you have to always handhold and were code review is fundamental.

You can write tests, pr gates etc.

It's still a scale in what you can let them do unsupervised vs controlling them more closely but already better than real people I know. Because they are also a lot faster.

Re:Chatbot Psychosis on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @01:49AM (#46688710)
If you have racing thoughts and some magic system responds to you and it's abstract enough (even people on hn do not know how LLMs work, plenty of them) then going for a walk is not enough...
Re:X algorithm has been open sourced on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @01:47AM (#46688698)
Nope.

I have character and I'm German who knows his history.

Re:X algorithm has been open sourced on Tuesday January 20, 2026 @01:46AM (#46688686)
'it uses grok' means what?
Re:Two Concepts of Intelligence on Monday January 19, 2026 @08:02AM (#46678523)
You clearly underestimate the quality of people I have seen and worked with. And yes guard rails can be added easily.

Security is my only concern and for that we have a team doing only this but that's also just a question of time.

Whatever LLMs ca do today doesn't matter. It matters how fast it progresses and we will see if we still use LLMs in 5 years or agi or some kind of world models.

Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro on Monday January 19, 2026 @02:12AM (#46675846)
I'm in hn for 10 years.

I spend too much time here and decided to delete my account to interact less.

It's partially working though

Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro on Sunday January 18, 2026 @05:09PM (#46672662)
Being dismissive of technical terms on hn because something seems to be a hype is really weird.

It's the reason why I'm here because we discuss more technically about technology

Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro on Sunday January 18, 2026 @04:02PM (#46672127)
You mean like a small rocket build? Okay :)
Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro on Sunday January 18, 2026 @03:03PM (#46671603)
I don't get your pessimism...

Nothing of it was even imaginable and yes the progress is crazy fast.

How can you be so dismissive?

Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro on Sunday January 18, 2026 @02:06PM (#46671049)
Debatable I would argue. It's definitely not 'just a statistical model's and I would argue that the compression into this space fixes potential issues differently than just statistics.

But I'm not a mathematics expert if this is the real official definition I'm fine with it. But are you though?

Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro on Sunday January 18, 2026 @02:03PM (#46671012)
I'm disappointed that you had to add the 'metamagical' to your question tbh

It doesn't matter if ai is in a hype cycle or not it doesn't change how a technology works.

Check out the yt videos from 1blue3brown he explains LLMs quite well. .your first step is the word embedding this vector space represents the relationship between words. Father - grandfather. The vector which makes a father a grandfather is the same vector as mother to grandmother.

You the use these word vectors in the attention layer to create a n dimensional space aka latent space which basically reflects a 'world' the LLM walks through. This makes the 'magic' of LLMs.

Basically a form of compression by having higher dimensions reflecting kind a meaning.

Your brain does the same thing. It can't store pixels so when you go back to some childhood environment like your old room, you remember it in some efficient (brain efficient) way. Like the 'feeling' of it.

That's also the reason why an LLM is not just some statistical parrot.

Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro on Sunday January 18, 2026 @04:35AM (#46666285)
It shows that a 'llm' can now work on issues like this today and tomorrow it can do even more.

Don't be so ignorant. A few years ago NO ONE could have come up with something so generic as an LLM which will help you to solve this kind of problems and also create text adventures and java code.

Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro on Sunday January 18, 2026 @04:33AM (#46666276)
They are not just statistical models

They create concepts in latent space which is basically compression which forces this

Re:Erdos 281 solved with ChatGPT 5.2 Pro on Sunday January 18, 2026 @04:32AM (#46666264)
Do you have a source for this?

Carbon copy would mean over fitting

Re:jQuery 4.0.0 Released on Sunday January 18, 2026 @04:30AM (#46666253)
Until you have to upgrade it and it bites you
Re:We Put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon on Sunday January 18, 2026 @04:25AM (#46666228)
It's about switching your whole ecosystem to a complete different thing...
Man if you are so frustrated by AI just stop reading articles relevant to it if you don't even take the time to read it properly.

And yes there are plenty of use cases were ai code doesn't hurt anyone even if it gets merged automatically...

See it as an interesting new field of r&d...

Re:Scott Alexander: The Dilbert Afterlife on Saturday January 17, 2026 @05:34PM (#46662789)
At the end of the day Dilbert was entertainment...

And SA was weird as f who made money bye filling a niche.

His political views and other snippets made that quite clear.

And let's be honest just creating cartoons about our corporate capitalistic shit hole was easy enough hit a nerve but more than a chuckle was Dilbert never.

It became cultural because it was printed everywhere and it was fun enough for it's format

Re:We Put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon on Saturday January 17, 2026 @05:23PM (#46662704)
It's not. There are so many ways to just solve this non issue that no one will just switch to just another random tool.

Especially not away from git.

Re:We Put Claude Code in Rollercoaster Tycoon on Saturday January 17, 2026 @02:49PM (#46661392)
It's not going to happen...

Stop spamming

Re:Canada slashes 100% tariffs on Chinese EVs to 6% on Friday January 16, 2026 @02:06PM (#46650636)
How many resources did the European and American steal from others?

How many humans were stolen by USA alone?

Does it make it better? No.

But that's it. Everything is shit but while USA got rich through manufacturing in the past, now it's China turn

Not sure we're you heard this.

Can be a stupid advice.

The ai field moves fast, what's wrong being an early adopter and experimenting around with it?

Someone has to do it.

And tbh skills are an easy to use concept to make Claude faster and the context smaller.

That's what he should have gotten. .his setup sounds borderline fishy

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