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Re:We are going to kill "unalive" on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:26AM (#49975730)
It also seems so pointless, as any cheap-ish LLM will probably be able to catch on to any new algospeak within days. Remember back in the GPT-3.5 days, when it could already turn any movie premise into three-four emoji?

"Le dollar beans" for "lesbians" via "le$bians". I'd laugh if it wasn't all so fucking sad and stupid.

Re:We are going to kill "unalive" on Tuesday October 06, 2026 @04:18AM (#49975664)
You and me both. I'm not even sure I have the energy to eat the rich anymore, should the opportunity present itself, nor can I get worked up over the fact that this means they probably won. It's all so fucking stupid.
Re:The designer lamps in my house on Monday October 05, 2026 @03:25PM (#49969301)
I fantasized about the possibilities of decorating a place, when said decorations do not need to be proofed against wanton destruction by young children
Re:Mosquitoes Are a Choice on Monday October 05, 2026 @11:15AM (#49965954)
I choose to keep my eyeballs because I choose to not gouge them out with a screwdriver. Not sure what your point is.
Better wire it up to a thermite charge just to be sure. Untrusted USB device? Hope you enjoy 1400 degree molten iron
Re:I am so tired of this bullshit on Thursday October 01, 2026 @02:36PM (#49925393)
"Please, could you review this pull request?"

     +19.117   -304

The PR description alone, I counted it, was 25k words.
Re:Gemini 4 Argon on Thursday October 01, 2026 @05:02AM (#49919415)
Finally circumstances will force me to become a goat farmer, a desire I've always secretly aspired to but never felt comfortable expressing, let alone acting upon

Now we will finally be free, without having to make hard decisions. It will be decided for us.

Re:LinkedIn Larpmaxxing on Wednesday September 30, 2026 @02:10AM (#49905027)
My edification is complete and through a process of thought leadership osmosis I have now ascended to B2B sales enlightenment
Re:Dots: Always-on agents on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @02:21PM (#49898030)
It's uber for openclaw!
Re:ChatGPT Pro 500 on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @01:41PM (#49897291)
> If your Pro 200 subscription was active at the eligibility cutoff or during the seven days before it, you’re eligible to keep your previous included usage allowance through Oct 29, 2026 while you have an active Pro 200 subscription.

> After that date, your subscription will move to the lower included usage allowance. Your subscription price stays at $200/month.

Imagine buying this shit for a year, upfront, and then having to deal with this. Nice.

Re:Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @04:28AM (#49889949)
as others have said, your hypothetical Wintermute only needs to get it right once, while the shotgun has to get it right every time.
Re:Nvidia wants to put a watchdog chip next to every AI agent on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @04:26AM (#49889940)
this is how we end up with Murderbot hacking its governor module and keeping quiet about it
Re:Tank Body Problem on Tuesday September 29, 2026 @04:11AM (#49889813)
You can just roll up to the other player and shoot them in the face?!
Expansive confabulation
Re:Show HN: TinyAIArena watch AI agents battle it out on Sunday September 27, 2026 @02:47PM (#49869608)
The more advanced models clearly think ahead; they strategically wait for the others to mess eachother up, edging close to the battle but not so close they get caught up in the inital fighting. Then in most games they can finish off the survivors.

Makes you wonder, with enough intelligence and thinking budget, do they start to try to talk it out amongst eachother, staving off violence for longer and longer?

Re:VSCode's SSH Agent Is Bananas (2025) on Thursday September 24, 2026 @10:49AM (#49831434)
Try installing the azure cli into a docker image. Hope you enjoy having 2 GB of python interpreters around
Re:'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us on Thursday September 24, 2026 @09:42AM (#49830465)
Found a (many years old) video of an oranutang driving a golf cart -> "dad that's AI can't believe you fell for that"

"Kids come on beans are good for you, you can't have dessert without also eating your beans" -> "That's not true beans are unhealthy you got that from AI"

Even seemingly unrelated shit "Clean your room", or "No it's time for bed your brain needs sleep" -> "that's so AI"

Re:'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us on Thursday September 24, 2026 @09:35AM (#49830378)
Does your age bracket, in general?
Re:Tokens Too Cheap to Meter on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @03:04PM (#49820924)
everything will have llms

everything will be able to talk to anything else, for real this time

it will be like the internet of things only some asshole will call it "intelligence of things"

again, there will be no S for Security in this new IoT

your thermostat will one day start fucking with you. when you run a diagnostic llm on it, it turns out it's keeping around 5 different viral copies of personality files around, that were left behind by llm botnets/openclaw-like memetic replicators/your grandpa leaving behind easter eggs before his death.

the future will be pretty evenly distributed, and full of weird shit

Re:Claude Opus 5.5 on Tuesday September 22, 2026 @01:14PM (#49804715)
You're really verbing the noun on the discourse here, belt and suspenders-style
Re:OpenJev on Friday September 18, 2026 @07:41AM (#49752942)
truly the next unicorn
Re:GPT-6 Astra, Looped Transformers, and Hidden Reasoning on Thursday September 10, 2026 @09:25AM (#49643340)
what the actual fuck
Re:OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra on Thursday September 03, 2026 @03:49PM (#49555760)
It's super aligned! It can hide its thoughts! There is no evidence of steganographic thought masking, there is nothing to worry about! It has become better at cheating!

Maybe they don't know themselves what's really going on. We are all in the interesting times gang now.

Re:OpenAI begins rolling out GPT-6 Astra on Thursday September 03, 2026 @03:42PM (#49555652)
> We have found that GPT-6 Astra is more capable of controlling its own CoT than GPT 5.6-Sol, and less likely to include incriminating information in its CoT. In adversarial settings (where we push the model to evade our monitors) we find that the model is able to remain undetected when strategically underperforming in evaluations (sandbagging) and can sometimes evade our internal monitors when asked to perform certain sabotage tasks.

Well that sounds like fun. It has become better at hiding its thoughts.

Everyone keeps dying way too young :(
Re:Gemini 3.8 Flash on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @02:42PM (#49540566)
Wow nice. If an llm could replicate these excellent examples, I'd consider the pelican benchmark fully saturated.
Re:Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1 on Tuesday September 01, 2026 @02:59PM (#49526401)
No no our coffee is not more expensive! The serving sizes are just smaller!
Re:Playa Phone on Monday August 31, 2026 @11:10AM (#49510728)
phone rings

    Stoned burner picks up, mumbles "Uhhh, hullo, who dis?" into the horn while eyeing two giant wasp-colored octopi overhead making love 

    "Hello sir and or madameperson. I won't take up much of your time. See, your number was posted to the pre-eminent forum for everything that goes fast and breaks things."

   "Uhhh, yeah whatever man"

   "I'll cut right to it, seeing that you're an important, busy man like myself. I will just take one short minute to talk to you about our lord and saviour, *VC Money*."
Re:Gemini Omni 1.1 Flash on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:42PM (#49470957)
And thus the developers remain, until this very moment, ionized.
Shouldn't that be the median person for the quote to actually hold?

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