mohamedmohey
Re:Thinking will become a hobby
on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @08:15AM (#50070462)
This is so reductive and just pure helplessness.
It doesn't try to argue the point, it just says some facts about AI and concludes: "welp, I guess thinking is useless now".
Thinking will always be useful, because it's how we function. Coupled with agency and responsibility, this is what makes a person function.
Yes, maybe an AI or a swarm of agents could operate a company, but who is orchestrating them? Are they running fully autonomously? Even if we assume that, then someone else will come in with their own swarm and they will be in charge of that swarm (they will improve it, change it, etc.)
The economy IS people. People think. Thinking people will -all things being equal- be better off than non-thinking people.
But if you see thinking as merely a hobby then you're absolutely free to do so. Don't think.
Re:The OpenEvidence Model Family
on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @07:08AM (#49814268)
"We’re sorry, OpenEvidence is not available in your location at this time."
Thanks
Re:Saying Goodbye to Firebug (2017)
on Friday September 18, 2026 @04:47PM (#49760063)
Randomly stumbled across Firebug on an old Stack Overflow thread and thought it's cool.
https://stackoverflow.com/a/2535851/5404958
Canonical post:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15542263
Some other "recent" mentions:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41679528
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41749203
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32395518
Re:Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds
on Thursday September 17, 2026 @08:13AM (#49739673)
If this is RSI then all RL is RSI.
The whole idea behind RL is that the agent improves over time by making actions in the environment and observing the next state and the reward then modifying its policy.
The exploration-exploitation dilemma still stands. "dreaming in the replay simulator" is jargon for the same replay ideas presented when Deep RL was first introduced (Q-learning with experience replay and all that).
Re:How Big Are Factorials?
on Thursday September 17, 2026 @06:45AM (#49738894)
This reminded me of tetration and Knuth's up-arrow notation. It's basically repeated exponentiation.
Searching now, I just learned of tetrofactorial, which is a factorial using tetration operations. There's also pentation which is repeated tetration.
And there's a whole wiki for it here: googology.fandom.com
It's fun because the numbers are so big it's basically infinity but any of those numbers is still nothing compared to infinity.