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Re:What shall I teach my son? on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:38AM (#50179895)
It's not really about the words, but about the intentions. If you speak the words without the intentions, then you get the orwellian mismatch you describe. So it's not really about "rephrasing" but more about "reorientation". The suggested phrasings are just a pointer to something deeper.

There are many ways of approaching this idea (nonviolent communication is one). This blog post is another for those interested: https://chrisbarber.co/resonance/

Re:What shall I teach my son? on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:28AM (#50179785)
Come on, Bill Gates is not the only kid whose mother had connections. You can't credit his entire success to this single fact.
Does no one else notice the LLM-speak tone of this article? Does no one else mind?
gpt 5.5 thinking is more reliable than the median internet commenter
Re:Show HN: Hallucinopedia on Wednesday May 06, 2026 @07:03PM (#48043028)
I'm curious, what is the LLM cost of the website?
This is an argument against all technological progress.
Re:Average Is All You Need on Friday April 17, 2026 @08:59AM (#47805454)
Being average is a just stage LLMs pass through as AI makes its way towards 'expert' and 'super human' levels.
Re:Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine) on Monday March 02, 2026 @04:43AM (#47215721)
I can do long division manually but I still reach for a calculator.
Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler on Friday February 06, 2026 @10:42AM (#46914189)
People skills :/
Re:We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler on Friday February 06, 2026 @10:41AM (#46914174)
This is an experiment to see the current limit of AI capabilities. The end result isn't useful, but the fact is established that in Feb 2026, you can spend $20k on AI to get a inefficient but working C complier.
Re:How AI Impacts Skill Formation on Friday January 30, 2026 @05:20AM (#46822673)
Far far more people use ChatGPT than Claude.ai
I started skimming and instantly thought AI, then came to the comments to see if it was just me.
Re:Lights and Shadows on Thursday January 08, 2026 @09:38AM (#46541509)
School incentives are not really aligned around maximizing learning rate for every student. (E.g. that is why there is/was debate around teaching phonetics)
Re:Are LLMs Random? on Wednesday April 30, 2025 @11:24AM (#43846564)
Cool experiment! My intuition suggests you would get a better result if you let the LLM generate tokens for a while before giving you an answer. Could be another experiment idea to see what kind of instructions lead to better randomness. (And to extend this, whether these instructions help humans better generate random numbers too.)
Re:Full power outage in Spain and Portugal on Tuesday April 29, 2025 @07:09AM (#43830978)
ChatGPT's tone is slowly taking over the entire internet
Re:AI Horseless Carriages on Thursday April 24, 2025 @12:19PM (#43784517)
People still play chess, even though now AI is far superior to any human. In the future you will still be able to hand-write code for fun, but you might not be able to earn a living by doing it.
Re:AI Horseless Carriages on Thursday April 24, 2025 @12:18PM (#43784501)
The live demos are using a very cheap and not very smart model. Do not update your opinion on AI capabilities based on the poor performance of gpt-4o-mini
Re:AI Horseless Carriages on Thursday April 24, 2025 @12:15PM (#43784470)
The system prompt can include examples. That is often a good idea.
Re:AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please on Monday March 31, 2025 @12:32PM (#43536903)
For me, they have come from the AI labs themselves. I have been impressed with Claude Code and OpenAI's Deep Research.
Re:AI Agents: Less Capability, More Reliability, Please on Monday March 31, 2025 @11:27AM (#43536147)
Lots of people are building on the edge of current AI capabilities, where things don't quite work, because in 6 months when the AI labs release a more capable model, you will just be able to plug it in and have it work consistently.
Re:Why Anthropic's Claude still hasn't beaten Pokémon on Thursday March 27, 2025 @01:12PM (#43495676)
This is the crux of the issue. Whether you think this is like extending a ladder to the moon, or more like we figured out how to get to the moon and are now aiming at Jupiter.
Re:Why Anthropic's Claude still hasn't beaten Pokémon on Thursday March 27, 2025 @01:05PM (#43495613)
Claude Plays Pokemon is one person's side project to see how well Sonnet can play pokemon. It is a neat LLM benchmark; it's not a serious attempt at making Pokemon-playing AI.
Re:Why Anthropic's Claude still hasn't beaten Pokémon on Thursday March 27, 2025 @08:56AM (#43493109)
Do you disagree that AI will ever reach the level of a "high-income knowledge worker", or do you disagree that it will happen in a year or two?
Re:The Model Is the Product on Tuesday March 18, 2025 @09:19AM (#43399122)
If you have not been reading every OpenAI blog post, you can't be blamed for thinking the model picker affects Deep Research, since the UI heavily implies that.
Re:Show HN: I convert videos to printed flipbooks for living on Tuesday February 04, 2025 @07:29AM (#42931481)
I don't know how literal you are being, but it is not "literally anyone". If you know what FFmpeg is, you are a very small minority of the population.
Re:AI Is Bad/Good Actually on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @06:11AM (#39601919)
Improve in intelligence and capability.
Re:How to run a small social network on Sunday December 31, 2023 @01:33PM (#38826281)
Enforce a no politics rule.
Re:(Learn 'Scheme) on Sunday October 29, 2023 @04:13PM (#38062257)
Here is another online SICP with built in interpreter.

http://xuanji.appspot.com/isicp/

Re:Ask HN: PG's 'Do Things That Don't Scale' Manual Examples on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @04:01PM (#38017528)
One problem with cheap or free is that when you are trying to validate your product, a user paying you good money is far more validation that a free user.
Re:Why a cancer scare around aspartame is mostly unfounded on Wednesday August 30, 2023 @06:56AM (#37320117)
That's not the conclusion of the link you posted. The conclusion is more like:

> After aspartame is consumed, it immediately breaks down into three naturally occurring chemicals. Even large amounts of aspartame cause smaller fluctuations in those chemicals than normal food. The current science says that the health impact of aspartame is essentially zero. Every credible body that has studied this question has reached the same conclusion.

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