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Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:29PM (#50343244)
This goes against the bitter lesson I think.
Re:Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen
on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:10PM (#50342952)
Does asking an LLM to not use tools guarantee it doesn't use tools?
Re:Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse
on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:37AM (#50339447)
And this is considered really creepy and weird by many people.
Re:Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse
on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:21AM (#50339152)
Are you being sarcastic? I genuinely cannot tell.
Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it
on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:17AM (#50339058)
I don't think you understand the conversation that these mathematicians are having. They are debating what to do as mathematicians with regards to math; not how society should handle a hypothetical AI god. I also don't think they necessarily believe in the AI god the way that you do.
Re:Last night an AI agent performed brain surgery on a mouse
on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:14AM (#50338985)
Who made the coding error?
Re:Anthropic reports $17B in Q3 revenue, commitments of $895B in revis...
on Monday November 02, 2026 @11:03AM (#50338767)
what if the alternative is much cheaper?
Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it
on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:58AM (#50336216)
Why do you think we pay historians or english professors?
Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it
on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:54AM (#50336175)
Look, if we were worried about human extinction, the frontier-labs should simply stop. They won't though.
Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it
on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:48AM (#50336121)
Any interesting examples of one?
Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it
on Monday November 02, 2026 @07:43AM (#50336073)
It's certainly not the case with writing.
Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it
on Monday November 02, 2026 @03:59AM (#50334528)
I didn't say it was impossible, I said if it were true there would be nothing to do and thus no point in writing about that potentiality. It's sort of like writing about what mathematics should do if there was a thermonuclear war that wiped out all of civilisation.
Re:Mathematics has changed. Let's act like it
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @03:17PM (#50329328)
Because if you assume there is going to be an AI-god that can do everything better than us, there's nothing to really do. Like really, what do you want these people to write? "Well, math for humans is over as well as all intellectual activity, better just jerk off watching AI-generated hentai all day until I die"
Re:Proving and improving the Platonic Representation Hypothesis with J...
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @09:42AM (#50326165)
I thought the platonic representation hypothesis was much more ambitious: wasn't it supposed to apply for any model across modalities (e.g. including human minds), rather than just the same model but with different modalities? I'll have to actually read the paper but I suspect there to be very strong assumptions which defeat the interesting aspects of the platonic representation hypothesis.
Re:No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video]
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @08:18AM (#50325389)
:(
Re:No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video]
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:33AM (#50324631)
You seem completely joyless.
Re:No AI, 52 min. Build all Linux Files utils in C by Hand [video]
on Sunday November 01, 2026 @06:01AM (#50324458)
Well, if the point is to have something that works well and follows the standard, he shouldn't have done anything at all and just use what was already made.
Re:The Duty of a Scholar
on Saturday October 31, 2026 @05:27PM (#50320408)
and if he was living in the other states?
Re:GPT-5.6 Sol can beat Factorio on peaceful mode
on Saturday October 31, 2026 @04:44PM (#50320006)
Shhh you can't say anything anti-hype here.
Re:Show HN: A working Nintendo in ~1GB of Qwen weights
on Friday October 30, 2026 @02:05PM (#50307840)
You can't generalize and say that 1 is better than 2, it depends entirely on what you are developing, for whom and for what purpose. For a one-off dumb thing for a few people 1 is fine, for anything at scale, 2 is likely better.
Re:The Tragedy of Losing Your Wikipedia Page
on Friday October 30, 2026 @06:58AM (#50302265)
Just because something is completely pointless and uninteresting doesn't mean it's not knowledge. It's more or less just justified true belief (with some caveats)
Re:The Tragedy of Losing Your Wikipedia Page
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @07:37PM (#50297804)
What on earth is that argument?
Re:I Used AI to Fake a Scientific Paper. Here's What Happened
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @10:55AM (#50290134)
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Re:Decompiling Games with AI: Virtueel Zoetermeer
on Thursday October 29, 2026 @06:47AM (#50287011)
I'd be curious to know what makes some games easier than others to decompile for models? Besides just how complicated the game is.
Re:Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce
on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @10:04AM (#50259574)
Persian doesn't have gender and Iran is famously not patriarchal at all.
Re:Anthropic S-1
on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:50AM (#50244745)
>"How often are people paying at least $600 annually for something AI can help them do instead"
Not that often.
Re:Anthropic S-1
on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:44AM (#50244619)
https://github.com/storytold/photocraft/issues?q=is%3Aissue+... It's also a buggy mess
Re:Anthropic S-1
on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:39AM (#50244520)
If we end up having a centrally planned economy but controlled by billionaires instead of the proletariat, it would be quite upsetting.
Re:Anthropic S-1
on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:37AM (#50244495)
If you ate up that 12T dollars on AI, the economy would collapse and whoosh would go the 12T dollars.
Re:Anthropic S-1
on Monday October 26, 2026 @10:35AM (#50244457)
How often are you having a plumber or mechanic come?