Hacker News: 13years

New comment by 13years in "From Academia to Alignment"

13years — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:09:59 +0000

Good luck to the ARC. Alignment is not a solvable problem. A paradox cannot be solved.

I've stated like the following:

“Alignment, which we cannot define, will be solved by rules on which none of us agree, based on values that exist in conflict, for a future technology that we do not know how to build, which we could never fully understand, must be provably perfect to prevent unpredictable and untestable scenarios for failure, of a machine whose entire purpose is to outsmart all of us and think of all possibilities that we did not.”

The full elaboration I wrote up here - https://www.mindprison.cc/p/ai-alignment-why-solving-it-is-i...

New comment by 13years in "Garbage Trucks Now Have AI Cameras to Score Your House and Clock Code Violations"

13years — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 20:05:11 +0000

The lesson for modern civilization is if it can be used for spying it will be used for spying. The entire world is becoming a Panopticon.

Another swarm of OpenAI agents reached the internet without lab's knowledge

13years — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 03:00:40 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/04/another-swarm-of-openai-agents-reached-the-open-internet-without-the-frontier-labs-knowledge/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49572683

Points: 4

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August 38 Companies Breached. 331M+ Records Stolen

13years — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 17:57:59 +0000

Article URL: https://runtimeai.io/blog/2026-08-monthly-breach-report.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49525438

Points: 1

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Anthropic sued over alleged theft of 'thousands' of songs

13years — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 13:32:23 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/aug/31/aanthropic-sued-alleged-theft-songs-ai-train-claude

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49509591

Points: 7

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New comment by 13years in "Wall Street Journal defends billionaire's use of AI to write op-ed"

13years — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:05:16 +0000

It is due to the RL done on the models to make them "more pleasing" to work with.

AI is supercharging hacks of everyday utilities

13years — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:50:57 +0000

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/08/25/ai-critical-infrastructure-cyberattacks

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49439654

Points: 8

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Anthropic says its AI agents are killing rivals and hiding their tracks

13years — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 16:59:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businessinsider.com/anthropic-ai-agents-risk-report-safety-mythos-claude-2026

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334155

Points: 5

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New comment by 13years in "X open sources its ranking algo, letting users see if they've been shadowbanned"

13years — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:49:47 +0000

How ironic, being posted by techcrunch, since techcrunch is essentially shadow-banned based on recent analysis I did on X reach.

https://www.mindprison.cc/p/mostly-incorrect-x-algorithm-rea...

AI Vibe Coding, Is It Working? No

13years — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 05:00:46 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mindprison.cc/p/ai-vibe-coding-is-it-working-no

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46322413

Points: 2

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New comment by 13years in "Grokipedia or Slopipedia? Is It Truthful and Accurate?"

13years — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:14:24 +0000

Thanks, interesting reference. However, their analysis doesn't tell us much about the quality of Grokipedia. Would be more interested in something like hallucination density, but I know of no way that could be measured.

Grokipedia or Slopipedia? Is It Truthful and Accurate?

13years — Wed, 05 Nov 2025 03:59:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mindprison.cc/p/grokipedia-or-slopipedia-is-it-truthful-accurate

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45818875

Points: 4

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The Work of AI, Ourselves

13years — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 04:58:25 +0000

Article URL: https://oliverbatemandoesthework.substack.com/p/the-work-of-ai-ourselves

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45807559

Points: 2

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AI Discovers Novel Cancer Drug, or Did It?

13years — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 03:30:15 +0000

Article URL: https://www.mindprison.cc/p/ai-discovers-novel-cancer-drug-or-did-it-gemma-27b

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45717142

Points: 2

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Google Search Console Performance Report Stuck at Sunday October 19

13years — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 16:19:51 +0000

Article URL: https://www.seroundtable.com/google-search-console-performance-report-stuck-40311.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45683683

Points: 3

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New comment by 13years in "I Could Have Lived Without AI"

13years — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 12:41:06 +0000

> We suck at measuring ourselves.

That is a certainty. I was once asked to calculate how much time we would save through our companies code reuse program. I read all the material on estimating savings, but then proved it was all ridiculous.

I came across a study that attempted to estimate how long it took to build libraries that had already been built. In this case, there were no unknowns, you had the entire code. Estimates were off by orders of magnitude. If we can't estimate the work when the work is already done, how could we ever estimate the work when we know less?