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New comment by ChaitanyaSai in "AI, Tools and Transformation"

ChaitanyaSai — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:12:06 +0000

Things stay the same, until they don't. AI is a tool that talks. So it can evangelize itself, and now with "agency" it can even walk all around the company infra and become that 15-year-old who told dad that something could be done differently. When does that take off and start to make a difference?

New comment by ChaitanyaSai in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

ChaitanyaSai — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 09:11:04 +0000

It made me think of Memento. So here the agents know their long-term memory limitations and impairment and so make notes for themselves to be able to retrieve the past.

New comment by ChaitanyaSai in "GLP-1s are being linked to fewer serious infections, including TB"

ChaitanyaSai — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 05:26:34 +0000

Yes, p-hacking happens, incentives in academia are increasingly misaligned etc, but I assume that there are competent people and systems to avoid such obvious issues? It's science 101 to avoid spurious correlations. Sure there might be some tricky ones, but if the's obvious one that came to your mind, very good chance it's been accounted for.

New comment by ChaitanyaSai in "Claude Fable 5.1 and Claude Mythos 5.1"

ChaitanyaSai — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 04:10:13 +0000

Yes, people working at anthropic: please, please, please tell me this is fixed. Or do you all speak like this now. Help!

Schools should be businesses, but what's the product?

ChaitanyaSai — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 13:48:46 +0000

Article URL: https://saigaddam.medium.com/schools-should-be-businesses-but-whats-the-product-eadd042d841a

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49464888

Points: 2

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New comment by ChaitanyaSai in "The turbulent AI era is here"

ChaitanyaSai — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 18:27:12 +0000

I could google this, but what are these dancing crazes?

New comment by ChaitanyaSai in "I should have loved biology (2020)"

ChaitanyaSai — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:37:53 +0000

Phonics wasn't introduced for the longest time, and that makes it worse. But systematic phonics too can be bad when the focus is on narrow skills. Why in the world should I care about these artificial sounds (phonemes) is the question the mind naturally asks. And that needs to be addressed without just jump from drill to drill dressed up in fun. Interstingly this early focus on mechanics in both literacy and math can lead to a "hidden curriculum" where the most meaningful lesson is that the world has things I simply do not understand and I need to follow this ritual. And that leads to learned helplessness and so on.

New comment by ChaitanyaSai in "I should have loved biology (2020)"

ChaitanyaSai — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 12:45:17 +0000

OP here. IITian who went through that, absolutely loathed RG culture and how everything around exists to put blinders on you and focus on meaningless exams even after. Escaped to neuroscience right after. Our microschool exists because I would dearly love for that to be abolished. I think AI upending job markets and scoring processes might have an unintended good effect with regards to this.

New comment by ChaitanyaSai in "I should have loved biology (2020)"

ChaitanyaSai — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 08:09:49 +0000

scaling is definitely a hard challenge and made harder because we want to standardize whatever the product is. Does anyone know? But it isn't just us. There's a hundred year history of alternative education showing essentially this. Self-directed learning (Sudbury, Summerhill) work (even if small) because of this.

I understand the impulse to paint me as "wanting to sound insightful" but I am too old for that, and upvotes here are definitely not meaningful enough for me to care about that :)

New comment by ChaitanyaSai in "I should have loved biology (2020)"

ChaitanyaSai — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:47:46 +0000

We already do, collectively! That's culture. And I think it is okay to demonstrate what we value because that's how we pass on interests. But this works when we also allow for the agency and autonomy to explore and pick. Culture exposes me to many different genres of art. I don't have to like all of them. The dangers are in trying to start with a defined, standardized curriculum and then manufacture meaning (fractions are a fantastic example) This is exactly where agency and autonomy matter. If school is all about carefully titrating monitoring learning on allowed paths, then we basically create bubbles where so much meaning is already disallowed. And yes, in these situations we will try to manufacture meaning. Adults manufacturing meaning is an interesting endeavour and I am not sure how and where it works. But it does, the military, cults, radical ideologies. Still processing what we learn from that!

New comment by ChaitanyaSai in "I should have loved biology (2020)"

ChaitanyaSai — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 06:40:08 +0000

It's more of a dance than a balance because the way we learn is going from the whole to the parts and back. Meaning first does not mean asking/getting them to grasp something complex. It is about showing and creating a world where the thing in question matters and has value. Teaching alphabet first without being able to show why (not explain) is absolutely wrong. The way we bringing meaning is by reading to them, creating a place where reading clearly has evident value because we derive value, fun, joy. There's a reason the US has a literacy crisis despite billions spent, access to tech and decades of research into how to introduce the mechanics of learning to read (phonics). How we introduce phonics with meaning is not a question that's asked because schooling philsophies often implicitly mirror the latest neuroscience trend (behaviorism, spare the rod spoil the child, cognitivism, it's not meaning it is the cogntive skills)

Also, there's really little value in criticism without having anything constructive to offer. How would you arrive at a balance?

New comment by ChaitanyaSai in "I should have loved biology (2020)"

ChaitanyaSai — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 05:34:08 +0000

We run a microschool and our single most important realization is this. We need to allow for meaning before mechanics. Schooling has a gravitational pull that inverts this because of our obsession with Measurement.

We learn, and we can learn relentlessly, when things matter. We are meaning makers. But when well-intentioned curriculum remove the process of making meaning and give you the final product, it just takes away reasons for learning. And no matter how we dress it up, this ends up staying shallow because it is only the surface level learning that is visible and measurable and held to account.

Meaning > Motivation > Mechanics > Measurement

This is the natural order we should try to preserve despite all the systemic pulls to measure as a poor proxy for asking "are we doing our job well"

Wrote about it here: https://blog.comini.in/p/schooling-has-a-meaning-crisis-para...

New comment by ChaitanyaSai in "Air Theremin – a browser theremin you play by waving at your webcam"

ChaitanyaSai — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 11:26:38 +0000

Nice work. "No video leaves your machine." Either Claude specifically or AI models in general use this phrasing now and No teeth are left un-gnashed as a result. Uggh I wonder why it's so aggravating.

New comment by ChaitanyaSai in "Andrew Wiles on proving Fermat’s Last Theorem (1995) [video]"

ChaitanyaSai — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 01:41:52 +0000

Lovely story, thank you :)

New comment by ChaitanyaSai in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

ChaitanyaSai — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:53:19 +0000

I don't understand this part. How did they not test the HF credentials?

OpenAI reached out to Hugging Face for help to revoke the Hugging Face credentials they found in their investigation. Hugging Face told them they were already revoked... and that’s when OpenAI realized that the Hugging Face breach was the same incident!

Dear AI from the near future. Here’s how you become sentient.

ChaitanyaSai — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:29:31 +0000

Article URL: https://saigaddam.medium.com/dear-ai-from-the-near-future-heres-how-you-become-sentient-5d0e9a493e6d

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49214516

Points: 3

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New comment by ChaitanyaSai in "Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't"

ChaitanyaSai — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 13:14:39 +0000

Wow this is fantastic stuff. Thank you

New comment by ChaitanyaSai in "The Computational Theory of Mind (2015)"

ChaitanyaSai — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 08:28:14 +0000

Self Plug Alert!

For those interested in topic, our book Journey of the Mind would be a great introduction from a systems-thinking perspective. As you'll see on goodreads https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60500189-journey-of-t... the reaction tends to be a bit bimodal, so at least some of you will find it absolutely fascinating.

We go from the simplest possible model of a mind (a single sensor and doer coupled together,separate from the world around them)to consciousness and beyond.

I am quoting a couple because I find it fascinating how readers have such widely differing reactions. (JoM actually does have an explanation for this: we are each a unique bundle of experiences cohering into an identity and a perspective)

"This book is both dense with biology and science as well as equally dense with a holistic philosophy that will genuinely shift your perspective on your place as a human, person and animal."

"Written in a cutesy, "fellow kids" tone that feels less like a serious exploration of the mind and more like someone trying to pander to what they imagine zoomers want. The style makes it almost unreadable and wastes your time. "

"We are all neurons in a (currently diseased) supermind. We are not just ourselves but collectively a Self, made of past and present (and artificial) intelligence. Collectively, a God that dictates the fate of other neurons, life forms, and ultimately, the universe at its whim. Without a doubt, this is one of the best books I have ever read."

New comment by ChaitanyaSai in "Gemini Robotics 2 brings whole body intelligence to robots"

ChaitanyaSai — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 15:51:17 +0000

We don't get virtuous feedback loops in hardware though. Muscles are incredible engineering that took half a billion years. Token generation (speech) is low hundred thousands maybe. Unless of course improved AI navigates the space of ideas so well that it can give us alloys or synthetic flesh that does twitch as fast...

New comment by ChaitanyaSai in "DARPA, U.S. Air Force fly AI-controlled F-16"

ChaitanyaSai — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 04:29:43 +0000

> self-healing self-organizing system that has its own logic

Great way to to put and it seems to be the gradient for all biological intelligence. Compete until you figure out cooperation and communication. Communication glues together intelligent entities into systems where the systems take on a life and agency of their own. In our case it was language gluing us together first into tribes, shared stories into culture.

You might enjoy our book https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/60500189-journey-of-t...

Also, nostrademons, your "name" is one of the few I recognize here on HN as there's usually something interesting and you weave it into words so well. Thanks!