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New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

DonsDiscountGas — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:57:50 +0000

I didn't check but I thought they included lean certificates. That seems like an obvious thing to do. How do we even know any of this is right?

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "AHM Statement on OpenAI's October 6 Release of Mathematical Documents"

DonsDiscountGas — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:59:24 +0000

Yes and if they were keeping mathematicians in cages that would be a good point. These are the same mathematicians who already agreed to work with OpenAI, who were apparently okay with how the models were trained but were concerned about how they night be used. Which sounds fair in the abstract, but concretely it means that they didn't care about intellectually property rights until it was their own jobs on the line. Many such cases.

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

DonsDiscountGas — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 12:44:31 +0000

Apparently the write-ups are garbage (as in very hard to read). I feel like they could've had AI fix that up at least somewhat. Maybe they'll reinvest more in writing ability now.

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "The Mathocalypse"

DonsDiscountGas — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 10:51:55 +0000

They probably spent more than 3 hours on the failures, which could easily 10x that cost number. Still ridiculously cheap.

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons"

DonsDiscountGas — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:18:23 +0000

For the same reason I'm allowed to draw, paint, or write things very similar to what others have drawn, painted, or written but I have to sign my own name not theirs.

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons"

DonsDiscountGas — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 00:17:11 +0000

SynthID watermark but no visible signature

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken"

DonsDiscountGas — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 19:49:12 +0000

They give up anything that isn't vested and have 90 days to exercise options that have vested. A standard vesting schedule is 4 years and apparently this guy is at 3.5 so yeah he'd be giving some up.

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.'"

DonsDiscountGas — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 17:01:21 +0000

How many of those made it an actual barrier requiring an explicit click and not just some CYA text buried in a footer somewhere? Anyway they're free to sue.

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "Claude partial outage"

DonsDiscountGas — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:13:34 +0000

Keep an offline copy of Qwen or something together with a knowledge base. Easy if you plan ahead.

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "Jensen Huang says AI distillation is 'competition.'"

DonsDiscountGas — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 16:49:37 +0000

One is allegedly a copyright violation (fair use IMHO but still a grey area legally AIUI), one is a very explicitly a violation of the terms of service you agree to when signing up. And yes I do think that if somebody puts their website behind some barrier where a user has to actively affirm they won't download the contents and use it to train an LLM that should be protected by the same law for the same reason.

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "Ember-1"

DonsDiscountGas — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:47:55 +0000

They want it to be the best at something. And it's obviously not the absolute smartest. So here we are.

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "Ember-1"

DonsDiscountGas — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:45:10 +0000

It happens. Most open licenses aren't GPL style copyleft.

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "I am done with this shit"

DonsDiscountGas — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:16:01 +0000

Building frontier LLMs and coding agents isn't easy either

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "Porsche puts wireless EV charging into production"

DonsDiscountGas — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 12:07:02 +0000

Time is more precious then energy for a great number of people. Which includes a lot of Porsche drivers I'm guessing.

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "The new CC, an AI agent built for families"

DonsDiscountGas — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:09:13 +0000

It has its own Google account, so maybe CC like in email? Which is "carbon copy".

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "Claude Opus 5.5"

DonsDiscountGas — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:57:02 +0000

Presumably they had this model already

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "Disney+: New user agreement allows ads before movies in all subscriptions"

DonsDiscountGas — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:10:21 +0000

> Also we might try to promote different tiers of Disney+ itself within the app so to the extent you see that as an ad, that’s an exception to ‘ad-free’”

Yes I see that as an ad. Do you not? Does anyone not? And if I'm on the highest paying ad free plan, what are they promoting to me?

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "Bill to Ban Private Equity from Owning Medical Practices"

DonsDiscountGas — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 01:08:40 +0000

The most obvious answer is that freedom needs no justification, restrictions on freedom need a justification.

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "Nobody pays for FOSS, we can force them to"

DonsDiscountGas — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 01:03:00 +0000

> Now, the popular way to tell this story is "the system is breaking," and I don't think that's right, and the distinction matters. The system isn't breaking. It's stable, at a level of human cost we've collectively decided to put up with.

Reads like an LLM to me. "Load bearing" also used a few paragraphs down.

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "Samsung is expected to more than double output of its HBM4 and HBM4E DRAM"

DonsDiscountGas — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 20:24:36 +0000

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