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New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code"

DonsDiscountGas — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 18:32:39 +0000

Only if the customer is paying per token. If it's by subscription they're burning their own money

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "'Ghost Job' Ads Are Getting So Bad That Lawmakers Want to Ban Them"

DonsDiscountGas — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 23:48:01 +0000

Seems like a difficult thing to enforce. Presumably not impossible to make some progress tho.

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "OpenAI disbanded the team that assessed catastrophic model risks"

DonsDiscountGas — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 12:11:12 +0000

Or maybe they weren't allowed to do anything effective. I don't know why you give OpenAI such a big benefit of the doubt.

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "How Claude's text watermarking works"

DonsDiscountGas — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:55:45 +0000

I think this way is better. As I said it doesn't really have a downside (IMHO), and if I'm wrong Anthropic could implement a defense against what you're describing pretty easily.

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "How Claude's text watermarking works"

DonsDiscountGas — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:26:54 +0000

It's completely pointless without an API, unless you're thinking the API should be private or restricted. The public needs some way of identifying the watermark.

> anybody who wants to avoid detection can just

They can just use a different LLM. By far easier and more reliable than what you're suggesting. This whole watermarking requirement is better then nothing because meant people are profoundly lazy, but yes it is not hard to work around with any effort.

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "Amazon circumvents Gilroy community vote for AI data center"

DonsDiscountGas — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 13:47:26 +0000

It's possible that the official process is a bad one and needs reform. But that's really not Amazon's fault, and it would be super weird for them to set up a bunch of additional hoops for themselves to jump through. Also not very democratic.

> because data centers are this year's culture war hot topic?

Or because they didn't notice until they saw actual construction.

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "Kalshi and Polymarket bets on clinical trials criticized as 'ghastly'"

DonsDiscountGas — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 01:46:50 +0000

From a moral perspective I don't think it is. From a more practical perspective... It's only tiny biotechs where the share price exactly tracks a single clinical trial. This opens up ways to make more specific bets

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "Lost my phone at the office. Claude suggested tracking Bluetooth signal strength"

DonsDiscountGas — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:40:19 +0000

Yes, technology at step N is built from technology at step N-1. Always has been.

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal"

DonsDiscountGas — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:17:33 +0000

Sure why not. Mercury is in retrograde after all

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a sudden reversal"

DonsDiscountGas — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 15:30:36 +0000

True, but is there any reason to think this dishonesty varies over time? The trend could be informative even if the raw numbers are nonsense

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "Artificial Intelligence used to design new viruses"

DonsDiscountGas — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 02:27:41 +0000

Bacteriophages present zero threat to humans and could be very valuable as antibiotics.

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "Waymo in Dallas"

DonsDiscountGas — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 10:37:20 +0000

Carpooling?

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "Don't be a meat proxy"

DonsDiscountGas — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:56:23 +0000

Unless they're a professional stack exchange responder (not a real job afaik) they probably do a lot besides answer random questions

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "Don't be a meat proxy"

DonsDiscountGas — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:49:00 +0000

I understand your point but it's funny to use AI as an example since a big benefit is it's generality. It's mediocre at many things but the fact that you can just use one tool and get passable results across many domains makes it so useful.

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "The Rise of Million-Dollar Companies with Just One Employee"

DonsDiscountGas — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 21:33:22 +0000

Exactly zero civilizations large enough to deserve the name had exactly one ideology

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions"

DonsDiscountGas — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:14:47 +0000

Lol. You don't even need AI for that 99% boiler plate. Save 6-12 months of expenses in cash, DCA the rest into total market stock index funds. But people still pay expensive advisors to get worse results.

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

DonsDiscountGas — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 21:05:37 +0000

Yeah, kinda. Waymos have been on the road since 2023.

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

DonsDiscountGas — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:32:27 +0000

Any suggestions on hardware for using this? Just for simple experimentation

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

DonsDiscountGas — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 01:30:38 +0000

Seems like production ready is 2-5 years out though. Not a very long time

New comment by DonsDiscountGas in "AI's top startups are barely publishing their research"

DonsDiscountGas — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 01:05:03 +0000

In biotech sometimes. It's a form of advertising.