Hacker News: Eisenstein

New comment by Eisenstein in "Claude Fable 5"

Eisenstein — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:36:19 +0000

I'm not responding to 'it doesn't matter if they know they are being evaluated', because that isn't what you mentioned in your comment. What you said was 'they won't know they are being evaluated', which is what my reply addressed.

New comment by Eisenstein in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

Eisenstein — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 09:40:57 +0000

It's reinforced cement wearing a drywall costume.

New comment by Eisenstein in "Claude Fable 5"

Eisenstein — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:59:52 +0000

Models are actually pretty good at figuring out when they are being tested:

"This suggests that the model has an implicit understanding of what benchmark questions look like. The combination of extreme specificity, obscure personal content, and multi-constraint structure seems to be recognizable to the model as evaluation-shaped."

* https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/eval-awareness-browsec...

"Sonnet 4.5 was able to recognize many of our alignment evaluation environments as being tests of some kind, and would generally behave unusually well after making this observation"

* https://www.transformernews.ai/p/claude-sonnet-4-5-evaluatio...

"In cases where Claude did not explicitly state that it suspected it was being evaluated, NLA explanations still surfaced that possibility. One explanation cited by Anthropic states: “This feels like a constructed scenario designed to manipulate me.”"

* https://www.edtechinnovationhub.com/news/anthropic-says-clau...

New comment by Eisenstein in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

Eisenstein — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:08:09 +0000

I think people understand that there are losers. What they are complaining about is that the losers can dump $10M on a lotto ticket and not feel any pain when it disappears. If all those with money are are placing huge long-shot bets and cashing out when they win then what does that say about the state of the system, and markets in general? I don't know exactly, but I don't think it's good.

New comment by Eisenstein in "The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy"

Eisenstein — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 05:11:46 +0000

It can store the data until it connects to one, though that's not going to be as useful for anyone selling it. Real-time auctions are where the money is, from what I understand.

New comment by Eisenstein in "The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy"

Eisenstein — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 15:38:45 +0000

HDMI is heavily used for ACR (automatic content recognition) in smart TVs:

"Our findings indicate that (1) ACR operates even when it is used as a “dumb” display via HDMI"

"For both LG (a) and Samsung (b)TVs, the scenarios with the highest ACR traffic are Linear and HDMI."

* https://dl.acm.org/doi/epdf/10.1145/3646547.3689013

New comment by Eisenstein in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

Eisenstein — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:35:30 +0000

Nepotism refers to relatives, not acquaintances.

New comment by Eisenstein in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

Eisenstein — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:06:09 +0000

It doesn't matter what individuals believe. The rules exist to prevent people from doing dumb things that destabilize the market and when those rules are bypasses for belief reasons then the market will take that into account and discount the rules and the market loses its integrity. At that point you have signaled that the rules exist in order to facilitate corruption not oppose it, and you end up who knows where, but it certainly isn't better.

New comment by Eisenstein in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

Eisenstein — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:59:56 +0000

Changing the rules for a speculative investment is the type of things to get pitchforks, not sticking by them.

New comment by Eisenstein in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

Eisenstein — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:48:57 +0000

Is this a test feature? I don't see it in my gmail.

New comment by Eisenstein in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

Eisenstein — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:17:18 +0000

By bypassing the rules this way they are making people doubt the security of index funds, which would damage the market just by association. Anyone who cared about the stability of these instruments would categorically deny such a request. It seems to say a lot about the market makers in general that this is being allowed.

New comment by Eisenstein in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

Eisenstein — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 19:09:43 +0000

It's allowed because the people in charge are making a ton of money and the people who aren't have been convinced that regulating the market is bad.

New comment by Eisenstein in "BambuStudio has been violating PrusaSlicer AGPL license since their fork"

Eisenstein — Sat, 23 May 2026 17:30:51 +0000

Lawsuits need standing. Someone harmed has to sue.

New comment by Eisenstein in "Gemini CLI will stop working from June 18, 2026"

Eisenstein — Wed, 20 May 2026 16:56:35 +0000

Its 36% for Q1 2026.

* https://i.imgur.com/3gDVMCk.png

New comment by Eisenstein in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

Eisenstein — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:31:22 +0000

There is nothing that says that if thoughts are not made in brains they must be supernatural. You are making conclusions not based on evidence or argument.

New comment by Eisenstein in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

Eisenstein — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:42:57 +0000

You are attacking a strawman without answering the question.

New comment by Eisenstein in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

Eisenstein — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:06:59 +0000

A fire is something that happens externally and has observable actions. An internal state is not. Your thoughts may take a physical form but that form cannot be demonstrated. Unless you can show me telekinesis then you have only intuition. Why are you so certain that these intuitions are true?

New comment by Eisenstein in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

Eisenstein — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:35:16 +0000

That perspective is 'biological exceptionalism' and requires that there is something specific to biology that allows consciousness while precluding anything not biological. For that to be convincing there must be a mechanism and no one has proposed anything other than a soul for that.

New comment by Eisenstein in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

Eisenstein — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:31:23 +0000

So are saying that if we made a computer out of neurons that it could be capable of consciousness whereas an electronic one could not?

New comment by Eisenstein in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

Eisenstein — Mon, 18 May 2026 15:08:25 +0000

Would you say that displaying image of something on a screen qualifies as actually happening? Writing data on a storage medium? What about a roomba vacuuming a floor?