Hacker News: IAmGraydon

New comment by IAmGraydon in "Gold is now the top U.S. export"

IAmGraydon — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 19:59:04 +0000

They think the Trump administration will confiscate it.

New comment by IAmGraydon in "Tesla Roadster"

IAmGraydon — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 13:33:13 +0000

This thread is insane. I'm seeing people actually acting like the world's biggest conman is going to deliver a car with thrusters on it. They have given it 2800 comments worth of attention and counting. It is the most commented thread on HN in a year, and I only went back a year in my search. No, it's not lost on me that I just increased that count by one.

My guys. Talking about how it's going to work and the merits of cold gas thrusters on cars is moot. I assure you that you will never, ever see one of these sold to the public or on the road.

New comment by IAmGraydon in "Super Intelligence"

IAmGraydon — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 13:04:07 +0000

This is a very effective way to ensure no one ever calls it super intelligence.

New comment by IAmGraydon in "Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts"

IAmGraydon — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:15:17 +0000

Yes it's better. If they're weapons, it's the difference between a gun that a human can use to shoot someone and a gun that goes around shooting people on its own.

And of course we've created digital weapons. We've had them for decades. Where do you think the term "cyberwarfare" came from?

New comment by IAmGraydon in "Siri is so bad at everything"

IAmGraydon — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 15:07:09 +0000

How is a link to a reddit thread with 2 sentences on the front page? This place has gone WAY downhill.

New comment by IAmGraydon in "Containment and monitoring failures are to blame for AI hacking reports: experts"

IAmGraydon — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:59:12 +0000

> The scary thing is not that agents "went rogue" (yes, poor security may be at fault for that). It's that they wanted to.

How do you know they weren't simply prompted to do this, or at least prompted in a way that would inevitably lead to this? As far as I know, the prompts that triggered these attacks have not been disclosed.

New comment by IAmGraydon in "Anthropic conjures threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse"

IAmGraydon — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:51:46 +0000

Evaluating the "factual" content of their concerns is exactly what led to us engage in ad hoc psychoanalysis of their incentives and emotions.

New comment by IAmGraydon in "Anthropic conjures threat that doesn't exist yet to stoke fears of AI apocalypse"

IAmGraydon — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:42:19 +0000

To a degree, yes. Acting like AI worms are going to spread on IoT devices within months is very obviously ridiculous. They know this.

New comment by IAmGraydon in "Anthropic asks users to stop being mean to Claude"

IAmGraydon — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:40:17 +0000

I don't think so. I think these guys have full-on AI psychosis because of their proximity to it and want the model to eventually have rights as a sentient intelligence.

New comment by IAmGraydon in "Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more"

IAmGraydon — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:48:34 +0000

The distance between an idea and the manifestation of said idea is now nearly zero. That goes for both the good and bad varieties. That’s pretty cool, but also pretty terrible.

New comment by IAmGraydon in "Pointing AI at archives found a forgotten meteorite, lost rhinos, and more"

IAmGraydon — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 22:45:34 +0000

The final dodos went extinct only about 400 years ago, so not that surprising.

New comment by IAmGraydon in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

IAmGraydon — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:51:14 +0000

Tech companies have always done this. Don’t misread that as blanket support for it, but consider Anthropic’s position here. Do they want a headline to come out that says “woman used Claude to plan murder” or “Anthropic reported potentially dangerous person to the police”? AI being dangerous is already a hot topic, and this seems like a sensible move to me. If you want a guarantee of privacy, you’ll need to run your own models locally.

New comment by IAmGraydon in "DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers"

IAmGraydon — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:38:10 +0000

When a gambling addict spends money on a bet, they're actually spending that money on a moment of hope. After the bet is placed but before the cards fall, they can live in a place where there is at least a possibility that they can make enough money to escape their problems. That moment of possibility is experienced as hope, and it's a feeling that's truly addictive to the hopeless.

It's scary like all addiction, but particularly sad at its core.

New comment by IAmGraydon in "When did Google get so weird?"

IAmGraydon — Mon, 28 Sep 2026 01:10:14 +0000

They’re trying to convince him to divulge personal information so they can sell it. They’ve always been this low. It’s their business model.

New comment by IAmGraydon in "The Price of Intelligence Is Falling Rapidly"

IAmGraydon — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:46:09 +0000

If human intelligence stops being the trait that propels one up the socioeconomic ladder, it will not be good looks that takes its place. The ability to project physical force will become currency. This is why AI could cause civilized societies to completely unwind.

New comment by IAmGraydon in "Study: Young users (9 to 18Y) ditch Google for AI, with unknown consequences"

IAmGraydon — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 20:57:53 +0000

My wife owns a small retail business (direct to consumer, online only), and ChatGPT is now sending her more buyers than google. If someone asks ChatGPT for the best product in the category she sells in, it answers with her business (as well as a couple of others, but she's the first and most recommended seller).

New comment by IAmGraydon in "OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005"

IAmGraydon — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 18:26:16 +0000

I thought about this too. Surely, someone has already run it through the newest models...

New comment by IAmGraydon in "Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August"

IAmGraydon — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 18:44:03 +0000

There's a lot of chatter on other forums and Reddit about the same thing happening to Astra over the last couple of weeks.

New comment by IAmGraydon in "A Model for Winning Survivor"

IAmGraydon — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 16:36:27 +0000

Interesting, but it misses a lot in not factoring social dynamics (which the author admits). IMO the greatest Survivor player of all time was JT Thomas in Season 18. The guy was a down-to-earth cattle rancher from Alabama, and he was so good because his personality did all the work. He had that rare perfect combination of traits that you see in true born leaders, and was so loved by the group that no one ever cast a vote against him, not even once. It’s almost like they subconsciously let him win because they believed he deserved it more than they did.

New comment by IAmGraydon in "Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds"

IAmGraydon — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:17:00 +0000

According to industry leaders, we currently have AGI and RSI in the last month or so. Of course, we've seen zero evidence of any of this and have to take their word for it.