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New comment by Painsawman123 in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

Painsawman123 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:02:20 +0000

It's funny how people see "ML" models becoming superhuman at proving mathematical theorems as a sign that we're about to enter the singularity (whatever that means) or that it somehow justifies the valuations of those companies...But what I see is a scenario where companies have spent trillions of dollars on a technology, and the most non-trivial thing that technology can accomplish is a pseudo-form of automation for mathematics and coding! Remember that early on, when this whole bubble started, investors were promised that "AI" would eventually capture >70% of the world's jobs! but it could very well be the case that the only ones they're going to replace are mathematicians(and i'm not even sure about that!)!

New comment by Painsawman123 in "Kimi K3: Open Frontier Intelligence"

Painsawman123 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:41:11 +0000

This is the perfect opportunity for anyone who wants to boycott Anthopic and OpenAI!Anyone who cares about the future of Ai has no excuse to continue relying on companies that want to have a monopoly on intelligence.

New comment by Painsawman123 in "Evidence of inconsistencies in evaluation process and selection of winners"

Painsawman123 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 12:28:53 +0000

" impact on the quality of research moving forward. " It'll affect everything that depends on manipulating symbols! The enormous body of knowledge humanity has accumulated over the past 6.000 years or so is about to be flooded with slop!And That's the real threat genai poses to humans that i don't see anyone talking about..

New comment by Painsawman123 in "Meta launches Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp subscriptions"

Painsawman123 — Sun, 31 May 2026 22:19:35 +0000

after they introduced Community notes, it isn't far fetched to say that they're simply copying Twitter...

New comment by Painsawman123 in "Google changes its search box"

Painsawman123 — Tue, 19 May 2026 21:40:57 +0000

Google search box has basically become an AI aggregator that doesn't give anything back to those websites it scraps data from, and it'll result in the death of the internet as we came to know it At this point, google might as well stop showing website links in search results. with AI Overviews, barely anyone’s clicking through it anymore

New comment by Painsawman123 in "Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months"

Painsawman123 — Fri, 01 May 2026 17:21:18 +0000

If they burned through their ML budget in four months while using heavily subsidized models, we're going to see companies burn through their ML budgets in less than a week once those subsidies are no longer in place and they have to pay per tokens used.....

New comment by Painsawman123 in "Claude Code's source code has been leaked via a map file in their NPM registry"

Painsawman123 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:38:33 +0000

Really surprising how many people are downplaying this leak! "Google and OpenAi have already open sourced their Agents, so this leak isn't that relevant " What Google and OpenAi have open sourced is their Agents SDK, a toolkit, not the secret sauce of how their flagship agents are wired under the hood! expect the takedown hammer on the tweet, the R2 link, and any public repos soon

New comment by Painsawman123 in "Iran-linked hackers breach FBI director's personal email"

Painsawman123 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 15:47:55 +0000

that's the thing that people overlook the most in regards to this war.iran isn’t doing this on its own. Russia, China and north korea have been backing it from the start. they’re the ones helping with intel on US base locations across the Middle East, supplying drones, and working out strategies to drag things into a stalemate, plus whatever else iran needs along the way

New comment by Painsawman123 in "After two years of vibecoding, I'm back to writing by hand"

Painsawman123 — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:31:12 +0000

In the long run, vb coding is going to undoubtedly rot people’s skills.if AGI is not showing up anytime soon, actually understanding what the code does,why it exists,how it breaks and who owns the fallout will matter just as much as it did before LLM agents showed up

it'll be really interesting to see in the decades to come what happens when a whole industry gets used to releasing black boxes by vb coding the hell out of it

New comment by Painsawman123 in "We've lost our respect for complexity"

Painsawman123 — Tue, 21 Jan 2025 12:29:16 +0000

>That’s not been entirely without good reason, many things were promised then that have failed to materialize. From flying cars to world peace

i mean, Flying cars has been a reality for quite some time now, they just go by another name, "helicopters".

New comment by Painsawman123 in "GPT-4o"

Painsawman123 — Mon, 13 May 2024 18:13:41 +0000

My main takeaway is that Generative AI has hit a wall... New paradigms, architectures and breakthroughs are necessary for the field to progress but this begs the question, If everyone knows the current paradigms have hit a wall, Why is so much money being spent on LLMs ,diffusion models etc,which are bound to become obsolete within a few(?) years?

New comment by Painsawman123 in "You are what you read, even if you don't always remember it"

Painsawman123 — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 15:47:30 +0000

one of the most popular things in modern society,'modern music' (whatever that means)is not different from 'junk food'.. 'Modern music' is to your brain what junk food is to your body! Modern music with its repetitive beats optimized to give you a brief 'dopamine' have a similar effect on your brain as junk food does on your body!! in the same way that junk food provides a quick burst of pleasure but lacks nutritional value, modern music offers instant gratification through repetitive beats and catchy melodies while offering little to no informational value to the brain . .... "junk food", "short videos", "porn" and "modern music" these things are all designed to give you a brief dopamine rush ;)

New comment by Painsawman123 in "Radios, how do they work?"

Painsawman123 — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 11:38:04 +0000

If anyone enjoyed this article, then i'd recommend reading this one as well[1], it's an interesting article with a focus on the relationship between radio and probabilistic reasoning in the early 1900s. https://www.argmin.net/p/the-spirit-of-radio

New comment by Painsawman123 in "Launch HN: Soundry AI (YC W24) – Music sample generator for music creators"

Painsawman123 — Fri, 22 Mar 2024 13:40:26 +0000

i find it ironic that some people would dismiss tools like these solely because it's based on ML algorithms or whatever, as if the music you enjoy hasn't been significantly shaped by algorithms and digital processing.the modern music industry heavily relies on algorithms and computer programs to enhance sound quality, adjust pitches, and even modify the voice of the artist.... much of the music that people listen to today is, in some way or another a product of algorithmic manipulation.And no, tools like these won't render "modern " music any more 'banal',.After all, something that is already banal can't become "banaler"

New comment by Painsawman123 in "Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99"

Painsawman123 — Fri, 04 Aug 2023 13:51:30 +0000

not an article, but there's a tweet (yeah oftentimes Twitter can be useful :) ): https://nitter.net/sanxiyn/status/1686782919178911744