Hacker News: Palpatineli

New comment by Palpatineli in "Starlink ground station in Poland hit by fire in suspected arson attack"

Palpatineli — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:20:45 +0000

What you are calling 'internet' is the land based backbone that's connecting to the 'rest of the internet'. The term is thus relative. Now of course there is next to no servers directly on the sate to sate network save for a few companies with special contracts. But with the AI sate halo there will inevitably be other server sate.

New comment by Palpatineli in "Starlink Signal Leakage Threatens Radio Astronomy's Most Critical Frequencies"

Palpatineli — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 19:10:27 +0000

Once starship is running, spacex should launch a lunar crater telescope https://www.nasa.gov/general/lunar-crater-radio-telescope-lc... to permanently shut up this kind of grievances.

New comment by Palpatineli in "Mistral OCR 4.1"

Palpatineli — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:33:32 +0000

How about "being able to align ASI somewhat to your values"?

New comment by Palpatineli in "Andrej Karpathy: "I was given early access to Grok 3 earlier today""

Palpatineli — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:22:11 +0000

It's actually the opposite. I asked about some details in the current ukraine situation, and it stated mostly facts with a few words critical of Trump. This is about neutral. But it showed pretty strong Keynesian tendency when I asked it about some economic policy issues earlier.

New comment by Palpatineli in "Grok-2 Beta Release"

Palpatineli — Wed, 14 Aug 2024 22:40:06 +0000

Nothing guarantees that. But in this augmentations scenario human brain is necessary, unlike in the many extinction scenarios with pure silicon AGI take off.

New comment by Palpatineli in "The Collected Stories of Vernor Vinge"

Palpatineli — Tue, 28 Nov 2023 21:02:07 +0000

By Vinge's prophecy we will have AGI between this year and 2030, which means you can have perfect stable diffusion for movies before you retire, and you can tweak your movie for the book to your hearts content.

New comment by Palpatineli in "OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired"

Palpatineli — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:42:06 +0000

Yes because AGI would invalidate the entirety of das Kapital.

New comment by Palpatineli in "OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired"

Palpatineli — Tue, 21 Nov 2023 16:39:10 +0000

Telling people that AGI is acheivable with current LLM with minor tricks may be very dangerous in itself.

New comment by Palpatineli in "Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO"

Palpatineli — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 22:48:57 +0000

THe orignal track is the dangerous one. That was the whole point of the coup. It makes zero sense to go back.

New comment by Palpatineli in "Starlink Direct to Cell"

Palpatineli — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 13:25:23 +0000

Not necessarily, starlink satellite and receiver are the cutting edge technology. Raytheon may have this technology years ago in their skunkwork equivalent but the military never formally bought anything like that.

New comment by Palpatineli in "Starlink Direct to Cell"

Palpatineli — Thu, 12 Oct 2023 13:22:49 +0000

AST has one very large satellite, so it supports higher bandwidth for each device, giving them 18Mbps speed. Starlink satellites, even with gen 2, are smaller but more numerous. So while AST may support 40 simultanuous callers and sell the service to 40000 customers, starlink direct to cell gives you lower bandwidth but can support 40000 simulatnuous callers and sell to 4M people. (numbers are my best guesses)

New comment by Palpatineli in "Falcon 180B"

Palpatineli — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 18:27:06 +0000

Living beings? Meaning I can't ask it how to treat mice/termite problems in my house?

New comment by Palpatineli in "A Fire Upon The Deep By Vernor Vinge (1992)"

Palpatineli — Thu, 10 Aug 2023 16:59:08 +0000

For HN I think the most important work by Vinge is still his report from 1993 where he said we would have the technological means to build AGI and usher in nerd’s rapture in 30 years, which is this year.

New comment by Palpatineli in "A room-temperature superconductor? New developments"

Palpatineli — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 23:59:50 +0000

Doesn’t have to be. One of the ingredients has diamagnetism already

New comment by Palpatineli in "A room-temperature superconductor? New developments"

Palpatineli — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 23:53:58 +0000

That’s a stretch. Dias’ material has real color change under high pressure which is an expected property of superconductors but nobody would argue his paper was not complete fabrication

New comment by Palpatineli in "Samsung considers moving to Bing as default search engine"

Palpatineli — Mon, 17 Apr 2023 13:59:39 +0000

Especially compared to Nadella, who shows that someone not from the the founders’ circle, a corporate ladder climber, can lead an IT company with great vision too.

New comment by Palpatineli in "Secret ChatGPT plugins can be revealed by removing a parameter from an API call"

Palpatineli — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 22:12:25 +0000

What can you expect from a company releasing a (at least) village idiot level AI and give it access to the internet AND a shell/Python interpreter with skin-deep alignment that is effortlessly circumvented with DAN?

New comment by Palpatineli in "Google releases Bard to a limited number of users in the US and UK"

Palpatineli — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 16:00:37 +0000

I mean they may have a better base model but if there is no business case, there is no resource to do RLHF with mass human labeling.

New comment by Palpatineli in "Testing GPT 4's code-writing capabilities with some real world problems"

Palpatineli — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 15:26:53 +0000

Not sure about that. Theoretically, you can talk to GPT-X pretending to be your manager, and the your manager can talk to GPT-X pretending to be you. Then the two instances exchange information in a format much more efficient than human conversation. Sounds like an efficiency boost and if expanded this system avoid a bunch of office politics and helps with everybody's mental health.

New comment by Palpatineli in "Revisiting Vernor Vinge’s “predictions” for 2025"

Palpatineli — Fri, 17 Mar 2023 20:27:21 +0000

This week, it’s more appropriate to revisit the whole idea of singularity in our lifetime, or Vinge’s more singularitarian novel, Marooned in Realtime