<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: RupertEisenhart</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RupertEisenhart</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:57:38 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=RupertEisenhart" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RupertEisenhart in "Starfish by Peter Watts (1999)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>no, thats it. its a secret message sent to the ASI that chimp is fronting for</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2026 12:13:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597686</link><dc:creator>RupertEisenhart</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597686</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597686</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RupertEisenhart in "Starfish by Peter Watts (1999)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Watts is truly remarkable. I also recommend the Sunflowers series, just a brilliant conceit w.r.t humans in deep time plus a sound understanding of dealing with ASI.<p>Wikipedia has it down as:<p>The chronological order within the Sunflower universe is: "Hotshot", The Freeze-Frame Revolution, "Giants", "Hitchhiker", "Strategic Retreat", "Remora", "Outtake", "The Island".<p>Just realizing I didnt see that list before I there are a few I haven't read.. brb</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2026 12:06:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489241</link><dc:creator>RupertEisenhart</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489241</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48489241</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RupertEisenhart in "Spotify Is Down"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I can't even listen to The End by The Doors to mourn this harbinger of the final days :(</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2026 18:17:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112125</link><dc:creator>RupertEisenhart</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112125</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48112125</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RupertEisenhart in "Where the goblins came from"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>(For the Junior Persuaders in the audience, the ditty he subspoke injected 5000 toks of neural noise to perform a context wipeout before the goblin request.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2026 04:41:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993388</link><dc:creator>RupertEisenhart</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993388</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47993388</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RupertEisenhart in "Square Theory"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Great article, but I can't believe it didn't mention the sator square!<p>SATOR<p>AREPO<p>TENET<p>OPERA<p>ROTAS<p>(Very easy to commit to memory too since most of the letters are right there in the name!)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2025 19:48:00 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44110108</link><dc:creator>RupertEisenhart</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44110108</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44110108</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RupertEisenhart in "GPT-4o"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Its faster, smarter and cheaper over the API. Better than a kick in the teeth.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2024 20:07:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347765</link><dc:creator>RupertEisenhart</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347765</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40347765</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RupertEisenhart in "The Bad Trip Detective"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Bad LSD being "a thing" and bad LSD being "a thing that causes bad trips" are very very different.<p>Among the things that people often sell as LSD, some have dangerously steep dose-response curves like 25I-NBOMe, some are pretty close analogues like AL-LAD.<p>None outright cause bad trips, and most or all of them are also sold with their proper labels and enjoyed by enthusiasts.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:36:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40147374</link><dc:creator>RupertEisenhart</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40147374</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40147374</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RupertEisenhart in "Brave Leo now uses Mixtral 8x7B as default"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>These guys are much faster than openrouter, and their llama2 runs faster than 3.5-turbo. Amazing work.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 27 Jan 2024 17:32:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39157665</link><dc:creator>RupertEisenhart</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39157665</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39157665</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RupertEisenhart in "The world nearly adopted a calendar with 13 months of 28 days"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I always figured the funnest thing would just be not to give it a name, and then when people ask be like, well yesterday was Sunday and tomorrow is Monday.<p>But the more reasonable proposal I heard was just to call it New Years Day/Weekend, depending?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2023 09:29:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38149584</link><dc:creator>RupertEisenhart</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38149584</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38149584</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RupertEisenhart in "Planes, Spheres and Pseudospheres"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You're telling me the antimemetics series was memorable? I guess it was bad then ;)?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2023 08:59:19 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38149458</link><dc:creator>RupertEisenhart</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38149458</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38149458</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RupertEisenhart in "Planes, Spheres and Pseudospheres"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Accelerando by Charles Stross is a blast, fairly hard scifi, at least the first half.<p>Blindsight by Peter Watts is also fantastic, same grade as Egan IMO.</p>
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<p>I hope the good news keeps coming, and very looking forward to whatever new tech is going to come of this.<p>I'm most excited by people such as Terraform Industries and others who I've heard talk about direct synthesis from atmospheric carbon. Though I just looked them up here and there seems to have been surprisingly little traction: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30202155">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30202155</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 16 Aug 2023 21:09:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37153882</link><dc:creator>RupertEisenhart</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37153882</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37153882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RupertEisenhart in "Fear of AI just killed a useful tool"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>GPT4 sez:
"This sentence uses figurative language, so it doesn't refer to literal meanings. "Fear" is a stressful emotion induced by perceived danger or threat. "Acute" suggests a sudden onset or intensity. "Moral priapism," a more abstract concept, suggests an abnormally extended or excessive fixated morality, much like the medical condition priapism refers to an unwanted, enduring erection.<p>Overall, the sentence means that fear can lead to an exaggerated or obsessive moral response. This implies that when someone is afraid, they might stick rigidly to their moral code or make moral judgments more extremely or rigidly than they would in a state of calmness."<p>seems fair<p>Edit: My gloss of the summary:
"Fear creates a hardon for scapegoats among the pitchfork wielders."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Aug 2023 15:35:20 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37064280</link><dc:creator>RupertEisenhart</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37064280</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37064280</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RupertEisenhart in "Show HN: Phind V2 – A GPT-4 agent that’s connected to the internet and your code"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Congrats! Looking forward to seeing how it develops!<p>Here was an amusing one that just happened to me:<p>- query<p>- answer with hallucination-- 'try X' and citations<p>- sorry, that doesnt work<p>- oh, there must have been a mistake in the source material! please try Y<p>- works, thanks<p>I looked at the original source material, and the thing it hallucinated wasn't there at all :'). Nice try passing the buck GPT old buddy!<p>Edit: I'm still chuckling about this: "And finally, keep an eye on the Git version you're using. Some newer features like --no-attributes (although it turned out to be non-existent in this case) won't be available in the older versions."<p><a href="https://www.phind.com/agent?cache=cll284giq000hmm098r51glbp">https://www.phind.com/agent?cache=cll284giq000hmm098r51glbp</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 08 Aug 2023 11:41:11 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37047464</link><dc:creator>RupertEisenhart</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37047464</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37047464</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RupertEisenhart in "Life on Earth didn’t arise as described in textbooks"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Recommend this paper[0] that discusses the 'infinite monkeys' version methodically.<p>[0]: <a href="https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1304/1304.3381.pdf" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/1304/1304.3381.pdf</a></p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2023 16:20:52 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864745</link><dc:creator>RupertEisenhart</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864745</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864745</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RupertEisenhart in "Are We Sixel Yet"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I just started using this! I'm making a tool called command-line-maps, its gonna be amazing.<p>Echoing another comment here, it doesn't work in tmux though which is pretty heartbreaking. But viewing beautiful maps in the terminal is amazing, and works perfectly.<p>(I'm using the alacritty branch that supports it, worked perfectly.)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 May 2023 19:57:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35940887</link><dc:creator>RupertEisenhart</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35940887</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35940887</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RupertEisenhart in "Worse Maths through Politics Pt 1"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Large language models and the akashic records</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://lumpenspace.substack.com/p/the-map-becomes-the-territory-wmtp">https://lumpenspace.substack.com/p/the-map-becomes-the-territory-wmtp</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35675282">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35675282</a></p>
<p>Points: 1</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2023 11:21:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://lumpenspace.substack.com/p/the-map-becomes-the-territory-wmtp</link><dc:creator>RupertEisenhart</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35675282</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35675282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by RupertEisenhart in "Poisoning web-scale training datasets is practical"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>They paper is also telling them how to poison their databases, so if they really wanted to avoid being used in that way they could do.<p>The paper also tells them how to solve that issue, which is what google would prefer. But they are letting wikipedia make that choice.</p>
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<p>Can you elaborate?<p>I see this paper as explicitly giving Wikipedia useful information and the ability to make decisions.<p>I think keeping these things transparent is good for Google.</p>
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