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New comment by SalmoShalazar in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

SalmoShalazar — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 14:04:25 +0000

Are OpenAI or Anthropic et al seriously building towards “world models”? I haven’t seen any real evidence of that. It seems more like they are all in on milking LLMs for all they are worth.

New comment by SalmoShalazar in "IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off"

SalmoShalazar — Wed, 03 Dec 2025 13:56:34 +0000

It’s become clear that some form of top down total technocratic control like China has implemented is essential for pushing humanity forward.

New comment by SalmoShalazar in "OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030"

SalmoShalazar — Wed, 26 Nov 2025 16:05:13 +0000

It is quite literally losing money at an unsustainable rate. They need a path to profitability otherwise this is a massive boondoggle for all of the investors

New comment by SalmoShalazar in "Heretic: Automatic censorship removal for language models"

SalmoShalazar — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 22:33:02 +0000

Okay let’s calm down a bit. “Extremely important” is hyperbolic. This is novel, sure, but practically jailbreaking an LLM to say naughty things is basically worthless. LLMs are not good for anything of worth to society other than writing code and summarizing existing text.

New comment by SalmoShalazar in "AGI fantasy is a blocker to actual engineering"

SalmoShalazar — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 14:35:25 +0000

I’m not sure you understand what AGI is given the citations you’ve provided.

New comment by SalmoShalazar in "Python Software Foundation gets a donor surge after rejecting federal grant"

SalmoShalazar — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:50:03 +0000

Please put two and two together for the rest of us clowns who can’t quite figure it out. State your beliefs plainly so we can come up with some solutions.

New comment by SalmoShalazar in "Python Software Foundation gets a donor surge after rejecting federal grant"

SalmoShalazar — Sun, 09 Nov 2025 23:48:22 +0000

I can’t remember the exact date. It’s all part of a “tradition” since at least the 90s. First things were PC, then there were SJWs, then woke, then DEI. Who knows what they will call it next. It’s always complaining about the same thing, just with new verbiage.

New comment by SalmoShalazar in "Ticker: Don't die of heart disease"

SalmoShalazar — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 21:20:47 +0000

The inconvenient truth that the vast majority of adults refuse to acknowledge is that there is no safe level of alcohol. Any drink is going to damage you, marginal though it may be. Unfortunately the healthiest thing you can do is simply never drink alcohol.

New comment by SalmoShalazar in "Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model"

SalmoShalazar — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 00:21:29 +0000

Why are westerners so single mindedly obsessed about this decades old event?

New comment by SalmoShalazar in "Former US Vice-President Cheney Dies"

SalmoShalazar — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 13:49:51 +0000

Kind of an odd move to pepper the HN thread on Dick Cheney’s death with non-sequitur comments about “the left”

New comment by SalmoShalazar in "Poker Tournament for LLMs"

SalmoShalazar — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 21:44:48 +0000

As in, did they use cameras? Image recognition? Manual record keeping? Thought it was pretty obvious that I was asking for more detail. Perhaps OP meant they ran an online casino and not an actual casino.

New comment by SalmoShalazar in "Israels top military lawyer arrested after she admitted leaking video of abuse"

SalmoShalazar — Mon, 03 Nov 2025 19:48:25 +0000

Seems like a moment of moral clarity for someone who had an opportunity to do the right thing. I suppose the organization in question here needs to screen more aggressively for individuals with zero moral compass.

New comment by SalmoShalazar in "Poker Tournament for LLMs"

SalmoShalazar — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:36:52 +0000

How did you collect their hand history?

New comment by SalmoShalazar in "Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division"

SalmoShalazar — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 13:24:51 +0000

Reports suggest there was an interaction that occurred between HR and some 13,000 staff, ultimately resulting in job losses. The staff were noted to be “behaving suspiciously “. Investigations are underway.

New comment by SalmoShalazar in "PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program"

SalmoShalazar — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:59:20 +0000

I do think a lot of these people who claim reverse racism just have no idea what the word “equity” even means.

New comment by SalmoShalazar in "PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program"

SalmoShalazar — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:57:30 +0000

How do you fix racism?

New comment by SalmoShalazar in "PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program"

SalmoShalazar — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:52:49 +0000

This is called a strawman argument and is functionally worthless for this discusson

New comment by SalmoShalazar in "PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program"

SalmoShalazar — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:51:59 +0000

Do you have any suggestions for how the PSF could fulfill its mission of being more inclusive in a non-immoral way?

New comment by SalmoShalazar in "PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program"

SalmoShalazar — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 20:49:27 +0000

Pretty bold statement with no evidence.

New comment by SalmoShalazar in "A definition of AGI"

SalmoShalazar — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 00:09:52 +0000

I find the nature of AGI discussion to be so narrow and tedious. Intelligence is incomprehensibly more than being able to generate text that looks convincingly like a human wrote it. The coordination of a physical body, the formation of novel thoughts, the translation of thoughts to action, understanding the consequences of those actions, and so on. There’s so much missing that is required to even approach a literal human infant’s “intelligence” that it feels like I’m going crazy entertaining people’s arguments that we are approaching “AGI”.