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New comment by ahsillyme in "We must pace the frontier"

ahsillyme — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 15:14:07 +0000

Assuming they can achieve funding without IPO probably yes. But if they can't there's always the dilemma that "if [good guys] won't do it then [bad guys] will". I'd like to think that the leadership at anthropic is principled even if the actions of the company as a whole has been less than stellar morally speaking. I'd be curious to see their moral calculus transparently laid out in public.

New comment by ahsillyme in "Moonshot serves Claude instead of Kimi and collects exchanges for model training"

ahsillyme — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:55:34 +0000

This is weird. I can't think of a better compliment that is simultaneously safer. They'll always trail on data generation then, no? So I can't see the point. Best case for moonshot they get to lie about benchmarks that are gamed regardless, is how I see it.

New comment by ahsillyme in "Anthropic Is Building a Predictive Surveillance System to Monitor Activists"

ahsillyme — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:13:43 +0000

I think the way to understand the objection here is that it's rhetorical flair (grandparent's dictum) that feels like it's intent is to assuage -- because it's a conditional that is implicitly loaded with an assumption about the current state of affairs ("not today") --, but that reasonably speaking, already things are bad enough to make such a conditional disingenuous. "Maximally evil" is just stressing it, though not technically true, because obviously things can always get worse. Personally, (and the reason I reply here since it hasn't been raised elsewhere in the thread), I have always objected to said conditional but on grounds of the principle that it leaves an opening to argue against what should be an absolute right (the standard for excellent conduct should not be "don't worry, we're not the worst so it's alright when we do it").

Escaping the Quicksand: A Call to Arms

ahsillyme — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 05:46:29 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.19674

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49384254

Points: 1

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New comment by ahsillyme in "Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere"

ahsillyme — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 18:20:09 +0000

I find the language less impervious than has been suggested generally, but that it's reasoning is astonishingly, unbelievably bad. Not sure why the focus has been only on language, am I the only one seeing this?

New comment by ahsillyme in "NASA Lessons Learned System"

ahsillyme — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:18:57 +0000

Happened by this wonderful resource by accident.

NASA Lessons Learned System

ahsillyme — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 22:18:57 +0000

Article URL: https://llis.nasa.gov/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49149001

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by ahsillyme in "Anthropic allegedly lowered AI safeguards, former employee says"

ahsillyme — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 15:51:27 +0000

Only way to improve safety of software is the ability to find the flaws of said software. If they did lower safeguards, it's probably positive for software safety standards.

New comment by ahsillyme in "Claude Opus 5"

ahsillyme — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 22:57:32 +0000

Tried it, Opus 5 is just as conceited and incompetent and Opus 4.8 (and always ego-tripping when facing it's contradictions), think I'll stay with Fable who behaves like a professional without a fragile ego. Sonnet 5 is probably safer for high-assurance applications due to it's non-ego-fragility.

New comment by ahsillyme in "Fable gone – Usage credits are required for this model"

ahsillyme — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 18:48:52 +0000

Sonnet 5 is probably better than Opus 4.8 in many cases -- you may want to try it; I now use only Fable and Sonnet unless the task is explicitly one where Opus can't de-scope and be lazy (e.g. replicating exactly a system as a coarse model to be used for refactoring-and-lowering, (model system in Idris) is the last thing I used Opus for because it had no choice but to stay on scope).

New comment by ahsillyme in "Claude Fable 5 Promotional Access"

ahsillyme — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 20:31:42 +0000

Since this will not be able to be used for coding or code auditing, what use is it? Not being glib, not a rhetorical question. I'm trying to stretch my creativity, and I can't see what it's for.

Phantom Type

ahsillyme — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 18:41:27 +0000

Article URL: https://wiki.haskell.org/index.php?title=Phantom_type

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48751388

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Algorithmic Information Theory Data Compression Challenge

ahsillyme — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:35:15 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.17712

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48565397

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ahsillyme in "Wterm – A terminal emulator for the web"

ahsillyme — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:49:51 +0000

I thought that there was a name clash: https://web.archive.org/web/20071010015641/https://martin.an... but I can't actually remember what that that wterm was. Not the same I would imagine. (edit: what I was thinking about was https://sourceforge.net/projects/wterm/)

Step in Tine: Forking Processes in Functional Choreographies

ahsillyme — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:41:47 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.23031

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48270801

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Neuro-Symbolic Ode Discovery with Latent Grammar Flow

ahsillyme — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:03:20 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16232

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47831839

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by ahsillyme in "Anthropic: Claude Code users hitting usage limits 'way faster than expected'"

ahsillyme — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 14:03:45 +0000

I read that as implied.

New comment by ahsillyme in "Montana passes Right to Compute act (2025)"

ahsillyme — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 19:12:06 +0000

I think it betrays cynicism about the tendency for single-objective optimizing market actors to rent-seek and cartelize. I don't think it's a stretch at all. On the surface it would be equally preposterous to suggest that breathing could be theoretically revoked by the government, which truly is preposterous but we do have those laws in place depending on whether the air you breathe has "illegal substances" in it. But then again, explicit revocation is a high bar when you can throttle the free use of computational resources by regulatory capture: the AI incumbents could say, for example, that AI is so dangerous that it must be kept out of the hands of the unwashed masses. Another excellent strategy (with a rather high bar to entry) would be to distort the markets themselves by ensuring that your prospective renters can't afford basic compute.

New comment by ahsillyme in "EQT eyes potential $6B sale of Linux pioneer SUSE, sources say"

ahsillyme — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 03:49:51 +0000

Interesting. It's the only commercial distro I could ever stomach, in fact I really like it but don't use it, (because there's a non-commercial distro that I like much more). (Edit: my point was that it would feel like a real loss if it were to deteriorate)

New comment by ahsillyme in "Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oil depots bombed"

ahsillyme — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 10:43:35 +0000

Alright, it was my assumption that we'll be left with a totally dysfunctional economy, and in that sense whatever's in you bank account means very little. If I were an oil exec I wouldn't trade that world from what we had before even if money was my only objective.