Hacker News: alexgoodhart

New comment by alexgoodhart in "Claude Opus 4.8"

alexgoodhart — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:46:58 +0000

Anthropic frames this as something emergent. Not 100% but in a way they always phrase it as like, it’s a great model, but our breaths were swept and taken with its approach to security.

New comment by alexgoodhart in "GenCAD"

alexgoodhart — Mon, 18 May 2026 01:56:26 +0000

What is the inference overhead on this

New comment by alexgoodhart in "We've made the world too complicated"

alexgoodhart — Sun, 17 May 2026 09:07:55 +0000

Your post script Seems to be a reaction to some quality of finger wagging you may have received from this article. Everything you said was true, it also was true that strategically it is generally outside the realm of most people’s risk tolerance to abandon civilization of life. But you were right about the harmfulness, the alienness, etc. It is not incumbent on you just because you state how you feel to then also mitigate that feeling with the practical obligations one has to protect protecting themselves in their loved ones in their communities and helping steer humanity in which ever best direction we may be able to reach. The idea that it’s naive to speak a pure and simple fact sounded to me like shame being deployed to silence critique.

New comment by alexgoodhart in "Judge finalizes order for Greenpeace to pay $345M in ND oil pipeline case"

alexgoodhart — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 18:48:57 +0000

I mean what you just said is the huge load of shit. There are interesting differences in risk and pollution between trucking and piping, but they’re not nearly as black and white as you claim and they don’t require acrimony. Calm the hell down?

New comment by alexgoodhart in "A joint statement from Microsoft and OpenAI"

alexgoodhart — Fri, 12 Sep 2025 00:22:30 +0000

hip hip, h$o$r$r$a$y!

Personally, I think that AI has already hit a grand plateau in terms of raw ability, and much more ingenious software solutions to augment its ability require not as much in terms of training and compute allowance, but syntax compaction/dynamic contextualization/multi-thread parallel statefulness that is tailored based on the activities a workflow involves.

I wonder though if the tools available now are at the cheapest they will ever be