Hacker News: anhyz

New comment by anhyz in "OpenAI Model Misalignment Report"

anhyz — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:47:03 +0000

Honestly he's a bit over the top, but the thing he gets right is that he's constantly hammering on the insane financial incentives that everyone in the AI industry has to keep the music going.

Despite the ridiculous amount of capital being spent, the AI industry is still essentially in its startup phase, incubated in the fake-it-till-you-make-it Silicon Valley startup culture. The entire economy has been taken along for the ride. Failure is not an option.

So when the big AI players make extraordinary claims with limited evidence, or when things don't quite add up (like the HuggingFace incident), yet everything somehow seems to lead to "AI is even more powerful than we thought!", I think it's sensible to be skeptical until proven otherwise.

Zitron consistently presents the skeptic case, and many cases the hypotheses he's putting out there seem more plausible than the "official" AI narrative. Simple as that.

New comment by anhyz in "OpenAI Model Misalignment Report"

anhyz — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:04:44 +0000

The HuggingFace incident still doesn't make sense. If OpenAI took their own claims seriously about the strength of their models as it relates to hacking, then their running of hacking benchmarks on anything other than a physically air-gapped network should be considered criminal negligence, full stop.

New comment by anhyz in "Fuck it, make it anyway"

anhyz — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 13:38:48 +0000

Some people like _making_ things, and some people like making _things_.

New comment by anhyz in "Ending respiratory infections"

anhyz — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 04:59:23 +0000

I'm sure if we just cut taxes a little more, our modern-day robber barons will choose to use their money to fix things on their own instead of building doomsday bunkers and buying superyachts.

New comment by anhyz in "The Word Made Lifeless. Are we becoming stochastic parrots?"

anhyz — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 01:54:18 +0000

Digital gods can't take away your ability to struggle purely for the enjoyment of it.

Think of all the things we consider fun or worthwhile that are purely unnecessary struggles. Ever play sports? Build a side project just for the fun of it? Video games? Music? Art?