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New comment by anthonyrstevens in "Claude Duet"

anthonyrstevens — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:12:29 +0000

The solution is: don't read it

New comment by anthonyrstevens in "Claude Duet"

anthonyrstevens — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:47:36 +0000

>> people don't copy the speech of people outside their group who they don't identify with

I don't think this is true. Words and phrases from specific sub-cultures filter across to the broader culture all the time.

Example: bling, hater, player, stan, flex all had origins in Black hip-hop culture but now are used generally at least in the U.S.

New comment by anthonyrstevens in "Gemini 4 Argon"

anthonyrstevens — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:17:03 +0000

People who are unable to comment on the underlying technology or capabilities because they don't know or don't care to inform themselves sure can feel good that they have an opinion on pelican art.

New comment by anthonyrstevens in "Gemini 4 Argon"

anthonyrstevens — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:04:09 +0000

>> this is all that managers know to do: take a metric and try to optimize the heck out of it. They don't care about research, technology

This is not true. It is needless negative hyperbole that IMHO doesn't belong on HN.

New comment by anthonyrstevens in "Hittite royal archive found in Turkey"

anthonyrstevens — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:09:46 +0000

Evergreen comment around here

New comment by anthonyrstevens in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

anthonyrstevens — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:09:55 +0000

Who are these "AI cultists" that you have asked your strawman generator to conjure up out of thin air?

New comment by anthonyrstevens in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

anthonyrstevens — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:08:34 +0000

This assumes the worst of the OP and is absolutely a very poor comment. Do better.

New comment by anthonyrstevens in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

anthonyrstevens — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:35:48 +0000

2023: "AI is useless" 2026: "One of these solutions to dozens of previously-intractable problems at the frontier of human knowledge MIGHT be incorrect"

New comment by anthonyrstevens in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

anthonyrstevens — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:31:12 +0000

How deep must your head be buried in the sand to trot out this comment, on this thread.

New comment by anthonyrstevens in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

anthonyrstevens — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:30:20 +0000

Companies will blame layoffs on literally anything in order to disguise the real reasons, if it suits their interests.

New comment by anthonyrstevens in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

anthonyrstevens — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:24:17 +0000

Do you know what "sorry" means in the context of Lean?

New comment by anthonyrstevens in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

anthonyrstevens — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:23:20 +0000

Why is this important? Do you not think that at some point, probably sooner rather than later, math researchers across the world will have access to similar capabilities?

This is sort of like discounting putting humans in space because only a few nations have the means to actually do it at the moment.

New comment by anthonyrstevens in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

anthonyrstevens — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:21:03 +0000

"I still don't like AI, and I'm 'just asking questions'."

New comment by anthonyrstevens in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

anthonyrstevens — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 15:00:45 +0000

This is great.

>> What happens when politicians can no longer lie without being caught out live on air?

A 5-second delay on a politician's presser. Any lies will be muted in real time and the actual facts presented onscreen. Continue to lie enough, and the politician gets unstreamed.

New comment by anthonyrstevens in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

anthonyrstevens — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:57:24 +0000

>> slopdrop

Really? Do better.

New comment by anthonyrstevens in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

anthonyrstevens — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:55:41 +0000

In a couple short years we've moved from "AIs can't do anything useful" to "they're lying about the actual cost of the innovative breakthroughs!".

I know that the former and the latter may be discrete subsets of the anti-AI crowd, but come on.

New comment by anthonyrstevens in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

anthonyrstevens — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:50:58 +0000

I don't think the analogy worked. It contained giant axes, and a giant grinder, and the OP shoehorned both into an unrelated discussion about math.

New comment by anthonyrstevens in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

anthonyrstevens — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:42:41 +0000

The OP would never, EVER, have had the opportunity to talk with the mythical Japanese math genius over tea. Their story is a fantasy, probably meant to help the OP ascribe meaning to an otherwise scary existence. Which may be at the root of the anti-AI brigade's unconcious motiviations.

New comment by anthonyrstevens in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

anthonyrstevens — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:40:02 +0000

I don't know, I work in a field that could be seen as the logical culmination of the Industrial Revolution (to this point) - highly technical, machine assisted knowledge work - and I have community, culture, and humanity in my working life.

Weavers don't have dibs on those intangibles.

New comment by anthonyrstevens in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

anthonyrstevens — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 14:35:21 +0000

This is maybe the 2nd least valuable comment in the thread. Congratulations. Go back to Reddit.