<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: archon1410</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=archon1410</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 06 May 2026 15:14:13 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=archon1410" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by archon1410 in "Three Inverse Laws of AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> look like<p>It "looks like" they have emotions <i>because</i> they have the same conscious experiences and emotions for the same evolutionary reasons as humans, who are their cousins on the tree of life. The reason a lot of "animal cruelty" is not banned is the same as for why slavery was not banned for centuries even though it "looked like" the enslaved classes have the same desires and experiences as other humans—humans can ignore any amount of evidence to continue to feel that they are good people doing good things and bear any amount of cognitive dissonance for their personal comfort. That fact is a lot scarier than any imagined harm that can come out "anthropomorphism".</p>
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<p>Article URL: <a href="https://twitter.com/m2saxon/status/1979349387391439198">https://twitter.com/m2saxon/status/1979349387391439198</a></p>
<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45627764">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45627764</a></p>
<p>Points: 7</p>
<p># Comments: 1</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 18 Oct 2025 14:40:05 +0000</pubDate><link>https://twitter.com/m2saxon/status/1979349387391439198</link><dc:creator>archon1410</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45627764</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45627764</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by archon1410 in "OpenAI claims gold-medal performance at IMO 2025"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>My disdain is for the fact that hundreds of millions of Indians cannot access higher education in their native language, and instead of simply learning a foreign language as a subject like the rest of world, they have the bear the burden[1] of learning things in a foreign language which they have to simultaneously learn. I have disdain for the people responsible for this mess. I do not have any disdain for any language-speaking class, specially not one which I might be part of.<p>[1]<a href="https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/4/2168" rel="nofollow">https://www.mdpi.com/2071-1050/14/4/2168</a></p>
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<p>You should take that up with the IMO then, or all of European Union. They provide services in ~two dozen languages.</p>
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<p>It is not "supremacist" to believe that depriving hundreds of millions of people from higher education in their native language is deeply unjust. This reflection was prompted by a comment on why Indian languages are not represented in international competitions, which was prompted by a comment on the competition being available in many languages.<p>Discussions online have a tendency to go off into tangents like this. It's regrettable that this is such a contentious topic.</p>
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<p>Yes, and there's also languages of ex-USSR countries, whose competitors presumably all understand Russian, and so on.<p>The real reason might be that there's an enormous class of self-loathing elites in India who actively despise the possibility of any Indian language being represented in higher education. This obviously stunts the possibility of them being used in international competitions.</p>
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<p>And of course it's available even in Icelandic, spoken by ~300k people, but not a single Indian language, spoken by hundreds of millions.<p>भारत दुर्दशा न देखी जाई...</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 19 Jul 2025 18:34:58 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44618109</link><dc:creator>archon1410</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44618109</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44618109</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by archon1410 in "Why my p(doom) has risen, dramatically"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Seems like all the p(doom) is coming from Elon himself, and not the AI. An "empowered" but unintelligent "stochastic parrot", which seems to be his view of LLMs, is more likely to hinder than help with one's plan for world domination and annihilation.</p>
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<p>> If DeepSeek said May<p>It is pretty strange that DeepSeek didn't say May anywhere, that was <i>also</i> a Reuters report based on "three people familiar with the company".[1] DeepSeek itself did not respond and did not make any claims about the timeline, ever.<p>[1]: <a href="https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/deepseek-rushes-launch-new-ai-model-china-goes-all-2025-02-25/" rel="nofollow">https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/d...</a></p>
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<p>The original Vending-Bench paper from Andon Labs might be of interest: <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15840" rel="nofollow">https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15840</a></p>
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<p>The blog itself reads as if it was written by an LLM. (e.g. "This isn't about X, it's about Y." "... is timely ..." "X isn't Y".)<p>Weird.<p>And it has been discussed to death already:<p>Beware General Claims about “Generalizable Reasoning Capabilities” (of Modern AI Systems) [<a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5uw26uDdFbFQgKzih/beware-general-claims-about-generalizable-reasoning" rel="nofollow">https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5uw26uDdFbFQgKzih/beware-gen...</a>]<p>Seven replies to the viral Apple reasoning paper and why they fall short [<a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44278403">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44278403</a>]</p>
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<p><a href="https://jyopari.github.io/posts/seal" rel="nofollow">https://jyopari.github.io/posts/seal</a></p>
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<p>Comments URL: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44271284">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44271284</a></p>
<p>Points: 246</p>
<p># Comments: 73</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 13 Jun 2025 19:03:42 +0000</pubDate><link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10943</link><dc:creator>archon1410</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44271284</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44271284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by archon1410 in "Claude 4"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I see, I wasn't aware of that. The earliest attempt I knew of was from May 2024,[1] while this gpt-4-vision attempt is from November 2023. I guess Claude Plays Pokemon was the first attempt that had any real success (won a badge), and got a lot of attention over its entertaining "chain-of-thought".<p>[1] <a href="https://community.aws/content/2gbBSofaMK7IDUev2wcUbqQXTK6/can-claude-play-pokemon-kind-of" rel="nofollow">https://community.aws/content/2gbBSofaMK7IDUev2wcUbqQXTK6/ca...</a></p>
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<p>Claude Plays Pokemon was the original concept and inspiration behind "Gemini Plays Pokemon". Gemini arguably only did better because it had access to a much better agent harness and was being actively developed during the run.<p>See: <a href="https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7mqp8uRnnPdbBzJZE/is-gemini-now-better-than-claude-at-pokemon" rel="nofollow">https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/7mqp8uRnnPdbBzJZE/is-gemini-...</a></p>
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<p>The naming scheme used to be "Claude [number] [size]", but now it is "Claude [size] [number]". The new models should have been named Claude 4 Opus and Claude 4 Sonnet, but they changed it, and even retconned Claude 3.7 Sonnet into Claude Sonnet 3.7.<p>Annoying.</p>
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<p>Oh, I didn't know that. Thanks for this!</p>
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<p>The "first MP3", without the background music, and just the voice, sounds a lot better to me than the original I listened to on YouTube. I liked the MP3 more.<p>Any way for me to find similar stuff? Just a good voice singing stuff, without music? I know acapella, and some of it is good, but I'm thinking of something more specific. Just one person singing without music I guess, something poetic.</p>
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<p>I had the same impression, but apparently not.<p>> Many data centers rely on evaporative cooling, or “swamp cooling,” where warm air is drawn through wet pads. Data centers typically evaporate about 80% of the water they draw, discharging 20% back to a wastewater treatment facility, according to Shaolei Ren, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of California, Riverside.</p>
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<p>I've also noticed this. Google Search is vastly superior to any LLM (including their own LLM Gemini) for any "tip of my tongue" questions, even the ones that don't contain any exact-match phrase and require natural language understanding. This is surprising. What technology are they using to make Search so amazing at finding obscure stuff from descriptions, while LLMs that were supposed to be good at this badly fail?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2025 20:22:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787080</link><dc:creator>archon1410</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787080</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43787080</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by archon1410 in "Why I don't discuss politics with friends"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Political elites tend to be highly coherent<p>Coherence might not the word you're looking for. The policies of political parties and groups are born out of historical circumstances and the diverse coalitions they represent. Political elites are "coherent" in the sense that you can expect them to consistently follow the party line, and thus infer all of their views just by knowing one of their views.<p>The party line, i.e. platform of the Democratic and Republican parties, or any other large political party in the world, is, by itself, <i>nothing</i> coherent though. Many of their policies and claims do not make any more sense besides each other than they would make against each other. Realignments on issues are pretty common across the world. What is left-wing in one part of the world at one point of time might be rightist across space and time.</p>
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