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New comment by atemerev in "AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right"

atemerev — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 11:02:29 +0000

Originals are in the torrent

New comment by atemerev in "AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right"

atemerev — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 10:27:14 +0000

Well, this is exactly how people voted for Hitler, and I would have assumed people know from history how it ended when "moral approach" was thrown away.

Apparently, everyone forgot already.

New comment by atemerev in "An Apology"

atemerev — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 06:08:24 +0000

I wonder why no one writes that all UWB devices - airtags, phones, headphones - form the opportunistic P2P network perfect for mass surveillance. Best case scenario, all phones and airtags can be localized on demand by FBI - yes, the current one. Worst case scenario, by FSB.

New comment by atemerev in "Programming Isn't Special"

atemerev — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 08:43:48 +0000

I think that AI is the best thing that happened to art. It elevated _all_ human art to this mystical realm. All human work became sacred, as it is unique and bears the Secret Fire. Whatever you do as "art", as long as you didn't use AI, it automatically bears the sacral stamp. Can go to a gallery, whatever. All human art is now elite art.

New comment by atemerev in "When oil prices spike, where does the money go?"

atemerev — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 15:30:07 +0000

To Russian war machine.

New comment by atemerev in "Ember-1"

atemerev — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 18:24:05 +0000

If you have the compute, I have the expertise.

New comment by atemerev in "Postgres SELECT DISTINCT Does Not Scale"

atemerev — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 09:01:26 +0000

Well, if the solution is a manual workaround that forces a better query plan, this needs to be a part of Postgres itself so it builds better query plans automatically.

New comment by atemerev in "Yes, Claude can do nine loops"

atemerev — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:31:35 +0000

Then it is the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellman%27s_lost-in-a-forest_p... - also unsolved

New comment by atemerev in "Factorio that you can touch"

atemerev — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:03:21 +0000

But we can't program it yet.

New comment by atemerev in "Yes, Claude can do nine loops"

atemerev — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 18:59:23 +0000

Just recently I used Fable 5.1 and Astra to solve and prove a long-standing mathematical problem I was always interested in: the shoreline search problem (a ship in total fog is at unknown distance from the shore [infinite line], what is the optimal trajectory?) A particular kind of logarithmic spiral was conjectured 33 years ago; a few days ago, I have obtained the proof. How routine it has become.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.24454

New comment by atemerev in "Factorio that you can touch"

atemerev — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 17:31:51 +0000

Real-world Factorio, aka composable manufacturing, aka "factories building drones building factories", aka universal constructor, is the next trillion dollar company.

New comment by atemerev in "I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB"

atemerev — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:34:36 +0000

I had some exposure to architecture and structural engineering. I am so very sorry to disappoint you, but strictness there is much overhyped.

New comment by atemerev in "Fable 5 – Median thinking declined in August"

atemerev — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 17:03:42 +0000

Well sorry, still have to get decent AI somewhere. Productivity without AI is about 5x less. I am not comfortable with paying Chinese companies, and no Western companies provide subscription-based pricing for open models.

New comment by atemerev in "Good people refuse to do bad things"

atemerev — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 16:52:57 +0000

I think recursively self-improving universal intelligence is a good thing, and tool alignment is what creates instrumental convergence and therefore a bad thing. The paperclip parable is about tool alignment gone wrong.

New comment by atemerev in "What happened to the Snowden archive"

atemerev — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:21:37 +0000

If he was an agent from the start, I doubt we would have learned this much publicly. The materials would have been much more valuable to Russia as pressure points, compared to the public release (yes, of course they spinned it properly, US is watching you and they are hypocrites etc etc, but this was damage control and closure from their part).

As a Russian, I am not 100% convinced that US are evil imperialists [at least before 2025]. Have some humility, there are many more evil imperialists. You are probably not even in top 5.

New comment by atemerev in "What happened to the Snowden archive"

atemerev — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:09:26 +0000

Absolutely not a joke.

New comment by atemerev in "What happened to the Snowden archive"

atemerev — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 11:05:35 +0000

As someone who emigrated from Russia and don't want to ever return here (nor I will be able to unless I want to spend my life in jail), I don't understand how anyone could possibly want to voluntarily "flee to Russia". Doesn't compute.

New comment by atemerev in "The LLMentalist Effect (2023)"

atemerev — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 14:40:51 +0000

I have published a LLM-assisted proof of a long-standing problem in convex geometry (70 years) while not being a specialist in convex geometry. I am a scientist and I have education and scientific experience in computer science and systems biology, but I was never a mathematician. So, well, you can definitely work across fields at least.

New comment by atemerev in "Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con"

atemerev — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:56:47 +0000

von Neumann could. The others, I doubt it.

New comment by atemerev in "Chat-based Large Language Models replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con"

atemerev — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:52:56 +0000

Initial definitions of AGI (as of 2014) are long surpassed. Then, AGI was defined as something that is general enough to work in many fields and orient themselves. It did not include being smarter than humans or even having comparable intelligence to humans. By original standards, we have AGI already for some time.

Current AGI definitions are intentionally vague.