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New comment by baxtr in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

baxtr — Fri, 22 May 2026 12:41:57 +0000

How can you be sure Eric Schmidt is telling “the truth” and Wozniak is lying?

What’s your rationale and on the basis for such a claim?

New comment by baxtr in "The death of the brick and mortar toy store"

baxtr — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:59:27 +0000

So basically a tiny mall?

New comment by baxtr in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

baxtr — Fri, 22 May 2026 07:54:28 +0000

To reframe your great comment:

Is it fair to conclude that DRAM is basically a commodity that can be specified well enough by a set of parameters?

If so it won’t allow you to get any competitive advantage in your products and thus wouldn’t be a business you want to be in as Apple.

New comment by baxtr in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

baxtr — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:30:41 +0000

it’s fair to be skeptical. But then again we already know that this wasn’t the case with search results. So not sure why we would assume it is this time around.

New comment by baxtr in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

baxtr — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:43:09 +0000

Absolutely agree. But enforcing is so much more effort than creating wiki pages with LLMs.

New comment by baxtr in "GitHub confirms breach of 3,800 repos via malicious VSCode extension"

baxtr — Thu, 21 May 2026 06:10:59 +0000

I’m pretty sure there is an policy on their internal wiki saying you shouldn’t do that.

Problem is: most employees don’t care to read these. Although I’m sure something like this could have been checked for during commit.

New comment by baxtr in "Google changes its search box"

baxtr — Tue, 19 May 2026 20:02:48 +0000

Today is the day the old internet died. RIP.

"How We Think" by John Dewey [pdf]

baxtr — Tue, 19 May 2026 19:59:16 +0000

Article URL: https://bef632.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/09/dewey-how-we-think.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48198637

Points: 2

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New comment by baxtr in "I found ultra-pure quantum crystals in an abandoned mine in the Atacama desert"

baxtr — Tue, 19 May 2026 10:35:30 +0000

It’s gotta be coins though.

Most famous example was Louis XIV who created medals specifically to preserve French history for future archaeologists.

At that time they realized that they knew almost everything about Romans and Greek through preserved medals.

So the King created a vast medal series (Histoire Métallique) intended to outlast paper, books, and buildings.

These bronze and gold medals were intentionally buried in the foundations of monuments like the Louvre, specifically waiting for future generations to excavate them.

So the key is: durable materials, widely spread.

New comment by baxtr in "At least 100 deaths reported in Ebola outbreak in DR Congo"

baxtr — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:24:45 +0000

This is one of the unfortunate topics where calculating the costs of providing something is very straightforward, but the benefits (apart from being a decent human being) are near impossible to quantify without making wild guesses about causality.

You have to believe that somewhere down the line, you or your children will benefit from a world with fewer deadly pathogens.

New comment by baxtr in "AI is a technology not a product"

baxtr — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:31:08 +0000

That’s a great meta point.

Intellectual honesty, saying "I don’t know", for example, is only possible in low-politics environments. Otherwise, you make yourself vulnerable to the wolves.

New comment by baxtr in "AI is a technology not a product"

baxtr — Mon, 18 May 2026 04:29:04 +0000

I wonder if the 1-6 pages are all AI written nowadays and if people are allowed to use AI to summarize the pages. Anyone know?

New comment by baxtr in "Frontier AI has broken the open CTF format"

baxtr — Sat, 16 May 2026 10:09:21 +0000

I wonder if you’re filtering for the right things.

We usually hire for problem solving capabilities and not so much for technical know-how.

That’s at least how I read your comment.

New comment by baxtr in "The sigmoids won't save you"

baxtr — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:05:48 +0000

> The moral of the story is that, even though all exponentials eventually become sigmoids, this doesn’t necessarily happen at the exact moment you’re doing your analysis. Sometimes they stay exponential for much longer than that!

All exponentials eventually become sigmoids? Don’t think this can be true without qualifiers.

New comment by baxtr in "Claude for Small Business"

baxtr — Thu, 14 May 2026 09:59:10 +0000

What kind of risk do you see?

New comment by baxtr in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

baxtr — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:20:37 +0000

Akshually… I’d say they’re not the same but related. Goodhart’s is a corollary of Charlie Munger’s quote.

New comment by baxtr in "Amazon employees are "tokenmaxxing" due to pressure to use AI tools"

baxtr — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:04:00 +0000

“Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome.”

― Charlie Munger

New comment by baxtr in "Venom and hot peppers offer a key to killing resistant bacteria"

baxtr — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:58:06 +0000

Huh. We did? Could you share a link to a paper? Curious to find out about the "why".

New comment by baxtr in "I'm going back to writing code by hand"

baxtr — Mon, 11 May 2026 05:05:52 +0000

Writing code by hand but blog post are written by LLMs?

New comment by baxtr in "Agents need control flow, not more prompts"

baxtr — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:40:55 +0000

I think the key question is: How can you be sure the supervisor/orchestrator agents are reliable? You are just pushing the complexity down into another layer.