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New comment by beardedwizard in "Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model"

beardedwizard — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 07:32:57 +0000

Nah it's exactly like they have been trained on this data and parrot it back when it statistically makes sense to do so.

You don't have to teach a monkey language for it to feel sadness.

New comment by beardedwizard in "I’m joining OpenAI"

beardedwizard — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 16:21:20 +0000

Bring your system to my records.

The irony of systems of record is that if there is more than one, there are effectively none. Just data stuck in silos waiting for compute.

New comment by beardedwizard in "2025: The Year in LLMs"

beardedwizard — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:22:27 +0000

I mentioned military in my reply to the sibling comment - that is the most ready example. What anduril and others are doing today may be sloppy, but it's moving very quickly.

New comment by beardedwizard in "2025: The Year in LLMs"

beardedwizard — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:21:22 +0000

Military adoption is probably a decent proxy indicator - and they are ready to hand the kill switch to autonomous robots

New comment by beardedwizard in "2025: The Year in LLMs"

beardedwizard — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 02:15:46 +0000

"Given the state of robotics" reminds me a lot of what was said about llms and image/video models over the past 3 years. Considering how much llms improved, how long can robotics be in this state?

I have to think 3 years from now we will be having the same conversation about robots doing real physical labor.

"This is the worst they will ever be" feels more apt.

New comment by beardedwizard in "Writing a good Claude.md"

beardedwizard — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 15:10:23 +0000

That is strange because it's been going on since sonnet 4.5 release.

New comment by beardedwizard in "California needs to learn from Houston and Dallas about homelessness"

beardedwizard — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:46:13 +0000

41% are not from California, 59% is not exactly overwhelming. it is a little more than half.

New comment by beardedwizard in "Show HN: Write It Down – Personal finance tracker"

beardedwizard — Mon, 06 Oct 2025 13:12:11 +0000

In the current AI = LLM world, why have a language model do taxes? Why not just have AI help you adapt your non AI tax planning platform to local tax laws by reading and comprehending them at scale, a language task, instead?

New comment by beardedwizard in "California needs to learn from Houston and Dallas about homelessness"

beardedwizard — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:20:15 +0000

This is such a bad faith article, downtown Dallas is full of homeless and the cvs has everything locked up. If homelessness went down it's because they moved to CA.

We do need more accountability for non profits though.

New comment by beardedwizard in "EA Announces Agreement to be Acquired by PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners"

beardedwizard — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 14:53:44 +0000

More consolidation of media by the billionaire class. Wait till they start partisan gaming.

New comment by beardedwizard in "I feel Apple has lost its alignment with me and other long-time customers"

beardedwizard — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 04:43:31 +0000

You lost me at "traditional horology"

New comment by beardedwizard in "GPT-5"

beardedwizard — Fri, 08 Aug 2025 01:20:34 +0000

I asked it how to run the image and expose a port. it was just terrible in cursor. thought a Dockerfile wasn't in the repo, called no tools, then hallucinated a novel on dockefile best practices.

New comment by beardedwizard in "No AI Content"

beardedwizard — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 12:41:04 +0000

What ads?

New comment by beardedwizard in "We built an air-gapped Jira alternative for regulated industries"

beardedwizard — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 03:27:56 +0000

But you didn't tell us how many orders of magnitude more expensive it is to operate :)

New comment by beardedwizard in "'Europe must ban American Big Tech and create a European Silicon Valley'"

beardedwizard — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 02:02:58 +0000

No debating any of that, it does not change the facts: Way more investor money is going into tech, however dubious, in the US.

Maybe that will change in the next few years, but it didn't happen for NYC or Texas either.

New comment by beardedwizard in "'Europe must ban American Big Tech and create a European Silicon Valley'"

beardedwizard — Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:53:05 +0000

If it worked Europe wouldn't be behind in tech and tech investment.

New comment by beardedwizard in "IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites"

beardedwizard — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 17:58:26 +0000

What specifically do you want individual citizens to do? Are you yourself complicit in everything your government does? Do you even know what they do?

Israelis are protesting, for better or worse this is what democracy looks like.

Another question to ask, does every Russian support the war in Ukraine? What can they do about it?

New comment by beardedwizard in "IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites"

beardedwizard — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 16:45:06 +0000

what evidence do you have to support that claim?

I'm also baffled by the suggestion that democracy truly represents a majority and the apparent belief that dissent is quickly processed and rectified by democracy. Which country do you think shows this is working well?

New comment by beardedwizard in "IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites"

beardedwizard — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 16:21:08 +0000

The same thing has been said generally about Muslims and Islamic terror organizations.

Well anyway, it is still crazy to me that somebody is making a decision about the entire population of a country based on the governments actions in 2025.

New comment by beardedwizard in "IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites"

beardedwizard — Sat, 28 Jun 2025 16:14:27 +0000

What are you actually expecting an average Israeli who does not agree with this to do? This comment strikes me as wild considering the exact same thing is playing out in America right now, and a bunch of people are making up their minds about "Americans" and what they stand for.

The same has been true for Iran, only up until now (and probably still) we have always had a more nuanced discussion - its the Iranian government, not the people of Iran.

Come on, the government of many countries does not necessarily represent the people.