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New comment by binbag in "AI is dramatically accelerating AI research"

binbag — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 23:11:06 +0000

> In theory, these doubling times would add up to infinite capabilities within one year.

> we would reach extreme superintelligence within a year

What does infinite capabilities mean? How about putting the growth on a log scale and see how that curve might look?

What the hell is extreme superintelligence?

New comment by binbag in "Ultramarine 1 Flash"

binbag — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:43:54 +0000

It could be worth it if the cost is lower or performance is better. It's a question of the risk of switching if we are not knowledgeable enough to do it properly. Maybe in time a product will appear that makes it very easy for regular workers to do this.

New comment by binbag in "Ultramarine 1 Flash"

binbag — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 08:17:04 +0000

As someone who is not a software developer (there are some of us here, lurking around because we learn things) but who runs a business and spends his days doing said 'knowledge work', how and why would something like this convince me to move the company away from using Claude (as a desktop app)? I'm sure these models are cheaper to use than our Team subscription with Claude, but it feels like it would be a massive headache for me to work out how to select and implement some harness for this and set it up for people, and the space is moving so quickly I'd feel I need to keep considering when to move to some new model, introducing risk. The safest bet for us and most companies I expect is to stick with what you know works and pay a premium for that. Thoughts very welcome please.

New comment by binbag in "Grieving the loss of details"

binbag — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 08:04:18 +0000

There's no way back from here. Being able to write a program is just not worth as much as it was to the world and rewards and incentives are adjusting accordingly.

New comment by binbag in "Novella in Blindsight/Echopraxia Universe"

binbag — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:20:53 +0000

This was written by Fable 5 over the course of a day in summer 2026 because I wanted more Firefall books to read. I'm hoping Peter Watts can see the irony of a machine of indefinable selfhood writing a Firefall story. The Afterword by Claude on this point is worth a read.

Novella in Blindsight/Echopraxia Universe

binbag — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 22:20:53 +0000

Article URL: https://phulp.com/apophenia.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49216912

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Apophenia – Fable writes Firefall fan fiction

binbag — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 11:41:41 +0000

Article URL: https://phulp.com/apophenia.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48905196

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by binbag in "10 years: Stephen's Sausage Roll still one of the most influential puzzle games"

binbag — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 22:08:59 +0000

It's a perfect game.

New comment by binbag in "Why is there a tiny hole in the airplane window? (2023)"

binbag — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 13:13:28 +0000

This is extremely obvious and it’s what you think it is.

New comment by binbag in "There were BGP anomalies during the Venezuela blackout"

binbag — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 23:03:16 +0000

NK is protected by China, a very credible force.

New comment by binbag in "Novel hollow-core optical fiber transmits data faster with record low loss"

binbag — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 22:31:32 +0000

I can say from direct experience doing research with hollow-core fibres that they are not easy to splice either to each other or to standard fibre. Imagine trying to use heat to melt together a pipe and a solid cylinder without creating a mess.

New comment by binbag in "Learn touch typing – it's worth it"

binbag — Sat, 31 May 2025 17:16:51 +0000

Huh, I'm 39 and I really hadn't thought about this incoming generation of people not used to typing.

New comment by binbag in "CEO Simulator: Startup Edition"

binbag — Sun, 23 Feb 2025 10:00:12 +0000

Brilliant. This is my life.

New comment by binbag in "Johnny.Decimal – A system to organise your life"

binbag — Sat, 22 Feb 2025 10:24:51 +0000

I must be missing something. This is recommending folders are numbered. Is that it? Is this a "system" now? I think that may have been used previously - for example by humanity for the last 5,000 years or so.

New comment by binbag in "YC is wrong about LLMs for chip design"

binbag — Sat, 16 Nov 2024 21:57:29 +0000

Software folk underestimating hardware? Surely not.

Stratovision

binbag — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 20:06:53 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stratovision

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41504957

Points: 7

# Comments: 0

New comment by binbag in "They thought they were joining an accelerator – instead they lost their startups"

binbag — Thu, 02 May 2024 21:51:47 +0000

Terrifying.

Crore

binbag — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 12:47:18 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crore

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39537148

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

New comment by binbag in "This page knows your battery charge level (unless you're using Firefox)"

binbag — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 22:23:59 +0000

It doesn't

New comment by binbag in "Where does my computer get the time from?"

binbag — Thu, 05 Oct 2023 18:19:04 +0000

"the BIPM collects time measurements from national timing laboratories around the world"

I'm really interested in how this is done with multiple clocks over a distance. Can anyone explain? It feels like it would be very difficult since asking "what time is it there?" at the timescale of atomic clocks is kind of a bit meaningless? And that's before considering the absolute local nature of time and the impossibility of a general universal time per relativity.