Hacker News: chiwilliams

New comment by chiwilliams in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

chiwilliams — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:47:12 +0000

There are competitive reasons that they don't want to share all the people on the team.

Robotics evals should test hardware, not just software

chiwilliams — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:51:14 +0000

Article URL: https://techstatecraft.substack.com/p/robotics-evals-should-test-hardware

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49935731

Points: 1

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Trillium Labs (Nathan Lambert's new effort)

chiwilliams — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:47:45 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.trilliumlabs.org/p/introducing-trillium-labs

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49935683

Points: 2

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OpenAI's Astra model is shockingly good at robotics

chiwilliams — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 16:44:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.understandingrobots.org/p/openais-astra-model-is-shockingly

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49935632

Points: 2

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How mathematicians are responding to AI

chiwilliams — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:04:13 +0000

Article URL: https://www.understandingai.org/p/mathematicians-are-grappling-with

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49170824

Points: 5

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New comment by chiwilliams in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

chiwilliams — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:41:24 +0000

Thanks for flagging this. This is interesting

New comment by chiwilliams in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

chiwilliams — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:29:25 +0000

It didn't seem like nonsense to me. (Recently graduated undergrad with a math degree; probably could have gone to PhD). It seemed like the AI was cycling through a bunch of different possible approaches to tackle the problem. Eventually it finds one and makes more progress there until it reaches the solution

China's Mandate of AI

chiwilliams — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:53:51 +0000

Article URL: https://afraw.substack.com/p/mandate-of-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48095044

Points: 4

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Conductors who died while conducting

chiwilliams — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:49:53 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Conductors_(music)_who_died_while_conducting

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46875399

Points: 1

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Humanity's Last Machine

chiwilliams — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 15:23:49 +0000

Article URL: https://www.humanityslastmachine.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46857046

Points: 2

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Debunking Moravec's Paradox [video]

chiwilliams — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 17:29:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ty4BXrASFU

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46798579

Points: 1

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AI Safety ArXiv Scraper

chiwilliams — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 02:09:44 +0000

Article URL: https://theguardrail.net/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46494587

Points: 2

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New comment by chiwilliams in "AI World Clocks"

chiwilliams — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:52:56 +0000

I'll also note that the output isn't quite right --- the top number should be 13 rather than 1!

The Role of Open Source in Robotics

chiwilliams — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:41:07 +0000

Article URL: https://itcanthink.substack.com/p/the-role-of-open-source-in-robotics

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929324

Points: 2

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Android Dreams [AI 2027 for robotics]

chiwilliams — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:39:20 +0000

Article URL: https://android-dreams.ai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45929302

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by chiwilliams in "Maintaining a Music Library, Ten Years On"

chiwilliams — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 00:02:06 +0000

I've pursued a similar strategy via CDs found in resale shops. I've gotten a good collection going, but there's a very specific selection of CDs popular enough for people to buy but not so good that they kept it.

Waymo involved in second fatal crash – not at fault

chiwilliams — Mon, 15 Sep 2025 02:05:09 +0000

Article URL: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bradtempleton/2025/09/14/waymo-involved-apparently-not-at-fault-in--motorcycle-fatality/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45245323

Points: 2

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When an AI Seems Conscious

chiwilliams — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 13:54:16 +0000

Article URL: https://whenaiseemsconscious.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45138613

Points: 1

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New comment by chiwilliams in "How I code with AI on a budget/free"

chiwilliams — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 01:29:06 +0000

I'm assuming it isn't sensitive for your purposes, but note that Google will train on these interactions, but not if you pay.

New comment by chiwilliams in "Compression culture is making you stupid and uninteresting"

chiwilliams — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 17:32:11 +0000

> For centuries, communities gathered around the fire to hear the same saga recited for the hundredth time. The listeners didn't grow impatient with the familiar opening formulas, the elaborate genealogies, the detailed descriptions of weapons and weather.

I generally agree with the broad strokes of this post, but this description gives me pause. How do we know that listeners didn't grow impatient? Though I suppose it would take a good deal of compression to answer this :)