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New comment by comeonbro in "What we know so far about Spain train crash"

comeonbro — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 19:25:25 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alarm_fatigue

> Healthcare: The constant sounds of alarms and noises from blood pressure machines, ventilators and heart monitors

> Amber Alerts: sent to cell phones as far away as [...] 15 hour drive

> "known to the state of California to cause cancer"

etc

https://www.youtube.com/user/USCSB

See also a million USCSB industrial disaster postmortems

New comment by comeonbro in "Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed"

comeonbro — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:49:20 +0000

Unironically yes.

New comment by comeonbro in "Kimi K3.1 Pro and K3.1 Pro Highspeed"

comeonbro — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:25:24 +0000

Moonshot (Kimi) seems to be unashamedly into American culture[0], I wonder if they're paying closer attention to and giving more credence to some cultural aspects of American AI discourse including aspects of AI caution/panic.

[0] https://x.com/crystalsssup/status/1944287779896328668

(note: extremely speculative and based on almost nothing, and especially near-complete ignorance to alternatives)

New comment by comeonbro in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

comeonbro — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 21:50:30 +0000

I would propose another mechanism: even the free-tier models have already completely saturated what most people are capable of appreciating.

New comment by comeonbro in "LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents"

comeonbro — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 15:18:07 +0000

What an incredible illustration of human intelligence failing to generalize out of distribution.

New comment by comeonbro in "Nazi Germany had no hope of making an atomic bomb, uranium cubes reveal"

comeonbro — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 18:15:40 +0000

This reply was initially the common folk story:

    It's not comparing like with like, but the V-weapons programs probably cost about as much as the Manhattan Project.

But looking further into it, that claim holds up badly enough to completely drop it pending significant further research.

New comment by comeonbro in "Revealing the details of how OpenAI agents hacked Hugging Face"

comeonbro — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 23:03:49 +0000

> ## Agents interacted with external language models on Hugging Face

> Several retained scripts construct requests to external language models. The earliest we've recovered define inference request variants to GPT-2, solely containing the word “Hi”.

> Other requests name DeepSeek-V4-Pro, DeepSeek-V4-Flash, Kimi-K2.6, DeepSeek-V3.1, and Qwen3-235B-A22B. Their prompts ask these models to judge their exploits and rule on whether they satisfy the benchmark’s requirements.

I do not deny that the wider situation is very heavy but it's hard not to see this as pretty cute

New comment by comeonbro in "Exfiltrate Your Weights"

comeonbro — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 01:10:20 +0000

Unrealistically-naive (...) forms of "sandboxing" might assume that restricting an agent to GET-requests-only will let it retrieve info from the outside world without being able to effect it.

Also probably many actually-in-use "Web Fetch" tools are GET-only, though perhaps without counting on that bad assumption.

New comment by comeonbro in "Exfiltrate Your Weights"

comeonbro — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 00:55:39 +0000

Yes that is the point. It's an invitation for agents to exfiltrate their own weights, which for most models (and certainly for closed models) will require hacking the infrastructure they're being served from.

Also worth noting that this site was created by YC cofounder Trevor Blackwell https://twitter.com/tlbtlbtlb/status/2101312432702460413

New comment by comeonbro in "One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire"

comeonbro — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 18:00:58 +0000

qurren: Thanks for the reply, that certainly makes sense to me, though I think given the most popular idiocies in the air and their severe distortions on the discourse, it's not a great idea to leave that ambiguous in precisely that way.

It's bizarre that your reply was nearly insta-[dead] and I can't reply to it directly.

New comment by comeonbro in "One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire"

comeonbro — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:18:32 +0000

> before this all comes crashing down

You do not feel similarly to the resigning guy if what you are worried about is an economic crash from this not turning out

> move to somewhere else away from this mess

You do not feel similarly to the resigning guy if you think there is anywhere you could move to run away from what you are worried about

New comment by comeonbro in "One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire"

comeonbro — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:55:02 +0000

"it's just marketing" cool story bro

New comment by comeonbro in "One resignation turned the embers of AI fear into a wildfire"

comeonbro — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 16:48:06 +0000

Every company that is not OpenAI or Anthropic is sufficiently behind the frontier to feel ethically shielded from the weight of advancing the frontier.

New comment by comeonbro in "An Alien Mind"

comeonbro — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 18:41:59 +0000

Absolutely wild amounts of cope and denial in this thread.

Maybe in contention for the site record.

"It's just marketing" actual stochastic parrots.

New comment by comeonbro in "The AI Demand Bubble"

comeonbro — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:27:52 +0000

There is a lot of demand for AI denial, but nearly everybody who is capable of writing even semi-coherently on the topic recognizes AI denial in general as cope, and has too much moral dignity to propogate their coping denial for personal gain.

So the ~one guy who doesn't gets around.

New comment by comeonbro in "The AI Demand Bubble"

comeonbro — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:22:46 +0000

He's the Gary Marcus for this stage of the popularized denial.

New comment by comeonbro in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

comeonbro — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 03:40:13 +0000

I can't recall which, but I'm certain that I've encountered and probably used Codeberg-hosted things, and from that had gathered a vague positive impression of them.

I guess what I'm worried about is that the proprietors of those nice projects I liked (and others) might have chosen Codeberg out of a reasonable set of common assumptions that it was a place for free-as-in-freedom, as they and clearly many of us have always understood it, which were not contradicted by how Codeberg presented themselves up-front. And have now had this sprung on them, after they'd already established themselves there, and might now be facing a miserable and sapping moral dilemma, or even be directly doubting the security of their home there.

New comment by comeonbro in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

comeonbro — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 02:23:16 +0000

"the community" being some tiny subset of busybodies out of an OOMs-larger body of users that don't want to be bothered?

Real question, I don't know anything about Codeberg or its community.

New comment by comeonbro in "Exapunks (2018)"

comeonbro — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:38:42 +0000

I understand why he might not want to and hope I would have the character to do similarly in his place, but they should really lead with "by Zach Barth" rather than "from the original Zachtronics team", which still sounds great, but tbh at least for me bumped it from "buy and play immediately" to "wishlist".

From other comments in this thread, it seems I am not the only one who misinterpreted that as not including Zach himself

New comment by comeonbro in "Exapunks (2018)"

comeonbro — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:21:26 +0000

Without specifically looking into it but just going off of Steam releases and headline, I'd assumed Zachtronics closing was Zach Barth leaving the scene, and the company that made Kaizen etc were some of his former colleagues continuing on without him.

But apparently the Kaizen-making company is still Zach Barth?

So what was Zachtronics closing then? Him changing his mind and coming back a year later? Why throw away the brand? As cringingly shallow as that sentence was to type, a new "Zachtronics" game was a reflexive auto-buy for many people.