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New comment by computerphage in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

computerphage — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:13:33 +0000

In my view, you're the one claiming to be able to tell the difference! You said, "You tend to see that more..."

...which I took to mean that there were threads where you can look at the comments and categorize them into the two categories and then assert that the size of the paid comments category was larger on posts for high margin than it is for low margin.

Like, it makes sense that the incentive is stronger in that case, but that's not what you said. You said "you tend to see that more"

New comment by computerphage in "U of T researchers demonstrate AI worm could target any online device"

computerphage — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:43:52 +0000

Palisade Research demonstrated this capability, including fully copying model weights, on May 7th, 2026

https://palisaderesearch.org/blog/self-replication

https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.06760

New comment by computerphage in "Creatine raise brain energy levels and slow Alzheimer's cognitive decline by 30%"

computerphage — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:30:09 +0000

Do you?? Show me an HN thread where half the comments are paid for

New comment by computerphage in "Creatine raises brain energy levels and slows cognitive decline: study"

computerphage — Sun, 31 May 2026 17:26:25 +0000

That strikes me as a really poorly calibrated expectation. Who benefits? Who's paying? How could I get this job?

New comment by computerphage in "Vibe Coding Is Not Engineering"

computerphage — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:31:13 +0000

This is AI written, according to pangram, and also obviously

New comment by computerphage in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

computerphage — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:58:59 +0000

Show me a graph of your javelin skill doubling every six months and I'll start asking myself if you'll be the next champion

New comment by computerphage in "US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous"

computerphage — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:38:33 +0000

But how do you explain the fact that, before it got bad, it wasn't /already/ bad. You've gotta have some model for why there was a change if the rate wasn't previously at 100% and the claim is that the number "should be 100% unless it was regulated"

New comment by computerphage in "US Department of Justice has officially reclassified cannabis as less dangerous"

computerphage — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:42:31 +0000

It didn't used to be regulated. How do you explain the fact that not everyone used to be an opiate addict?

New comment by computerphage in "Show HN submissions tripled and now mostly share the same vibe-coded look"

computerphage — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 15:54:22 +0000

> Barely passing body-text contrast in dark themes

This has been killing me recently. Apparently I need slightly higher contrast than some people, and these vibe coded UIs are basically unreadable to my eyes

New comment by computerphage in "Claude Opus 4.7"

computerphage — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 15:31:38 +0000

Yeah, when I'm writing code I try to avoid zeros and ones, since those are the most common bits, making them essentially noise

New comment by computerphage in "Two Months After I Gave an AI $100 and No Instructions"

computerphage — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 14:07:24 +0000

Do you? What's the technical detail here? Why can't you get the model's prediction, even for that first token?

New comment by computerphage in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

computerphage — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:28:24 +0000

New comment by computerphage in "OpenAI backs Illinois bill that would limit when AI labs can be held liable"

computerphage — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:27:07 +0000

OpenAI wants to not be responsible for "accidents" that kill more than 100 people, despite some critics arguing that their current actions are likely to cause such harms.

New comment by computerphage in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

computerphage — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 15:44:00 +0000

Why are people dangerous? You can just not listen to them.

New comment by computerphage in "Amazon cuts 16k jobs"

computerphage — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 16:31:05 +0000

Why isn't the AI story believable? It seems to me that AI is getting more and more productive

New comment by computerphage in "Claude's new constitution"

computerphage — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 06:38:12 +0000

What's your point?

New comment by computerphage in "The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets"

computerphage — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 17:22:52 +0000

The usual thing is that the market ends up around $0.95 for things like that, if the actors are all solid investors. It only takes one overly enthusiastic yes buyer to break that ceiling, the smart money won't "correct" it down to $0.95

There's another idea, which is make contacts that pay out in shares of an ETF, but I haven't seen this idea put into practice

New comment by computerphage in "OpenAI's cash burn will be one of the big bubble questions of 2026"

computerphage — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 22:55:45 +0000

Why do you think they have not trained a new model since 4o? You think the GPT-5 release is /just/ routing to differently sized 4o models?

New comment by computerphage in "Ovi: Twin backbone cross-modal fusion for audio-video generation"

computerphage — Fri, 24 Oct 2025 15:42:51 +0000

Yep. Totally agreed that it's well defined. Only pointing out that the technical execution required will shift, which seems relevant because it's likely to make it take much longer than without this effect

New comment by computerphage in "Ovi: Twin backbone cross-modal fusion for audio-video generation"

computerphage — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 21:01:29 +0000

I think "blockbuster movie" is a moving target, so it's a bit hard to know