Hacker News: computerphage

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

New comment by computerphage in "No science, no startups: The innovation engine we're switching off"

computerphage — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:10:42 +0000

Because before buybacks there were dividends. Did the difference between buybacks and dividends really make the difference between doing basic research and not?

New comment by computerphage in "The AI emperor has no clothes"

computerphage — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:45:07 +0000

Like, there is an argument that can be made here, but "there's just not enough money in the world to justify this" definitely isn't it

New comment by computerphage in "The AI emperor has no clothes"

computerphage — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 15:41:55 +0000

Indeed. There are trillions of dollars /per year/ paid to workers in the US alone.

New comment by computerphage in "Marissa Mayer will close her old AI startup, sell assets to her new AI startup"

computerphage — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 16:35:20 +0000

"due to privacy concerns about privacy"

This strikes me as a particularly funny typo

New comment by computerphage in "Haiku Validator"

computerphage — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 15:09:04 +0000

"Sometimes" and "sense" are both wrong. I don't think this library is very good

New comment by computerphage in "Anthropic is endorsing SB 53"

computerphage — Wed, 10 Sep 2025 05:14:54 +0000

I understood that from the context, but my question stands. I'm asking why OP thinks that sentience is necessary for risk in AI

New comment by computerphage in "Anthropic is endorsing SB 53"

computerphage — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 23:59:45 +0000

Why do you think systems need to be sentient to be risky?

New comment by computerphage in "A bubble that knows it's a bubble"

computerphage — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 13:14:56 +0000

So, how would you do it?

New comment by computerphage in "The chemical secrets that help keep honey fresh for so long"

computerphage — Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:19:45 +0000

Why is it relative humidity that matters here instead of absolute humidity?