<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: cure_42</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=cure_42</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:55:31 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=cure_42" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by cure_42 in "I resigned from Anthropic today"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No. They can't play chess on a grandmaster level without a harness programmed to make it possible. Simply training an LLM on chess games isn't enough.<p>It's moronic to suggest a "formal" definition of a commonly understood word is somehow necessary to say whether that word applies in a given situation.<p>LLMs cannot write poetry via understanding what makes good poetry. They generate tokens. They do not know whether those tokens are poetry or a recipe for cat food. Because they cannot know anything.</p>
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<p>To be fair, we can't model human language well enough to accurately predict what an actual human will say either. Our ability to accurately model physics is similar to our ability to accurately model human language. And we make immense use of both kinds of model, despite their flaws, inaccuracies,  and inability to ever be perfect.</p>
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<p>This is so wildly incorrect I don't even know where to start.<p>For one, they were absolutely programmed to play chess if they can play chess. That is the only way they can play chess.<p>For another, they cannot understand literally anything, much less love.<p>Trying to actually educate you would be an exercise in futility, enjoy your willful ignorance, I hear it's bliss. But for anyone reading this, this is absolutely, unequivocally not how any of this works.</p>
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<p>It isn't hard to program a gpt. You can do it in a weekend with a few hundred lines of python. The code is pretty simple. The math is not particularly high level.<p>The complexity and scale with LLMs come from the amount of training data used, not some kind of black magic in the programming.</p>
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<p>That isn't the correct context. The code running the llm is well understood and the llm is simply the result of that code being executed. It is still a computer doing what it is told. It's just that we told it to use an incredibly large number of probabilities to calculate what series of tokens would have most likely come next after a given series of tokens. There is no hallucination or lie or rogue actions. There's just a program using math to generate tokens in response to other tokens.</p>
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<p>I am trying to imagine how the magnet could be compromised. Could you theoretically embed an electromagnetic and a controller within a decoy magnet and somehow detect what was being recorded and subvert it? Probably not but... No, just probably not.</p>
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<p>Windows batch, no?</p>
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<p>It stays plugged into my PC and requires a single second of effort to tap it. I have another that lives on my keys and again requires barely any effort to tap against my phone.<p>But sure, if the tiniest bit of effort is too much, there isn't really a good way to make passwords actually secure for you. Hopefully that doesn't have any totally unforeseeable consequences for you down the line.</p>
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<p>You use a yubikey? Duh?</p>
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<p><a href="https://www.privacyguides.org/en/passwords/" rel="nofollow">https://www.privacyguides.org/en/passwords/</a></p>
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<p>Always makes me chuckle when there's this uncountably large group of people, and someone meets a handful of them and then decides they can make broad, sweeping statements about the entire group, despite having not met 99.99...% of them XD</p>
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<p>Is the extracted content stored in a way that could be easily converted to markdown? Seems like this could be integrated incredibly well with obsidian as a way to automatically expand your knowledge base, as well as a better search for it.</p>
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<p>Is this an ad for "pangram"? Reads like one to me. Not much of anything related to peptides was actually communicated, which makes the insult about your reader's potential ignorance of peptides even more unnecessary.</p>
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<p>They did. And it was broken. And we iterated like crazy with people devoting their lives to studying the incredibly advanced mathematics underpinning modern cryptography. But please, roll your own using an LLM and show us all how wrong we are :)</p>
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<p>I see so many solo indie game developers who don't really play games and almost all of them fail to make their game actually fun. I'm not at all surprised to learn the same concept applies to writing.<p>I think the most intuitive case might be music. We would all be skeptical if someone said they were going to compose a soundtrack but hadn't really listened to many soundtracks or much music at all.</p>
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<p>Probably a VPN or your IP was soft-banned. I have the same thing happen due to my network wide vpn</p>
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<p>There is nothing about using the most popular social media platforms in the world that implies someone doesn't have an active and healthy social life. If you think it does, you may be projecting.</p>
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<p>Terrible advice</p>
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<p>Thank you!<p>These morons really can't take two seconds to ask "where will the money to pay for the hardware needed to run the ASI come from?" And then realize it's quite literally impossible.<p>No, we aren't two or five or twenty years away from LLMS magically transforming into AGI/ASI. We are however much closer than that to this insane, irresponsible bubble popping because everyone actually involved with the data centers creating these models is burning collectively trillions of dollars and deep in debt and sucking venture and banks dry.<p>This is the collective insanity of NFTs but so, so, so much worse and so much stupider and so much more rooted in science fiction and marketing from the handful of people burning down the world in exchange for propping up their stocks on a bed of lies.</p>
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<p>Fascinating, thank you!</p>
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