<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: diedyesterday</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=diedyesterday</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 22:59:55 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=diedyesterday" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by diedyesterday in "Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes in fact. From the blog "To make something transparent...Alternatively (and this is the approach we'll cover in this post), we could try to change the refractive index of the water inside to match the embedded media. "<p>It's a kind of impedance matching. The (almost) same happens with sound in our ears (and the 3 tiny bones). Making the audio machinery "transparent to sound" (by impedance matching).</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:15:34 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50146871</link><dc:creator>diedyesterday</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50146871</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50146871</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by diedyesterday in "Butlerian Jihad"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I too, believe personality cults (NK, Nazi Germany, Shiite Iran, etc.being just the recent ones) are one of most evil social (power) structures.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:09:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50146837</link><dc:creator>diedyesterday</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50146837</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50146837</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by diedyesterday in "Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>On the virtue of scarcity, being mortal, being NOT omniscient, NOT omnipotent, being Finite, etc. (thus arising the need to optimize, etc.):<p>[Fig Tree] "By end of the story Gilgamesh is human; He is Us; We see the Deep; That's our gift as humans; We fight to understand something no god could ever could (emergence and richness from scarcity); The gods don't need to fear death so they don't have to live an impassionate life; It means nothing to them to run out of time; "Seeing the deep" is the apex of human potential, not a transgression into godhood; It's something that only humans can do."</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:08:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49636428</link><dc:creator>diedyesterday</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49636428</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49636428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by diedyesterday in "Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes, Many of the the philosophical concepts which we previously thought were contingent on consciousness (like knowledge, in the philosophical sense, will, intelligence, agency, ...) have almost nothing to do with it, and they look far more important and fundamental (now with LLMs/AI agents, more than before). This is one of the contributions of generative AI to philosophy (with many many more to come).</p>
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<p>Will has almost nothing to do with consciousness (as does knowledge).<p>Will is just result of a very complex yet deterministic (unconscious) 
computation by an agent which guides their future action (it's that orientation/aboutness toward action which distinguishes it from other computation). A PS of that computation is sent (projected) into that agent's consciousness if they have one (and is what we think as our "will").</p>
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<p>1. The initial stage of adoption of AI will be more of a shift (some plus + here and some minus there) and reorientation and restructuring than net exponential growth.<p>2. Also a good portion of contribution of AI is where it's not taken into account by metrics like GDP. I have seen an explosion of FOSS projects especially in my own area and I'm sure it's pretty much are the case for many other areas.<p>3. Also there will be a sink-like effect with effects of AI on net wealth production. Like Earth's own oxygenation event which took billions for the produced oxygen to (after saturating  all the sinks like Earth' iron reserves and turning them to Iron ore) ultimately find its way into the atmosphere.<p>4. Also I'm not sure what is exactly being counted on as contribution of AI to economy. Is the data-center build-outs and growth of chip companies,etc. included in this metric in AI's favor?
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<p>Syria became a hell for its citizen exactly because Obama run away from enforcing the very red line (chemical weapons) he himself had drawn (for himself). He basically allowed the massacre to escalate.</p>
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<p>Your simplistic recipe shows you don't understand the situation and way for improvement in either case.</p>
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<p>You obviously seem to have no idea how mafia-style dictatorships like those of Iran, Russian and Venezuela work. No fault of you. Most people don't.<p>And even their own citizens come to the realization after a long time living under them; partly because they get caught in the constant propaganda campaign which is one hallmark of these regimes. They always live in the propaganda mode.</p>
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<p>Google is still far far better than the competition which is crawling with manipulated results and fake sites and phishing scams. The other are so much easier to take advantage of and manipulate (e.g. search ranking). No security based filtering ,etc.<p>I have been personally bitten by results on the likes of Bing or DDG (fake browser addons on top, crypto phishing sites on top, etc.)<p>Also user experience varies somewhat and for me with the same search prompt ("midjourney"), the intended site is the first result.</p>
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<p>To me its function looks similar to a sponge or a tampon: An additional piece that absorbs the external influence and then is subtracted away (you remain dry:)))</p>
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<p>Regarding the conclusion about language-invariant reasoning (conceptual universality vs. multilingual processing) it helps understanding and becomes somewhat obvious if we regard each language as just a basis of some semantic/logical/thought space in the mind (analogous to the situation in linear algebra and duality of tensors and bases).<p>The thoughts/ideas/concepts/scenarios are invariant states/vector/points in the (very high dimensional) space of meanings in the mind and each language is just a basis to reference/define/express/manipulate those ideas/vectors. A coordinatization of that semantic space.<p>Personally, I'm a multilingual person with native-level command of several languages. Many times it happens, I remember having a specific thought, but don't remember in what language it was. So I can personally sympathize with this finding of the Anthropic researchers.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2025 11:06:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43503912</link><dc:creator>diedyesterday</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43503912</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43503912</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by diedyesterday in "Turkish university annuls Erdogan rival's degree, preventing run for president"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>So Erdogan wants to be Putin of Turkey. It's up to the Turks if he can succeed.</p>
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<p>...until they distill that "11x efficient training" again ...</p>
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<p>Don't forget that this model probably has far less params than o1 or even 4o. This is a compression/distillation, which means it frees up so much compute resources to build models much powerful than o1. At least this allows further scaling compute-wise (if not in the amount of, non-synthetic, source material available for training).</p>
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<p>He seems to have won an ACM award also and there as a (possible) picture of him there.
<a href="https://awards.acm.org/award-recipients/burrows_9434147" rel="nofollow">https://awards.acm.org/award-recipients/burrows_9434147</a></p>
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<p>Reminds me of how Google's AlphaGo learned to play the best Go that was ever seen. And this somewhat seems a generalization of that.</p>
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<p>Sam Altman and OpenAI are following the example of Celebrimbor it seems. And I love what may come next...</p>
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<p>A linear graph with a log scale on the vertical axis means the original graph had near exponential growth.<p>A linear graph with a log scale on the the horizontal axis means the original graph had law of diminishing return kick it (somewhat similar to logarithmic but with a vertical asymptote).</p>
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<p>"Safe super-intelligence" is an oxymoron.</p>
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