Hacker News: emp17344

New comment by emp17344 in "What is it like to be a bat? (1974) [pdf]"

emp17344 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 02:05:20 +0000

If you think you can outright reject one of the most famous arguments in philosophy of mind with a semantic quibble, you should think again.

New comment by emp17344 in "RIP software hackathons. Long live the hardware hackathon"

emp17344 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 17:29:46 +0000

I mean, a quick Google search shows that the web is absolutely inundated with articles and how-to guides on turning guitar hero controllers into MIDI controllers. It seems like a pretty common project.

New comment by emp17344 in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

emp17344 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:28:00 +0000

Always an excuse, huh? Both mean and median wages are up. Sorry this doesn’t suit your narrative.

New comment by emp17344 in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

emp17344 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 03:24:15 +0000

What do you mean the article lacks data? Did you miss the BLS report?

New comment by emp17344 in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

emp17344 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:28:26 +0000

If you’re so confident, show us some data to debunk the article. You have a weird chip on shoulder, but no economic evidence to justify it.

New comment by emp17344 in "Where is the AI jobs crisis?"

emp17344 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:25:29 +0000

This is - quite literally - the fixed-pie fallacy, which has been thoroughly debunked by now. Read up on basic economics before commenting on this topic:

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

New comment by emp17344 in "Claude Fable 5"

emp17344 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:46:16 +0000

Yeah, right. If this benchmark was truly developed in an independent manner, and the timing just “lined up”, how did Anthropic even know to include results in their model release documentation the day after the benchmark is revealed? It seems like there must have been some collaboration or influence from Anthropic behind the scenes.

New comment by emp17344 in "Claude Fable 5"

emp17344 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 17:29:56 +0000

Seems like it literally popped up yesterday with the express purpose of building hype for this release.

New comment by emp17344 in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

emp17344 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:56:19 +0000

This is extremely inflammatory. It’s like you’re trying to start a fight. You’re actively degrading the quality of the discussion.

New comment by emp17344 in "Ask HN: Why is the HN crowd so anti-AI?"

emp17344 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:50:45 +0000

Some of it is TESCREAL ideology. Tech circles have been inundated with quasi-religious belief surrounding AI for most of the 21st century, which then biases tech enthusiasts towards extremist positions on LLMs.

New comment by emp17344 in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

emp17344 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:38:04 +0000

Not if you’re claiming that the spells, once cast, automatically get exponentially spellier until they awaken into a spell god, capable of literally anything, including casting more complicated spells than any wizard is capable of. If that were true, you’d have no need for wizards. The fact that wizards are still around means it’s probably bullshit.

New comment by emp17344 in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

emp17344 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:44:20 +0000

The issue is he’s not actually balanced at all. I’ve never seen him say anything negative about an AI product.

New comment by emp17344 in "Greg Brockman interview [video]"

emp17344 — Sun, 24 May 2026 19:01:07 +0000

Some folks are absolutely giddy about using AI as a cudgel to dehumanize others. Those people are idiots.

New comment by emp17344 in "Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation"

emp17344 — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:19:25 +0000

RLVR doesn’t work for unverifiable tasks, so they won’t be able to effectively use tools to boost reliability for those tasks.

New comment by emp17344 in "Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation"

emp17344 — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:41:36 +0000

If it’s not easily verifiable, LLMs aren’t good at it.

New comment by emp17344 in "Constraint Decay: The Fragility of LLM Agents in Back End Code Generation"

emp17344 — Sun, 24 May 2026 15:30:06 +0000

There is now a trillion-dollar industry bent to the task of convincing people these things can think. It’s gonna cause some damage.

New comment by emp17344 in "Gemini 3.5 Flash"

emp17344 — Wed, 20 May 2026 01:12:14 +0000

Why is there always an identical reply like this when anyone criticizes LLMs?

New comment by emp17344 in "I don't think AI will make your processes go faster"

emp17344 — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:05:42 +0000

This is an obvious bot. I hate this crap.

New comment by emp17344 in "LLMorphism: When humans come to see themselves as language models"

emp17344 — Sun, 10 May 2026 19:55:24 +0000

I thought the whole idea behind LLMs is that they exhibit emergent behavior beyond the data they ingest. This makes the reductionist view untenable.

New comment by emp17344 in "LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate"

emp17344 — Sun, 10 May 2026 16:36:36 +0000

What? You sound like a cartoon villain. What’s wrong with you?