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New comment by fhe in "AI has access to a vastly larger working memory than the human brain"

fhe — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 09:26:26 +0000

extreme cases aside, memory and intelligence have always been found to have very strong correlation. so much that you might even just call them the same thing.

New comment by fhe in "How Gödel's Proof Works (2020)"

fhe — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 06:07:09 +0000

I hope you don't mind, but just in case anyone is curious like I am, here i think is the video to the talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KdZq5JvhPVQ

New comment by fhe in "Humanising LLM Outputs Is Dumb"

fhe — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 01:47:36 +0000

agree and i wonder why don't they (the leading AI labs that are putting out these models) fix this? I felt it shouldn't be too hard to introduce some bias towards more intelligible text during the post training/fine-tuning stages?

New comment by fhe in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"

fhe — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 04:40:01 +0000

might want to look into statistics on ppl who play a lot of first-person shooting games. does it have to navigation of physical environments? or virtuals ones work too?

Six Problems When You Try to Build an AI Therapist

fhe — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 06:56:02 +0000

Article URL: https://emilylee293105.substack.com/p/six-problems-when-you-try-to-build

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49165140

Points: 2

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New comment by fhe in "AI opens new era in cognitive studies of wild primates"

fhe — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 02:32:50 +0000

so their idea is to put an ipad in the middle of the forest, installed with games, and if played right, delievers a treat... makes me wonder if something alien civilization is not doing something like that to us.

New comment by fhe in "AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions"

fhe — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 02:25:19 +0000

came here to say some version of this. for the average joe, good financial advice is simple and boring (low cost ETF tracking broad based index), and AI is definitely able to give that. the question has always been getting people to listen though, and I am not sure how effective AI will be at that. I continue to be amazed at the confidence that people place in hot stock tips from tiktok (yes, tiktok!). little has changed since the 1920s i guess.

New comment by fhe in "Judge approves $1.5B Anthropic settlement for pirated books used to train Claude"

fhe — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 03:32:20 +0000

if authors get an advance that's greater than the sale of their books, doesn't it mean that the publishers lose money, i.e. paid more for those books than the books sales?

New comment by fhe in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

fhe — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 03:26:06 +0000

Apple seems a counter example, no?

New comment by fhe in "Top researchers leave USA for the Netherlands (in Dutch)"

fhe — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 13:32:33 +0000

There are any number of smaller region/states that are already benefiting. Singapore comes to mind. Leading labs are all setting up in Singapore and both 1) internally-transferring their previously US-based talents on work visa to Singapore, and 2) using Singapore as a base for Asia hires, mostly notably from China.

New comment by fhe in "Zuckerberg says AI agent development going slower than expected"

fhe — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 04:33:27 +0000

Yes, this... all the hype from the leading AI companies just pattern-matched so many past cases where things didn't pan out. really giving me the bad vibes..

New comment by fhe in "Reality has a surprising amount of detail (2017)"

fhe — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:57:50 +0000

I want to thank you for the following reasons: - that's an amazing, mind-opening essay; - I've been looking for this toy (Meccano) for my entire adult life. I remember playing with a set that my mom got me when I was a kid, but I didn't know what it was called, and neither did my mom. And when I describe it to people, everyone kept telling me it was Lego (Lego is a much better-known toy brand in this part of the world). I had pretty much given up on ever finding it, thinking it might have just been a niche toy that had ceased production. Words are not enough to describe my joy when I opened the link and saw images of Meccano pieces!

New comment by fhe in "GitHub Is Becoming a Giant AI Code Dump"

fhe — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 08:41:58 +0000

this article itself is AI dump...

New comment by fhe in "John Jumper to join Anthropic"

fhe — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:22:39 +0000

because, as Musk once said, always bet on the more interesting outcome (because we live in a simulation)

New comment by fhe in "John Jumper to join Anthropic"

fhe — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 06:51:04 +0000

I felt Hassabis' heart was never in consumer applications or even LLMs. He'd much rather be doing scientific research.

New comment by fhe in "U.S. science is in chaos"

fhe — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:04:53 +0000

and esp. since DOGE was led by Musk, who has an appreciation of basic science. One'd think he'd exercise good judgement and caution when it comes to cutting funding for science research.

New comment by fhe in "S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic"

fhe — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:43:15 +0000

S&P 500 is already heavily skewed towards tech companies (Apple, Google, Meta, Amazon, Microsoft etc.). I think it's something like 40% of S&P500 is tech. If SpaceX/OpenAI/Anthropic are added, tech risks would be even more concentrated, which is bad for diversification.

New comment by fhe in "I'm skeptical about efforts to revolutionize schooling"

fhe — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:04:33 +0000

based on your description, one reasonable way to 'revolutionize' school might simply allow people (who don't want to be there) to leave.

New comment by fhe in "Why Japanese companies do so many different things"

fhe — Sat, 23 May 2026 03:18:21 +0000

for what it's worth, back when i was in b-schoo, the predominant theory for the existence of large, diversified Asian conglomerates (Japanese keiretsu is a prime example, but it's not unique to Japan. Similar entities exist in S.Korea and Thailand, among other places) is the friction of starting and doing businesses in these countries. Startups there have such a hard time getting funded and landing clients, that the financing aspect alone give the conglomerates enough of an advantage to edge out startups, despite the inefficiencies typical of large organizations (and in this the Japanese corporate giants are no better than IBM or GE).

this theory is typically mentioned when introducing the Theory of the Firm, i.e. why do companies exist at all? why not everyone just freelances, and when you need a marketing/finance/legal/coding person, you just contract one on the free market? the idea is that there are always frictions when doing business with someone new (is this person good? trust worthy? how do i find out?), and how much friction there is determines how big the firm will grow (to incorporate functions in-house, or expand to other industries).

in a perfect frictionless economy, it could indeed be true that business transactions all happen at the smallest unit, i.e. the individual. at the other extreme, there would just be one firm that coordinates all economic activities. all real world economies sit some where in between.

New comment by fhe in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

fhe — Thu, 07 May 2026 03:40:56 +0000

it was only after I had to manage others that I realized the logic for a lot of these simplistic metrics and rules. they are in place to hold accountable the worst performers. a simple example is when i introduced flexible work hours. it was fine with most people, but there are always a few members that abuse the system. they stretch it to the very limit to what can be interpreted as "flexible". as a manager it posed a dilemma for me. i didn't want to take away this privilege just because of a few abusers, but it was both unfair and set bad precedents if I allowed them to get away with this. and let's say they couldn't be easily fired. most of my peers simply ended up going back to a system where people punched in and out.