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New comment by frotaur in "Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board"

frotaur — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 18:00:06 +0000

Can you specify why we should see things differently if the behaviours the agents display are driven by parsing LLM responses and executing commands?

New comment by frotaur in "Just Bury Your Trash"

frotaur — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 14:03:32 +0000

The energy to make the cotton bags presumably also involves lots of drilling and extracting, at least currently.

New comment by frotaur in "Quantum battery upends the rules of charging"

frotaur — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 11:30:09 +0000

'Quach' is an unfortunate name when researching new technologies...

New comment by frotaur in "Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in Multi-Agent LLM Systems"

frotaur — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:23:47 +0000

Alternative link: https://xcancel.com/Mcn_S7/status/2089107014526079341

Preprint link: https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10218

Mind Viruses: Self-Propagating Ideas in Multi-Agent LLM Systems

frotaur — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 17:23:12 +0000

Article URL: https://twitter.com/Mcn_S7/status/2089107014526079341

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49334509

Points: 5

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New comment by frotaur in "Qwen3.8-2.4T"

frotaur — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 09:08:40 +0000

Not only that, but KL divergence is not a '%'. It's just a number ranging from 0 to infinity that tells you the 'distance' between two probability distributions.

New comment by frotaur in "The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years (2011)"

frotaur — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 07:30:17 +0000

I think if you trained an LLM specifically for the purpose of passing the Turing test (instead of being helpful, harmful, and so on), its likely it would pass it.

You would have to train it/finetune it on a couple hundred of 'humans chatting in the context of a Turing test'.

New comment by frotaur in "Amazon Is Creating the Biggest Pollution Source in the Country"

frotaur — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 21:31:46 +0000

Might be benefits, might be downsides.

New comment by frotaur in "The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem"

frotaur — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 07:17:01 +0000

In the proof, it claims that "At least two of these must fall on the same side of P′, the perpendicular projection of P on ℓ.".

However, this is not true as it is possible that P'=B. However it seems the proof still goes through (at least as depicted in the image, haven't thought hard about the general case).

New comment by frotaur in "Pacing the frontier"

frotaur — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 10:20:18 +0000

"and the only sane thing to do is to fully support high quality ethical research groups and firms as they get up the learning curve of this technology."

These research groups are almost unanimously advocating for a pause/slowdown as our best chance.

New comment by frotaur in "Opus 5 is currently #1 on Artificial Analysis Intelligence Leaderboard"

frotaur — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 09:12:56 +0000

First of all, sure if you screw up designing a bioweapon you die, but unfortunately that does not necessarily mean the bioweapon dies with you, quite the contrary it can kickstart its propagation.

Second, in your argumentation you assume that the experiments are extremely difficult or costly. Thankfully, so far, it seems to be the case that they are too difficult (either due to domain knowledge, or to difficulty of obtaining the necessary components/equipment).

But there is no clear reason to think it will remain this way (e.g. crispr allows for genetic engineering which is very cheap). And it appears that, for domain knowledge, capable LLMs are rapidly reducing that barrier. We are not there yet of course, but I think it is crazy to dismiss these concerns, which are very real and crucially are NOT just brought up by the big labs.

New comment by frotaur in "Flux 3"

frotaur — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 07:04:00 +0000

Sorry because pointing this is a bit tired by now, but reading already the first two paragraph thete is this unmistakable stench of LLM slop writing. Immediately disengaged.

New comment by frotaur in "Claude Fable produced a counterexample to the Jacobian Conjecture"

frotaur — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 08:56:22 +0000

Didn't humanity also score very low on 353, namely 0 since they were open? Probably collectively we could have gotten a slightly better score if all of Math started trying to solve those, but not by that much, I think, since they are precisely still open.

New comment by frotaur in "America pays workers just 27% of what its wealth allows – the worst in the OECD"

frotaur — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 10:07:31 +0000

Check out https://arindube.substack.com/p/a-minimum-wage-natural-exper..., very good post comparing states with minimum wage and without, that seem to go against this often repeated argument.

New comment by frotaur in "Underwater Suit-Wearing Cyborg Insect Capable of Diving and Terra-Aqua Travel"

frotaur — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 10:01:00 +0000

Not sure the cockroach cyborg will survive such pressures, already surprised it can survive the few feet of water.

New comment by frotaur in "Show HN: Zanagrams"

frotaur — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 19:57:38 +0000

I think the board (and disappearing letters) are made with a list of words in mind. Thus, to complete the puzzle (dissolve all letters) you cannot count the bonus words as they were not accounted when creating the letter graph.

New comment by frotaur in "Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You"

frotaur — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:40:10 +0000

Its unclear to me why the color space is 2-dimensional. Why wouldn't it be a 3-dimensional space, indexed by how much each of the 3-cones is activated ? Not clear to me from the article!

New comment by frotaur in "Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can't Show You"

frotaur — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 08:23:17 +0000

Well, the most common example si precisely screens, no? A screen displaying the color yellow is actually a spectrum of red and green peaks, stimulating your red and green cones just like a spectrum containing a single frequency of the color yellow.

New comment by frotaur in "Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says"

frotaur — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 09:28:22 +0000

String theory is in fact falsifiable contrary to popular belief. It's just not practically falsifiable with current (and likely future, for a while) technology as the energy scales we need to probe to falsify it are astronomically large.

New comment by frotaur in "The $15,000 AI Bill. Your $20 Subscription is a DELUSION [video]"

frotaur — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:22:24 +0000

I think the capex being fixed assumes you can just stop training the next model. But its not clear that you can afford to do that and keep selling tokens.

And if capabilities plateau such that training the next one is useless, then the margins will drop fast due to competition.