<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: gsleblanc</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=gsleblanc</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 13 Jun 2026 14:39:35 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=gsleblanc" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gsleblanc in "I’ve joined Anthropic"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Yes. I think Anthropic's success with claude code + cowork and the way it's shredding through white-collar work is basically cementing the thesis of Geoffrey Hinton's latest paper (<a href="https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12559-026-10569-8.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s12559-026-105...</a>). I highly recommend reading it in full, but briefly:<p>1. Copernican Revolution -> We aren't the center of the universe<p>2. The Darwinian Revolution -> We aren't the pinnacle of life<p>3. The Freudian Revolution -> We aren't even in control of our own minds<p>4. The "Intuitive AI" Revolution -> We aren't the only form of intelligence<p>I think even a month ago I would've read this article and scoffed, but having used Claude Code almost exclusively at work for the last couple months it seems pretty undeniable that in-context-learning and a good enough harness is all you need to displace most "thinking" jobs that require just a bachelors. The hundreds of billions of dollars pouring into data center build-out basically hinges on this thesis, and frankly I trust the judgements of the billionaires financing these deals better than LLM-naysayers on hackernews (not to mention the non-public info they have access to). You don't need to reach superintelligence to still deeply, deeply affect society, and I think Anthropic was the first to build products that are actually good enough and, critically, hands-off enough to do just this. Every day it's clearer and clearer to me that "I was born into a poor family but am relatively intelligent and good at learning things, therefore I can find success" is <i>exactly</i> what will ultimately be eliminated as the outcome of this unless we get the government to step in and regulate.<p>I could go on and on, but the main point I'm trying to make is that you should definitely examine unease you feel about Anthropic, consider framing that unease in the context of Hinton's argument, and ask yourself what the implications may be.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 20 May 2026 03:20:15 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202727</link><dc:creator>gsleblanc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202727</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202727</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gsleblanc in "Anonymous request-token comparisons from Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's increasingly looking naive to assume scaling LLMs is all you need to get to full white-collar worker replacement. The attention mechanism / hopfield network is fundamentally modeling only a small subset of the full human brain, and all the increasing sustained hype around bolted-on solutions for "agentic memory" is, in my opinion, glaring evidence that these SOTA transformers alone aren't sufficient even when you just limit the space to text. Maybe I'm just parroting Yann LeCun.</p>
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<p>How did we get to allowing this in the USA? I remember the zeitgeist used to be to make fun of China's mass surveillance / social credit system, and ten years ago proposing to build something like this in the USA would be unthinkable. It's wild that we're just willingly sliding into the same system here too.</p>
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<p>I for one cannot wait to run my cloud infrastructure on Tesla Web Services</p>
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<p>If you're interested in this kind of thing, inaturalist is another great resource with significantly more activity (at least in the US)</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2024 23:04:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41691651</link><dc:creator>gsleblanc</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41691651</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41691651</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by gsleblanc in "1SecondPainting: Generate abstract paintings in one click"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The first ten images are... interesting.</p>
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