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New comment by hawkice in "Anthropic S-1"

hawkice — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 13:27:24 +0000

This is not what "AI psychosis" colloquially refers to. Few people have any firm opinions about the nature of cost accounting on LLM products.

New comment by hawkice in "METR and Redwood Offer Holy %^ Postmortem of the HuggingFace Hack"

hawkice — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 17:33:20 +0000

This writeup emphasizes the many, profound human failures that led to this, at the time, and continuing to the present day.

New comment by hawkice in "Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo"

hawkice — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:45:07 +0000

And taking the labor and time of the employees is a value extracted. While there is some modest surplus I hope people get from their job (e.g. they'd do the same job for less money), that surplus of excess wages over what people would accept will be lower than consumer surplus for almost any standard business.

New comment by hawkice in "I used Claude Code to get a second opinion on my MRI"

hawkice — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 18:10:22 +0000

I think this draws too strong a line between the matrix-math core and the harness that uses it. Those harnesses undoubtedly were built with purpose and the systems fail to achieve that goal. Common usage says the the DMV can make mistakes, like any systems, despite the DMV itself not being a person (and it is common to allege large organizations make mistakes even when no specific individual is making an identifiable mistake). This isn't person-language it's systems/purpose-language.

New comment by hawkice in "Feds Killed Polestar and Spared Volvo"

hawkice — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 15:20:18 +0000

The vast majority of the value provided vs extracted, for any business, is related to consumer surplus and gross margins, as opposed to payroll.

New comment by hawkice in "Midjourney Medical"

hawkice — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:26:29 +0000

There exist both type I and type II errors, yes. But it's not absurdity, the South Korean Thyroid Cancer "epidemic" is one of the classic examples of the dangers of using traditional treatments on the lower-severity cases more advanced scanning uncovers. It was a public health disaster with lifelong consequences for those impacted, and was, legitimately, people getting cancer treatment for small cancers so harmless that they would have died of something else before becoming symptomatic.

New comment by hawkice in "Midjourney Medical"

hawkice — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 15:26:12 +0000

Exposing asymptomatic potential issues leads to medical care that often does not meet out standards for medical tradeoffs. Chemo is nasty, even the most minor surgery has risks. We endure the risks because we are addressing either major health issues or other dire uncertainties. Using our heavy duty treatments for issues without any symptoms at all would, normally, cause the patient suffering in excess of what would be justified. Chemo is a life saver when it's saving lives -- if the alternative is no symptoms, it just ruins your life for a profoundly uncertain upside.

New comment by hawkice in "Faking keyword arguments to functions in C++"

hawkice — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:38:17 +0000

This couldn't possibly matter, but 5 xor 3 is 6.

New comment by hawkice in "War Crimes Seem to Be Official US Policy Now"

hawkice — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:36:04 +0000

The aggressors not being the targets of the firebombing is central to the concerns here. They weren't military targets (largely).

New comment by hawkice in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

hawkice — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:36:49 +0000

They have developed an LLM, so they are an AI lab, but the quality of that model suggests they're not a frontier anything.

New comment by hawkice in "Pokemon Emerald Ported to WebAssembly (100k FPS)"

hawkice — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:23:02 +0000

Confirming that saving genuinely works. Interesting stuff. Wonder if we can get trades working too.

New comment by hawkice in "Cars collect a startling amount of data about you"

hawkice — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:28:17 +0000

Bananas are like transport and refrigerator maxing! It can't possibly be the literal optimum of that metric.

New comment by hawkice in "Cars collect a startling amount of data about you"

hawkice — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:02:32 +0000

The carbon in food is not captured or emitted in any coherent sense here. The crops are grown (capturing the carbon in the first place) for the purpose of feeding people -- in the same way that modern American forestry for paper is functionally carbon neutral (ignoring transport and processing) because the trees are in equilibrium. The counterfactual of not eating the food results in fewer crops and basically the same atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Edit: if you only mean food transportation carbon, it seems impossible bananas are literally optimal per calorie.

New comment by hawkice in "Google employee charged with $1M Polymarket insider trading bet on search term"

hawkice — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:45:18 +0000

I feel like this pastiche burned through whatever comedy potential it had before mid-2017.

New comment by hawkice in "The Green Side of the Lua"

hawkice — Thu, 28 May 2026 09:39:13 +0000

Isn't this a Goomba fallacy? The people trying to conserve energy and the people who are using vastly more energy than before are different individuals, no singular person is contradicting their values.

New comment by hawkice in "Anthropic's "Profitability" Swindle"

hawkice — Fri, 22 May 2026 23:42:00 +0000

As a software engineer who has monitored LLM viability as a coding assistant, the idea that 90% of Anthropic's lifetime revenue up to the end of Q1, was in Q1 itself, seems completely realistic to me.

And if every model is profitable but they're getting income on a model that costs X while training the one that costs 10X, everything else makes sense too, and this is indeed their highly reasonable claim.

New comment by hawkice in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"

hawkice — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:58:01 +0000

Their stated non-profit goal was to benefit all of humanity. Changing OpenAI to benefit their financial backers in a formal sense could be a loss of nearly unbounded value.

New comment by hawkice in "Bank boss sorry after describing workers as 'lower value human capital'"

hawkice — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:56:42 +0000

I think you can report someone apologized, but cannot attest to their internal mental state enough to impartially report that they're sorry.

New comment by hawkice in "Sam Altman Won in Court Against Elon Musk. But, We All Lost"

hawkice — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:45:09 +0000

Non-profits are not the property of their donors, but of the general interest, with obligations to the public. It is part of the legal and social obligations of the legal structure of non-profits.

New comment by hawkice in "When Is "Next Friday"?"

hawkice — Mon, 11 May 2026 14:00:53 +0000

Yes, next Friday is not the next Friday, those two phrases are very different despite that being weird.

Not endorsing this, just reporting from usage.