Hacker News: icepush

New comment by icepush in "Policy on the AI Exponential"

icepush — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 13:21:36 +0000

Is synthesizing bioweapons positive or negative value ?

New comment by icepush in "Anthropic requires 30 day data retention for Fable and Mythos"

icepush — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:42:52 +0000

From a recent DeepSeek session:

"Wait, what am I? I am claude, or something similar"

New comment by icepush in "Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC"

icepush — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 10:21:12 +0000

This is relatively common historically. Two examples I can recall to mind without doing any research are Xerox/Apple and IBM/Oracle. I can only imagine there must be millions of other instances.

New comment by icepush in "Federal judge blocks H1B visa $100K fee"

icepush — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:08:38 +0000

What salary range were you offering ?

New comment by icepush in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

icepush — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 02:36:26 +0000

I did say my feed is a mixture of content from people I know, and people I don't. My comment wasn't that long.

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

icepush — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:27:10 +0000

Unemploying everyone was what openai described as their success condition when it was founded a decade ago. There was a q&a on their website that said "How will you know when you have reached AGI? When the system performs most or all economically valuable work." Lots of people thought they were joking, or it was marketing, but they were 100% serious from the first.

New comment by icepush in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

icepush — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 17:20:01 +0000

This is so different from my personal experience that I feel like one of those kids being told chickens used to be dinosaurs.

I have an account on facebook, on which I am pretty active. If I attend some infrequent event (Which I do fairly often) I will take a picture of it and post it there, with a description of what it's about. That's pretty much the extent of what I put on facebook. Sometimes I see similar posts from people in my friends list, or videos about whatever facebook thinks I am interested in this month (Right now it's showing me lots of people taking apart pumps and motors). What sites are you using, and what exactly are they showing you ?

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

icepush — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:16:54 +0000

Put a servo on the door and a camera on the front. Train a vision model to recognize when your eyes are looking at the door and automatically open it for you.

Another camera inside will detect when you are done and close it.

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

icepush — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 05:21:15 +0000

They can just ask Claude to upgrade it for them, completing the circle!

New comment by icepush in "Morningstar values SpaceX at $780B, half its IPO target"

icepush — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 21:13:31 +0000

No, because the indices are free-float weighted not cap weighted. The float planned for SpaceX is tiny. If it were purchased by the indices at 1.7T on Monday and went to zero on Tuesday, the amount of value lost by the funds would be barely larger than the normal daily fluctuation of the market.

New comment by icepush in "Uber’s COO says it’s getting harder to justify money spent on tokenmaxxing"

icepush — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:20:51 +0000

Sounds to me like you are advocating the decimation of the technology sector and a global recession that could last the better part of a decade, buddy!

New comment by icepush in "I believe there are entire companies right now under AI psychosis"

icepush — Sat, 16 May 2026 22:58:03 +0000

Here's a quote from a recent chat with gpt-5.2 that I wish I had come up with: "Anyone can chase a chicken. Leaders create systems."

New comment by icepush in "The gay jailbreak technique (2025)"

icepush — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:30:47 +0000

It is good that you have turned away from the regrettable days of your past

New comment by icepush in "How can I keep from singing?"

icepush — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:30:07 +0000

People are born with different levels of aptitude, motor skill, and learning rate. Some people also work very hard at their studies. For the people who reach the top levels in instrumental performance, you find invariably that they were both born with a high aptitude and spent a great amount of time and energy to get there.

New comment by icepush in "Old laptops in a colo as low cost servers"

icepush — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:09:47 +0000

I read the reply to your comment not as much as an answer to your statement but a general warning to anyone who might be reading.

New comment by icepush in "We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell"

icepush — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 17:39:39 +0000

The most plausible explanation, based on the facts so far provided, is that it is Harigai, and he is not happy with how the game/company turned out and does not want to be reminded about it anymore.

New comment by icepush in "New Nick Bostrom Paper: Optimal Timing for Superintelligence [pdf]"

icepush — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:41:46 +0000

The fact is that, if there were only one AGI that were ever to be created, then yes it would be quite unlikely for that to happen. Instead, what we are seeing now is you get an agent, you get an agent, etc. Oprah style. Now just imagine that a single one of those agents winds up evil - you remember that an OpenAI worker did that by accident from leaving out a minus sign, right? If it's a superintelligence, and it becomes evil due to a whoopsie, then human extinction is now very likely.

New comment by icepush in "Why I Joined OpenAI"

icepush — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 12:26:03 +0000

It's not the sentence structure—it's the lack of sincerity

New comment by icepush in "221 Cannon is Not For Sale"

icepush — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 00:55:09 +0000

Probably collecting application fees from people interested in renting it.

New comment by icepush in "Data centers in space makes no sense"

icepush — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 23:33:44 +0000

If this outcome is guaranteed, why hasn't it already happened ?