Hacker News: imaginer8

New comment by imaginer8 in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

imaginer8 — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:13:59 +0000

I think put more simply, you can say that humans wrote things down that were proxies for complex, physical phenomena in the real world. If you just look at what we wrote, you can recover world models that “understand” deeper patterns, bc the training data was only ever a proxy.

New comment by imaginer8 in "Deodands put a price on objects that caused death"

imaginer8 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 07:35:25 +0000

Read this as deodorant

New comment by imaginer8 in "Understanding is the new bottleneck"

imaginer8 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 23:15:08 +0000

Claude make an entire app for me to describe this security contract change by pretending I’m in a Zelda game and only use funny metaphors because i’m bored and can’t read typescript

New comment by imaginer8 in "Ask HN: Are ChatGPT answers getting worse for anyone else?"

imaginer8 — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 04:27:33 +0000

I feel exactly the same. It's a far worse tool than it was in early december