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New comment by jackphilson in "GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]"

jackphilson — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 21:27:28 +0000

One requires you to trust a human and the other requires you to trust mathematics.

New comment by jackphilson in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

jackphilson — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:09:08 +0000

But who is getting celebrated? The people who spent a lot of time on the original thing, or the AI rewrite that everyone now uses?

New comment by jackphilson in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

jackphilson — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 09:07:32 +0000

It's pretty ergonomic to agents. Like typescript.

New comment by jackphilson in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

jackphilson — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 22:33:20 +0000

It's the old game that he's trying to preserve. It's time to move on to the new game. When the landscape shifts beneath you, its very low probability that the existing structures on the landscape are a good fit for the new landscape, and the structures on the new landscape must be rethought from first principles.

New comment by jackphilson in "Computer Use Is 45x More Expensive Than Structured APIs"

jackphilson — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:54:08 +0000

because the social media sites that do will outcompete once people get personal AI coaches that tell them to use technology that is better for them.

New comment by jackphilson in "An interactive intro to quadtrees"

jackphilson — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:01:17 +0000

School should be this, but applied to literally everything. Ideally with AI generating it all.

New comment by jackphilson in "The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead"

jackphilson — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:36:50 +0000

What is your take on the optimal usage of AI, and why would it not be N + 1? I think the article is largely correct here.

New comment by jackphilson in "Show HN: Arcmark – macOS bookmark manager that attaches to browser as sidebar"

jackphilson — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:38:15 +0000

Interesting example on how I envision software to evolve in the future because massive abundance caused by AI. Massively composable and interoperable.

New comment by jackphilson in "Prism"

jackphilson — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:25:14 +0000

Triangle kind of reminds me of the Bermuda Triangle. You know how many people died there?

New comment by jackphilson in "NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy"

jackphilson — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:46:54 +0000

not derailing, just pointing out effective ways of producing good which is what i was responding to. i think its good for people to be aware of this. those people are all examples of people who have influenced culture for bad. you can do it for good: bryan johnson, civil rights leaders, leftist streamers. andrew tate was just the most effective, recent, and obvious one which is why I pointed him out.

New comment by jackphilson in "NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy"

jackphilson — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:19:29 +0000

I mean just an example. He obviously wasn't the most ethical person. Depends how you do it

New comment by jackphilson in "Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas"

jackphilson — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:43:33 +0000

Regulations can often be bad for progress so a CBA is probably best. Doesn't matter about the framing.

New comment by jackphilson in "GPT-5-Codex is a better AI researcher than me"

jackphilson — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 18:50:37 +0000

I suppose you would need to weigh the utility points lost from people no longer enjoying their jobs with the positive utility points gained by the consumers of products and services.

My intuition is that with the law of leverage in mind, the former would be relatively low and the latter would be relatively high.

It is of course up to the government and culture to minimize the former and maximize the latter.

New comment by jackphilson in "Be Worried"

jackphilson — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:08:50 +0000

for fear of being overly utilitarian here its not really an issue that people are manipulatable but that they are manipulated into doing the wrong things (consumerism, political divide-and-conquer strategies)

and rejecting manipulation from a deontological stance reduces agency and output for doing good in the real world

manipulation = campaigns = advertisements = psyops (all the same, different connotations)

New comment by jackphilson in "ChatGPT Pulse"

jackphilson — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 06:52:37 +0000

I would recommend talking out loud to it with speech to text software, it has been pretty helpful for me. Like around 60s of talking.

New comment by jackphilson in "AI might yet follow the path of previous technological revolutions"

jackphilson — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:42:07 +0000

It was a compliment and I was hoping to nudge the behavior of other HN comments.

New comment by jackphilson in "AI might yet follow the path of previous technological revolutions"

jackphilson — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:46:47 +0000

Irrelevant but I like this pattern of using Gemini (or AI outputs in general) as sources. Please continue to do so and I encourage any readers to also adopt this pattern. I will also try to implement this pattern.

New comment by jackphilson in "AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time"

jackphilson — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:40:21 +0000

Right, what I am saying is an AI powered ad blocker essentially. Because some ads are good and mutually beneficial.

New comment by jackphilson in "AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time"

jackphilson — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 06:12:50 +0000

Right. I think ai on the user's side is going to be necessary soon. Then they can negotiate with the advertiser's AI to determine what to show. This will need to be on the platform level or the hardware level.

This solves the problem of seeing ads that are not best for the user.

New comment by jackphilson in "All of our lives overlap in the Network Of Time"

jackphilson — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 20:25:51 +0000

I just find it interesting how any new data added to this past the year 2023 is probably unusable