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New comment by jacksnipe in "OpenAI fires an employee for prediction market insider trading"

jacksnipe — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 19:48:12 +0000

Futures contracts were a mistake, god damn

New comment by jacksnipe in "We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers"

jacksnipe — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 23:23:59 +0000

Up until very recently I would have said definitely not, but we're talking about LLM scrapers, who knows how much they've got crammed into their context windows.

New comment by jacksnipe in "We can't have nice things because of AI scrapers"

jacksnipe — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 22:50:26 +0000

It’s not great, but you could add it to the body of a 429 response.

New comment by jacksnipe in "James Watson has died"

jacksnipe — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 21:54:06 +0000

You mean plagiarized it?

New comment by jacksnipe in "Claude for Excel"

jacksnipe — Mon, 27 Oct 2025 22:03:18 +0000

Is this not belligerently ignoring the fact that this work is already done imperfectly? I can’t tell you how many serious errors I’ve caught in just a short time of automating the generation of complex spreadsheets from financial data. All of them had already been checked by multiple analysts, and all of them contained serious errors (in different places!)

New comment by jacksnipe in "Jane Goodall has died"

jacksnipe — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 22:04:54 +0000

She’s not doing either. In that same conversation, she goes on to talk about how we don’t live in that world and can’t return there, and what the implications should be for policy.

New comment by jacksnipe in "Jane Goodall has died"

jacksnipe — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 22:04:15 +0000

If I’m not mistaken, she goes on to say “but we don’t live in that world, and so we must…” and goes on to argue for policy that doesn’t neglect the poorest and least fortunate members of society.

New comment by jacksnipe in "The contrarian physics podcast subculture"

jacksnipe — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 18:59:13 +0000

The author has previously published an article with a detailed analysis of the math of GU, and why it doesn't work: https://files.timothynguyen.org/geometric_unity.pdf

The reception of that article by the group in question, and their refusal to engage on the math side of it, is what led to him writing this blog post in the first place.

New comment by jacksnipe in "Jules, our asynchronous coding agent"

jacksnipe — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 21:05:10 +0000

I wonder if bundling it with ai is to deal with that pesky internal issue where engineers are always trying to turn off ads for their yt accounts

New comment by jacksnipe in "At Least 13 People Died by Suicide Amid U.K. Post Office Scandal, Report Says"

jacksnipe — Fri, 11 Jul 2025 21:59:29 +0000

Sorry, but citation needed. Means testing might seem “obvious” from first principles, but from a policy point of view, it makes little to no sense.

The macroeconomic effects of welfare programs create a society that is better for everyone to live in. Reducing the issue to a matter of personal responsibility is a reframing that allows you to completely lose sight of the big picture, and create programs that are destined to fail by not reaching many of the people they need to.

New comment by jacksnipe in "The Fed says this is a cube of $1M. They're off by half a million"

jacksnipe — Tue, 01 Jul 2025 19:51:31 +0000

I mean, that's a very corporate accounting way of looking at it. But countries are not corporations, or even banks, and the abstraction is so leaky it's pretty much never worth using.

New comment by jacksnipe in "Meta invests $14.3B in Scale AI to kick-start superintelligence lab"

jacksnipe — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 17:38:06 +0000

Llama was kind of a forced hand though. Yknow, when the model was leaked?

New comment by jacksnipe in "Square Theory"

jacksnipe — Tue, 27 May 2025 19:06:43 +0000

Wordcels discover category theory lol

New comment by jacksnipe in "Changes since congestion pricing started in New York"

jacksnipe — Wed, 14 May 2025 15:09:58 +0000

There are plenty of places where consumption taxes DON’T have a strong effect, like vice taxes on tobacco and alcohol. It’s absolutely worth actually testing it.

New comment by jacksnipe in "Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help"

jacksnipe — Tue, 06 May 2025 22:57:24 +0000

I have interrogated it in those cases. I was not misunderstanding.

New comment by jacksnipe in "Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help"

jacksnipe — Tue, 06 May 2025 22:54:46 +0000

We’re was autocorrected from where

New comment by jacksnipe in "Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help"

jacksnipe — Tue, 06 May 2025 20:43:39 +0000

In my own experience, the vast majority of people using this phrase ARE using it as a source of authority. People will ask me about things I am an actual expert in, and then when they don’t like my response, hit me with the ol’ “well, I asked chatGPT and it said…”

New comment by jacksnipe in "Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help"

jacksnipe — Tue, 06 May 2025 19:01:08 +0000

I do not need people to lead on that. That’s precisely why leading on “I asked ChatGPT and it said…” makes me trust something less — the speaker is actively assigning responsibility for what’s to come to some other agent, because for one reason or another, they won’t take it on themselves.

New comment by jacksnipe in "Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help"

jacksnipe — Tue, 06 May 2025 18:57:55 +0000

That’s exactly how I feel

New comment by jacksnipe in "Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help"

jacksnipe — Tue, 06 May 2025 18:48:44 +0000

I see nobody here blaming tools and not people!