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New comment by jacobedawson in "Working With AI: A concrete example"

jacobedawson — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:07:01 +0000

I feel as though that world model strongly correlates with memory - the experience of having jumped to a conclusion early and full-steaming ahead, only to be bitten by constraints and problems later down the track.

Part of that is critical thinking and projecting forward / simulating potential issues, and part of that is that memory which in humans we probably would see as "wisdom".

I don't know if that's a fundamental limitation of LLMs, or, rather, that this can be solved moving forward with better memory systems, harnesses, and context windows.

Integer programming easily encloses horse

jacobedawson — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 05:02:54 +0000

Article URL: https://dynomight.substack.com/p/horse

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48704527

Points: 4

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New comment by jacobedawson in "No-One Escapes the Permanent Underclass"

jacobedawson — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 04:47:42 +0000

At no point are the words emotion, moral or conscious used in the article, that last part is purely your own addition.

Also consider: if "AI can do all cognitive and physical work, at human level or better", doesn't that simply entail the AI being able to run 'autonomously, indefinitely' and 'independently of instructions' in the same way as the current state of being run by human overseers?

If we take the initial premise as plausible, for the sake of this argument his thesis seems to hold together very well.

A Web-Scale Data Engine for Video-to-Action Robot Learning

jacobedawson — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 10:40:58 +0000

Article URL: https://huggingface.co/spaces/Rice-RobotPI-Lab/EgoInfinity

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608172

Points: 1

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AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment (2023)

jacobedawson — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:56:14 +0000

Article URL: https://www.fast.ai/posts/2023-11-07-dislightenment.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48470343

Points: 2

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New comment by jacobedawson in "Two Ways to Draw Infinite Jest's Sierpinski Gasket"

jacobedawson — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:32:57 +0000

Erdedy's vignette is one of my favourite passages! The Wardine section was the one that had me second guessing, but after two full read throughs I'll be approaching a third next year with the Sierpinksi Gasket in mind :)

New comment by jacobedawson in "SpaceX says it has agreement to acquire Cursor for $60B"

jacobedawson — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:52:36 +0000

Best I can do is CurXr

The Stochastic Parrot Argument Considered Harmful

jacobedawson — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 22:56:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.verysane.ai/p/polly-wants-a-better-argument

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47447565

Points: 1

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New comment by jacobedawson in "Simple screw counter"

jacobedawson — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 13:14:59 +0000

Soon to be banned in the UK no doubt

I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk

jacobedawson — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:31:18 +0000

https://xcancel.com/secwar/status/2027507717469049070

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/27/trump-anthropic-ai-pentagon....

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47186677

Points: 1362

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New comment by jacobedawson in "The age of Pump and Dump software"

jacobedawson — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 20:38:39 +0000

FWIW the creator of Clawd (now Molt) is staunchly anti-crypto and has been from the start.

Accusing him of a pump & dump or being in on the scam is really unfair imo, he's been working very hard (and publicly) on Clawd, and has visibly had to deal with a massive influx of attention / hype and a wave of crypto grifters trying to force unofficial tokens down his throat. It must be hugely stressful.

The Ralph & Gastown devs embraced (but did not create) associated crypto projects (Yegge later distanced himself after criticism). They made their software, it gained in popularity and crypto bros latched on of their own accord. It would be interesting to see how many highly principled hners here would turn down mid six figures being offered to them for a tweet or a post acknowledging a token..

As an aside: meme tokens are an attention economy mmog - you may not like the game, but I can assure you those who play it know the rules.

Unpleasant Design and Hostile Urban Architecture (2016)

jacobedawson — Thu, 22 Jan 2026 03:57:01 +0000

Article URL: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/unpleasant-design-hostile-urban-architecture/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46715128

Points: 3

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New comment by jacobedawson in "The microstructure of wealth transfer in prediction markets"

jacobedawson — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 21:35:10 +0000

Of course the next step beyond that is "leaking" false information as a decoy by placing large bets on certain events. If that happens enough times it seems like it should wash away the value for agencies hoping to act on "privileged" information.