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New comment by ks2048 in "Butlerian Jihad"

ks2048 — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 02:35:13 +0000

In the book - is it men vs machines? Because it’s pretty clear in our world it will be men+machines vs men(probably also + some machines)

New comment by ks2048 in "90% of US working hours are spent on tasks not covered well by AI benchmarks"

ks2048 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 22:36:08 +0000

Is there a benchmark for ass-kissing or back-slapping?

New comment by ks2048 in "Stolen Renoir paintings found hidden, and damaged, behind cinder block wall"

ks2048 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 17:26:20 +0000

Random fact: one of the socialist leaders of the Paris Commune saved Renoir's life.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raoul_Rigault

New comment by ks2048 in "Hello Toronto – Waymo Is En Route"

ks2048 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 16:31:52 +0000

But, Waymo removed the driver and it's not cheaper than Uber, correct?

New comment by ks2048 in "Apple ML Research: Muse Spark Open with MLX on Mac Studio"

ks2048 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 15:49:01 +0000

So, Meta will spend millions/billions on building open-weight models and then people will send Apple $20,000 to run them. Seems like a good deal for Apple.

New comment by ks2048 in "Neural networks are clean"

ks2048 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:47:55 +0000

It starts with "The Short Version", but even that looks like several pages of text. In the olden days, there was something called an "Abstract" that worked pretty well - the author could summarize their own work to say what the paper was about.

New comment by ks2048 in "Neural networks are clean"

ks2048 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:33:42 +0000

To cut through some of all this text - here's a link he calls "the first non-trivial neural network I feel I mostly understand:

https://already-clean.goodfire.com/microscope/medium.html?la...

New comment by ks2048 in "Simons Foundation launches $15M effort to help mathematicians navigate AI era"

ks2048 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 16:02:58 +0000

Google will give free tokens to 10,000 scientists:

https://ai.google/gemini-for-science/

New comment by ks2048 in "Why do LLM pelicans look like this?"

ks2048 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 17:53:06 +0000

Interesting thing I notice: in 10/13 of the examples, there are 3 small horizontal lines behind the bike meant to convey motion.

These look surprisingly similar and not necessarily something that directly follows from the prompt.

New comment by ks2048 in "Show HN: I built a tool to track what AI leaders say and how their views change"

ks2048 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:53:09 +0000

That makes sense. Probably bad AI summaries. I copied that quote from Wang's page. Looking now at the podcast page [1]:

What are people actually doing with Muse?

Zuckerberg's Muse sources obscure teas weekly from farms in Taiwan and Japan. Wang's favorite use is MMA coaching: cameras in his gym let Muse watch his sparring"

[1] https://blumify.io/t/youtube/XfdIhd1g6EI/muse-wonder-zuckerb...

New comment by ks2048 in "Show HN: I built a tool to track what AI leaders say and how their views change"

ks2048 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 05:35:09 +0000

Alexandr Wang "says his favorite Muse use case is having it coach him in MMA by watching gym cameras and giving feedback between rounds"

Okay, you've convinced me I don't want to track what these guys are saying.

On a serious note, it looks good. Although to really track what they say, you'd probably want text too, e.g tweets and blog posts.

New comment by ks2048 in "OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room"

ks2048 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:19:19 +0000

Always fun to checkout the social media of the accused,

https://x.com/alfozan

Not too much there. A link to Tim Urban's "Your Life in Weeks" infographic. Life is short, dream big.

New comment by ks2048 in "OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room"

ks2048 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 23:02:29 +0000

> The man arrested for planting a secret recording device at OpenAI's headquarters is a Venture Partner of a VC firm alongside the son of a senior Saudi intelligence official:

https://x.com/ScottMStedman/status/2110108735855333403?s=20

New comment by ks2048 in "OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room"

ks2048 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 22:42:52 +0000

I wouldn't call it a "roll". There's an image in the sfstandard.com article. It is odd. Looks more suspicious than without it.

New comment by ks2048 in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

ks2048 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:20:15 +0000

I think it's hard to quantify "highest standard of living", but for the attempts at it (e.g. HDI, etc), the US is not number one.

New comment by ks2048 in "Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]"

ks2048 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:56:09 +0000

When thinking about math, Tao is in another world unfamiliar to us. But, he grew up in our world and is a professor in our world and if you listen to him, seems like a pretty normal guy. I think he just made a bad analogy here.

New comment by ks2048 in "Ideas aren't getting harder to find, anyone who tells you otherwise is a coward"

ks2048 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 19:56:18 +0000

> “Ideas are getting harder to find” is a pretty bleak thing to believe. It says, “Look around the world. This is pretty much as good as it gets; the returns start diminishing from here. All the problems you see are unlikely to be solved anytime soon, so you better get used to them.” Why would anyone agree to such a thing without putting up a fight?

I don't think the first quote implies the second, as claimed. The first is about scientific discovery and the second is about political and social problems.

New comment by ks2048 in "US imposes sanctions on ICC hours after former judge wins Nobel Peace Prize"

ks2048 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 15:22:39 +0000

Little Marco announcement,

https://x.com/SecRubio/status/2108565647667904647

New comment by ks2048 in "Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem Pillay"

ks2048 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:01:01 +0000

"independent from politics" seems to have a few different meanings. One is inherently bad and another is not necessarily bad. Of course the committee is political and the entire nature of the award is political.

New comment by ks2048 in "Nobel Peace Prize for 2026 to Navanethem "NAVI" Pillay"

ks2048 — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:56:27 +0000

Sometimes self-interest leads to cooperation.