Hacker News: laughingcurve

New comment by laughingcurve in "Silicon Valley is turning scientists into exploited gig workers?"

laughingcurve — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:22:34 +0000

Poor comment. Is it true on hackernews you get people who learned nothing about anything?

New comment by laughingcurve in "Costco sued for seeking refunds on tariffs customers paid"

laughingcurve — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:11:34 +0000

Wait are you saying that because the Government lied and blocked corporations from exercising freedom of speech and commerce that therefore the government couldn't possibly be seen to be collecting the funds? Your logic is that if the Government lies we are assumed to have believed it and therefore have no recourse. Most people (not all) are nowhere near as dumb as you seem to think they are.

New comment by laughingcurve in "Perplexity Says MCP Sucks"

laughingcurve — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:34:11 +0000

Heartbreaking: The Worst Person You Know Just Made a Great Point

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heartbreaking:_The_Worst_Perso...

New comment by laughingcurve in "2% of ICML papers desk rejected because the authors used LLM in their reviews"

laughingcurve — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 11:41:07 +0000

Thank goodness we have you passing judgment on the internet; otherwise who else would be around for us to do it? I'm glad you're willing to destroy someone for a mistake rather than letting them learn and change. We all know that arbitrary and harsh punishments solve everything.

New comment by laughingcurve in "Nuclear War: An LLM Scenario"

laughingcurve — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:09:44 +0000

https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17192

Shall We Play a Game? Language Models for Open-ended Wargames

Wargames are simulations of conflicts in which participants' decisions influence future events. While casual wargaming can be used for entertainment or socialization, serious wargaming is used by experts to explore strategic implications of decision-making and experiential learning. In this paper, we take the position that Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems, such as Language Models (LMs), are rapidly approaching human-expert capability for strategic planning -- and will one day surpass it. Military organizations have begun using LMs to provide insights into the consequences of real-world decisions during _open-ended wargames_ which use natural language to convey actions and outcomes. We argue the ability for AI systems to influence large-scale decisions motivates additional research into the safety, interpretability, and explainability of AI in open-ended wargames. To demonstrate, we conduct a scoping literature review with a curated selection of 100 unclassified studies on AI in wargames, and construct a novel ontology of open-endedness using the creativity afforded to players, adjudicators, and the novelty provided to observers. Drawing from this body of work, we distill a set of practical recommendations and critical safety considerations for deploying AI in open-ended wargames across common domains. We conclude by presenting the community with a set of high-impact open research challenges for future work

New comment by laughingcurve in "Nuclear War: An LLM Scenario"

laughingcurve — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 14:07:57 +0000

The quote is "Shall we play a game?”.

“Would you like to play a game?" is from Saw.

New comment by laughingcurve in "Number Research Inc"

laughingcurve — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:41:14 +0000

That's Numberwang!

New comment by laughingcurve in "Silicon Valley engineers were indicted for allegedly sending secrets to Iran"

laughingcurve — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 17:06:32 +0000

Eileen Gu, who you are talking about here, is a prime example of the strange issue of misplaced loyalty to a country that is far more abusive than USA

New comment by laughingcurve in "Vercel's CEO offers to cover expenses of 'Jmail'"

laughingcurve — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:53:54 +0000

It’s just that simple!

https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/2501:_Average_Fam...

New comment by laughingcurve in "Qwen-Image-2.0: Professional infographics, exquisite photorealism"

laughingcurve — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 17:50:41 +0000

Gary Marcus is not the man to be looking to on this topic

New comment by laughingcurve in "Hong Kong pro-democracy tycoon Jimmy Lai gets 20 years' jail"

laughingcurve — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 16:24:50 +0000

you didn’t even link anything specifically just a random lading page that doesn’t mention anything you just claimed

New comment by laughingcurve in "Prek: A better, faster, drop-in pre-commit replacement, engineered in Rust"

laughingcurve — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 07:11:58 +0000

I had been eagerly moving over to using JJ when I discovered that 'hook' behavior was not present. Pre-push hooks for formatting and linting were very helpful for me because I needed to enforce these standards on others who were more junior. It would be great for JJ to incorporate it in some way if possible. I understand the structural differences and why that makes it hard but something about that pre-* hook just hits right

New comment by laughingcurve in "Claude Chill: Fix Claude Code's flickering in terminal"

laughingcurve — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:29:33 +0000

Possibly the greatest contribution to Claude code in months. I am rushing to my terminal to install, test, and update.

New comment by laughingcurve in "Let's be honest, Generative AI isn't going all that well"

laughingcurve — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 01:16:25 +0000

Don’t be too harsh, it’s the most effort Gary has put into his criticism in a while

I appreciate good critique but this is not it

New comment by laughingcurve in "The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks (2018)"

laughingcurve — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 06:37:50 +0000

i saw how it nerdsniped an extremely capable faculty member

New comment by laughingcurve in "The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks (2018)"

laughingcurve — Tue, 06 Jan 2026 06:37:06 +0000

cool beans, thanks for this -- I think it's easier to hear it directly from the authors. I was hesitant to start researchposting and come off like a dick.

also; note to self: If I publish and disown my papers, shawn will interview me :)

New comment by laughingcurve in "The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks (2018)"

laughingcurve — Mon, 05 Jan 2026 22:57:22 +0000

Article from 2018/19 and this hypothesis remains just that afaik with plenty of evidence going against it

New comment by laughingcurve in "2026: The Year of Java in the Terminal?"

laughingcurve — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 16:47:41 +0000

The article makes no compelling points to me as an avid user of these applications.

I would rather shove ice picks covered in lemon juice than provide Java or Ellison anymore room in the digital ecosystem. And I’m not talking politics here wrt Ellison, just awful

New comment by laughingcurve in "CEOs are hugely expensive. Why not automate them? (2021)"

laughingcurve — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 00:25:37 +0000

Unironically, they are indeed somewhat safer -- however if people are willing to accept a substitute good of AI-based fortune telling... which I have seen lately ...

New comment by laughingcurve in "Backing up Spotify"

laughingcurve — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 19:39:52 +0000

Wow, I have not thought about OiNK in ages... great memories! OiNK and WhatCD did something very special for the musical community