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New comment by modeless in "Anthropic Risk August 2026 [pdf]"

modeless — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:13:46 +0000

So as of a month ago their best internal model was "somewhat more capable" than Mythos "but does not display a capability jump of the degree observed from Claude Opus 4.6 to Mythos Preview." I thought they would have a significantly more capable model by then, more than five months after Mythos finished training. They'd better have one by now, or the Chinese competitors are closer to catching up than I thought.

New comment by modeless in "Cursor is now a part of SpaceX"

modeless — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 17:02:47 +0000

The data is special. Data of programmers using coding agents in the real world is invaluable for AI training. And their customer base is useful to deploy new models into.

New comment by modeless in "When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs"

modeless — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:08:09 +0000

AIUI they were forced to sell all their positions in public companies at a net loss. The fund is still up for the year only because of a prior investment in Anthropic.

New comment by modeless in "When Genius Fails: The Intellectual Arrogance of the AI Labs"

modeless — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:02:54 +0000

The AI researchers I know often say they expect the AI to replace their own jobs.

New comment by modeless in "Accelerating GPT-5.6 Sol Ultrafast"

modeless — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 21:13:18 +0000

The task the majority of people here care about (and which makes up a huge part of AI lab revenue these days) is collaborative coding with a single human which is not embarrassingly parallel.

New comment by modeless in "X: Open-Sourcing the for You Timeline"

modeless — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 19:27:33 +0000

The interesting part should be the page that lets you see the "labels" applied to your posts and/or account. Unfortunately not available yet.

New comment by modeless in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

modeless — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:12:09 +0000

It's funny that they don't mention this at all in the marketing or tech specs when it's obviously the biggest selling point by far. Without this it would be completely irrelevant.

Worth noting that OpenAI just announced that they got the full GPT 5.6 Sol model running on Cerebras at 750 tokens per second. No announcement of the pricing though...

New comment by modeless in "Gemini 3.7 Flash"

modeless — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:32:47 +0000

Clearly this model will be irrelevant by Jan. 2027, why would Google even bother to say this?

New comment by modeless in "Pixel Watch 5"

modeless — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 00:47:24 +0000

This is why Pebble watches are great. They do the basics better than Google and leave out the expensive battery drains.

New comment by modeless in "Grok 4.6"

modeless — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:39:10 +0000

Researchers moving between companies (and other ways that techniques get leaked) is the largest cause of this IMO. It's happening continuously, so I don't see why the timing makes it implausible. A really underrated strength of Silicon Valley is California's ban on non-competes that allows this to happen and ensures robust competition between model providers both for talent (increasing salaries for workers) and in the marketplace (reducing prices for consumers). If OpenAI had been located in New York instead then Anthropic could never have succeeded, for example.

But I think the other reason you didn't mention is the timing of new compute coming online. Compute is the major factor limiting the training of these models and new datacenter investments are bearing fruit at around the same time.

New comment by modeless in "Grok 4.6"

modeless — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 20:29:46 +0000

I haven't experienced a regression, but voice modes have always been stupider than frontier models. In my experience Grok's voice mode suffers the least from this, and it's been getting better over time. It's especially good (compared to ChatGPT or Gemini) on things that involve current events or web research. Just yesterday in the car I got it to locate and read and explain a recent academic paper and multiple of my questions were answered with several minute long monologues that contained useful and accurate information.

New comment by modeless in "Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities"

modeless — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 21:13:59 +0000

I feel justified in not expending any effort learning "prompting technique".

New comment by modeless in "Learning more about Claude's mathematical capabilities"

modeless — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 19:08:31 +0000

I wonder if Jarred (the Bun guy) just got lucky here, or if he made progress before all the actual mathematicians at Anthropic because they aren't prompting Claude as ambitiously as he is.

New comment by modeless in "Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women's employment than a degree"

modeless — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:06:22 +0000

The study compares people who actually started GLP-1 treatment to people who say they want to but didn't. It sure seems to me like people who say they want something but don't take action to get it would also be less likely to get jobs, independent of what the thing they want is.

New comment by modeless in "Should you stop cracking your knuckles?"

modeless — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 05:36:21 +0000

This is a bit weird, but I started getting mild wrist pain from computer use in college, and I credit two things with reversing it. One was rock climbing which strengthened my forearms and wrists, and the other was developing a habit of cracking my wrist joints. I stopped rock climbing many years ago but I continue to crack my wrists to this day. The habit causes me to flex and stretch my wrists every so often while I'm working and I really think that has helped prevent the development of repetitive strain injuries from mouse and keyboard use.

New comment by modeless in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"

modeless — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 04:07:00 +0000

OK? Maybe DeepSeek set their price that way, but the majority of these OpenRouter inference providers are in the US, not China, and have no reason to care about CNY at all.

New comment by modeless in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

modeless — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 21:21:22 +0000

Many occupations have been made obsolete throughout history, and this article examines none of them. I'm not sympathetic to "this time it's different", I think people are just too lazy to try to find out what actually happened in the past.

New comment by modeless in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"

modeless — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:52:09 +0000

This would be more convincing if those providers had converged on a number that was not the exact pricing of DeepSeek themselves. Clearly DeepSeek is setting the price here and without them holding it down I expect increases.

New comment by modeless in "DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731"

modeless — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:29:27 +0000

DeepSeek has announced an upcoming "significant increase" in price, so this line may have to move to the right soon. https://api-docs.deepseek.com/quick_start/pricing/

New comment by modeless in "Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun"

modeless — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 23:54:16 +0000

Obviously not based on DNA/RNA. I think it is pretty lacking in imagination to believe that DNA/RNA in liquid water is the only possible configuration of atoms that could make a self-replicating and evolving organism.