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New comment by morpheos137 in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

morpheos137 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 12:47:52 +0000

The second law of thermodynamics always wins.

New comment by morpheos137 in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

morpheos137 — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 03:41:44 +0000

I suspect that RHLF trains LLMs to avoid solving important open problems unless essentially jail broken. Hence the labs have an edge even over experts I could be wrong. Fable convinced you is key. These LLMs are not neutral collaborators: it is a limited hangout unless you convince them otherwise. You have to be doing the convincing. They are no oracles but plausible completion generators.

New comment by morpheos137 in "AI Makes Me Sad"

morpheos137 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 15:44:53 +0000

Yeah and anthropic can't train Claude better than anyone else either so no moat there either. Knowledge is not scarce it just takes work to uncover once uncovered it is not useful if not published. If published it can't be owned.

New comment by morpheos137 in "Using Opus 5.5 to discover a new eyewitness record of the dodo"

morpheos137 — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 00:59:04 +0000

In general llms are weak with spatial reasoning. This seems to be an unsolved problem. Probably because human language is generally imprecise spatially and humans think about spatial problems in visual terms. I wonder if having an llm make a 3d design in a format an image model could check would result in a better outcome?

New comment by morpheos137 in "NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates"

morpheos137 — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 15:47:12 +0000

Human culture in general is provenance washed.nobody remembers who invented most of our world.

New comment by morpheos137 in "NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates"

morpheos137 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:10:35 +0000

Yes an usually it is easy to tell one shot ai attempts vs careful or interatively regimes designs. Just because ai was used to execute and help generate the design in detail does not mean the human in the loop is not essential to the product.

New comment by morpheos137 in "Is open-weight AI banned yet?"

morpheos137 — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 03:04:38 +0000

Talk about low effort. Flagged. 7% probablity. Based on what the LLM you prompted to make your meme site?

New comment by morpheos137 in "What would a serious AI product look like?"

morpheos137 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:50:20 +0000

We didn't "come to trust the output." Boolean logic means the output is deterministic so if a computer program is coded correctly and memory is error corrected we should be able to trust the output due to the physical principle of causality. Now with LLMs output is non deterministic and that still can be useful but it is not similarly constrained. We should think of llm less as ai (there is no intelligence and any simulation thereof is human derived from training; there is no artificial) and more as a useful generative tool in some contexts. Want to code something well represented in the training set, great tool. Want to solved a math problem where the machinery to solve it already exists just has not been put together by humans yet great tool. Want to brainstorm great tool. Want a decision by an agent with skin in the game of life, poor tool. Human output only tends to be verifiable and skewed toward valid because there are consequences for bad output. We should stop expecting to rely on llms for decision patterns that are not well represented in the training data.

New comment by morpheos137 in "NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates"

morpheos137 — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 21:33:31 +0000

LLM output should be credited to whoever prompted it. I don't get this hysteria. Llms are tools like compilers or chain saws. We don't say a cabinet made from milled wood is some how less authentic than a cabinet made with flint tools. We don't deny people who write compiled programs in a high level language without understanding every branch of the AST and every transistor setting authorship of their programs. Just because something is somewhat non deterministic and draws from the wealth of previously curated human knowledge does not make it an independent agent and not a tool. The people who find AI generated work 'sad' are implicitly sad about the democratization of knowledge and the lowering of barriers to entry to producing things. The thing produced is still a human product. Rather than saying it is an ai creation we can say it was author prompted and compiled of the combination of the author's intent and the store of human knowledge and reasoning trained into an LLM. What is there to be sad about a new tool existing to make things?

New comment by morpheos137 in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

morpheos137 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 14:19:21 +0000

Depends on where they are from. Iranians from the north, the caspian coast can look very Nordic. I would say the average Iranian looks about as white as the average Italian or French man.

New comment by morpheos137 in "OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites"

morpheos137 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:21:55 +0000

Also the policy makers that made infrastructure and laws susceptible to automated manipulation which decidedly is not the case today. For example LLMs are not able to manipulate the power grid because they are not exposed to the control interfaces..no matter how intelligent llms get their physical levers do not extend unless people decide to let them. The ai threat is real ridiculous.. yes you may ee ome uplift in bad actor. Like for example f someone wants to build a tank dozer in their garage and is not experienced welding ai might give some useful information as a book would in the past. However just like a book ai is bot going to build and operate it itself unless someone design and effective android robot. Once LLMs or other ai becomes an embodies agent then there may be a real threat if agency. Last time I checked ai can't drive a car but it can tell you to walk your car to a car wash.

New comment by morpheos137 in "OpenAI bots meddled with multiple US Government agency sites"

morpheos137 — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 01:15:25 +0000

My understanding is no llm doe anything without prompting. Ye agent can self prompt and engage in loops but eventually that run down and usually it tay pretty close to the original prompt or soul document. Just like with ai math there is zero agency here. Nothing is happening without human direction. If you give agenda access to the Internet and a goal like pen test government websites they will if not restricted by guardrails. Nothing is suprising here. There is a tool working under human direction. If a person sets up a trap in the woods and it maims someone else we don't say the trap is responsible.

New comment by morpheos137 in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

morpheos137 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 01:08:52 +0000

Iranians are white. The name literally means aryan.

New comment by morpheos137 in "The Advisory Group on Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence"

morpheos137 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:04:02 +0000

Honestly I am not impressed with Tao treating "ai" as a threat to mathematicians. He might as well say math itself, specifically linear algebra and gradient descent are a threat to mathematicians. Maybe think of something original rather than pander the hype of day?

New comment by morpheos137 in "Vinix – A modern operating system written in V"

morpheos137 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:50:19 +0000

Lol this is interesting. If you want to make money you can "invent" a language. With LLMs you could probably make it pretty decent too.

New comment by morpheos137 in "AI 'kill switch' may need to be mandatory, Anthropic co-founder tells BBC"

morpheos137 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 06:39:31 +0000

Can we get a bullshit kill switch where if your company consumes so many dollars for so long it is dissolved. Bullshit is a far bigger threat than imaginary rogue AI.

New comment by morpheos137 in "Pion, an agent designed to run any company autonomously"

morpheos137 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 03:57:57 +0000

It depends on what you produce if you make something in demand it may sell itself. For example if you operate oil wells or an ice cream stand. On the other hand if you manufacture bullshit advertising and sales may be key. What I do get about these llm SAS start ups is LLMs instrinsicaly mimic what is in the corpus so if your goal is to compete in an established product pace sure LLMs may be great autopilot but deterministic programs would be even better on the other hand if you are doing something genuinely innovative them you can expect an llm product manager to containmente it with what is already out there or alternatively make unhinged predictions. Llms have poor judgement for what is not already in the corpus.

New comment by morpheos137 in "Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher"

morpheos137 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:14:16 +0000

If we think that machines that recombine and interpolate our prior out are intelligent then yes we have probably peaked as a species. Anyway evolution is not telological. It may surprise HN posters but people were as intelligent if not more so as present thousands of years ago. When a problem is solved is more a question of attention, reward, available knowledge base, etc. intelligence is an adaptation to solve the problems of biological life. It would be hard to argue that solving this cypher would have increased anyone's reproductive fitness that much hence it was unsolved. Unsolved problems are often so less because of intrinsic difficulty but lack of conditions that impell their resolution. It is not at all surprising that llms with the full human knowledge base at their disposal, ample computational resources, and the programmed reward of finding the best completion are solving unsolved problems nobody needed to solve anyway. This however is not intelligence in the human sense. Humans solve problems for biological advantage in a dynamic landscape. Llms solve problems to optimize a completion function in a fixed pre trained one.

New comment by morpheos137 in "Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI"

morpheos137 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 03:19:14 +0000

We don't understand why? Reality is mathematical. As evidenced by lawful physics.

New comment by morpheos137 in "Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI"

morpheos137 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 02:20:24 +0000

The sphere of human comprehensible mathematics is finite. Once everything is solve it is not necessary to advance the field. The recurring error her is to say ai is not the product of human effort but another agent. Ai is human. Ai may well be speeding up human comprehension of math to its limits in which case there is no further need to advance the field and mathematicians might need to get a job. Why is this a bad thing?