<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: mrbungie</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mrbungie</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:48:01 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=mrbungie" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrbungie in "AI could kill all humans in next decade, warn experts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I mean, a disaster could happen even with properly human-aligned AI. In a "AI makes the shots" world with undecipherable and fast feedback loops, which is the one we are seemingly heading towards, a string of short-sighted decisions made by AI agents may be the only thing separating us from extinction.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 17:58:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630616</link><dc:creator>mrbungie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630616</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49630616</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrbungie in "AI could kill all humans in next decade, warn experts"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You are not seriously suggesting that nature and AI-accelerated gain-of-function research are similar in regards to risks, are you?</p>
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<p>They represent different AI usage patterns. OpenAI wants everyone to believe that it was done with a practically autonomous network of thousands of agents with little to no human intervention for 88 hours, while Buckmaster/Alpöge were using AI in a more guided way for months. If OpenAI actually used anything from Buckmaster/Alpöge work they would be misleading the public.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 09 Sep 2026 11:33:36 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624748</link><dc:creator>mrbungie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624748</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49624748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrbungie in "Tao: Open math problems being non-renewably mined by AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hopefully. We'll need to wait until mathematicians confirm how easy it is to digest whatever GPT did.</p>
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<p>For sure, but this was supposedly ~18 million dollars of compute, afaik 100 pages paper / lean proof and only god knows how many bytes of chat interactions + thought traces. Scale matters.</p>
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<p>Probably an AI-written Lean proof is very different to how a human would write it, and some may say it's more like mathy neuralese. For sure it works but it is not human-friendly and needs to be transformed into something more readable and digestible to be able to extract insights from it.<p>Not that different from when trying to read an out-of-control vibe coded codebases, or an sloppy AI long email that someone may send you at 9 AM.</p>
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<p>In what world a tweet and a screenshot of a private convo are evidence of good faith? Plain  sociopathic behavior.</p>
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<p>We are not in an everything-has-an-API world yet, and it'll for sure take some time to get there.</p>
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<p>> 1) The article is written in a way that states clearly they threw a lot of compute at the problem. In api cost millions of dollars.<p>Did I say otherwise?<p>> 2) Millenium Problems have been the goal every AI company wanted to achieve since their diffusion, all companies have thrown a lot of resource to solve these problems, as they are very famous and scientists spent a lot of time trying to solve them. The first company to solve it will remain in history, despite all of you finding excuses about it.<p>I know, but I don't know how that relates to my point, which is about the way they are doing it.</p>
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<p>Of course, as any drama, it has been developing into a lot more but the main motivation for OpenAI has been about winning that battle.</p>
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<p>Of course AI was involved, you'd expect most mathematicians and researchers to use AI nowadays. This drama is about AI achieving impressive outcomes with little to no human intervention, as that would be signalling AGI.</p>
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<p>They are highly capable, no doubt about that, but:<p>1) We don't really know how they arrived to this result except that they had a lead and that they threw millions of compute at the problem. The article is written in a way that makes you believe that it was just an agent loop with little human intervention, but without any evidence.<p>2) If the threats are to be believed, it is concerning how far they are willing to go to show how capable the model is. One would think their products and credibility would be enough to speak for themselves.</p>
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<p>Long-term, sure. Short-term it is going to cause a lot of suffering.</p>
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<p>Just add a --verbose flag that shows the stacktrace when there is an error. Then add a footer message when an error appears in non-verbose mode that invites the user/agent to use --verbose to get the full picture.<p>It obviously may end up in thousands of tokens burned through though (you can also fix that adding different levels of verbosity), but hopefully errors are not common.</p>
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<p>From what I gather from GPs upper post: Technical debt, skill atrophy, delusions of grandeur about one's own abilities / psychosis.</p>
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<p>You don't need SOTA-level LLMs to create value with AI. Hell, you can build good solutions with a simple small finetuned models.<p>> When models are good, expectations are adjusted accordingly to deliver things on par with the whole industry, you can't just say, I have built my own Intel Pentium II, now I will try to use it to compile Electron App and run 3DS Max there.<p>I know you are taking your analogy to its breaking point but it really depends on what you are doing. I know people that use 10+-year old thinkpads and they do just fine.</p>
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<p>That's convenient accounting. The reality is that they can't stop training since they risk losing customers if they do so. So they shouldn't factor it out of profitability analysis.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:07:27 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673649</link><dc:creator>mrbungie</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673649</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48673649</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by mrbungie in "Apple announces significant price increases for MacBooks, iPads, more"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ah, come on. I remember the scalping of GPUs due to crypto-mining and then all the things Nvidia did to market segment crypto out of the regular (gaming) consumer space. AI is much worse because the scale is OOM greater, but crypto/blockchain effects on the market weren't harmless either.</p>
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<p>How much money does that revenue  cost though? If I had to steel-man GPs argument I'd ask for profits rather than revenues.</p>
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<p>That + when retail investors are the ones holding the bag.</p>
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