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New comment by nautilus12 in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

nautilus12 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:21:19 +0000

Have any real mathematicians working on these problems reviewed any of these and determined if they are just gobbledegook or not?

The ones with lean proofs could still be formulated incorrectly

New comment by nautilus12 in "More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math"

nautilus12 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:39:31 +0000

Ah i see what you were saying now, you were saying session specific poisoning is more likely to work if it was in tandem with training document specific poisoning.

New comment by nautilus12 in "An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem"

nautilus12 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 15:36:52 +0000

Oh makes perfect sense, do you have thoughts about real life examples? I did some research using AI and it said there were examples of restricted 3 body problems like the trojan asteroids, but no examples in real life similar to what is in this web app

New comment by nautilus12 in "Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher"

nautilus12 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:51:13 +0000

I was thinking to myself this dismal thought: everyone is so busy because of the acceleration caused by AI that no one will have the time to actually take the five minutes to verify manually that this really is a solution or that the article just generated something plausible looking

New comment by nautilus12 in "An atlas of periodic solutions to the three-body problem"

nautilus12 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 11:43:10 +0000

Is this assumed to be 2D? I was going to ask if there are any observed examples of 3 body equilibrium observed in nature.

New comment by nautilus12 in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

nautilus12 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 18:58:05 +0000

This is the real issue, though this article does not really hit on it explicitly just alludes to it.

New comment by nautilus12 in "More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math"

nautilus12 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:27:25 +0000

Thats not what they are asking. This paper is discussing documents in the training dataset poisoning the LLM for malicious behavior. This person are asking if anyone has deliberately put something in a private chat (presumably with retrain on my data turned off), to see if they can get it to leak across sessions from distinct users. I am positive this happens but I have not seen the proof. I also want to know the answer to this question.

Here are potentially relevant documents?

https://medium.com/secludy/fine-tuning-llm-on-sensitive-data...

https://spylab.ai/blog/non-adversarial-reproduction/

https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.18834

New comment by nautilus12 in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

nautilus12 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 13:30:05 +0000

This should be a watershed moment for everyone using a commercial LLM. EVERY PIECE OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY YOU DISCUSS WITH IT BECOMES THEIR PROPERTY. FULL STOP.

It is impossible to fight against this. It is statistically obfuscated, they can just argue it is a derived work.

New comment by nautilus12 in "I turned my security cameras into an automatic bird identification system"

nautilus12 — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 17:09:41 +0000

I get jealous of people that have the luxury of time to do things like this

New comment by nautilus12 in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

nautilus12 — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 18:50:10 +0000

My issue is that taking a strictly GUI driven approach makes you build an application (in the browser presumably) that will require more permissions than you would typically want in the terminal so TUIs win out by being in proximity to those tools (cat, ls, rm, etc) for development use cases

New comment by nautilus12 in "Iowa et al asks OpenAI to keep their bots sandboxed"

nautilus12 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 13:00:05 +0000

Can they try to prove that he directed someone to direct the agent to do that?

New comment by nautilus12 in "The Shape of Things to Come"

nautilus12 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 11:22:14 +0000

I call it "yegge sweats"

New comment by nautilus12 in "HackerRank open sourced its ATS. My resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74. No – 88"

nautilus12 — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 12:50:05 +0000

“The demands of ritual are always stronger than those of reason.”

New comment by nautilus12 in "Show HN: Red Squares – GitHub outages as contributions"

nautilus12 — Wed, 06 May 2026 12:47:31 +0000

Guess where AI Coding entered the picture

New comment by nautilus12 in "Working and Communicating with Japanese Engineers"

nautilus12 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:00:27 +0000

Worked for famous Japanese data platform for a few years. The Japanese engineers were collegial but some who didn't come in to the office were actually Hikikomori focused on very narrow things and were very nitpicky about details that wouldn't have ultimately mattered. Those that came into the Tokyo office lived to work and I saw people regularly sleeping at their desk after having stayed out all night for obligatory whiskey outing with colleagues and arriving at the office at 6 am as expected. The San Fran office was the opposite, very sloppy standards people, getting in at noon and staying up late to meet deadlines. The impedence mismatch between the two environments was almost unbearable.

New comment by nautilus12 in "Where things stand with the Department of War"

nautilus12 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 02:18:24 +0000

So is this a backtrack or clarification on their original stance? Do I need to be worried about skynet killing grandma?

New comment by nautilus12 in "Nobody gets promoted for simplicity"

nautilus12 — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 13:05:23 +0000

You are citing negative metrics. The reality is that companies only care about positive metrics: increase marginal revenue by 30%

That's regardless of the lip service they pay to cost cutting or risk reduction. It will only get worse, in the AI economy it's all about growth.

New comment by nautilus12 in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

nautilus12 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 17:07:48 +0000

Great follow up, i agree

New comment by nautilus12 in "If AI writes code, should the session be part of the commit?"

nautilus12 — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 06:32:39 +0000

This would just record a lot of me cursing at and calling the AI an idiot.

New comment by nautilus12 in "Anthropic drops flagship safety pledge"

nautilus12 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:35:52 +0000

Absolute power corrupts absolutely