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New comment by nbulka in "Earth's organisms developed via evolution. What if the cosmos did, too?"

nbulka — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 23:46:15 +0000

And people give Platonists a hard time …

New comment by nbulka in "Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

nbulka — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 13:39:52 +0000

They chose the wrong word "watermarking." Perhaps they find the statistics _after_ a certain amount of text is generated at scale, so that it doesn't affect the fidelity or integrity of the LLMs output.

There is evidence this exists already, and it's why "I have to be honest..." and "This is the right lens, ..." keep popping up.

Probably would be cheaper too. Maybe I am missing something?

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

nbulka — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 06:43:40 +0000

Check out the work of Godel Turing and Chaitin!

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

nbulka — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 17:08:54 +0000

IANAM but this might be unexplored territory because Jensen polynomials are no longer considered a "plausible route" to proving the Riemann Hypothesis.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07206

New comment by nbulka in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

nbulka — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:06:41 +0000

I posted a comment very similar in spirit - we’ve adopted “perfect is the enemy of good” as the operative maxim instead of maximizing accountability and now we may need to flip as AI does that first part quickly enough.

New comment by nbulka in "Appearing productive in the workplace"

nbulka — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:03:56 +0000

This is not an AI problem this is a “move fast and break things” philosophical problem that has always been lurking in the low-risk, high-reward SaaS industry. It’s just been fed steroids.

New comment by nbulka in "Elevated error rates on Opus 4.5"

nbulka — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 12:40:05 +0000

Argh went down right in the middle of me solving the Riemanm Hypothesis. If they claim AGI … I’ll take my million dollars! :)

New comment by nbulka in "If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward"

nbulka — Sat, 30 Aug 2025 13:17:16 +0000

You mean this popup?

https://imgur.com/afqMi0Z

New comment by nbulka in "If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward"

nbulka — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:41:05 +0000

Training on personal data people thought was going to remain private vs. stuff out in public view (copyright or not), are two different magnitudes of ethics breaches. Opt OUT instead of Opt IN for this is CRAZY in my opinion. I hope that the reddit post is WRONG on that detail but I seriously doubt it.

I asked Claude: "If a company has a privacy policy and says they will not train on your data and then decides to change the policy in order "to make the models better for everyone." What should the terms be?"

The model suggests in the first paragraph or so EXPLICIT OPT IN. Not Opt OUT

New comment by nbulka in "If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward"

nbulka — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:29:22 +0000

Because they have terms of service they have to adhere to. We need laws to be lawful.

New comment by nbulka in "If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward"

nbulka — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:28:40 +0000

No you don't. You don't have to assume people are going to be bad! We should not normalize it either.

New comment by nbulka in "If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward"

nbulka — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 17:28:05 +0000

Don't normalize this. There are contractual obligations that we have to enforce in order to keep our privacy and humanity.

New comment by nbulka in "If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward"

nbulka — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:57:40 +0000

!!!!!!!!!! this... all the times HIPAA and data privacy laws get ignored directly in Jira tickets too. SMH

New comment by nbulka in "If you have a Claude account, they're going to train on your data moving forward"

nbulka — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 16:50:46 +0000

For those who do not, or cannot, read this announcement prior to September 28th (think people in the hospital, traveling, missed an email ..) is this not a total breach of contract?

Legally, I don't understand how Anthropic's lawyers would have allowed this. Maybe I am just naively optimistic about these matters? I am a Max customer and I might leave! Talk about a "rug pull" ... and I considering moving to an inferior provider! Privacy is a fundamental human right. Please do better, we have not learned our lesson in tech or society because no one is facing any consequences.

New comment by nbulka in "Research suggests Big Bang may have taken place inside a black hole"

nbulka — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 20:39:42 +0000

We think the universe had to "begin" because we "began" and tend to anthropomorphize. Is that necessarily true? The universe is under no obligation to have a beginning. Sail around the Earth and you might just end up right where you started.

New comment by nbulka in "Alexandre Grothendieck, The New Universal Church (1971) [pdf]"

nbulka — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 12:26:56 +0000

when a theory makes claims about events that fall outside of the physical system they become metaphysical:

age of the universe, creator or not, teleology, interpretations of probability, primacy of logic (are we allowing for the law of excluding middle or not)

Science doesn't do these things but scientism does.

New comment by nbulka in "Alexandre Grothendieck, The New Universal Church (1971) [pdf]"

nbulka — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 12:23:48 +0000

A steel man version of scientism by definition has to be scientism, and I imagine that looks like strict determinisn/reductionism. I imagine it would go along the lines of "we acknowledge that our theories invoke notions of probability and since don't have a better solution we should assert them as universal truths."

New comment by nbulka in "Alexandre Grothendieck, The New Universal Church (1971) [pdf]"

nbulka — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 12:03:13 +0000

I think a healthy dose of skepticism is warranted for claims like the age of the universe. The closer the measurements are to a human magnitude, the more likely they are to hold up to future science.

New comment by nbulka in "Alexandre Grothendieck, The New Universal Church (1971) [pdf]"

nbulka — Sat, 27 Jul 2024 11:59:45 +0000

For sure. And that underscores the probabilities that are either are true.

New comment by nbulka in "Alexandre Grothendieck, The New Universal Church (1971) [pdf]"

nbulka — Fri, 26 Jul 2024 22:49:30 +0000

something that makes metaphysical claims. Like the age of the universe, and a universal telos or lack thereof.