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New comment by noslenwerdna in "Claude Opus 5"

noslenwerdna — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:54:11 +0000

The difference is that white collar as a class gleefully aided outsourcing/automating blue collar jobs with the exact same economic argument

New comment by noslenwerdna in "Claude Opus 5"

noslenwerdna — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 13:09:47 +0000

Automation is only good if you're putting blue collar people out of work! White-collar is out of bounds! People should do the work where they add unique value

New comment by noslenwerdna in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

noslenwerdna — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 11:26:42 +0000

Is the purpose of a system really what it does though? Obviously there are side effects and tradeoffs in any complex system. Is the purpose of a vaccine to make you sick - no, but that is a side effect of some vaccines on some people.

If we apply the "purpose of a system is what it does" to itself, this methodology is more a way to generate interesting (and cynical) hypotheses than to get at the truth.

New comment by noslenwerdna in "Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled"

noslenwerdna — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 15:31:33 +0000

Obviously I mean the definition of evil implied by your statement that they are indefensibly evil...

Again, what level of copyright violation is evil? Downloading music without paying for it? Apparently using images/text that artists have made public is evil, so I'm curious what the bar is here for evil.

Using electricity to improve white collar efficiency is also evil. Good to know

New comment by noslenwerdna in "Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled"

noslenwerdna — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 14:18:17 +0000

This is a very close minded definition of evil. What is the threshold of environmental impact before something is evil and its use indefensible?

What level of copyright violation will send us to hell?

New comment by noslenwerdna in "The dead economy theory"

noslenwerdna — Sat, 30 May 2026 11:23:25 +0000

There's definitely going to be cheap or open source models

New comment by noslenwerdna in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

noslenwerdna — Thu, 21 May 2026 01:52:46 +0000

For those of us who care about the answers to these questions, rather than who gets credit for doing it, we will welcome any faster means of solving these problems.

New comment by noslenwerdna in "Physicist Astrid Eichhorn is a leader in the field of asymptotic safety"

noslenwerdna — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 18:23:41 +0000

Asymptotic Safety also predicted the higgs mass (126 GeV vs the measured value of 125 GeV). https://arxiv.org/abs/0912.0208

The trick is, at that time most of the possible mass range was excluded experimentally, so it is a bit less impressive. I'm not sure how much tuning went into it (possibly none)

New comment by noslenwerdna in "Entities enabling scientific fraud at scale (2025)"

noslenwerdna — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 16:15:51 +0000

I unironically agree, p-hacking should be a criminal offense.

New comment by noslenwerdna in "Grammarly is offering ‘expert’ AI reviews from famous dead and living writers"

noslenwerdna — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 18:23:35 +0000

Interestingly, there is some neuroscience research that transformer architecture resembles "cue based retrieval" in the human brain in some important ways.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0749596X2...

New comment by noslenwerdna in "Global warming has accelerated significantly"

noslenwerdna — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 17:42:43 +0000

As we all know, global warming wasn't happening until AI data centers started being built. They are honestly a drop in the bucket

New comment by noslenwerdna in "Claude's Cycles [pdf]"

noslenwerdna — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 17:30:49 +0000

I find this kind of reduction silly.

All your brain is doing is bouncing atoms off each other, with some occasionally sticking together, how can it be really thinking?

See how silly it sounds?

New comment by noslenwerdna in "Looks like it is happening"

noslenwerdna — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:28:42 +0000

just replace "money" with "prestige" and I think the above comment works just fine

New comment by noslenwerdna in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

noslenwerdna — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:20:44 +0000

My point is if the people in the study were not randomly selected, there are any number of confounding factors that could influence why their anxiety changed.

New comment by noslenwerdna in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

noslenwerdna — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 17:19:07 +0000

I don't know that, which is why I said "maybe."

Facebook does not typically do academic level research - they do quick studies to verify product direction.

From what I have seen, the actual academic studies on this are mixed. It is hard to say one way or the other, and it can affect different teens differently depending on how they use it.

New comment by noslenwerdna in "Mark Zuckerberg Lied to Congress. We Can't Trust His Testimony"

noslenwerdna — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 16:57:48 +0000

"But internal study found users who stopped using Facebook and Instagram for a week showed lower rates of anxiety, depression, and loneliness."

This isn't causal though. The users who quit were not randomly selected. Maybe they were receiving some kind of mental health treatment, and as part of that they stopped. Then the recovery could have been from the treatment or it could have been from stopping.

New comment by noslenwerdna in "I miss thinking hard"

noslenwerdna — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 20:20:05 +0000

Are you saying I was incorrect for feeling that way?

The reason is that you no longer really know what's going on. (And yes, that feeling would be the same if C++ had as rich a library of packages as python for numerical analysis.)

If you are doing something that requires precision you need to know everything that is happening in that library. Also IIRC, I think not knowing what type something is bothered me at the time.

New comment by noslenwerdna in "I miss thinking hard"

noslenwerdna — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:36:25 +0000

I felt the same way about python when I was switching from C++ to python for data analysis

Meta Avocado

noslenwerdna — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:38:42 +0000

Article URL: https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/meta-avocado-ai-strategy-issues.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46207030

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New comment by noslenwerdna in "Meta projected 10% of 2024 revenue came from scams"

noslenwerdna — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 19:04:17 +0000

Your desktop was hacked or your email was hacked?