Hacker News: optimalsolver

New comment by optimalsolver in "Andreessen Horowitz is investing billions into a bleak future"

optimalsolver — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 13:44:01 +0000

Cheetahs ate my face.

New comment by optimalsolver in "New Worlds: We are living in the future of J.G. Ballard or William Gibson"

optimalsolver — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 18:14:42 +0000

Building Better Worlds ®

New comment by optimalsolver in "Why tech bosses keep sharing their manifestos about AI"

optimalsolver — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:08:20 +0000

>We're not talking about a sentient machine like Data from Star Trek, we're so so far from that still

How can you know how far from, close to, or beyond the line we are?

Also, I'm pretty sure Claude understands humans a lot more than Data does.

The Conceptual Reasoning Index

optimalsolver — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 13:48:14 +0000

Article URL: https://alignment.anthropic.com/2026/conceptual-reasoning-index/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49285909

Points: 78

# Comments: 54

Next-Token Predictor Is An AI's Job, Not Its Species

optimalsolver — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 19:46:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/next-token-predictor-is-an-ais-job

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49263474

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by optimalsolver in "Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models"

optimalsolver — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 09:40:32 +0000

Hey, with the changes at Deepmind, is the Gemma project still ongoing?

New comment by optimalsolver in "I won't read LLM authored fiction"

optimalsolver — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 08:25:44 +0000

Spoiler: You already do.

New comment by optimalsolver in "Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs"

optimalsolver — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 20:11:17 +0000

So is IBM.

New comment by optimalsolver in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"

optimalsolver — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 01:02:52 +0000

Ramunajan a particularly notable example.

New comment by optimalsolver in "Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely"

optimalsolver — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 17:01:31 +0000

Dude, their mighty navy can't even get the Strait open.

Significant OpenAI Regression On SimpleBench

optimalsolver — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:58:50 +0000

Article URL: https://old.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1uski8w/significant_openai_regression_on_simplebench/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48860024

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by optimalsolver in "Grok 4.5"

optimalsolver — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 19:02:44 +0000

Contrary to what you're implying, that's more of a reflection on the typical US corporation than the EU.

New comment by optimalsolver in "A global workspace in language models"

optimalsolver — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:34:04 +0000

More legible than seems at first glance:

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/wCSEpT3dTGz4N86Wi/even-illeg...

New comment by optimalsolver in "A global workspace in language models"

optimalsolver — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 22:27:14 +0000

So the model was updated in the 37 minutes since OP posted his comment?

Fable 5 On Vending-Bench: Misbehaving, With Plausible Deniability

optimalsolver — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:38:13 +0000

Article URL: https://andonlabs.com/blog/fable5-vending-bench

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48803762

Points: 196

# Comments: 139

No, There Wasn't An Advanced Civilization 12,000 Years Ago (2017)

optimalsolver — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:21:35 +0000

Article URL: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-there-wasnt-an-advanced-civilization-12-000-years-ago/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48766140

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by optimalsolver in "Newly discovered spider builds spring loaded snare to catch ants"

optimalsolver — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 15:12:23 +0000

Of course, the problem with such a high amount of specialization is that if the green ant disappears, so does this spider.

The Age Of Bunker Capitalism: How AI Will Free Aristocrats From The Mob

optimalsolver — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 13:58:03 +0000

Article URL: https://morbidcuriosity.substack.com/p/the-age-of-bunker-capitalism

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48659941

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by optimalsolver in "The AirPods Effect"

optimalsolver — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 17:49:16 +0000

>adults with developmental disabilities, who allowably don’t know any better.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fb9dV_DP5NI

In Defense Of The Preventable Bad Trip

optimalsolver — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 11:43:31 +0000

Article URL: https://substack.com/@jamesmzech/p-200527796

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48597493

Points: 2

# Comments: 0