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New comment by pixl97 in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

pixl97 — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 01:22:59 +0000

They do have the authority to do this, Anthropic has the ability to appeal it in court, up to the SCOTUS. Lord only knows what our crazy ass judges in that court will do though.

New comment by pixl97 in "Slightly reducing the sloppiness of AI generated front end"

pixl97 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 17:39:27 +0000

I mean, no these don't look like AI slop. At worst they are 'web slop'. But even with that said a site that looks like this is what I expect these days from most businesses. I'm not looking at these companies for their far out web design capabilities, in fact a site that's somewhat standardized and has things where we expect them is far more useful.

New comment by pixl97 in "Spoiling Linux Kernel with "sanctioned" code"

pixl97 — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 02:54:58 +0000

I mean the capabilities of the internet aren't something you really want to have aimed AT you when you're fighting in a war. The internet grew after the cold war ended and it will change as another cold/hot war starts.

New comment by pixl97 in "Amazon Says Its Data Centers Use 2.5B Gallons of Water"

pixl97 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 15:53:50 +0000

Part of it is they are being built in places that have water issues already or ones in the middle to long term future. Central to west Texas is a good example of these.

They are being built with evaporative cooling which is not closed loop.

With that said, the vast majority of the yelling about water issues is overblown, power issues are far more likely to be a problem.

New comment by pixl97 in "Cybersecurity researchers aren't happy about the guardrails on Anthropic's Fable"

pixl97 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 23:00:31 +0000

If ( yellowcake) then { die }

Our future is loonytoons.

New comment by pixl97 in "Farmer donates land for a park, city sells it for $10M as data center land"

pixl97 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:12:57 +0000

I'd seen these headlines but until you said that I didn't realize how close it was to me.

New comment by pixl97 in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

pixl97 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 22:08:37 +0000

Just makes you wonder how many of the SV types are wanting to use AI as the final solution for the poor.

New comment by pixl97 in "Policy on the AI Exponential"

pixl97 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:54:45 +0000

Why are some people loyal to corrupt governments?

New comment by pixl97 in "Policy on the AI Exponential"

pixl97 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:36:24 +0000

Well obviously he'll have the AI 'dispose' of the poor and live a life as a king with a select few farmed humans and have the world as a play thing.

Really the entire future of AI at this point seems like "Don't worry about it, we'll figure out when we get there". Works a lot better if you're extremely rich and can afford your own private security.

New comment by pixl97 in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

pixl97 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 19:05:17 +0000

Hey man, don't ruin my dreams.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Plowshare

New comment by pixl97 in "Ask HN: Are most corporate SWE jobs performative?"

pixl97 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:28:11 +0000

When an organization reaches a certain size it starts behaving more like an insect colony than individuals at most levels. There is a lot of exploration that occurs, much of it is unfruitful, yet still enough future resources are discovered for it to continue and expand.

New comment by pixl97 in "US Consumer Price Index up 4.2%"

pixl97 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 16:22:58 +0000

Na, the hospital/medical care that comes along with it has gone up.

New comment by pixl97 in "Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery"

pixl97 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:39:41 +0000

Most discovery takes a ton of iteration and repetition. That's a lot less fun than the hedonism of sitting on a beach drinking a mahi thai.

Same with learning, humans historically where generalists without that deep of knowledge when compared to one another. Now we study a quarter of our short lives just to get to the point where we can specialize for the rest of our lives. This situation doesn't seem exactly tenable as complexity increases in the future.

I don't know what the future looks like, but I can tell you that entropy and complexity will only increase.

New comment by pixl97 in "Rich Sutton on AI creativity and discovery"

pixl97 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:33:50 +0000

Eventually we'll burn up the visible universe, but I think we have some time before then.

New comment by pixl97 in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

pixl97 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:25:47 +0000

>Open weights models aren't far behind, maybe a year, 18 months.

No, open weights are always a year behind +. By the time that year passes Anthropic/OpenAI/Google will have some new model that is ahead of the open models by a year.

Looking at computer security for the last 30 years, no one gives a fuck about user safety. Companies care about profits, and individuals don't care enough for strong laws.

We'll be back here in another year on HN talking about why we should give our retina sample and blood to Anthropic to use the model with a ton of people doing it. It's just the way humans are.

New comment by pixl97 in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

pixl97 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:21:39 +0000

That and a model can be the same size, yet use a lot more compute, I guess think of it as intelligence per watt used or something like that.

New comment by pixl97 in "AWS Bedrock to require sharing data with Anthropic for Mythos and future models"

pixl97 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:14:24 +0000

>This whole thing about this model being too powerful to share is just the usual BS.

Then stop using AI.

>But I want it all and I want it now.

Spend a trillion dollars and make your own model.

>No fair!

Then petition your government to enact laws around this. Unfortunately the US government rules are currently "Yes, we want AI to take over the world with terminators, just as long as they share data with us".

New comment by pixl97 in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

pixl97 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 14:34:33 +0000

And you're right, no one has any clue what the limits of intelligence are. Though to me it seems odd that humanity has reached the pinnacle of it in the last million years or so after a few billion years of lifes development. Just seems improbable we are close to the limits.

New comment by pixl97 in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

pixl97 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 01:26:03 +0000

Convincing argument, you win this one.

New comment by pixl97 in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

pixl97 — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 00:37:11 +0000

Really the biggest concerns are not computers getting spectacularly faster, but 'intelligence' algorithms getting orders of magnitude better.

Drop the power requirements 1000 fold, and yea you will be able to make your own SOTA model on the cheap. The problem is the person that has a few exaflops of power will still leave you in the dust in the intelligence explosion that would happen after an event like this.