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New comment by reducesuffering in "OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom"

reducesuffering — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 18:43:00 +0000

From time to time? Lol you must realize, frontier lab eng are using Codex/Claude-Code 99% in loops, on models the public doesn't have access to. Why? Because it works. Just a matter of time before humans are out of the loop and what comes next is a black hole

"The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed"

New comment by reducesuffering in "Crypto in 2026: Oh, This Is the Bad Place"

reducesuffering — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 14:26:31 +0000

It's quite damning how much crypto bs YCombinator funded. At least 70+ companies. Their reputation has nosedived

New comment by reducesuffering in "Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs"

reducesuffering — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:48:39 +0000

Yes all the F500 companies have been paying eye watering $$$ for Claude Code for half the year because “the king was naked” Those ruthless cost savings corporations, they surely never care about trimming extra spend

New comment by reducesuffering in "Codex logging bug may write TBs to local SSDs"

reducesuffering — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 17:38:06 +0000

Claude Code has been out for just 1 year and has millions of users already, being a major contribution to roughly $40 billion in revenue. By any stretch it is one of the most extremely fast developed products driving the most important workflow for millions of people already.

"Why isn't literally everything about a product that came out a year ago with an extremely fast scaling userbase solved?" is what I hear.

The goalposts will keep moving until AGI is undeniable.

New comment by reducesuffering in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

reducesuffering — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 20:13:41 +0000

Not everyone, not even a majority, but many people would trade their ideal urban lifestyle for a different urban lifestyle if it came at a significant housing price discount. We already see this across the country, even in non-urban preferences, where cheap housing in Arizona, Texas, Georgia, North Carolina, and Florida are attracting the most significant portions of migrations, not due to their superior lifestyle, but because housing, and consequently other things, are much more affordable

New comment by reducesuffering in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

reducesuffering — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:43:50 +0000

Housing in SF and NYC are on some level substitute goods. Many of the people living there are mobile and the ones deciding prices on the margin. If SF rent was $10k and NYC was $3k, many are going to leave SF to get a similar type of lifestyle in NYC for cheaper, raising demand for NYC housing. If SF zoning laws allowed building an incredible amount of housing, lowering rents to $2k, while NYC is at $4k, many people would leave NYC, lower housing demand and thus rents, to get a similar urban lifestyle in SF.

This is the whole crux of why NIMBY is such a collective problem. When NYC doesn't build because SF should, when SF doesn't build because the Bay Area should, when the Bay Area shouldn't build because Texas should, everyone collectively pays higher prices because overall housing supply is reduced and many people move between them.

New comment by reducesuffering in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

reducesuffering — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 14:40:41 +0000

We've had the technology to build skyscrapers for over 100 years. They're illegal in 90% of the city

New comment by reducesuffering in "OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B"

reducesuffering — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:25:04 +0000

Anyone remember how immensely incorrect most of HN commenters were on Uber's eventual profitability? For years we heard endless admonishment of Uber being an unsound business model. They made $10b in profit last year, $150b company at 18 P/E ratio. I would take the average HN opinion of business profitability with a grain of salt.

New comment by reducesuffering in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

reducesuffering — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:47:19 +0000

That's because one of the author's of AI 2027, Daniel Kokotajlo, an ex-OpenAI researcher, was the most prescient predictor of our modern situation from 2021:

https://asteriskmag.substack.com/p/before-he-wrote-ai-2027-h...

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6Xgy6CAf2jqHhynHL/what-2026-...

Anyone who wants to dismiss the LessWrong / X-Risk / "doomers" should link their accurate predictions from 2021.

New comment by reducesuffering in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

reducesuffering — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 07:43:23 +0000

People seem to oddly not care what Hinton thinks anymore after he hasn't aligned with the groupthink naysaying of AGI risks:

'Hinton said there was a “10% to 20%” chance that AI would lead to human extinction within the next three decades.'

“Because the situation we’re in now is that most of the experts in the field think that sometime, within probably the next 20 years, we’re going to develop AIs that are smarter than people. And that’s a very scary thought.”

“My worry is that the invisible hand is not going to keep us safe. So just leaving it to the profit motive of large companies is not going to be sufficient to make sure they develop it safely,” he said. “The only thing that can force those big companies to do more research on safety is government regulation.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/dec/27/godfather...

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

reducesuffering — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 05:57:43 +0000

This forum really needs to wake up to the fact that we are in the midst of the Manhattan Project 10x and we’re headed for Earth sized nukes

New comment by reducesuffering in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

reducesuffering — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:22:38 +0000

All of these negative comments are addressed by the blog post. What do you want them to say, that isn't better answered by the details in their existing communications. No negative comment here was really novel.

New comment by reducesuffering in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

reducesuffering — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:07:22 +0000

They literally just have. The ethos is explained here. If you don't bother to read or grapple with it that isn't on them.

https://darioamodei.com/post/policy-on-the-ai-exponential

New comment by reducesuffering in "Anthropic apologizes for invisible Claude Fable guardrails"

reducesuffering — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 18:03:10 +0000

They're not. They're in the eye of the storm and see what's going on the clearest. They were ahead of the curve to be where they're at now, and they're still ahead of the curve for where we're going. All the other heads of labs like Sam Altman and Demis have been saying the same thing since 2015-2016 way before any of this "marketing" would ever have been at play.

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

reducesuffering — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:14:48 +0000

"This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t"

https://theonion.com/this-war-will-destabilize-the-entire-mi...

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

reducesuffering — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:01:52 +0000

It's denialism, same as climate change, the subconscious fear to really grapple with the actual "what if" alternative scenario. Anthropic are true believers. They got to $1T in 5 years by being exceptionally smart and ahead of the curve here. Meanwhile HN just continually devolves into reactionary cynicism. "must be marketing, they just want to be rich, impossible AI advances much further." Meanwhile at every step of the way, Anthropic and X-riskers / "doomers" are vindicated in their correct predictive beliefs. We're headed to a future far dangerous than nukes very soon. We're in an arms race to detonate one 100x the size

New comment by reducesuffering in "'Sloppenheimer:' Amazon employees mock the company's AI on Slack"

reducesuffering — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:49:00 +0000

Amazon's toxic culture finally caught up to them. Early on they nailed it with Retail and AWS. Since then, all that terrible cutthroat culture grinded the efficacy down into producing just abomination after abomination of any business besides, just throwing bodies at AWS.

New comment by reducesuffering in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

reducesuffering — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 18:13:58 +0000

The level of denialism when faced to confront hard realities of the world around us never ceases to surprise me. Alas AI capabilities continue to rip through expectations and the next goalposts are moved.

New comment by reducesuffering in "Law Professors Prefer AI over Peer Answers"

reducesuffering — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 03:44:03 +0000

People in the tech industry are totally ignorant of how capabilities will be within a year.

New comment by reducesuffering in "NSA using Anthropic's Mythos for cyber attacks"

reducesuffering — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 00:54:44 +0000

But HN told me it’s just a marketing stunt