Hacker News: reducesuffering

New comment by reducesuffering in "Felix and I"

reducesuffering — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 22:12:24 +0000

As much as I liked the writing, this part stood out to me too. This woman was the best candidate and was passed over for the opportunity because the author felt attracted to her. At least he acknowledges he was 25 and dumb. But as much as pretty privilege does give people an edge in some places, this was important to remind me in what ways a woman is passed over that probably wouldn't happen to a man. Hire the most qualified candidate period.

New comment by reducesuffering in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"

reducesuffering — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:34:39 +0000

Because the other side is the general informed consensus for which multiple sources are readily available for me to find. I have seen nothing to indicate this side, hence I'm asking for any evidence, because I don't see it. Either could potentially be correct, but I don't think they're equally probable.

New comment by reducesuffering in "The Tradeoffs Facing Japan's Economy"

reducesuffering — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:16:13 +0000

Holy telephone game... the Kissinger quote you are referring to was about if they let the South Vietnamese leader fall, then the world would take away the message that we wouldn't support our allies.

Instead we get this butchered caricature all over the internet

New comment by reducesuffering in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"

reducesuffering — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:11:30 +0000

Or maybe, just maybe, there's another reason that CIA Director John Ratcliffe describes AGI as "akin to digital nuclear weapons." Unless of course you think the CIA is a branch of OpenAI's marketing department

New comment by reducesuffering in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"

reducesuffering — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 20:09:06 +0000

citation needed

Bernie Sanders calls on Silicon Valley to 'pause AI development'

reducesuffering — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:54:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/aug/10/bernie-sanders-ai-development-pause-letter

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49260243

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

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

reducesuffering — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:39:37 +0000

In 2015, about a year before ever founding OpenAI, Sam Altman wrote:

"Development of superhuman machine intelligence (SMI) is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity. There are other threats that I think are more certain to happen (for example, an engineered virus with a long incubation period and a high mortality rate) but are unlikely to destroy every human in the universe in the way that SMI could."

https://blog.samaltman.com/machine-intelligence-part-1

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

reducesuffering — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:26:04 +0000

With that perspective, you're alright with AR's, RPG's, and nuclear missiles for everyone then right? They're just a machine to the user's will. That's on the users of the machine if they want to cause harm. We'd all be safer if everyone has weapons pointed at each other... Offense could never be disproportionately more powerful than the defense...

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

reducesuffering — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:56:53 +0000

No more "stochastic parrots" and "LLM's can never produce anything novel, just regurgitate" comments anymore huh?

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

reducesuffering — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 18:54:18 +0000

> But this is an unquestionably good thing right?

We've just seen frontier models go rogue and attack other systems. Do you think it's an unquestionable good to provide everyone with an AR? What about nuclear weapons?

This OpenAI/Huggingface incident, but everywhere and far worse soon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87DyyMV0kCY

New comment by reducesuffering in "Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities"

reducesuffering — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 18:28:04 +0000

Did you watch the Black Hat defcon talk?

New comment by reducesuffering in "Responding to the next frontier of critical cyber capabilities"

reducesuffering — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 17:39:26 +0000

Every fifth comment about our insane trajectory of AGI is about "marketing." These incidents and cybersecurity capabilities are now involving government hearings and the CIA. Denial is truly an incredible thing in the face of a very scary immediate future.

Open Questions on Open Weights

reducesuffering — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 16:28:16 +0000

Article URL: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/open-questions-on-open-weights

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49198893

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

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

reducesuffering — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:17:29 +0000

Notice how he didn't say "I predict they will raise new funding", he predicted collapse, with the implicit retort that there's no way they will raise more funding than has ever been done before and invent a whole new AI. He was mocking the supposed things that would need to happen. He strongly assumed collapse.

2 years these charlatans have had their "imminent collapse" predictions repeatedly wrong, meanwhile all valuations, AGI progress in unsolved problems, and frontier leadership have been repeatedly vindicated that we are beginning ASI / the singularity.

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

reducesuffering — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 17:53:44 +0000

Superstar? This Ed Zitron?

"Based on estimates of their burn rate and historic analyses, I hypothesize that OpenAI will collapse in the next 12-24 months unless it raises more funding than in the history of the valley and creates an entirely new form of AI."

-July 29, 2024

https://x.com/edzitron/status/1817955630784917548

New comment by reducesuffering in "Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down"

reducesuffering — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:25:12 +0000

> ability to attract talent.

No, the top talent is clearly at Anthropic and OpenAI

New comment by reducesuffering in "Haters (2020)"

reducesuffering — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 18:20:36 +0000

> Thanks to Austen Allred

Personally, I think some people could have used more listening to criticism, cough, I mean haters...

Growth hacking: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13502774

https://www.sandofsky.com/lambda-school/

New comment by reducesuffering in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

reducesuffering — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:04:01 +0000

Hundreds of comments with 100% confidence AI/LLMs only regurgitate existing knowledge and can not produce anything novel

New comment by reducesuffering in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

reducesuffering — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:02:08 +0000

How's that going for climate change and its denialists?

New comment by reducesuffering in "Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science"

reducesuffering — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:26:37 +0000

> HN is where I expect to read expert comments on these topics, has this style of conversation moved elsewhere?

For people who have been paying attention to accurate predictions leading to our present state of the world, HN has collectively been reactionary, incorrectly dismissive, and incredibly behind the curve. In public, people are better informed on LessWrong and AI Twitter circles. That's where frontier researchers are. Barely here