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New comment by rhipitr in "Analyzing Frontier Model Progress with My Favourite Game: Prince of Persia"

rhipitr — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 15:33:03 +0000

Off tangent but the latest prince of Persia game is really fun

New comment by rhipitr in "Oracle cites 'force majeure' to shield itself on controversial data center"

rhipitr — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:23:46 +0000

I’ve been on some teams where some SQL devs can do some non intuitive things with SQL (particularly some of the enterprise features from Oracle). Not saying they were the right decisions but I do think some processes get knitted to these enterprise features and it’s painful to walk back later

New comment by rhipitr in "Pentagon says overreliance on AI contributed to missile strike on Iran school"

rhipitr — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 11:59:56 +0000

I think some of the current leaders believe the US would’ve won Vietnam and Iraq wars if tv/media coverage of it hadn’t existed or been more like ww2. So, I think they were honestly ok with collateral damage.

New comment by rhipitr in "Oracle’s 6am layoff emails hit staff amid new wave of cuts"

rhipitr — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 03:03:37 +0000

Interesting that the immediate reply to that comment is about how ASML code is equally shitty

New comment by rhipitr in "Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI"

rhipitr — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:18:39 +0000

“We found the face huggers and now we think we can control them.”

I always wonder if any true AGI and ASI for that matter can be controlled at all by humans. It seems like we are hoping for something that winds up being on the human spectrum of “good”

New comment by rhipitr in "VMware migration reduces Tottenham Hotspur's licensing fees by 85 percent"

rhipitr — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 13:16:20 +0000

85% reduction in VMware fees replaced by some other fees from something else? Or just an overall 85% reduction in cost?

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

rhipitr — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 22:04:41 +0000

Isn’t alphabet an investor in their new endeavor?

New comment by rhipitr in "They Stole Your Attention"

rhipitr — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:42:24 +0000

Current attention behavior with all of our devices reminds me of the The Box machine in Batman Forever, but way worse as it is perniciously unobvious to most.

New comment by rhipitr in "NotebookLM is now Gemini Notebook"

rhipitr — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 18:17:41 +0000

Any people with insight on why this happens? From my corporate experience this generally happens when two teams are working on a similar thing, they complain about turf to leadership, and leadership either makes them consolidate efforts or chooses a winner. Is that what happens at Google a lot? Or do they just constantly tweak things to the point they cease to live or be used?

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

rhipitr — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 15:16:39 +0000

I do wonder what type of AI some of these leaders expect to be able to harness. If you create something that is true AI, won’t it be smarter than you to a level you cannot fathom. I was thinking of this idea/though-experiment (which I know is ridiculous) of what if dogs created humans thinking they could control them, and then just wound up being pets because their survival now depended on that new hierarchy that previously didn’t exist.

Seems to be a lot of hubris with some AI thought leaders thinking control will remain with them and be absolute.

New comment by rhipitr in "GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse"

rhipitr — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 03:30:53 +0000

Switching out an LLM? What do you mean by this? Sure some models can run locally but in a company with lots do people they might not be willing to spend to self host a larger model that requires beefier hardware to host, plus all the complexity to scale that out to a bit internal user-base

New comment by rhipitr in "Blogging can just be stating the obvious"

rhipitr — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 12:15:30 +0000

Obvious != known

New comment by rhipitr in "The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated"

rhipitr — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 22:38:18 +0000

Have a loved one that has extremely low vitamin D issues. Takes ergocalciferol from time to time and it is pretty useful in my opinion.

New comment by rhipitr in "Zero-Touch OAuth for MCP"

rhipitr — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:47:06 +0000

Isn’t tool drift/version also a benefit? Especially in scenarios where the use must be standardized and up to date?

New comment by rhipitr in "The AirPods Effect"

rhipitr — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 15:19:51 +0000

One thing I find concerning is the amount of people I see driving these days with AirPods. Don’t think they can hear emergency sirens or honks very well that way. I think it it’s even illegal in some locations. I assume they do this in older cars without a way to connect their phone or just like immersive sound.

New comment by rhipitr in "Abandoned and Little-Known Airfields"

rhipitr — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 22:23:29 +0000

I got diverted to Roswell once and it was very cool flying in and seeing the airplane graveyard there. Not sure it’s little known but it was to me.

New comment by rhipitr in "Noam Shazeer Joins OpenAI"

rhipitr — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 21:41:48 +0000

At this point is it even pay that’s tempting or is it more about what they get to do? I would assume Google could easily pay them what openAI can, unless as an older company it’s harder for Google to match something really out there

New comment by rhipitr in "Only 16 Percent of Americans Think AI Will Have a Positive Impact on Society"

rhipitr — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:12:27 +0000

I think also, just seeing non-technical friends and family interact with it, there’s a lot of massaging you have to do right now to get it to work that just goes over their heads. Until they gets pushed behind an abstraction layer I see adoption crawling at a certain point.

New comment by rhipitr in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

rhipitr — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 03:02:07 +0000

I think AI will accelerate this, but I think YouTube, TikTok, and podcasts have splintered the market so much there’s not as much space for mega self-help stars anymore, just a lot of middle class ones.

New comment by rhipitr in "Feds freaked over Fable 5 after 'fix this code', not jailbreak, say researchers"

rhipitr — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 11:35:02 +0000

Isn’t the inverse of this “hack” really difficult to bypass still? They have the model some code they knew had certain security flaws and it fixed them with the right prompt. It seems this type of jailbreak requires that you already know a desired end state, rather than relying on the model to do the heavy creative lift work. Perhaps I’m just not being imaginative enough on the prompt side here though.