Hacker News: rooftopzen

New comment by rooftopzen in "Stanford report highlights growing disconnect between AI insiders and everyone"

rooftopzen — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 22:48:32 +0000

Smart guy phoning it in now - realized a few weeks ago that he “notices” something interesting to share, but is really paraphrasing a recently released paper that found it - without giving paper credit.

New comment by rooftopzen in "Iran's IRGC Publishes Satellite Imagery of OpenAI's $30B Stargate Datacenter"

rooftopzen — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 05:24:32 +0000

Being the datacenter is apparently mostly a scam, curious on who concocted an attack as an exit?

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/openais-massive-stargate-data...

New comment by rooftopzen in "Mark Zuckerberg Is Building an AI Agent to Help Him Be CEO"

rooftopzen — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 00:30:43 +0000

Hypothesis is he will blame his recent poor decisions on the probabilistic AI agent he was using (or psychosis).

New comment by rooftopzen in "Delve – Fake Compliance as a Service"

rooftopzen — Sat, 21 Mar 2026 00:00:49 +0000

Considering how YC companies are customers of other YC companies (presumably to lift ARR), how many YC companies have Delve compliance?

Should we worry about AI startup customer data…

Why the US Could Blame AI for Blowing Up the Iranian School

rooftopzen — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 04:35:34 +0000

Article URL: https://www.jonathanbennion.info/p/why-the-us-may-blame-ai-for-blowing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47319128

Points: 4

# Comments: 2

New comment by rooftopzen in "Ezra Klein: The Future We Feared Is Here"

rooftopzen — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:27:24 +0000

Ezra Klein - any premise he has had in past 1-2 years is built on a maligned belief in AGI that is unscientific. Have heard he recently pivoted eg “moved goal posts” for his AGI timeline but the guy appears to be wasting time following delusional trends, this piece included.

New comment by rooftopzen in "Chamath Palihapitiya Says AI Costs at Startup 8090 Could Hit $10M"

rooftopzen — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 00:21:59 +0000

This guy generalizes lots with “could” and “might” like a politician, why waste energy responding to it?

New comment by rooftopzen in "Yann LeCun: Current AI Is Dead End"

rooftopzen — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 01:30:06 +0000

Everything I’ve been saying for 2 years, curious what’s taken him so long for him to finally speak reality the last few weeks of interviews

Yann LeCun: Current AI Is Dead End

rooftopzen — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 01:30:06 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/26/technology/an-ai-pioneer-warns-the-tech-herd-is-marching-into-a-dead-end.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46774318

Points: 12

# Comments: 2

OpenAI asks for help from US govt

rooftopzen — Thu, 06 Nov 2025 02:07:27 +0000

Article URL: https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/companies-markets/telcos-media-tech/openai-seeks-government-backing-boost-ai-investments

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45830599

Points: 8

# Comments: 4

New comment by rooftopzen in "OpenAI will devour as much power as NYC and San Diego combined"

rooftopzen — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 00:56:08 +0000

Written by an intern

https://www.linkedin.com/in/eva-roytburg-5b971590

New comment by rooftopzen in "That Secret Service SIM farm story is bogus"

rooftopzen — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 16:50:57 +0000

I've spent about an hour a week on this since Jan. Traced a large % of bogus news stories this year back to Reuters (fwiw) before they are picked up by other outlets and spread.

I've found legitimate stories also sourced from Reuters, but haven't found illegitimate stories NOT sourced from Reuters (in other words, they seem to originate from the same source, not sure why)

New comment by rooftopzen in "Abundant Intelligence"

rooftopzen — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:07:44 +0000

Sorry but your concept of AI is marketing driven. It's probabilistic, understanding is past your pay grade.

New comment by rooftopzen in "Abundant Intelligence"

rooftopzen — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:06:00 +0000

Exactly - AI allows for intersections in concepts from training data; up to the user to make sense of it. Thanks for stating this (I end up repeating same thing in every conversation, but is common sense).

New comment by rooftopzen in "Abundant Intelligence"

rooftopzen — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 22:01:15 +0000

Sam Altman has been a joke for awhile now, heard only his investors defend him for their next round increase - is that who you are?

New comment by rooftopzen in "Launch HN: Strata (YC X25) – One MCP server for AI to handle thousands of tools"

rooftopzen — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:23:44 +0000

Dove deep into this - 25+ security issues; no thx

New comment by rooftopzen in "Hire People Who Care (2020)"

rooftopzen — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 22:44:20 +0000

I agree w post, and relevancy from its original date in 2020, but curious on what original intention was to repost from such a long time ago, see link belwo

https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=alexw.substack.com

New comment by rooftopzen in "We Replaced ETL with MCP"

rooftopzen — Fri, 01 Aug 2025 05:50:32 +0000

You naively replaced deterministic process w probabilistic process - following a trend that is uneducated.

I am taking screenshots of blogposts like this for a museum exhibit opening next year - lmk if you’re willing.

New comment by rooftopzen in "AI safety index on model scoring released today [pdf]"

rooftopzen — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 02:37:06 +0000

Caveats: 1. It's 101 pages (do # of pages correlate with aggressive effort to be authoritative, e.g. 'state of the world' pdfs. 2. This appears to come from the AGI existential threat doomer camp - does it even have any validity? At first glance, it appears both absurd in terms of presumptive risks, and also AI generated (this is biased to the pages I'd read) 3. MLCommons has a more scholastic approach to ranking models on potential harms, curious on reception to all approaches (pros vs cons of each)

AI safety index on model scoring released today [pdf]

rooftopzen — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 02:37:06 +0000

Article URL: https://futureoflife.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/FLI-AI-Safety-Index-Report-Summer-2025.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44600642

Points: 3

# Comments: 1