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New comment by scottyah in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

scottyah — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:07:03 +0000

I wonder if the distillation was part of the compute deal.

New comment by scottyah in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

scottyah — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:06:19 +0000

I would be curious to see the venn diagram with the people who think data centers are using all of the water.

New comment by scottyah in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

scottyah — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:05:08 +0000

I love how this comment is both off-topic and heavily biased.

New comment by scottyah in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

scottyah — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:03:12 +0000

For distillation deals lol

New comment by scottyah in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

scottyah — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 19:01:08 +0000

I sense a lot of condescension and lack of business acumen so I won't spend time writing it up, why don't you just ask your favorite AI or do some basic google searches? Elon was extremely upfront about the philosophical reasons for it, ever since he cofounded OpenAI.

New comment by scottyah in "Grok 4.6 scores 61 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index"

scottyah — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 18:55:59 +0000

They aren't though? Only a subset are. Are you aware that there are multiple competing Chinese companies making models?

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

scottyah — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:40:05 +0000

I think you need to spend more time understanding ethics and less time reading memes

New comment by scottyah in "Discovery Loop"

scottyah — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:34:25 +0000

Should everyone have a hydroponics room? Even a basic amount of veggies generally require more land than townhomes, rowhouses, duplexes, low-rise apartments can provide.

New comment by scottyah in "Discovery Loop"

scottyah — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:30:38 +0000

Scientific research has been getting a bit too Pharisees-like in the last two decades, and it's causing a lot of people to drop out and join industry. I think enabling people to make discoveries on their own without the grad school hazing will yield MORE people who can do science, not less.

New comment by scottyah in "Discovery Loop"

scottyah — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:27:03 +0000

Social net is a fun term, it's just earned value reallocation.

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

scottyah — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 19:57:33 +0000

Gemini works amazingly well, and is better suited for most use cases. When most people speak of it negatively (especially here), it's just with the task of coding, which is a small subset of what google should be training its AI for.

New comment by scottyah in "Discovery Loop"

scottyah — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:27:13 +0000

We'll adapt. So far, it seems like every technological increase has demanded more cognitive ability, not less. Sure, we may not need 100 people who are experts at shoveling, but the people developing, maintaining, and even operating the excavators all have to be "smarter". All the thinking, learning, and training needed to stay alive in the cold might have been mostly lost when fire was controlled, but it comes with its own risks and learning curve.

I know AI is "smart", so it might hinder us there, but I doubt it can be as damaging as doomscrolling has been on human brains.

New comment by scottyah in "Discovery Loop"

scottyah — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:21:20 +0000

But they require large support systems (typically rich parents) to work for "free". Scholarships mean they're not free.

New comment by scottyah in "Discovery Loop"

scottyah — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:18:59 +0000

That's fine by me. I certainly won't be making any major discoveries on my own (not on this current life trajectory anyway), but am very grateful that other people have.

New comment by scottyah in "Discovery Loop"

scottyah — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:16:23 +0000

Because the website is neither a hard problem nor is their work going to be anything remotely close to just prompting current LLMs.

New comment by scottyah in "Discovery Loop"

scottyah — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:14:47 +0000

> landing on their site and and seeing that beige colour and blurred-backdrop navbar, I immediately moved to close the tab

Don't judge a book by its cover? Sounds like you're just having issues because you've set up a bed filter in your brain. Are you really advocating that everyone change their websites to make it easier for you to distinguish if you'll find the information valuable?

New comment by scottyah in "Discovery Loop"

scottyah — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:10:55 +0000

Perhaps this is the fundamental problem that can be solved with AI. As a non-scientist, I'd very much prefer to have massive amounts of scientific breakthroughs instead of massive amounts of well-trained experts.

New comment by scottyah in "Discovery Loop"

scottyah — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 18:05:37 +0000

But they're all highly unsubstantial, sounds like hit-piece lazy journalism. Almost all are just that Jeff was in a leadership role and part of committees that had things under them go bad. One was just saying that people disagreed with what he said when he actually put out a statement to clear confusion when an employee went a bit rogue (went to media instead of going to someone like Jeff) in an attempt to get a promotion.

I just don't see anything damning on the list that isn't someone's opinion on public perception of his actions.

New comment by scottyah in "Discovery Loop"

scottyah — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:55:42 +0000

I don't see this group needing funding, in fact I doubt you could get a meeting to try to invest unless you're a personal friend.

New comment by scottyah in "Discovery Loop"

scottyah — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 17:53:25 +0000

These are all top-class engineers entering retirement age and none of them are hurting for money. This seems like Don Knuth working on finishing his books, or Tim Berners-Lee working on Solid.