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New comment by scuppernong in "Anthropic's 'Watermark' Text Adulteration in Claude Is a Perversion of Writing"

scuppernong — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 22:46:02 +0000

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New comment by scuppernong in "Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck"

scuppernong — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 19:48:37 +0000

yes of course LLMs are already wreaking havoc by scaling up the bot farms of yore but that's not really how I interpreted hyperpersuasion, I interpreted it as a specifically targeted one-on-one conversation with belief in a specific notion as the desired outcome. I believe that LLMs can logos and pathos-max but (depending on the interlocutor) they cannot overcome by sheer force of logorrhea their lack of reputation, credibility, presence, etc.

New comment by scuppernong in "Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck"

scuppernong — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:00:31 +0000

"He looked at me incredulously. Surely, a smart person like me should know that AI, or better said, AGI will be hyperpersuasive soon – already on a bunch of benchmarks it exceeds professional debaters at persuasion." I'm always tickled by this tic of this kind of person, that human traits are something that we can maximize to infinity. That if we trained a robot to tell jokes, it would eventually tell jokes so funny we'd die laughing etc. You can't convince someone who doesn't want to be convinced.

New comment by scuppernong in "Homebench – Benchmark local LLMs for speed, memory, and quality"

scuppernong — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 16:36:41 +0000

It would be great if there was a much more thorough example output in the README, including e.g. Qwen 3.8 27B (once it comes out).

New comment by scuppernong in "Show HN: Shitty – fast terminal. Memory-unsafe and faster than yours"

scuppernong — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 01:13:43 +0000

Any project I see on HN now, I have no idea if the developer will still be interested in it in a month. I'll stick with ghostty because of its reputation.

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

scuppernong — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:02:50 +0000

the people who crow in the comments of each of these posts about AI advances making human beings useless seem to bizarrely identify themselves with the AI, but none of them seem to have had any hand in building this technology. at best, they're power users. pure ressentiment.

New comment by scuppernong in "The Burau representation of the braid group is faithful for n = 4"

scuppernong — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:16:06 +0000

not necessarily disputing any of his conclusions, but I find his style of argument frustratingly slippery, always generalizing broadly from weak evidence

New comment by scuppernong in "Future euro banknote design proposals"

scuppernong — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 21:10:12 +0000

nothing works in the long term for the right definition of long

New comment by scuppernong in "$100 AI Music Video: Claude Fable 5 vs. GPT-5.6 Sol"

scuppernong — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 16:06:10 +0000

happy to see this is still ugly unwatchable dogshit

New comment by scuppernong in "Apple's new SpeechAnalyzer API, benchmarked against Whisper and its predecessor"

scuppernong — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 16:40:55 +0000

Just ran it against Whisper-Large-V2 on a math lecture (my primary use case for ASR is subtitling math lectures), and it was substantially faster and only slightly worse. Very usable for live transcription though I'll probably stick with whisper for the time being since I don't really need the subtitles to be generated in real time.

New comment by scuppernong in "Total Iran Economic Damage Estimate"

scuppernong — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:53:51 +0000

"Exclusive: Iran deal includes $300 billion fund, more than half of which already committed, source says" (https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/iran-deal-includes-...)

New comment by scuppernong in "To have a moral stance on AI is to be an outcast, and it sucks"

scuppernong — Sat, 30 May 2026 16:56:36 +0000

A principal dogma on orange reddit is the neutrality of technology. Most people here are opposed to the nigh inevitable incipient use of AI in mass surveillance but don't think that that has any relationship to their use of AI (for example) as "Google that actually works." Whether they are right, I am not sure.

New comment by scuppernong in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

scuppernong — Thu, 14 May 2026 18:31:38 +0000

MIT is not close to one of the first universities with a grad student union, the UC has been unionized since the 90s.

New comment by scuppernong in "RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust"

scuppernong — Thu, 07 May 2026 19:04:29 +0000

haven't watched it but my only data point for that claim is this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/typst/comments/1dcu3p8/i_contacted_...

New comment by scuppernong in "RaTeX: KaTeX-compatible LaTeX rendering engine in pure Rust"

scuppernong — Thu, 07 May 2026 15:45:48 +0000

as long as the arXiv doesn't accept Typst, it's never going to be a real alternative to LaTeX. and the arXiv maintainers seem either hostile or indifferent to Typst

New comment by scuppernong in "245TB Micron 6600 ION Data Center SSD Now Shipping"

scuppernong — Wed, 06 May 2026 18:47:14 +0000

there is no serious degrowth movement in the US. absolutely delusional to pin anything, positive or negative, on them.

New comment by scuppernong in "Kagi Small Web"

scuppernong — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:32:52 +0000

it probably doesn't help that they're constantly bifurcating their tiny team into new projects. their browser is essentially nonfunctional for daily use but they've already moved on to porting it to Linux

New comment by scuppernong in "The “JVG algorithm” only wins on tiny numbers"

scuppernong — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 01:59:07 +0000

my understanding is that they factored 15 using a modular exponentiation circuit that presumes that the modulus is 3. factoring 15 with knowledge of 3 is not so impressive. Shor's algorithm has never been run with a full modular exponentiation circuit.

New comment by scuppernong in "LLM Writing Tropes.md"

scuppernong — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 23:33:25 +0000

weirder still to immerse your brain in sewage and take pride in your lack of discernment.

New comment by scuppernong in "GPT-5.4"

scuppernong — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 02:42:50 +0000

In my limited experimentation, 5.4 thinking is markedly worse than 5.2 at mathematical reasoning.