Hacker News: seanmcau

New comment by seanmcau in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

seanmcau — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 23:53:17 +0000

Probably the model OAI used that is strictly better than whichever SOTA - 3 months model OP used?

New comment by seanmcau in "AI boosts research careers but narrow the span of ideas explored: study"

seanmcau — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:49:06 +0000

Did you read the article?

New comment by seanmcau in "The Rise and (Potential) Fall of Letterboxd"

seanmcau — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:06:12 +0000

The only solution is following/friending people who write thoughtful reviews as well as going through their friends if the number is low.

Also if you go to esoteric enough films you mostly filter out the joke reviews

New comment by seanmcau in "Machine Payments Protocol (MPP)"

seanmcau — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 16:45:27 +0000

I'm probably overlooking something, but what makes the problem of being able to get from item in basket to item is shipping different from choosing which item(s) to put in the basket?

In other words, if Agents are able to navigate marketplaces, shouldn't that imply they can also navigate a subset of the marketplace, the payment section? Especially given that that section is "easier: theres no need for qualitative (or quantitative) judgement like there is for the shopping portion.

Perhaps its a matter of proper safeguards?

New comment by seanmcau in "President Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems"

seanmcau — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:28:31 +0000

It would/will be extremely irresponsible to put non-deterministic and fallible models in charge of weapons. We are not close to having solved the problem of ensuring AI pursues good outcomes

New comment by seanmcau in "Terrence Malick's Disciples"

seanmcau — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 01:42:21 +0000

I think that is at least partially intentional

New comment by seanmcau in "Instagram chief orders staff back to the office five days a week in 2026"

seanmcau — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 22:08:55 +0000

No, this is not true.

New comment by seanmcau in "Meta Superintelligence Labs' first paper is about RAG"

seanmcau — Sun, 12 Oct 2025 19:05:58 +0000

He started coding at age 8