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New comment by sifar in "An Interview with Pat Gelsinger"

sifar — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 16:24:50 +0000

Thou shall not make a machine in the likeness of man. Oh wait that is Dune :).

I think what OP meant is Asimov's stories revolve around issues arising from loopholes or some interpretation of the three laws of robotics.

New comment by sifar in "Why do we tell ourselves scary stories about AI?"

sifar — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:30:53 +0000

>> I'm not sure what level of delusion one has to run to look at human civilization and say "no, intelligence wasn't important for this".

One has to only look at the current tech and political leaders.

New comment by sifar in "Code Is Cheap Now, and That Changes Everything"

sifar — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:37:12 +0000

would opus 4.6 be relevant in 2035 ?

New comment by sifar in "Why the most valuable things you know are things you cannot say"

sifar — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 21:48:40 +0000

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New comment by sifar in "OpenAI's fall from grace as investors race to Anthropic"

sifar — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 06:53:12 +0000

Upton Sinclair[1] has something relevant for Amodei.

Funnily enough, the same thing can be used against those who criticize his view on AI. I wonder if there is a word for this.

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/11/30/salary/

New comment by sifar in "Author of "Careless People" banned from saying anything negative about Meta"

sifar — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 16:57:51 +0000

I felt it more being naive idealism in the beginning coupled with the thrill of achieving things before the realization. Yet certain things stand out like her trip to Myanmar. Why to subject oneself through that in that condition.

The title is very apt, the executives, they simply didn't care. That was a fascinating glimpse

New comment by sifar in "The SpaceX IPO: retail investor notes"

sifar — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 17:04:43 +0000

>> I trust they understand the market and SpaceX's current value

It is more likely that the parties involved know that they can create/manipulate conditions to make it a success.

New comment by sifar in "We Built It with Slide Rules. Then We Forgot How"

sifar — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:59:33 +0000

>> The whole history of computing has been about creating higher abstractions to make it easier to build software

These abstractions are understandable and predictable. There is no mental model for the current LLMs(in entirety, even though the parts are known), the output might as well come from a genie.

New comment by sifar in "Arm releases first in-house chip, with Meta as debut customer"

sifar — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 21:53:05 +0000

It's called fables.

New comment by sifar in "Drone attack on parked U.S. Army BlackHawk in Iraq"

sifar — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 23:34:45 +0000

Yes, the US seems to be fighting the last war - both strategically and tactically.

New comment by sifar in "Goodbye to Sora"

sifar — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 00:49:35 +0000

Flip it around. Can intelligence exist without self preservation ?

New comment by sifar in "White-collar AI apocalypse narrative is just another bullshit"

sifar — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 19:04:25 +0000

Right. Technology is more distributed, empowering for the individual, however the power that wields it is stuck in a more feudalistic mindset and so we get this weird state where technological advancements seem more dystopian.

New comment by sifar in "You are not your job"

sifar — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 16:34:21 +0000

I look at it from the other side. Life, and by extension human civilization,is a local entropy minimization mechanism.

New comment by sifar in "Bombadil: Property-based testing for web UIs by Antithesis"

sifar — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 15:38:21 +0000

No, not bombadil. I'll donate mine too. :)

New comment by sifar in "Some things just take time"

sifar — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 17:16:32 +0000

Do you ? It takes a some introspection. People can be in denial despite the feedback from reality.

New comment by sifar in "Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)"

sifar — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 19:13:43 +0000

Yeah, the latency numbers provide a ceiling for your algorithm. The actual performance depends on the implementation, code generation, runtime hazards, small dependencies one may have overlooked etc.

New comment by sifar in "MoD sources warn Palantir role at heart of government is threat to UK security"

sifar — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:12:35 +0000

The corruption of LoTR is the saddest part here.

New comment by sifar in "Palantir defends its role in the kill chain"

sifar — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 17:10:19 +0000

It is not a binary choice. This is the greatest illusion people in power manage to create, there are only two choices - pro or anti.

New comment by sifar in "Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures"

sifar — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 17:55:50 +0000

Ironic that for someone so steeped in tech, his views on technology seem to be simplistic.

New comment by sifar in "Grief and the AI split"

sifar — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 04:38:31 +0000

You are building a system that has a shaky mental model and which may or may not adhere to the *.md files.