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New comment by simianwords in "Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities"

simianwords — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 06:21:14 +0000

The discourse gets muddled because there’s a certain sect of loud people who still think all of this is hype and AI will just die down soon.

There’s no arguing with them. In a few years they will move on to being skeptical about the next thing.

New comment by simianwords in "Pacing model development in an era of cyber-critical capabilities"

simianwords — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:28:12 +0000

how does the boy who cried wolf story end?

New comment by simianwords in "The Problem"

simianwords — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:43:46 +0000

Would have gone hard in 2023

New comment by simianwords in "The Problem"

simianwords — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:41:26 +0000

No it’s not vanishingly small. Every intelligent being knows not to hurt others for no gain. If your first instinct when seeing an animal is to kill it then you are a bad person.

You are secretly worried AI would be indifferent to you

New comment by simianwords in "Understanding is the new bottleneck"

simianwords — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 16:22:12 +0000

no a good engineer doesn't have to read majority what LLM put out - its not the most efficient.

New comment by simianwords in "Understanding is the new bottleneck"

simianwords — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 07:03:17 +0000

You do know it can already do that?

New comment by simianwords in "Understanding is the new bottleneck"

simianwords — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 06:58:19 +0000

And being able to trust the agent when you can makes a good engineer

New comment by simianwords in "Understanding is the new bottleneck"

simianwords — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 06:16:20 +0000

No incentive? Do you not know how RL is done?

New comment by simianwords in "Previewing Ultrafast mode: GPT‑5.6 Sol at up to 14X the speed"

simianwords — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 18:31:32 +0000

Any predictions for price premium? I’m guessing 50x.

New comment by simianwords in "Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland"

simianwords — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:54:16 +0000

The deaths due to lack of ac is more than predicted deaths due to storms or droughts

New comment by simianwords in "Beef and dairy drive 41% of biodiversity damage linked to global farmland"

simianwords — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 10:41:16 +0000

I would much rather have Europe install ACs instead. Stopping meat, not installing ACs, degrowth all look like masochistic ways to show that we are repenting.

New comment by simianwords in "Why do we assume everyone should be working?"

simianwords — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:37:03 +0000

its not so obvious that the stupid person won't provide positive returns at the margins.

i'm sure there are a few people like that and they should be in disability or other government programs. but vast majority do provide value and should be working.

New comment by simianwords in "Why do we assume everyone should be working?"

simianwords — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:33:09 +0000

Here's a metric for all people that think redistribution will help: if you redistribute the consumption, you will all consume like the average person in India. And I don't think that's what you want.

New comment by simianwords in "Why do we assume everyone should be working?"

simianwords — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:31:29 +0000

> To fix this, we must somehow achieve the fabled post scarcity society. Automate everything so thoroughly the price of everything becomes literally zero. This destroys the economy. It doesn't matter anymore whether people are working. There is no further need to economize if everything is abundant.

sure but the people opposing automation are the people on the left - the socialists and neo-luddities. the ones that are for automation are the billionaires - this makes your class warfare rhetoric more complicated..

New comment by simianwords in "Why do we assume everyone should be working?"

simianwords — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 06:25:58 +0000

it would be naive to assume that you would be paid to be an artist or poet in a socialism as opposed to a farmer

New comment by simianwords in "Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code"

simianwords — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 05:42:40 +0000

In some time it would look like the obvious default and we would wonder how we even worked with the old one

New comment by simianwords in "SAP stops most travel and hiring because of AI's soaring cost"

simianwords — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:42:21 +0000

I'm not sure who is getting bankrupt?

New comment by simianwords in "SAP stops most travel and hiring because of AI's soaring cost"

simianwords — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 12:19:38 +0000

Not really. A company can work and do things without having to run RCTs to prove everything. The market itself is the RCT.

New comment by simianwords in "SAP stops most travel and hiring because of AI's soaring cost"

simianwords — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:51:37 +0000

If you believe that AI does add to productivity gains, say equivalent to adding 10-20% employees, would you do anything differently than SAP?

New comment by simianwords in "The AI Apocalypse Is Here"

simianwords — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 03:55:03 +0000

its ironic how no one needs to justify having abundance and freeing humans from the shackles of work. its no longer the wholesome chungus luxury space communism that we wanted is it?