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New comment by simianwords in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

simianwords — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 11:17:55 +0000

Why not Jira Mcp?

New comment by simianwords in "Meta’s chaotic AI strategy"

simianwords — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:39:52 +0000

> Hard to feel much sympathy.

I think these comments are incurious and coming from more of an emotional and activist place than anything.

New comment by simianwords in "Meta’s chaotic AI strategy"

simianwords — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:39:04 +0000

This comment is funny because it has nothing to do with the post and the situation but just there to "boycott".

The only issue here is that Zuck is giving some marginally bad work to employees and they don't have much work to do. And your response is... social activism to boycott React which is not even a part of Meta anymore?

New comment by simianwords in "Meta’s chaotic AI strategy"

simianwords — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 05:37:40 +0000

> Indeed. Zero sympathy for someone helping creating this man his slop machine

I don't get these kind of accusations. They are working to build the AI model so that it is not slop anymore.

> It's kinda funny that their main problem is that they don't have enough work.

Why is this funny? Do people not want to have good work?

New comment by simianwords in "The whirlwind 24 hours that led to export controls on Anthropic"

simianwords — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 04:36:57 +0000

Here's what I believe: it is extremely likely that the jailbreak wasn't real and was minor. There is no way Dario would have seen a real threatening jailbreak and specifically call out that there's nothing to do about it.

This is what Dario said about the jailbreak

> He pushed back on the administration’s concerns, defended the guardrails and argued that the type of bypass that occurred, which he believed to be specific, did not pose the same risk as a broader “jailbreak” that would allow it to be used without any of the guardrails put in place by Anthropic.

If I were to bet - whatever capabilities this jailbreak unlocked, you could have got it for older GPT and Claude models as well. I think think this whole thing was either a misunderstanding or deliberate move by the government to put Anthropic in its place.

New comment by simianwords in "A new era for software testing"

simianwords — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 21:07:14 +0000

> But for requirements that changes often like in a enterprise settings or applications, maintaining a suite of unit tests is expensive. Integration tests are better because contracts between modules don’t change that much. Even if the suite are not exhaustive, they’re useful enough to catch some failures.

Yes this is what I'm trying to say.

New comment by simianwords in "Amazon CEO's talks with U.S. officials triggered crackdown on Anthropic models"

simianwords — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 18:06:40 +0000

sorry but when will this line of cute conspiracy theories stop? do you really think this was premeditated to hype up Anthropic?

New comment by simianwords in "Policy on the AI Exponential"

simianwords — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 13:51:35 +0000

Ok fair. In the event I’m wrong I can make a post in my anonymous blog that I was proved incorrect and I lost the bet. But I’m anonymous and a nobody so it doesn’t count for much but it’s all I can offer.

I’m not sure which bet we are talking about but let’s go for the stronger one and I’ll repeat it here:

7 months from now, combined valuation of OpenAI and Anthropic will be 10% higher than it is today inflation adjusted.

New comment by simianwords in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

simianwords — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:06:58 +0000

Ok but you can’t hand wave safety concerns. I agree that they shouldn’t get monopoly over it but what if AI is strong enough to synthesise weapons and help in cyber security?

What’s your answer to it? There are other people who have thought of it and it’s not that simple.

New comment by simianwords in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

simianwords — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 08:02:29 +0000

bro for crying out loud this is not some marketing stunt

New comment by simianwords in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

simianwords — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:50:21 +0000

The post talks about this kind of rhetoric

> Speaking of the HN/Reddit folks, lots of people are gleefully cackling about how Anthropic got what they deserved for their ‘marketing stunt’ with Mythos. As I’ve said before, this isn’t the first time we’ve had an AI CEO argue that something is ‘unsafe’ for personal gain.

Do you not think it is time to give up the whole "it is hype" rhetoric and come to reality -- the models can actually be unsafe and naturally Fable is closed off and the government is pulling access.

New comment by simianwords in "There is a shadow hanging over this Fable thing"

simianwords — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 07:44:54 +0000

I fully agree and this other side of excessive scepticism people are ruining it for everyone else. They are a big distraction. They keep saying things like:

- Anthropic is just doing this for marketing stunt

- AI is like NFT's

- circular deals

- the bubble will burst anytime soon

- the hype bro's are propping up the stock market so that they can exit quick like grifters

(I just made the last one up to force terminology they use)

This is really distracting because the main problem here is that AI is getting too powerful to be just handed out to normal people like us. If you still believe it is all hype, you are getting distracted from the real problem.

I'm guessing at some point this kind of rhetoric will die away and we focus on real problem

New comment by simianwords in "Open source AI must win"

simianwords — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:54:49 +0000

This will never work - a strong enough LLM model will also let you synthesise bioweapons etc.

How can you release this to public?!

Why else do you think Anthropic is heavily restricting Fable? You can’t just handwave safety concerns.

New comment by simianwords in "AI will be massively deflationary"

simianwords — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:34:53 +0000

The whole article seems sloppy wondering and vaguely elitist-snob.

I’ll summarise what AI will do for economy: In the most likely case that AI is not a literal superset of human capabilities

1. Many jobs are lost

2. Many are created

3. Everyone becomes richer because AI automates things

This is how it has always been. So what new insight did this article bring?

New comment by simianwords in "AI will be massively deflationary"

simianwords — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:29:07 +0000

Rare green account W. I mean this is obvious.

New comment by simianwords in "Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?"

simianwords — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 11:45:35 +0000

I also thought of this as a general idea: intelligence at the sampling level. Broadly you have different tiers of intelligence

1. take highest probability

2. based on some light weight code that tracks some state - like number of tokens or some sampling distribution

3. higher level is using a smaller llm to decide which token to sample (just a thought)

New comment by simianwords in "Ask HN: How are thinking efforts implemented?"

simianwords — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 08:30:44 +0000

I don't get it!? Why not just add the "BTW make sure to think really hard!" at the end in the new message?

Is it harder to post-train in such a way?

New comment by simianwords in "How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math"

simianwords — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:12:55 +0000

I don't know how you think it only gives you Lean - it gives you everything including the explanation. You can actually ask it explanation using you know.. natural language.

> And if it can provide insightful “whys”, that still correlates with beauty then.

Yeah it can, you just have to ask it. It has a good interface for it - text! I think you misunderstand how this tech works, its not just spitting out things. It has the understanding also and you can verify it by asking!

New comment by simianwords in "AI is slowing down"

simianwords — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 07:11:21 +0000

> Even so, fine, I'll take that bet. Anthropic inference prices are still marginally subsdizided. Once they're public they will hike their API prices several times over the next 24 months. Even that might not save them, because when we take all their expenses into account, they will probably need to raise prices 2-3x compared to their June 2026 prices.

Ok lets state the bet like this: 5 months after their IPO, it will be clear that their API prices still have greater than 10% margin.

New comment by simianwords in "Policy on the AI Exponential"

simianwords — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 06:00:26 +0000

Wait, let’s stick to your bet of market correction.

“In 7 months I think their combined valuation would be higher than it is today.”

I think this captures everything you and I believe in. Do you want to bet against me?

Everything else is fluff.

My prediction is that you might walk back on this bet, so try come up with some other macro scenario you anticipate.

If you can’t come up with an easy testable macro metric for your bold claims on AI, I think it is a weak move.

I can make the bet more in your favour - the valuation of Anthropic + OpenAI will be greater than 20% of what it is today in 1 year.

This is much stronger than your claim and I think you should agree that this is not possible if your claims on AI productivity are true.