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New comment by sinuhe69 in "The AI Great Leap Forward"

sinuhe69 — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 04:15:34 +0000

The organisation where my wife works ordered all mid-level leaders and above to take a mandatory AI course, mostly remote with two days on-site to present their capstone projects, costing 2x K USD (not including flights). The capstone projects sounded impressive, and the course was celebrated as a resounding success. However, one year later, as far as I know, none of the capstone projects have been implemented, including my wife's and other ones I know of.

Having looked at some of the project descriptions, I realised that they would need to invest far more manpower, special expertise and time if they wanted to implement them with a moderate chance of success.

I believe this is not uncommon in large organisations worldwide.

BTW, it’s great that somebody has drawn a comparison with China’s Great Leap Forward. Not many people know about it and it always serves as a stark reminder of how crazy state-ordered “progress” could be.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "Embarrassingly simple self-distillation improves code generation"

sinuhe69 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 14:17:31 +0000

“In other words, just like us, the model needs to shift from "exploration" in "fork" mode (divergent thinking to produce a creative solution) to "precision" in "lock" mode (producing syntactically correct code).”

I’d be very cautious of the phrase 'just like us'. Not only can anthropomorphism be misleading and make us see things where none exist, it can also befuddle us, especially when we don’t know much about ourselves.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

sinuhe69 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:40:13 +0000

The longer you converse with the LLM, the more frequent the same keywords will occur and Thu’s they will only strengthen the probabilistic choices of the LLM. The LLM do not exactly follow the instructions like a program would do, nor does it truly understand its role or what its “said”. It looks fine on first tries and short texts, but will drift more the longer the conversation goes. The only way the LLM can maintain the appearance of a normal conversation is to repeatedly feed it with the users requests. We can see it with the shell construct the AI company built around their chat interface.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "EsoLang-Bench: Evaluating Genuine Reasoning in LLMs via Esoteric Languages"

sinuhe69 — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:51:57 +0000

I don’t understand why the authors haven’t written the problems instead of putting up a video? I rather read then watch (who knows how long) videos. Videos it’s a much worse format for information density and took much longer to make properly and up/download.

I mostly skip the videos whenever I can.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "Kagi Translate now supports LinkedIn Speak as an output language"

sinuhe69 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 07:03:17 +0000

LOL! Input:

Sad thoughts pervade me, and sometimes with a undertone of bitterness. I don’t know what to think. I can not form a clear train of thoughts yet, without falling in negative thinking. Thus, I will give it a pause. Time and space to recover. Then we’ll see.

Output:

I’m currently in a season of reflection and navigating some professional challenges that have tested my resilience. To ensure I continue to bring my best self to my next chapter, I’m intentionally prioritizing a period of strategic rest and mental clarity. Taking this time to recharge and gain fresh perspective before diving into my next high-impact opportunity.

#GrowthMindset #CareerPivot #SelfCare #Leadership

Corporate lingo at its finest

New comment by sinuhe69 in "Autoresearch Hub"

sinuhe69 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 02:44:38 +0000

I tried to copy the instruction and pasted in Note to see what it said, but I could not. Either the clipboard was empty or something prevented Note recognized it as just text.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "PSA: Top Google Result for Claude Code Is Malicious"

sinuhe69 — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:24:15 +0000

My experience is very different. Even in a private window with no ad-blocker and Google signed out, Claude.ai is always at the top spot. And yes, the ad was clearly malicious. I'd never click on ad-link, though (even if it was the official site).

New comment by sinuhe69 in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

sinuhe69 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 03:09:17 +0000

He just made a joke

New comment by sinuhe69 in "China Deploys 30k-Ton Liaowang-1 "Floating Supercomputer" to Gulf of Oman"

sinuhe69 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 02:36:32 +0000

Physical attacking such vessels is obviously not an option. But I wonder if directed targeted signal jamming and other electronic countermeasures could disrupt or at less severely affect such intelligence gathering. Intelligence gathering, specially signal intelligence is vital for future drone war, so I believe this question will become critical for everybody, regardless if they are pacifists or warmongers.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)"

sinuhe69 — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:31:08 +0000

Because they are an industry, aren’t they? Printing, binding, cover productions, transportation and storage, all that are much easier and much cheaper with a few standardized sizes.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips"

sinuhe69 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:11:23 +0000

Oh, on my old PC, FF sometimes mysteriously crashed for apparently no reason. I sent bug reports and cleared the profile and it seemed to help for a while, then it crashed again. Much later, I suspected and tested the RAM and turned out, it had a faulty module!

New comment by sinuhe69 in "Elite Overproduction"

sinuhe69 — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 13:03:56 +0000

In the Turchin model of societal collapse, discussing elite overproduction alone is not helpful at all. The model calls for 3 pillars:

- elite overproduction and limited job opportunities

- wealth pump and inequality

- declining of popular wellbeing and growing resentment

Thus, it only makes sense to consider elite overproduction within this framework.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "Japan Radio Begins 24-Hour Shortwave Transmission in Response to Iran Attacks [pdf]"

sinuhe69 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 12:07:03 +0000

In general, Japanese are not very comfortable in using English. Thus for safety and critical information, broadcasting in their native language would feel much more trustworthy, reassuring and connected than any other language.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "Show HN: I built a sub-500ms latency voice agent from scratch"

sinuhe69 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 05:53:32 +0000

Yeah, I remember the time when we had to use satellites to connect. The long delay was really annoying and so unusual that most people without "training" could not even use the phone for conversation and just wasted the dollars.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

sinuhe69 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 01:07:41 +0000

Maybe it's time to learn some facts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_Wars

New comment by sinuhe69 in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

sinuhe69 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:53:32 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Vietnamese_Wars

New comment by sinuhe69 in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

sinuhe69 — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 00:51:50 +0000

Are you serious? Don't you know how many wars did China wage? It tried to assimilate Vietnam for 1000 years. The last large scale war against Vietnam was just 1979. In fact, China had started war with all its neighbors, with no exception.

New comment by sinuhe69 in "We left OpenAI because of safety"

sinuhe69 — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:23:06 +0000

The writer uses first person and writes as if they are at Anthropic. It is being re-posted and shared as such, rather than satire, and not having a Community note is a disservice to everyone.

The writer does not actually work at Anthropic, and never has.

linkedin.com/in/peter-girnus

New comment by sinuhe69 in "An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me – The Operator Came Forward"

sinuhe69 — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 03:36:23 +0000

So you blamed the people for not acting “cautiously enough” instead of the people who let things run wild without even a clue what these things will do?

That’s wild!

New comment by sinuhe69 in "A Programmer's Loss of Identity"

sinuhe69 — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 14:49:39 +0000

This piece is very sad and it resonates with me, especially after we talked about identity and definition of success. The loss of job (if any) is not as fatal as the loss of one’s social identity. Of course, there is always a way out, a way to see things in a positive light. But I believe right now it’s important to let it sink in, to realize what we have to shed on the way to tomorrow. Most (young) people don’t realize it yet.