Hacker News: slashdave

New comment by slashdave in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

slashdave — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 20:13:54 +0000

or perform a tail vein injection or oral gavage

New comment by slashdave in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

slashdave — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:08:21 +0000

Sounds like you have never worked in a lab.

New comment by slashdave in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

slashdave — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:34:19 +0000

Um, it's called peer review. Dumping random crap as preprints isn't progress.

New comment by slashdave in "OpenAI withdraws three mathematical results"

slashdave — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:28:24 +0000

Good luck trying to judge experimental papers.

New comment by slashdave in "“Math 2.0” will need to value mathematical progress more holistically"

slashdave — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 15:20:36 +0000

This is backwards. Not sure why what is essentially a PR effort by these companies automatically becomes an advancement in the field.

Do we want these capabilities to be useful? It seems making them accessible so that the existing community can use it as a tool is the right approach. Automated proof methods are already used like that.

New comment by slashdave in "Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire"

slashdave — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:57:27 +0000

> Make informed decisions regarding your use of these products

They are mass marketed. The creators should do the upmost to ensure this and not pin blame on users.

New comment by slashdave in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

slashdave — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:43:38 +0000

> There'd also be fewer people falling for apocalyptic Rationalist delusions.

Um, this is coming from the researchers building these models. So, good luck?

New comment by slashdave in "Anthropic reported diary entry to police, woman faces felony charge"

slashdave — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 22:42:17 +0000

Liability is enough of a reason

New comment by slashdave in "DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers"

slashdave — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 21:08:16 +0000

> based on perceived values of the expected outcome

Not true either

New comment by slashdave in "OpenAI safety leader quits, warning AI company's culture is 'broken'"

slashdave — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:15:55 +0000

Like any technology. Make it a crime when appropriate, otherwise expose bad behavior to legal liability.

New comment by slashdave in "I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken"

slashdave — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:11:01 +0000

Bad things happen all the time. Let's concern ourselves about the real bad things. There is enough of that to go around.

New comment by slashdave in "I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken"

slashdave — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:10:13 +0000

Not at all. We say "That's just sci-fi" when a story is written about some kind of effect that is extraordinary and without a basis in known science or technology.

A pandemic is perfectly plausible.

New comment by slashdave in "GitHub's new dashboard experience now the default"

slashdave — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:55:16 +0000

Github has a dashboard?

New comment by slashdave in "Apple Pass Designer"

slashdave — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 21:43:41 +0000

NFTs are unique, thus their "value"

New comment by slashdave in "DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers"

slashdave — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 02:28:51 +0000

That is not the purpose of laws

New comment by slashdave in "DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers"

slashdave — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 22:25:07 +0000

Pure nonsense. A mind is not a sequential automaton.

New comment by slashdave in "DraftKings Is Using AI to Behaviorally Target Chronic Gamblers"

slashdave — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:36:55 +0000

Do you know what an addiction is?

New comment by slashdave in "DraftKings is using AI to behaviorally target chronic gamblers"

slashdave — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 19:33:45 +0000

So, you want government to decide what is good and bad behavior?

New comment by slashdave in "Claude Code now reads AGENTS.md if there is no Claude.md"

slashdave — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 04:45:56 +0000

Standards? In LLM harnesses? I wish

New comment by slashdave in "Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher"

slashdave — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:40:28 +0000

“I’m good enough, I’m smart enough, and doggone it—people like me.”