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New comment by spongebobstoes in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

spongebobstoes — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 14:09:56 +0000

OAI didn't try to claim Buckmaster's work as their own. OAI tried to let Buckmaster present OAI's work. it is nearly the opposite of your accusation

New comment by spongebobstoes in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

spongebobstoes — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 05:13:36 +0000

it seems like OAI tried to share, but didn't want to share with an Ant employee. a bit childish, but understandable to want to avoid a headline "Anthropic researcher solves Millennium problem"

it seems like Buckmaster got one-upped and is upset. understandable, but I find their reaction childish as well

New comment by spongebobstoes in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

spongebobstoes — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 04:59:36 +0000

just because you can't imagine it doesn't mean it's not true

New comment by spongebobstoes in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

spongebobstoes — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 03:40:31 +0000

that is not related to the accusation that they literally stole Buckmaster's work, which seems baseless

I don't agree with the oil claim analogy. this is knowledge, freely given to the world. not something hoarded by a corporation

New comment by spongebobstoes in "Navier-Stokes – Tristan Buckmaster [pdf]"

spongebobstoes — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:14:36 +0000

what reason do we have to believe that they did this? both things were proved by AI, isn't it logical that they could have very similar approaches?

it is common that multiple people essentially simultaneously prove/invent the same thing

I see zero evidence of wrongdoing

New comment by spongebobstoes in "Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop"

spongebobstoes — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:03:58 +0000

we have some pushback against Flock, but technology does not regress

there are many people who want to use surveillance to deter and catch criminals

surveillance also helps combat certain abuses of power, like cops shooting black people

we should build an accountability system to balance against additional state power and surveillance. defense in depth. the best of both worlds?

New comment by spongebobstoes in "Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop"

spongebobstoes — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 17:26:16 +0000

surveillance technology is not going away. we need to mitigate the downsides

what systems could be changed or created to prevent abuse of power?

New comment by spongebobstoes in "Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards"

spongebobstoes — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 11:04:48 +0000

your own post says in detail that the US has export restrictions on those countries. this doesn't seem like an arbitrary ruling by OpenAI

it sounds like they are complying with US law

New comment by spongebobstoes in "Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence"

spongebobstoes — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 23:18:16 +0000

what's the point here? a wrong thing happening to Aaron doesn't mean we should make that same thing happen to Meta

New comment by spongebobstoes in "The August 17 outage"

spongebobstoes — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 21:27:41 +0000

you have to opt in to private contributions being visible like that

New comment by spongebobstoes in "Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People"

spongebobstoes — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:42:05 +0000

this is a type of false equivalency. the comments you read earlier were likely left by different people

the whiplash can be jarring, but it's important to remember that the commentariat are many individuals, not a single entity you can agree or disagree with

New comment by spongebobstoes in "Heart aerospace completes first flight of largest electric aircraft"

spongebobstoes — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 14:56:41 +0000

could we relax the security around electric planes, because they don't carry as much highly explosive material?

that could make it much more convenient and appealing as a travel method

New comment by spongebobstoes in "It's time Amazon played by the same rules as everyone else [video]"

spongebobstoes — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:56:19 +0000

isn't this the fault of the subcontractor for agreeing to the impossible?

New comment by spongebobstoes in "Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas"

spongebobstoes — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:41:24 +0000

yes, they are. they are hugely concerned that China has loads of power, and the US is incapable of keeping up

the biggest limiting factors for AI labs scaling are silicon, then electricity. they are acutely aware of this

New comment by spongebobstoes in "Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas"

spongebobstoes — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:39:00 +0000

since 2016 ish, big tech has measured infrastructure efficiency in watts, not dollars. that's because they made multiple long term deals for power that came up short

they want to build more power of any kind, ideally renewables. but the past decade has shown time and again that they can't build enough by any means

New comment by spongebobstoes in "Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas"

spongebobstoes — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:43:49 +0000

I think your anger would be better placed with the institutional barriers to building clean energy in America that prevent these infrastructure companies from doing the right thing

transmission via HVDC is extremely difficult to build due to land permitting and right of way laws

grid interconnections take 5+ years just to get approved, let alone built

only 2 nuclear power plants have been built since 1978, each taking over 10 years

New comment by spongebobstoes in "Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas"

spongebobstoes — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 04:39:44 +0000

it is not only "that hard", it is impossible

1/ deploying solar takes years to go through multiple layers of environmental review at municipal, state and federal levels

2/ the generator interconnection queue takes 5+ years just to permit new grid connections

3/ building new HVDC has been blocked by permits and right of way laws, which is another barrier to effective solar deployment

4/ there are only two commercial nuclear reactors built in America since 1978, and they each took 10+ years to build

New comment by spongebobstoes in "Apple is getting this wrong"

spongebobstoes — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 05:47:49 +0000

they don't have the same name, the email confusion was between Wang and Chang

New comment by spongebobstoes in "A $500 RL fine-tune of a 9B open model beat frontier models on catalog review"

spongebobstoes — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:53:06 +0000

the major labs want to advance science. current business use cases are a happy accident

New comment by spongebobstoes in "ARC-AGI Leaderboard"

spongebobstoes — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:49:15 +0000

this is not a good measure of current model capability. we need to test agents in harnesses, not models with a single prompt

test Codex, not Sol. test Claude code, not Opus