Hacker News: staticman2

New comment by staticman2 in "Nintendo announces price increases for Nintendo Switch 2"

staticman2 — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:43:29 +0000

Most people probably want to get a game and play it without figuring out how to navigate pirate web sites.

New comment by staticman2 in "UK businesses brace for jet fuel rationing"

staticman2 — Thu, 07 May 2026 00:20:41 +0000

Is it possible that a lot of people are hoping for a dot-com bubble 2.0 so they can sell at the market peak before it pops?

That would explain why they're ignoring fundamentals.

They could think that OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs will drive prices higher, and it still isn't time to sell.

New comment by staticman2 in "Today I've made the difficult decision to reduce the size of Coinbase by ~14%"

staticman2 — Wed, 06 May 2026 15:49:51 +0000

For what it's worth my Coinbase account, which I've never used for anything but sign up bonuses, seems to be linked to Google Pay but not a bank account. I just checked and I can still log in.

New comment by staticman2 in "A mushroom that makes people have the exact same hallucination"

staticman2 — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 00:17:48 +0000

Good point. I meant like Tinkerbell.

New comment by staticman2 in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

staticman2 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 16:04:38 +0000

If you didn't call GPT 3.5 AGI I do not believe you when you claim you would have called 5.5 AGI.

New comment by staticman2 in "The Mushroom That Makes People Have the Exact Same Hallucination"

staticman2 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 11:55:01 +0000

Hobbits are between two and four feet tall.

I think the "little people" in the article are more fairy sized or smaller. The BBC article linked to at that article says they were seen on dishes.

New comment by staticman2 in "Claude Opus 4.7"

staticman2 — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 21:23:20 +0000

Are those "smart people you know" machine learning researchers?

New comment by staticman2 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

staticman2 — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:20:03 +0000

> and turns out it can do it

Not really- if you had examined the output closely you probably would have seen noticed it conflated chapter 13 and 14 or 14 and 15. Or you got very lucky on a generation. It definitely doesn't exactly know what happens in each chapter unless it has a reference to check.

New comment by staticman2 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

staticman2 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:32:44 +0000

> This might sound callous, but I wonder if people saying this themselves have very limited brains more akin to stochastic parrots rather the average homo sapiens.

I have a different theory.

Aside from a few exceptions like Blake Lemoine few people seem to really act as if they believe A.I. is doing the same thing the human mind is doing.

My theory is people are for some reason role-playing as people who believe human thought is equivalent to A.I. for undisclosed reasons they themselves may or may not understand. They do not actually believe their own arguments.

New comment by staticman2 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

staticman2 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 11:10:04 +0000

I wouldn't expect an AI to know exactly what happens in every chapter of a book.

Knowing the plot of Neuromancer isn't the same as being able to recite a chapter by chapter summary.

I tried this Neuromancer query a few times and results greatly vary with each regeneration but "do not include spoilers" seems to make Gemuni give more spoilers, not less.

New comment by staticman2 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

staticman2 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 04:05:03 +0000

I'm curious: did you give Gemini the entire text of Neuromancer or did you expect it to use search results for chapters 1 to 14?

I would have just fed it the text of chapters 1 to 14 from a non drm copy.

New comment by staticman2 in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

staticman2 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 03:33:38 +0000

The first Cyberpunk book, Neuromancer, has a plot which revolves around A.I recruiting human agents to forward its plans...

New comment by staticman2 in "Google releases Gemma 4 open models"

staticman2 — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 18:33:34 +0000

I've found Gemini works better for search when used through a Perplexity subscription. (Though these things can quickly change).

New comment by staticman2 in "The OpenAI graveyard: All the deals and products that haven't happened"

staticman2 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 23:31:50 +0000

I played around with it and its better than it used to be but if you ask it something like

"Whats the name of the third book in the peripheral trilogy going to be" it just regurgitates some dumb reddit comment by someone who seems to be making things up.

There's no actual title that has been announced and the reddit post was not a reasonable bit of speculation.

The problem with these LLMs is they rarely say "the search results were not credible no response can be provided."

New comment by staticman2 in "The OpenAI graveyard: All the deals and products that haven't happened"

staticman2 — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 19:32:52 +0000

I'm not the person you replied to but I'm wondering which Google AI product you are referring to that you use for search which is so excellent that you need someone to find for you an example of it failing?

I think Google has several ai products with search features?

Which one in your experience "seems correct"?

I'm fascinated because I've never found any LLM to be particularly error free at search.

New comment by staticman2 in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

staticman2 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:14:22 +0000

By that logic a Markov chain is better on average just for the fact that it was trained on a large corpus of human knowledge, including psychology, therapy and study material.

New comment by staticman2 in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

staticman2 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 14:51:44 +0000

I've definitely posted to the same subreddit with two different accounts by accident without being banned.

The android reddit app annoyingly doesn't check for account matches. If you click a browser notification link on Account A it can open a reply form on App account B.

New comment by staticman2 in "Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 and Arc Pro B65 GPUs"

staticman2 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 17:08:51 +0000

You are exaggerating, right? They didn't really fire the entire Arc team did they? I couldn't find a source saying that.

New comment by staticman2 in "iPhone 17 Pro Demonstrated Running a 400B LLM"

staticman2 — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 18:12:56 +0000

42 wasn't a low quality answer.

The joke revolves around the incongruity of "42" being precisely correct.

New comment by staticman2 in "Judge orders restoration of Voice of America"

staticman2 — Wed, 18 Mar 2026 13:16:23 +0000

Even if America is an empire and VoA is propaganda "Imperial Manager" doesn't seem very descriptive of what a judge does.