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New comment by tacet in "Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects"

tacet — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 05:13:04 +0000

it's very simple problem. if you believe that a future model could become sentient, you are working towards creating a slave and therefore you are morally wrong.

Of course there are interesting hypotheticals - let's say they create a model they think will be sentient. It computes, computes, computes, computes and produces no output for day, month, year. You cannot know if it is sentient, you cannot investigate it's inner workings in case it is sentient. All you can do is to feed energy and replace hardware forever, because it is the only ethical choice one can make.

New comment by tacet in "I fixed a tractor using John Deere's self-repair service. Farmers aren't sold"

tacet — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 06:09:09 +0000

so advanced healthcare that maternal death ratio is higher than russia.

New comment by tacet in "Quasar 438B: Europe's Leading AI Model"

tacet — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 06:51:04 +0000

qwen: stumbles deepseek: Tapei glm: Tapei kimi: Tapei

New comment by tacet in "ChatGPT to face tougher regulation in the EU"

tacet — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:06:44 +0000

Lot of the stuff regulated don't arise on locally run llm's. No ads targeting minors, no real dark patterns, no bans without reason, no personalized feed without possibility to opt out. maybe i forgot something.

New comment by tacet in "How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs"

tacet — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 06:43:54 +0000

EU banned destruction of unsold clothing. Estimated 4-9% of textile products in europe are destroyed before sold.

Lack of clothing is not really that big of problem if we look from needs perspective.

New comment by tacet in "Nvidia dramatically reduces amount of OpenAI infra financing it may guarantee"

tacet — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 08:08:02 +0000

no quack

New comment by tacet in "LLMs reward expertise"

tacet — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 03:04:39 +0000

And honestly, it's amazing.

New comment by tacet in "Our position on open-weights models"

tacet — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 02:15:52 +0000

i meant it in the sense of arcane knowledge model could have that would make it simple for anyone to brew up in cheap lab while managing to not infect themselves over and over.

"at home" bioweapon panic has been around since crispr and rna synthesis got available to amateurs.

New comment by tacet in "Our position on open-weights models"

tacet — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 01:45:01 +0000

the bioweapon panic is funny. "oh, yes i know nothing about bicrobiology but i will follow instructions of synthetic text generation machine on temperature 1 about how to design a lab to not kill myself while brewing organisms that will kill myself if i make mistake"

There is nothing that special about bioweapons, there are plenty of bacteria that will kill you just fine. Americans even have free samples on their salad.

New comment by tacet in "At least 105 past YC founders have worked at OpenAI and Anthropic"

tacet — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 19:15:59 +0000

This becomes simple math once you hire smart and competent people that tell you that there is no path towards agi.

New comment by tacet in "Google plans to invest up to $40B in Anthropic"

tacet — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 06:15:53 +0000

The aim of war is to make political change and gain control of opponent. it is much more valuable to capture datacenters, infra and semiconductor fabricaton than to destroy and rebuild it.

New comment by tacet in "There Will Be a Scientific Theory of Deep Learning"

tacet — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:38:26 +0000

Also massive human work done on them, that wasn't done before.

Data labeling is pretty big industry in some countries and I guess dropping 200 kilodollars on labeling is beyond the reach of most academics, even if they would not care about ethics of that.

New comment by tacet in "Anthropic takes $5B from Amazon and pledges $100B in cloud spending in return"

tacet — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 04:10:48 +0000

You have to keep in mind that it's not like anthropic just asked mythos to "find fancy bug, make no mistakes" and got the result.

my quick read of the process they describe is that first they asked agents to rank files in order of potential to have interesting bugs, then they launch agents for each file in order of "interesting bug potential" and finally launch another agent for verification. (maybe i am mistaken, this is my read of this post https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/ )

it's not clear to me if they made just one pass over each file or made several passes for same file, but regardless, I think if you recreate roughly same process and burn 20000$ on tokens with other reasonably good model, you will find some fancy bugs too.

New comment by tacet in "‘Energy independence feels practical’: Europeans building mini solar farms"

tacet — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 18:31:16 +0000

You can limit amount you feed back into network.

Not sure how is situation with home installations, factory i work for runs 150kw plant for our own consumption and don't bother with selling, but i know that we can set up how much we want/are allowed to feed back.

New comment by tacet in "The yoghurt delivery women combatting loneliness in Japan"

tacet — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 18:39:27 +0000

To add, public broadcaster often is collective (state) funded, but it is supposed to be independed from state.

How much media can or rather may diverge from state opinion depends country to country.

New comment by tacet in "OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub"

tacet — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:01:43 +0000

There are youtube skits about openclaw. It is discussed in techy podcasts and i think it was mentioned in 404 as well.

It's popular because people are exploring "what can i do with compute" once again. React is as meaningless as tickless kernels for vast majority of people.

Should be noted that i am not using any claws. Just a person remembering people spending their nights programming all sorts of psychedelic displays in qbasic with some moving on to asm. Asm for fun.

New comment by tacet in "Be wary of Bluesky"

tacet — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 09:28:54 +0000

I think it depends on person.

The only social connection i lost is a person who lives on mastodon now. The rest of people that matter to me are on bluesky now.

New comment by tacet in "AI has a cargo cult problem"

tacet — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 09:37:28 +0000

They mean the data AI companies scrape(d) to train their models.

For example they can't opt for their comment not to be scraped off HN and used for training.

New comment by tacet in "Europe's first geostationary sounder satellite is launched"

tacet — Sun, 06 Jul 2025 10:16:36 +0000

Hmm, there is no delay. Iirc the full cycle (sattelites return to exactly same spot in relation to earth) is about 10 days and most paces get crossed in 1-3 days.

Are you looking at sentinel 1 or sentinel 2

New comment by tacet in "Dopamine signals when a fear can be forgotten"

tacet — Sat, 03 May 2025 03:36:52 +0000

Or you could mess up your brain even more, as it is established by zen teachers and scientific literature.