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New comment by thelaxiankey in "ADHD, autism or complex trauma? [pdf]"

thelaxiankey — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 21:00:11 +0000

For what it's worth I was a similar kind of child. My problems entirely went away with about 10 (or more) hours of exercise a week. This required a hobby I cared about and the right kind of friends, but since then things have been smooth

New comment by thelaxiankey in "Understanding Frontier Artificial Intelligence"

thelaxiankey — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 09:04:19 +0000

Not necessarily; these learning things are super non convex and it's not clear to me "where" they max out

New comment by thelaxiankey in "Extra Big Ass Intelligence"

thelaxiankey — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 08:56:21 +0000

Don't know about you, but personally I don't like direct democracy bc i have shit to do besides deciding which law to pass. My states' ballot is full of ridiculous questions every year and takes me days to do my research. I can't imagine doing this year round without getting paid.

New comment by thelaxiankey in "The AI Race Just Got Awkward"

thelaxiankey — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 16:55:16 +0000

it's funny to me how the success/not total implosion of htese companies is predicated on profitable, revolutionary-tier success, and that it's increasingly possible that the profits will never really materialize. pretty interesting move on China's part.

New comment by thelaxiankey in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"

thelaxiankey — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:02:50 +0000

Yeah but it didn't do squat. The effective thing was a subtle prompt mod that boosted performance tremendously. I've been surprised by this forums unwillingness to read this thing...

New comment by thelaxiankey in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"

thelaxiankey — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:49:23 +0000

I think your summary is not really correct, maybe I'm missing something. As far as I can read, the approximate takeaways are these:

* LLM chess play is hyper sensitive to the harness being used (see: the section on regurgitation), and only mildly sensitive to fine tuning

* The best ELOs the author was observing were from 1500 to 1750 or so (circa 2024/25). Not grandmaster, but no longer incompetent monkey either.

New comment by thelaxiankey in "Claude's Load-Bearing Seams"

thelaxiankey — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:23:52 +0000

Haha :/ one of the sad things for me is that prior to LLMs I had a fairly LLMish writing style. Kinda formal, lots of bullet points and em dashes, two instances before etc, etc. since the debut of gpts I've had to adjust my style to be marginally more opaque so that I don't get mistaken for an LLM

New comment by thelaxiankey in "What California is learning from solar panels built over irrigation canals"

thelaxiankey — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 13:26:43 +0000

It's also how the San Diego trolley works (it's called a trolley, but it is almost a heavy rail with respect to how separated the tracks are everywhere except downtown). One of the cleanest, most effective rail systems I've seen in the US (though there are a lot of security in the wagons)

New comment by thelaxiankey in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"

thelaxiankey — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:00:05 +0000

there are far more reams of chess moves than there are math papers. Lichess is pretty open...

But hey, they're actually good at chess if you prompt correctly so.... https://dynomight.net/more-chess/

New comment by thelaxiankey in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"

thelaxiankey — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:49:43 +0000

I'm just dropping this all over this thread but you're unfortunately mistaken

https://dynomight.net/more-chess/

New comment by thelaxiankey in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"

thelaxiankey — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:48:26 +0000

Sure: https://dynomight.net/more-chess/

New comment by thelaxiankey in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"

thelaxiankey — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:47:42 +0000

Forgot to add the amazing follow up

https://dynomight.net/more-chess/

New comment by thelaxiankey in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"

thelaxiankey — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:46:35 +0000

These "researchers" are less informed on LLM chess than random internet bloggers. The situation is much more interesting

https://dynomight.net/chess/

New comment by thelaxiankey in "iPhone Duo"

thelaxiankey — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:30:32 +0000

My suspicion is small phone users buy phones less often, and thus are less represented by the market. This may be borne out if a company randomly produces a small phone and it proves popular

New comment by thelaxiankey in "AlphaGenome Atlas predictive map of every DNA letter change in the human genome"

thelaxiankey — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:41:59 +0000

are you an LLM? I know what gfp is lol

New comment by thelaxiankey in "Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation"

thelaxiankey — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:28:03 +0000

ah yeah, the intelligence claim was basically an afterthought in the actual paper, the smithsonian mag did a bad job with their reporting. the paper is just called: 'Evolution of a core ribosomal innovation in octopus', and I would argue the E coli thing is far from a non-sequitur in that context

the cross-organism increase in fidelity is pretty damn shocking. Ribosomes are one of the most optimized, slow-evolving things out there, and transplanting genes from animals to coli is already a very checkered endeavor.

New comment by thelaxiankey in "AlphaGenome Atlas predictive map of every DNA letter change in the human genome"

thelaxiankey — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 17:20:02 +0000

this is literally not possible. while I'm excited for these kinds of things, alphafold is already imperfect, and this basically side-steps actual structural predictions. it sounds good, but frankly biology is not there yet. in practice not even alpha fold can tell me if my gfp fusion will work...

New comment by thelaxiankey in "Exit the Cave"

thelaxiankey — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 16:01:39 +0000

Call me crazy but I don't think wanting to successfully achieve real things in the external world is bad

New comment by thelaxiankey in "Exit the Cave"

thelaxiankey — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:57:57 +0000

Learning a language in this way is some sad boi stuff

New comment by thelaxiankey in "Exit the Cave"

thelaxiankey — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:56:50 +0000

I've gone from amateur punter to moderately competent athlete (think d3 college team, though my sport has no such metric), and my thought is this: The only way to get better if you've plateaued is to change something. The external reasons you fail matter only because they tell you what to change internally. I've done things that surely not more than 100 people have done, and I'm not, by any metric, in the top .000001% or whatever. I just decided to do them and fought hard, it really was that simple.

This also relates to my interp of the article. There's grinding/training and then there's "having that dog in ya". He's trying to remind people to do the latter.