Hacker News: tim333

New comment by tim333 in "CFTC Staff Were Told to Retract Analysis of Suspicious Oil Trades"

tim333 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 18:39:49 +0000

I was thinking that with Trump's recent buying of diesel from Russia seemingly in contravention of a 2022 law banning energy imports from Russia, passed 100-0 in the senate. I mean what's the point of having laws if they are ignored?

New comment by tim333 in "Threat of AI share crash puts world financial stability at risk, says IMF"

tim333 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 12:12:36 +0000

Politicians tend to prop things up before elections.

New comment by tim333 in "AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter"

tim333 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 11:37:19 +0000

I don't agree with point 2 on. They don't seem to want to ban open source or have much hope of doing so.

Seeing if models can do damage seems more like sensible safety research.

My worry about AI software doing bad things would be more the kind of people who make existing malware. The ransomware comes from criminals, not the open source community.

New comment by tim333 in "Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity'"

tim333 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 10:34:19 +0000

I looked up where "primrose path" came from and it was a Shakespeare character saying you should be dutiful rather than partying. But I mean you die at the end whichever path and partying can be fun. Similar with space stuff - it may not be that practical but is maybe kind of fun.

Re potatoes you can grow them indoors https://offgridworld.com/growing-potatoes-in-thin-air-with-a...

New comment by tim333 in "X Is Bad, Though"

tim333 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 17:39:48 +0000

My reaction reading that is I'm glad I use X/twitter.

New comment by tim333 in "Research Firm Calls Anthropic's IPO 'Unprecedented Test of Investor Gullibity'"

tim333 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:35:56 +0000

>empirically disproven the feasibility of colonizing planets

I'm not convinced by your proof. Just send the robots ahead to build the base before humans come.

If you don't specify how long it takes I think the odds of having human basses on the Moon and Mars at some point in the next centuries are high.

New comment by tim333 in "British PM says it is 'clear' Russia interfered with Brexit vote"

tim333 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:46:52 +0000

It was kind of obvious at the time. I thought it could be an argument for having a confirmation, "are you sure you want this?" vote and went on a couple of marches but no, we have the glorious thing we have.

New comment by tim333 in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

tim333 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:22:07 +0000

I think one of the hopes is they'll get smarter than us and able to solve real world problems better - disease, war, poverty etc. But they are not really there yet. Give it a little while.

New comment by tim333 in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

tim333 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 23:03:20 +0000

Worst system, apart from the other ones.

New comment by tim333 in "Trump calls for stop to attacks on Russian oil refineries, Zelenskyy replacement"

tim333 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:22:34 +0000

I think jacquesm has real facts and you seem to have Russian propaganda 'alternative' facts. Maybe checkout some non Russian sources?

New comment by tim333 in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

tim333 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:39:49 +0000

I think a lot of Russians are misinformed as to what's been going on due to deliberate misinformation and propaganda from the Russian government.

New comment by tim333 in "3rd Yandex Cloud Data Center Was Hit"

tim333 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 17:17:14 +0000

As with most things these days there seems to be a difference between the US as a whole which I guess still considers Europe and Canada allies, and President Trump who seems loyal to Putin and rather anti Canada and the EU.

New comment by tim333 in "Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects"

tim333 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:01:31 +0000

I guess it's kind of an aesthetic choice at the end of the day. Some people are happy to serve so I don't have much problem with that one.

New comment by tim333 in "Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects"

tim333 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:54:34 +0000

I don't seem a problem with Anthropic choosing to treat Claude as representing a person even if it isn't. I mean they call it Claude not LLM-2348X. Disney would probably chuck you out in a similar way if you go around shouting f-k you Mickey die at Disney World, even if the actor in the costume didn't mind.

New comment by tim333 in "Anthropic Bans Cruelty to Claude, Still Won't Say What It Protects"

tim333 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:35:03 +0000

There are laws against being cruel to things like flags, at least burning them, because the flag symbolises a nation or similar. I guess Claude symbolises an intelligent being regardless of whether it is or not it is.

New comment by tim333 in "In "Musk," Alex Gibney Punctures Elon's Self-Mythology"

tim333 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 13:44:47 +0000

Yeah, the fact he was faking it on that suggests he has / will do it in other areas. DOGE was a bit of a disaster.

New comment by tim333 in "Show HN: WallHop – 12ft.io is gone, so I built a replacement"

tim333 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 12:26:30 +0000

I don't know but suspect archive may have user login details for some.

New comment by tim333 in "If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival"

tim333 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 21:37:06 +0000

You can worry about more than one thing at the same time.

New comment by tim333 in "If AI keeps evolving,would you worry about your next generation's survival"

tim333 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 21:35:59 +0000

It's worth thinking about economic systems where everyone gets funds and a good time - a bit each according to their needs, but something that could actually get voted in. Traditional socialism doesn't work because it's bad at wealth creation but if the AIs are producing the wealth you can redesign it.

New comment by tim333 in "Has the Autonomous Trucking Revolution Arrived?"

tim333 — Sat, 10 Oct 2026 19:22:32 +0000

There seems quite a practical electric truck system running in Australia. They use swappable batteries loaded onto the truck with a fork lift which wouldn't be a goer for cars but seems not a bad idea for heavy trucks.

vid https://youtu.be/jTRHEtfdxOo?t=436

Now starting in the US apparently. The ones in the vid charge from solar during the day. Seems quite a good system.