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New comment by twelve40 in "Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?"

twelve40 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:08:52 +0000

> doing so well right now

lol quantitatively well

New comment by twelve40 in "Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?"

twelve40 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 06:05:53 +0000

This is really a matter of taste, but i (personal opinion) think that Zuck, Karp, Thiel and others who (partly by sucking the inauguration dick) have the ear of the current powers that be, produce much more demented shit than Musk. But the exact personalities really don't matter, the whole jolly crew running the show does not seem very humanistic in their writings or actions.

New comment by twelve40 in "Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?"

twelve40 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 03:53:25 +0000

weird bias by authority aside, do you really think that the daily decisions in this world today, and anytime soon, will be made based on the "let humanity flourish axiom"?

New comment by twelve40 in "Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?"

twelve40 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 03:46:18 +0000

the author right in that post pitches his ideas as generalizable way beyond math, so why the snobbery?

New comment by twelve40 in "Why do we need human mathematicians anymore?"

twelve40 — Mon, 21 Sep 2026 03:22:34 +0000

> We (humans) should help humanity flourish. I understand that not everyone agrees. I have been called a “speciesist” for being “too human-centric”.

this is insane. the "speciesist" people aside (the best way for all other species to flourish is for humans to eradicate themselves right now, which is completely mad), i have the opposite problem: the _axiom_ seems to be: we should help ME flourish. "Me" as in people who are raking in trillions for their own very special selves right now, at the cost of everyone else's future, while none of them can be trusted to hold my cell phone for a second.

> if an industry commits to the axiom of helping humanity flourish

where does he see such industries, outside of maybe nonprofits?

New comment by twelve40 in "Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington"

twelve40 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 23:43:17 +0000

the problem is these things are meant to eventually be run everywhere by everybody, so what good does air-gapping do? If they air-gapped the model but still logged it trying to do some craziness - that makes the test safer but not the model.

New comment by twelve40 in "Frontier Labs Are Selling Garbage to Fools in Washington"

twelve40 — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 23:35:12 +0000

there is hype for sure, but i don't get what is the goal here? to get a presumably foolish senator to "ban" the Chinese models? how can you "ban" something you don't control to begin with?

side note, i'm very curious why the Chinese companies currently give those away (some handwavey conspiracies like getting the world hooked on evil Chinese tech don't really explain that, and they also don't make any money off that stuff)

New comment by twelve40 in "US Military had close call after using AI for hallucinated intelligence report"

twelve40 — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 18:36:54 +0000

> gives the military a way to cover

it's not like they didn't just sweep crap under the rug before AI.

did Colin Powell go to jail for lying to the UN? of course not. did Colin Powell go to jail for smuggling anthrax into a UN meeting? of course not. he just blamed it on "being misled by bad intelligence". Did anyone go to jail for that bad intelligence? of course not.

But we had to pay through the nose for decades of this shit in Iraq and Afghanistan (hundreds of billions), all for absolutely nothing. Did anyone even explain why the fuck, or was held responsible? of course not. They don't need AI to just ignore shit.

New comment by twelve40 in "Jobless Tech Workers Are Being Left Out of San Francisco's AI Boom"

twelve40 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:51:42 +0000

https://archive.is/hTPql

Jobless Tech Workers Are Being Left Out of San Francisco's AI Boom

twelve40 — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:11:02 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-09-17/san-francisco-s-ai-wealth-boom-skirts-engineers-as-openai-anthropic-ipos-near

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49741977

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New comment by twelve40 in "I Remain a Skeptic"

twelve40 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:45:51 +0000

Yes, that's going on optimism. It's also possible that we're 80% there and the rest will take forever, while the loans and investments were taken out now.

New comment by twelve40 in "I Remain a Skeptic"

twelve40 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 22:42:52 +0000

the decision i have to make dozens if not hundreds times a day: do i actually look at this crap or trust it blindly and let it slide? I'm honestly reading maybe 20% tops of what "I" produce (and what other people post for my review) I think you do lose skills and understanding that way. Sure, you can always ask the robot to do the tldr for you, but.... yeah, something is still lost, not in a good way.

New comment by twelve40 in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

twelve40 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 06:55:14 +0000

yes, but at that point even open weight models are not free. Can someone set up the best open-weight model for free and charge pretty much just for GPU usage+operations+margin for inference? yes. But they would have to keep up with how good the private models are. The bet is private models would sell in a similar way at a premium and invest in staying ahead. Is this bet going to work? no idea, don't shoot the messenger.

New comment by twelve40 in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

twelve40 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:53:25 +0000

but this crap may take forever to play out even if the outcome is well-known. Self-driving is "here", it's obvious that once it's cheap enough having a human behind a car wheel or a freight truck wheel is an absurd waste of human life (kinda like digging canals with bare hands instead of an excavator), yet truckers and uber drivers are still employed. But everyone knows the writing is on the wall for them.

New comment by twelve40 in "Qwen3.8-Max: A New Bar for Coding and Cowork"

twelve40 — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 04:48:57 +0000

coding on a laptop is only one use case

you can't create a new drug by running a model on a laptop. You can't serve a customer support bot running on a laptop. You can't generate video in bulk for many users on a laptop. So there is still a case for paying others for inference.

Does it justify the valuations? No idea, but some major use cases are still there. That's why they are rushing to implement, OpenAI creating a "deployment company", Anthropic having some pharma rumors, etc.

New comment by twelve40 in "The Kimi K3 Moment"

twelve40 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:21:06 +0000

It seems like the endgame is to amass absurd amounts of hardware and produce something that will replace you the baker entirely

everything else we see today is just preparing for it.

New comment by twelve40 in "Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity"

twelve40 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 01:08:27 +0000

> Who pays for that? Not the data center

uh... how? they do pay for what they use.

New comment by twelve40 in "Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity"

twelve40 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:46:32 +0000

data center = girlfriend bots = meth lab is a pretty wild connection to make.

New comment by twelve40 in "Since Chromium 148, Math.tanh is now fingerprintable to link underlying OS"

twelve40 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:41:58 +0000

this is really something. They claim (no idea if true) to have patched 4,000+ signals in 550+ C++ files in Chromium. coveryourtracks.eff.org uses like what, 25 signals?

New comment by twelve40 in "Claude Code sends 33k tokens before reading the prompt; OpenCode sends 7k"

twelve40 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 23:13:58 +0000

it's a very handwavey way to "explain" anything. Yes, they make money. But they have competition. And if someone runs out of tokens and switches to deepseek or just goes for a friggin hike in the woods, that does not benefit them. If they get a public image of a ripoff that burns all shit on trivial tasks, that does not do them good either. So there is a limit to this "companies make money" thing.