Hacker News: whatever120

New comment by whatever120 in "Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

whatever120 — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 02:11:00 +0000

they’re not supposed to, they’re just able to

New comment by whatever120 in "My Students Can't Read"

whatever120 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 02:08:51 +0000

You’re an obnoxious, pretentious prick

New comment by whatever120 in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

whatever120 — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:12:58 +0000

AI will clone your idiosyncrasies before you know it. There’s no point

New comment by whatever120 in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

whatever120 — Wed, 27 May 2026 16:07:47 +0000

Overly dramatic. It’s not that deep dude

New comment by whatever120 in "OpenAI Adopts Google's SynthID Watermark for AI Images with Verification Tool"

whatever120 — Wed, 20 May 2026 07:21:43 +0000

Lmao you don’t have to use these AI image tools then, it’s not that hard

New comment by whatever120 in "Why we lose our friends as we age (2023)"

whatever120 — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:10:07 +0000

His “friends” sound awful. Why would you want them?

New comment by whatever120 in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

whatever120 — Sat, 09 May 2026 06:01:07 +0000

How should graduate school be changed then? Specifically for mathematics

New comment by whatever120 in "A recent experience with ChatGPT 5.5 Pro"

whatever120 — Sat, 09 May 2026 05:59:55 +0000

You are worthy. You will hone your skills in grad school and be able to command these AIs better than somebody who hasn’t struggled with hard problems for a long time.

New comment by whatever120 in "AI slop is killing online communities"

whatever120 — Thu, 07 May 2026 20:35:00 +0000

This post is slop.

New comment by whatever120 in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

whatever120 — Mon, 04 May 2026 18:50:49 +0000

They shouldn’t just feel useful, they need roles that actually are useful. They’re not dumb.

New comment by whatever120 in "New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming"

whatever120 — Fri, 01 May 2026 22:49:29 +0000

I’m an academic and you have insulted my ego. I will now cry in a corner.

New comment by whatever120 in "Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them"

whatever120 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 17:32:49 +0000

That’s not a particular reading

New comment by whatever120 in "CJIT: C, Just in Time"

whatever120 — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 00:52:51 +0000

Party pooper.

New comment by whatever120 in "Making Wolfram tech available as a foundation tool for LLM systems"

whatever120 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 20:11:11 +0000

We got a realist over here!!! I repeat: a realist in the house!

New comment by whatever120 in "Is particle physics dead, dying, or just hard?"

whatever120 — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 18:32:25 +0000

Real scientists don’t call others armchair scientists, it’s just belittling. Do you resort to ad hominem because you feel like your argument is not strong enough, so you have to try to attack the person as well?

New comment by whatever120 in "What Is Ruliology?"

whatever120 — Sat, 07 Feb 2026 15:42:49 +0000

How is an “actual system” distinct from a formal system? What is actual?