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New comment by willy_k in "OpenAI Model Misalignment Report"

willy_k — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:57:23 +0000

This can’t be serious. LLMs are programs that run on computers.

New comment by willy_k in "OpenAI Model Misalignment Report"

willy_k — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 12:52:18 +0000

Atp post-training is much more influential towards model behavior than pre-training data.

New comment by willy_k in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

willy_k — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 04:04:23 +0000

I do. God. I am partial to and bullish on the brain being a quantum-classical computer. There has been interesting research exploring that recently [0, 1, 2, 3]. That (quantum mechanics) seems to be escape-hatch, so to speak, from the otherwise deterministic, mechanical procession of the universe.

[0]** https://www.researchgate.net/publication/15280350_Quantum_op...

[1] https://pubs.acs.org/jpcbfk/article-pdf/128/17/4035/9613831/...

[2] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/395650039_Parametri...

[3] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/385131105_Conscious...

New comment by willy_k in "Claude Cowork and chat are now one Claude"

willy_k — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 02:35:35 +0000

Social media has fried some people’s brains so much that it is incredibly anxiety inducing to make many typically mundane or routine choices, for fear of missing / missing out on something.

New comment by willy_k in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

willy_k — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:13:16 +0000

You’re not just the same thing though. It’s sad that we’ve collectively forgotten that as we’ve gotten a better handle on the implementation details of the universe. That’s all science is, reverse engineering an inherent and eternal mystery.

New comment by willy_k in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

willy_k — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:08:36 +0000

Sure, if you take a materialist empiricist perspective, which is myopic at best. As humans we have the unique and wonderful ability to know truths by themselves. Machines do not have minds, and they can not.

New comment by willy_k in "Apple Reference Image: A New Approach for Verified Photography"

willy_k — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:13:24 +0000

Doing that on modern iOS is unlikely. They’ve really locked it down in the past half decade.

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

willy_k — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 04:53:02 +0000

Thats a browser level task.

New comment by willy_k in "US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons"

willy_k — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 03:39:34 +0000

That doesn’t mean anything. “Sometimes satellites hit things or have problems and blow up. Maybe it hit something and had a problem”.

Edit: Its a perfectly valid response to the question that was asked.

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

willy_k — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 03:36:45 +0000

So, if you are concerned about what the model does? Yeah.

New comment by willy_k in "Gemini 3.8 Live and 3.8 Live Extended Thinking"

willy_k — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:54:32 +0000

For the old school (I hate that that’s arguably applicable) AI dating types, and so on. The people using it not for productivity.

New comment by willy_k in "Global bond yields hit 2008 highs, raising stakes for big borrowers"

willy_k — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:07:15 +0000

So what is he? A Democrat, and what else? Parties are groups of people, ideologies are pure ideals. They are distinct, with overlaps in their demographics.

New comment by willy_k in "Global bond yields hit 2008 highs, raising stakes for big borrowers"

willy_k — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:15:29 +0000

Response to sister comment: conservatism, and the groups that claim to support it, are separate. Same with liberals, and socialists, and the Democrat Party.

New comment by willy_k in "I can't stop thinking about Papua New Guinea"

willy_k — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:39:55 +0000

And “they” would arguably cease to exist.

New comment by willy_k in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

willy_k — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 14:15:39 +0000

I can’t read apparently, apologies

New comment by willy_k in "US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons"

willy_k — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:45:51 +0000

As an aside - the word conspiratorial has become polluted.

If you accept the premise that governments and their military and intelligence agencies aren’t 100% transparent, which is true, then the above comment is simply speculative.

New comment by willy_k in "US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons"

willy_k — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:39:34 +0000

Good example of their point. That’s not “why”.

New comment by willy_k in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

willy_k — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:51:30 +0000

Might wanna update your facts on that pipeline.

New comment by willy_k in "Amazon.com Services, LLC vs. Perplexity AI, INC., No. 26-1444 (9th Cir. 2026)"

willy_k — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:32:53 +0000

This could get pretty pedantic. They haven’t “won” yet, and the first few paragraphs do accurately describe the problem, but not the whole state of the case. The injunctions and appeals are very important, but they are details of the suit proceedings, not the case itself.

New comment by willy_k in "Amazon.com Services, LLC vs. Perplexity AI, INC., No. 26-1444 (9th Cir. 2026)"

willy_k — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 21:27:32 +0000

Yes. And/or press charges, IIRC. They did threaten to, at one point, with some conditions they wanted met (past that, I am not in the loop).