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New comment by yewenjie in "Wealth Inequality in America drawn to scale"

yewenjie — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 10:50:08 +0000

Tears fell through my eyes.

New comment by yewenjie in "Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude"

yewenjie — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 21:31:37 +0000

TBH, I am waiting for Mathocalypse-level progress in biology and medicine, but I guess that's not happening as fast, because it's the real world, human lives, etc., mostly etc.

New comment by yewenjie in "Claude Duet"

yewenjie — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 20:39:02 +0000

Are people really okay giving these agents access to all areas of their lives? And what do you even use it for?

New comment by yewenjie in "AfD Leak: What 421,179 Hacked Emails Show about the German Far Right"

yewenjie — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 09:59:01 +0000

Not enough details

New comment by yewenjie in "DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017"

yewenjie — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 23:35:04 +0000

Hinton and Bengio, and previously let's say Stephen Hawking are not part of the same ideological movement.

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

yewenjie — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:59:13 +0000

Is a virus conscious? A bacteria? An insect? A fish? A tree? A mushroom? At what level of biological complexity slicing does consciousness arise?

If you are springing to type out the answer, stop for a moment and ask, how can you be sure?

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

yewenjie — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:56:01 +0000

And actually hire a bunch of people to work on this problem, invite philosophers etc. for discussions?

New comment by yewenjie in "The Mathocalypse"

yewenjie — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:39:25 +0000

> Experience has shown that, even now, there will still be people explaining in patronizing tones why none of this is real and none of it counts. If such people were capable of being impressed by anything that happens in the empirical world, of updating on anything, they would’ve already been impressed and already updated several years ago, long before things had reached the point of an actual Mathocalypse.

^^ half of the comments on this thread

New comment by yewenjie in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

yewenjie — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:57:09 +0000

A lot of these seem to be proving conjectures rather than finding counterexamples, a lot of people used that to claim that these models are not really smart/creative etc.

That copium didn't last for what, three months?

New comment by yewenjie in "LeCun has "zero concerns" about AI wiping out humanity, recent "rogue" incidents"

yewenjie — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 09:37:47 +0000

LeCun has been consistently wrong for the last ten years, I am not sure why he keeps being amplified.

Edit: I am sure, it's denial.

New comment by yewenjie in "Vx – One Language, Every Chip"

yewenjie — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:45:10 +0000

Why is it giving me Vlang vibe

New comment by yewenjie in "EventMaxxer – Automatically apply to events to get you in the right room"

yewenjie — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 17:33:02 +0000

Nice! I was thinking of building something like this for myself.

I'm a little worried that the complexity could be too much and dissatisfying if I have to spend a ton of time tweaking it.

New comment by yewenjie in "The Rise of Audio AR"

yewenjie — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 22:58:00 +0000

anyone using any device/ app in this space they are happy about?

New comment by yewenjie in "Early rogue AI agent activity and attempts to hack found on urlquery.net"

yewenjie — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 06:49:03 +0000

OpenAI agents these summer are like a gift that keeps giving, for the existential risk communicators.

New comment by yewenjie in "The Millennium Problems for Biology"

yewenjie — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 13:11:56 +0000

Who is this by? Who verifies the result? Is there prize money?

New comment by yewenjie in "We must pace the frontier"

yewenjie — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:51:49 +0000

Because he genuinely believes if he doesn't do it the next guy will do it worse.

New comment by yewenjie in "We must pace the frontier"

yewenjie — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 14:47:02 +0000

HN, for the love of God, this is not marketing, these CEOs and employees are literally terrified of their lives.

New comment by yewenjie in "I resigned from Anthropic today"

yewenjie — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 05:51:45 +0000

I'm sorry, but the ostrichmaxxing and conspiracy-thinking in hn threads about AI extinction risk is at worrying level right now.

The denial and whataboutism is constant, no matter what kind of evidence comes out!

New comment by yewenjie in "What's new in Emacs 31.1"

yewenjie — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:04:16 +0000

Now would be the time for someone to use AI to rewrite the Emacs core to make it faster.

New comment by yewenjie in "Headlong: A Microharness for Persistent Agents"

yewenjie — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 04:19:44 +0000

Are there any objective metrics/ benchmarks that people test harnesses by?

There are just so many now that it's hard to personally test them all or just trust the vibes.