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New comment by yonatron in "Claude: System Prompts"

yonatron — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 21:20:09 +0000

"Claude avoids saying "genuinely", "honestly", or "straightforward". Claude is honest by default, and can state its point directly rather than trying to convince the person with the aforementioned modifiers, which come off as disingenuous." lol! This one seems to have no effect. Claude is CONSTANTLY saying "honestly " or "the honestly answer".

New comment by yonatron in "Tech Titans Amass Multimillion-Dollar War Chests to Fight AI Regulation"

yonatron — Fri, 28 Nov 2025 16:13:33 +0000

"multi-million dollar warchests" Millions, lol. Wrong era, Dr. Evil!

New comment by yonatron in "Superintelligence Strategy"

yonatron — Wed, 05 Mar 2025 23:31:06 +0000

All of this buys you a few minutes or days at most. Once Super Intelligence exists, it's game over. It will nearly instantaneously outthink you and your paltry countermeasures. You think linearly and in 3 or 4 dimensions only. By definition you can't even imagine its capabilities. Here's a bad analogy (bad because it severely understates the gap): Could a 3 year old who is not even clear on all the rules defeat Magnus Carlsen in chess?!

New comment by yonatron in "Safe Superintelligence Inc."

yonatron — Thu, 20 Jun 2024 00:54:57 +0000

Rabotai, Hatzlacha. If you fail, the human world will go down in flames. But, no pressure! Anyway, you said a "cracked" team, whereas the usual expression for elite excellence is "crack". "Cracked" on the other hand means: Insane. Well.... perhaps what we need here is some of both! Looking forward to your success... indeed, it is our only hope.

New comment by yonatron in "Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution"

yonatron — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 13:34:24 +0000

"We must acknowledge once and for all that the purpose of diplomacy is to prolong a crisis." -- Spock

New comment by yonatron in "Five richest men double their money as poorest get poorer"

yonatron — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:49:56 +0000

Notice they said "a tax on net wealth". That's just plain evil. You can't tax paper gains! Almost all of these billionaires have their holdings in stock. It's theoretical money, not cash. If you own a house, and the "value" of your house goes up 5%, should you be taxed on that gain? Clearly not. It's not money you actually have. How are you going to raise that money every year? Borrow? You're already in debt. And these fools already want to tax you on your "income" from borrowing as well. There's a reason all moral societies only tax realized gains. Also all these haters of wealth and capitalism are sorely lacking in math. Not even math, just arithmetic! If you forcibly took ALL the billionaires money ( which is what these haters REALLY want), about $12.2Trillion and gave it to the poor half (4.4 Billion people) everyone gets about $2,700. That's it. And one time only!! Woo hoo! Congrats! World poverty and lifestyle solved! NOT! Meanwhile, for the sake of your idiot ideological revenge, all the companies and employees and economic drive and sub industries and localities driven by the Billionaire's success amd enterprises are now ruined. Millions of people have now lost their jobs. Also no one will attempt it again. Great solution. #mathlessfools! In Britain, this fictional 22B per year over 65 Million people is a nice whopping 338 pounds per person. Again: problems solved. Not! And the rich, who drive economies and employ millions will definitely flee somewhere that doesn't perpetrate these stupid hateful laws. This is all about people thinking it's moral and virtuous to say "Sorry, you have too much! We've got to limit your success and take from you" #handicappergeneral #Marxism #famine It comes down to this: #killthegoose

New comment by yonatron in "J. G. Ballard’s brilliant, “not good” writing"

yonatron — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 19:47:34 +0000

Oh G-d we need less of this, please.

New comment by yonatron in "Microsoft's AI shopping announcement contains hallucinations in the demo"

yonatron — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 17:18:26 +0000

Yeah. These "lies" are just artifacts of the way that LLMs work. They're meant to predict likely text given a prompt. And they do. If tasked with "write some marketing or a buying guide for product X", they will simulate likely marketing blurbs, nothing yo do with truth, that's not their wheelhouse. Predictive is a very different function, algorithm and problem-set than something like "accurately summarize existing reviews". This is a feature, not a bug. If you use something off label, you'll get off label results. MSFT should know better.

New comment by yonatron in "Brooklyn Bar Menu Generator (2015)"

yonatron — Tue, 27 Dec 2022 22:11:48 +0000

Bloody brilliant! Thank you!

New comment by yonatron in "Upscale 2K video to 8K with AI"

yonatron — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:50:50 +0000

Or SD video to HD

Upscale 2K video to 8K with AI

yonatron — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 08:50:50 +0000

Article URL: https://ymcinema.com/2022/11/21/ai-upscaling-of-2k-arri-alexa-classic-footage-to-8k/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33716703

Points: 2

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New comment by yonatron in "Putting Z-Library on IPFS"

yonatron — Sat, 19 Nov 2022 23:04:29 +0000

I haven't seen one commenter here concerned with copyright violation or piracy. You're ok with that? Have you never created content of your own, made of your own blood, sweat and tears, and then had it pirated and given away free? Do you condone this? Is this not thievery in your eyes?

New comment by yonatron in "Walmart, CVS face trial for homeopathic products next to real meds"

yonatron — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 17:31:47 +0000

"Homeopathy" - Hair of the dog that didn't bite you. -- JD Gershan

New comment by yonatron in "Physical buttons outperform touchscreens in new cars, test finds"

yonatron — Wed, 17 Aug 2022 12:42:28 +0000

Duh!

New comment by yonatron in "An Ode to Apple’s Hide My Email"

yonatron — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 11:40:36 +0000

re: "It’s inventible" "inevitable", perhaps?

New comment by yonatron in "But life had other plans"

yonatron — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 10:39:07 +0000

Something to consider (or if you're dead set against this idea, don't): Sounds to me like God wacking you over the head with a 2X4 and saying "Hey! Hello?! I'm here. (Yes, for both what you humans call "good" and "bad" ) So be in touch, and stop calling Me "Life"!! "

New comment by yonatron in "Workers quit jobs in droves to become their own bosses"

yonatron — Tue, 30 Nov 2021 01:43:27 +0000

Is there a non paywall version?

New comment by yonatron in "Corded headphones are making an unexpected return"

yonatron — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 11:27:29 +0000

The main problem for me with wireless earbuds is: they fall out of my ears. No matter what brand, no matter what shape. I'd love to wear them, but they pop out quickly even if sitting perfectly still. I've tried over the ear headphones and if you wear glasses, they hurt - they press your earpieces painfully. Guess I'll have to wait for a combination of bluetooth and skull induction built into glasses...

New comment by yonatron in "Wealth Shown to Scale"

yonatron — Mon, 09 Aug 2021 08:54:02 +0000

Re: "No single human needs or deserves this much wealth." Thanks for your opinion. That's all it is. There's no validity to that position. Wealth is not based on need or "deserving". In Jeff's case it's based on smart business, hard work and accomplishment. What have you accomplished?

New comment by yonatron in "NFTs Are a Pyramid Scheme and People Are Already Losing Money"

yonatron — Sun, 21 Mar 2021 13:57:50 +0000

Duh!