ath3nd

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by ath3nd 1y ago
> And we will over time have even more capability in the model (that is more general purpose) than our deterministic scaffolds... Who is "we" in that case? Are you the one building the model? Do you have the compute and data
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by ath3nd 1y ago
While money certainly gives them a bigger ability to influence the future than an ordinary bloke, it still doesn't mean they are able to just wish it true. Elon failed his boring tunnel Elon is failing his rocket ventures so much that
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> Copium is one hell of a drug. What is the word for creating an account 12 days ago and exclusively defending the LLMs because they can't defend themselves? > Writing a simple short story Ah, allow me to introduce you to the Inf
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> It seems to me that probabilistic approaches are more akin to magical AI thinking right now, so defending that as the new paradigm sounds quite egregious and reeks of (maybe involuntary?) inevitabilism Thank you for saying that! I read
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> Modern ML is at this hellish intersection of underexplored math, twisted neurobiology and applied demon summoning Nah, it's just a very very big and fancy autocomplete with probabilistic tokenization and some extra tricks thrown i
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by ath3nd 1y ago
Dealing with pretentious pseudoscientific blogs in the LLM era. /s
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> Short sighted If we wait 20 years for VR to take off and it's not Meta who benefits then, it's them who are short sighted to have started so early on that bandwagon. Besides, waiting for something to materialize before being
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by ath3nd 1y ago
What about studying...Nazi bots?
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> I can't give 2 cents about the growth of such a black mirror -esque company I would donate my two cents or even more to witness their downfall though. I left WhatsApp years ago, and haven't used any of their other services li
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> They can just buy other companies for 5 years and coast No, what they could do in the past is not at all how they can operate today. They can't afford to pay the rockstars anymore, they went through multiple rounds of layoffs. The
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> Meta serves the purposes of the IC status quo The problem is that their products are getting worse and worse. Signal is already taking a huge share from WhatsApp (ads and AI chat bots, really?) and Messenger. TikTok absolutely oblitera
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> Dismissal is a common reaction when witnessing AI’s rate of progress. People struggle to reconcile their world model with what AI can now do, and how. By probabilistic pattern matching. Next. > Every model update doesn’t necessarily
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by ath3nd 1y ago
Edgy prediction: Meta is irrelevant and on a path to even further irrelevancy, and, fingers crossed, a bankruptcy or at least Zuck being removed as the main man
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by ath3nd 1y ago
And like VR? And like...LLAMa? Maybe also like adding ads in WhatsApp cause we gotta squeeze our users so we can spend on... AI gurus? Meta has not had a win since they named themselves Meta. It's enjoyable to watch them flail around l
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by ath3nd 1y ago
The media was saying nfts are a reasonable investment and web3 is the future, so I am not sure if they have any remaining credibility. We are at the awesome moment in history when the AI bubble is popping so I am looking forward to a lot of
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by ath3nd 1y ago
It's the future! The same as Zuck's bet on VR (remember Oculus?). Similar to Zuck's promises of superintelligence. Just one of the many futures wherein Meta poured a lot of money and achieved nothing. I hope in their real fut
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by ath3nd 1y ago
It's always a Christian, eh? https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/aug/20/chris-brain-...
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by ath3nd 1y ago
Wait, isn't that the Metaverse folks? I am sure, as successful and highly monetized projects, both the Metaverse and LLAMA need more people paid at 100m/y each. Under the wise guidance of the Zuck, we are sure to achieve Superinte
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by ath3nd 1y ago
Are yahoo also a social media creation? Cause they are now saying some similar stuff to what Ed has been saying. We'll, fun times for LLM enthusiasts. Can't wait for the inevitable enshittification of Claude, Cursor and all the ot
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by ath3nd 1y ago
I bet you are a fan of OpenAI's groundbreaking study mode feature.
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by ath3nd 1y ago
This is the best HackerNews content in a while. No LLMs, no Cursor, no false promises of AGI, just some musings about coding.
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by ath3nd 1y ago
I hate to be a purist here, but structing your sentences into coherent chunks is basic communication, and giving it fancy names like "prompt engineering" is doing a disservice to the term "engineering" which is already a
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by ath3nd 1y ago
You can omit "security" and you'd still be right, replace it with "maintainability", you'd still be right.
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by ath3nd 1y ago
Comparing an universal computing machine to what is essentially a fancy autocomplete is just bonkers.
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by ath3nd 1y ago
No, I see the answers from GPT-5 are sometimes marginally better, and sometimes arguably marginally worse than GPT-4, which suggests to me that we have plateaued and even regressed.
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> Charging people to access their system is the obvious route to profitability Ed argues, and I agree with him, that there is simply no route to profitablility that makes sense numbers wise. Considering this is the only sector propping u
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> If he's right about something in this field, it's by accident and not a result of experience or research. I could say the same thing about Elon Musk. /s In all honesty though, there has to be some counterbalance to the f
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by ath3nd 1y ago
Nah, the study shows there is a reason there is a whole wiki page for all the cases of abuse by the church. It's an epidemic, enough to see a correlation and stereotype that priests are the most likely offender. It's even in pop c
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by ath3nd 1y ago
Or, really, they are Christians: https://ars.els-cdn.com/content/image/1-s2.0-S01452134240033... Cause statistically, a Christian man in a leadership position (i.e priest/pastor) is much more likely to be a c
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by ath3nd 1y ago
> After all Israel is the wakanda of pedos. I thought that was any religious institution in the US and abroad! Nice to know that Christian priests and conservatives don't have monopoly on abusing children. /s - https:/&#x

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