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How AI Could Start a Nuclear War(medium.com)
2 points by light_triad 1y ago|0 comments
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by light_triad 1y ago
It's good for YC to do this and will benefit every startup in the long run. Google has been one of the sources of the AI boom, and provides liquidity by acquiring startups. But as YC argues they've monopolised distribution channel
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by light_triad 1y ago
The decision can be read in the larger political context. There was some controversy a while back on certain directions the Foundation took like the project on sanitation (aka the toilet challenge) and the backing of charter schools. Regard
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by light_triad 1y ago
Interesting that some people here are advocating for fewer investments and board seats when angel investing. It's rather the opposite: you need more investments and less time spent on companies. Angle investors are vital to the startup
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by light_triad 1y ago
OpenAI has a massive brand advantage because the general public equates their products with AI. Even if they don't 100% figure out agents they are now big enough that they can acquire those that do. If the future is mostly about the ap
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by light_triad 1y ago
AI is changing fast! And to be fair to the model companies, they have been releasing products of (mostly) increasing quality. It really depends what your use case is. Over the range of all possible use cases this has been the narrative. I t
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by light_triad 1y ago
You sound like you're from the Google team ;) Rough steps: 1. Monitor keywords 2. Jump in to sway conversation 3. Profit I'm not saying this is happening. Purely hypothetical.
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by light_triad 1y ago
If you're interested in the functioning of mechanical watches, they're amazing: https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/ Previously on HN in 2022: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31261533
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by light_triad 2y ago
This is key: computation is about making things happen. Coding with an LLM adds a level of abstraction but the need for precision and correctness of the "things that happen" doesn't go away. No matter how many cool demos and
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by light_triad 2y ago
Part of being scientific is realising that you can't be completely unbiased and impartial, but you can be thorough, systematic, rigorous and informed by evidence rather than soundbites. Some questions don't have definite answers,
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by light_triad 2y ago
Welcome to the Bay Area! The big issue is a lot of people will believe what they want to believe. Most folks are not scientists - they start by assuming their conclusions and will choose the soothing moral and emotional rhetoric over eviden
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by light_triad 2y ago
The Russians had some successes in asymmetric warfare, but they can't 'win' outright on the ground, and peace would probably decimate their economy. From the WSJ a few days ago: For Russia’s Economy, Peace Poses a Threat htt
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by light_triad 2y ago
Interesting article. It seems every war post-Cold War has turned into some kind of proxy war. No matter how much US politicians who are isolationist try to spin the Ukraine war as a "territorial dispute" and how well it plays with
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by light_triad 2y ago
Nietzsche and Plato were some of the best fiction writers ever produced. Storytelling, allegory, dramatic dialogue, compelling narratives, and 'myth making' can have different goals - sometimes it's to teach the glory of scie
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by light_triad 2y ago
Good news. I integrated Claude with a scrapper to get info from pages and it was not giving hallucinations 99% of the time. Hope this works out of the box now.
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by light_triad 2y ago
Big fan of Michael's content over the years - will miss his videos with Dalton. One incredible thing about Michael is behind every sentence you can hear the amount of pain he had to endure to succeed. He's not just giving you star
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Michael Seibel is leaving Y Combinator(techcrunch.com)
4 points by light_triad 2y ago|0 comments
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by light_triad 2y ago
Data and cloud sovereignty has been a theme in Europe for many years. Most efforts to develop European 'clones' of popular US services have had mixed successes (compared to China for example). Number of declared meetings with EU o
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by light_triad 2y ago
More definitions that don't mention rationality: AI agents are software systems that use AI to pursue goals and complete tasks on behalf of users. They show reasoning, planning, and memory and have a level of autonomy to make decisions
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by light_triad 2y ago
AI agents have been most promising for solving fuzzy problems where optimal solutions are intractable, using sequences of approximations instead of more rigid rule-based workflows. Their architecture combines workflows, connectors, and an o
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by light_triad 2y ago
Here's a few more definitions of agents: Agents are a coupling of perception, reasoning, and acting with preferences or goals. They prefer some states of the world to other states, and they act to try to achieve the states they prefer
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by light_triad 2y ago
It's a bit of a non sequitur: having a profitable business is ideal but if a startup can grow fast with VC money it can be acquired for 40x (Wiz) - 1000x (WhatsApp) revenue even if not profitable
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by light_triad 2y ago
Reminds me of the delightfully strange short story by the Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar: ‘Axolotl’ is narrated by a lonely man who regularly visits the local zoo, where he becomes fascinated by the axolotls in the aquarium. In time, he
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by light_triad 2y ago
It was going to happen last year but Wiz said they wanted to IPO. Wonder what that implies about the larger IPO/exits market. Here's the letter sent by the CEO Assaf Rappaport to his team at the time (2024): "Wizards, I know
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by light_triad 2y ago
Apparently the biggest problems are line of sight interruptions and cost: > The team has figured out how to compensate for potential line-of-sight interruptions like bird flights, rain, and wind. (Fog is the biggest impediment) > “It’
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by light_triad 2y ago
Here’s a great reading of The Masque of the Red Death: https://youtu.be/FskFXD-SQpI?si=UYapck6_51LcAi9y The Simpsons did a famous rendition of The Raven read by James Earl Jones: https://youtu.be/ifhvfdqLLa8
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by light_triad 2y ago
It coincides with this: OpenAI calls DeepSeek ‘state-controlled,’ calls for bans on ‘PRC-produced’ models https://techcrunch.com/2025/03/13/openai-calls-deepseek-stat... On HN: https://news.ycombin
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by light_triad 2y ago
Meta is starting to have a whistleblower problem: - Sarah Wynn-Williams (2025) - Arturo Bejar (2023) - Frances Haugen (2021) - Sophie Zhang (2020) - Chris Hughes, Co-Founder (2019) - Roger McNamee, Investor (2019) - Christopher Wylie (2018)
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by light_triad 2y ago
I think this is more a reflection of the applicant pool. It's easier to put together a team when folks are early in their careers - also if you've been in industry for some time you might know VCs and are already an 'insider&
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by light_triad 2y ago
dang is an amazing moderator

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