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by philipkglass 8d ago
This was fun. Here's my test session: https://debunkbot.com/chat/48a5ac29-2924-4689-b573-2c38a1cdd... I don't know which model underlies this. It responded more quickly than the models I normally use. It made
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by philipkglass 8d ago
I read Bostrom's Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies in 2014. It was interesting, but not terribly persuasive. Does If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies contain arguments that would be new to me after reading Superintellig
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by philipkglass 13d ago
Treason is an incredibly rare charge in the American legal system. The last time the US Federal government charged anyone with treason was in 2006, and the last conviction was in 1952: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trea
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by philipkglass 15d ago
If a LLM-voice comment has [dead] next to it, either the account was already banned in its entirety or HN's LLM text detector marked the comment auto-dead due to suspected LLM writing. If the comment has [flagged] [dead] next to it, th
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by philipkglass 16d ago
Something like curing cancer (more realistically, curing a specific kind of cancer) has to interact with much slower real-world processes. The most expensive part of drug development is Phase 3 clinical trials in humans. Even the smartest m
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by philipkglass 18d ago
The largest social safety net in the US is the one provided for retired people, who aren't laborers at all.
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by philipkglass 21d ago
Yes, this does happen. Solar farms have an albedo modification effect. The good news is that compared to fossil powered generation, the albedo modification is "paid back" in less than a year due to lower GHG emissions: "Small
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by philipkglass 24d ago
Ferrocyanide is not dangerous. Sodium ferrocyanide is used as an anti-caking agent in table salt. It's considered safe for this use in both the US and the EU, e.g.: https://ec.europa.eu/food/food-feed-portal/s
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by philipkglass 28d ago
Dimethylmercury is (or was, at least historically) used as a reference material for nuclear magnetic resonance (a common analytical method used in chemistry): https://sites.northwestern.edu/ohalloran/199hg-nmr-standards
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by philipkglass 29d ago
Yes: "Crushed rock sand – An economical and ecological alternative to natural sand to optimize concrete mix" https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S221302091... The main problem is that
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by philipkglass 29d ago
The Soviet Union ran such a program: https://www.nytimes.com/1973/11/10/archives/soviet-plant-to-... https://www.cia.gov/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP91T01115R0001000... The term to
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by philipkglass 1mo ago
Urenco USA is a private enterprise that enriches uranium. It built its first American enrichment plant 20 years ago, and lately it has been expanding capacity: https://urencousa.com/about/our-history The parent Urenco
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by philipkglass 1mo ago
The Erlang day was on 2009-03-11. You can still see how the front page looked that day: https://news.ycombinator.com/front?day=2009-03-11
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by philipkglass 1mo ago
The newest American nuclear reactors to enter service were Vogtle units 3 and 4, in 2023 and 2024: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vogtle_Electric_Generating_Pla...
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by philipkglass 1mo ago
If Anthropic is the first to develop AGI, then everyone else becomes subordinate to Dario Amodei? And if DeepSeek is the first to get there, everyone instead becomes subordinate to Liang Wenfeng? I cannot believe that there is a threshold o
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by philipkglass 1mo ago
Copy the technology and give people access without trying to financially profit from it. Even if the US federal government refuses to act, smaller government entities can deploy their own compute clusters running strong open-weights models
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by philipkglass 1mo ago
As far as I'm concerned, the right choice is that the US government learns to live with remotely secure devices in the hands of everyone. No new laws are passed to force hardware/software makers to insert remote backdoors. Law enf
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by philipkglass 1mo ago
I'm using Qwen 3.5 for OCR, and reasoning_effort is supported there too. I found that it can be loop-prone (though somewhat less so) even if you set reasoning_effort to low.
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
Amazon is also investing in nuclear power for data centers: https://www.world-nuclear-news.org/articles/amazon-updates-s... However, building new nuclear reactors is a slow process. These reactors aren't expected
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
The 32 oz "Big Gulp" was introduced by 7-11 in 1976 in Southern California: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Gulp Even bigger sizes arrived in the 1980s: Called Big Gulp because it was initially the largest
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
Google may not have written about it in that document, but they're funding what will be the highest storage capacity battery system in the world for a renewable-powered data center in Minnesota: https://www.utilitydive.com&#
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
It's unfortunately worse than coal subsidies. There are direct Federal orders that obsolete coal plants are not allowed to shut down. One example from Washington state: https://www.opb.org/article/2026/06&#x2F
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
Yes, bleach could destroy the complex odoriferous compounds in fish sauce. Ordinary chlorine bleach in liquid form is so dilute that you wouldn't be able to run the process in-place in the original fish sauce storage tanks, though. The
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
I read the whole series on the Kindle about 10 years ago and the obscure nautical words were not in the Kindle's internal dictionary. It would try to connect to an online service to look up those words, but that doesn't help if yo
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
The German THTR-300 reactor operated with air cooling: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/THTR-300 But it was admittedly a huge cooling system for a reactor that only produced 750 megawatts of thermal energy.
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
I have an uncle with Parkinson's disease. He has a daughter who's looking after him. But he is a tall man who weighs about 200 pounds and she is a petite woman. She literally doesn't have the strength to help him up again if
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
Google was scanning millions of books before the LLM craze, and they didn't burn them. They partnered with libraries and built their own non-destructive scanning hardware. I'm guessing this comment is really about Anthropic, but t
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
I know a lot more about chemistry and physics than I know about biology, so biological risk is still at least a "maybe" reason to be worried about model safety for me. I don't worry about other weapons of mass destruction dev
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
It was a front page story here on HN back in December 2025: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46313991
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by philipkglass 2mo ago
The biggest problem is the infectious nature of restrictions that start narrowly. Fable is too touchy about helping people with biology and chemistry problems. It was initially released with an even more insidious safety mandate: https:&#x

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