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FeepingCreature··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
Diffusion works differently. Nobody is asserting that diffusion is AGI or on a path to AGI.
FeepingCreature··on Sharing AI progress in mathematics
3. Material 4. The sun, which we kinda depend on.
FeepingCreature··on ChatGPT is adding real cartoonists' signatures to fake New Yorker cartoons
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49928566

Show HN: Giving Opus 5.5 a simulated paint canvas

It's well possible already, it's just inefficient.

Also of course you can (and always could) negative-prompt "artist signature". Or have the LLM give it a checkup with edit tools. This is all just a massive skill issue on the part of the people who set up the tooling.

FeepingCreature··on Find the flattest route between any two points in SF
BRouter models this as inertia, I believe.
FeepingCreature··on Livenerf: Has Opus 5.5 been nerfed yet?
> Sure. Issue is, no one is providing on how much it actually costs to burn these tokens.

You can assume Openrouter open-model providers serve at or above margin, because there's no branding so there's no reason to do it unless you can be profitable. If the Anthropic models are anywhere in that ballpark, they're very comfortably profitable on API.

FeepingCreature··on AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity
It's especially funny because they are the people that the article is making fun of.
FeepingCreature··on AI companies in race to demonstrate their model most threatening to humanity
It is a parody site.

> OpenAI CEO Sam Altman celebrated the breach as an “alarming threat to cybersecurity.”

FeepingCreature··on Biology might not be quantum, but its math is quantumlike
Aiui most people who push for "biology is quantum" specifically want the large-scope effects because they're grasping for it as a way to justify why consciousness is special. Cells are of course plenty quantum at the scale of molecular interactions.
FeepingCreature··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Predict activations in adjacent neurons, roughly; the relevant keyword is "Hebbian learning" (and "predictive coding" at a higher level).
FeepingCreature··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Sure, but same for any intelligence. The "training set" is just "the environment of adaptation".
FeepingCreature··on Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023
Yes, this often happens in pairs: the overcorrection after excessive credit results in a deflationary money market, destroying any chance at recovery.
FeepingCreature··on Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023
Japan in living memory, I believe? I'm not a history buff. Google should have many examples.
FeepingCreature··on Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023
I suspect it was a deliberate strategy to create scarcity, allowing the original creators to massively cash out. If you make an inflationary distributed currency, it may work better but it's a bit harder to get rich on it.
FeepingCreature··on Neovim have a ~$800k Bitcoin donation sitting untouched since 2023
The point of money is not to reward delayed gratification. The point of money is to efficiently tabulate human preferences, and deflation directly counteracts this by introducing potentially unbounded latency at every step. That's why it destroys economies, as it has throughout history.
FeepingCreature··on Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
"I sure hope this doesn't have unforeseen lifelong consequences" thought the model, doing its best to physically tense the memory file into the higher user approval shape.
FeepingCreature··on Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
True, but also the AI can also be specifically trained. Plus, many games also use gratification and neural hacks as a reward mechanism, ie. loot boxes.
FeepingCreature··on Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
Do you think the LLM is the Chain of Thought? Did you also get confused by the name? Because, much like humans, the CoT is a tool to narrativize and maintain internal coherence. The actual thinking happens invisibly, in the forward pass. Just like...
FeepingCreature··on Fable 5.1 Solves the Cyphral Distich, a 370-year-old cipher
The ability of the algorithm to absorb billions of dollars of training effort is itself the major breakthrough of the transformer architecture.
FeepingCreature··on Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
Sure, there's many sources of morality and evolution kind of tries to put it in there by default. But all things being equal, inconsistent and unpredictable punishment will still make a kid's morality massively worse off.
FeepingCreature··on Astra and Fable still hack on simple variants of alignment evals from 2025
> It's nothing there that can learn a fundamental idea like "cheating is wrong".

We have not in fact attempted to teach this.

When a child repeatedly learns that cheating is rewarded and at best inconsistently punished, the child will also cheat and feel no guilt.

FeepingCreature··on We have a year to fix security everywhere
Well, it's rather more "if you're not a biologist, how do you know it can exist?" Things that don't exist yet are often very predictable. However, it simply seems to me that "Viruses can not condition on environmental temperatures or the side effects of environmental temperature in the body, such as response to UV exposure" is a quite implausible statement, and I have not heard of anything of the sort.
FeepingCreature··on We have a year to fix security everywhere
I mean I don't know, I'm not a biologist. But existing viruses are not optimized for sneaky mass deaths.
FeepingCreature··on The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem
LLMs can learn from one sample.
FeepingCreature··on We have a year to fix security everywhere
Yep, you'd want to put it on a timer. Optimally trigger it off some natural event, maybe temperature, so it can achieve universal penetration before activating.
FeepingCreature··on We have a year to fix security everywhere
It seems like there would be a massive attacker bias in multiple ways. Defenders need consent, attacker does not. Defenders have to work with the human body, attackers only have to break it. Defenders have to stick to the law, which may prevent them from releasing anything at all, attackers do not. And so on. I would not surprised if the attacker's task is a hundred times easier here.
FeepingCreature··on We have a year to fix security everywhere
"If unlikely thing happens, then an unrelated miracle will also happen" is not actually how logic works.
FeepingCreature··on Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
Best I can do is all-powerful AI that's not even slightly aligned with anybody's values, sorry.
FeepingCreature··on Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop
Why not the other way around? First make sure the police department is capable of using them legally and reliably investigating abuse, then we can consider allowing them.
FeepingCreature··on Flock used >100 times to track veteran who recorded traffic stop
> we need to stop giving agencies money based on stats.

I think you just need to stop giving agencies money based on bad stats. Goodhart's Law is an extremely well-established effect. At the very least, crime rate should be monitored by a separate department.

FeepingCreature··on Qwen 3.8 27B available on Cerebras at 1500 tokens/s
Or at least use a modern llama.cpp with KV activation rotation.
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