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incredible creativity and inspiring. thanks for sharing this !

Doesn’t help with the NPC allegations

This feels like a cheap deflection that doesn't answer the question. Unless you're proposing that you both need to know that your LLM is aligned AND LLMs are all going to become misaligned in a coordinated fashion such that humanity will face an extinction event, you're just dodging the question.

Elaborate on why LLMs are so capable that they are a threat to humanity and at the same time, they are so incapable of defending us?

I'll give you a clue, nobody, including Dario, can answer this question because one contradicts the other.

> It is absolutely explained (for those who actually care about reading). Simply put, AIs are working more and more like blackboxes - there's no guarantee that an AI of the future will be aligned, or if it will be faking alignment. This is not speculation - alignment faking has been observed in experiments. This is exactly why Astra's developments have been worrying (in principle).

I know you think you explained it but you didn't. You explained how an LLM might become misaligned and hide it but for the LLMs that are not, why would they not be capable of detecting that something harmful is happening and defending against the misaligned LLMs actions? After all, it was LLMs that defended hugging face.

> was a misdirected love triangle between USA, Russia, and The Bomb, and look at all the damage that did.

Can you be specific about the damage? We currently live in the most prosperous times on earth for humans. I'm not sure what you mean by damage.

Nobody can explain why an LLM can be so capable as to be able to wipe out humanity and pose a greater threat than nuclear bombs but not be so capable as to be able to protect humanity against that threat. Are we just handwaving this with "entropy"?

> Maybe saying, "let's slow down", is another way of saying, "I love you." Or, maybe it's just: "let's not all of humanity kill ourselves like some bad ending to a Shakespearean tragedy."

Okay nevermind, I think it's pretty clear you just want to wax poetic about all of this.

Just say reddit lol.

Claude is becoming a highly capable Redditor

Because mastadon is not relevant to anybody but the people on HN. It's 2026, I really can't believe HN is still stuck on mastadon.

HN and Reddit are much more of an echo chamber than X is.

No it does not seem like an extraordinary claim, unless this is your first time hearing such claims. For the rest of us, we've heard this every decade and it turns out to be entirely untrue.

Nuclear, Overpopulation, Peak Oil, Y2K Bug, Global Warming.

No, we aren't going extinct in the next 10 years.

What do you mean, Europeans would love to voluntarily comply with this because they have been of little relevance until American AI companies started to beg for regulation.

I am sure the Europeans rolling up their sleeves right now and getting to "work"

I'm just surprised that so many intellectuals on HN hang on to false models of reality for so long after that reality has been demonstrably destroyed. It's not humble at all. In fact it's the opposite, completely arrogant and stubborn. It's been obvious and demonstrated at least since the end of 2025 for anybody that used LLMs at any capacity without dismissing them. If you are still surprised that your model of reality doesn't hold up, then someone needs to bluntly tell you what's wrong at the core of your being.

Notice the original comment is asking people to validate their false premise about next token prediction.

The deeper subtext of the original comment is that they are surprised that there's dissonance from observed reality and this false premise that they have convinced themself is true.

I'm explaining that dissonance because it doesn't matter what the actual mechanism is if they are still working with their false premise. The dissonance exists because they, without evidence and a very weak understanding of how LLMs work, believed an oversimplification and meme about them being stochastic parrots. Here's a tip: Just because you hear something repeated over and over on social media, doesn't mean it's true, or at the very least: you don't need to take it literally to the point where it conflicts with demonstrated reality.

It is deeply disturbing that such a large cohort of HN writers and redditors exemplify such stubbornness, because I must imagine that some of this cohort hold real positions of responsibility within society. If you can't get this simple thing right about reality, I firmly believe much of your model of reality is wrong and you should have no business shaping society.

Another comment to the original comment frames it perfectly: "At what point do you challenge your own assumptions?"

The author of the original comment has demonstrated no progress towards making this trivial act of self reflection. It's straight up intellectual dishonesty, the opposite of how you're framing it.

Their judgment in all other matters must be questioned as well. I am alarmed that I have to participate in the same reality and be affected by such people that can't seem to get it together.

So yes, it is derision and sometimes that's called for.

You fell for the stochastic parrot meme and next token over simplification. That's the explanation.

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> This should not come as a surprise when they are forced to live with roommates because they can't afford a house or even an apartment to themselves because every cent is being analyzed for optimal extraction from them.

Just so you know, the new generation is investing earlier than the previous generation.

Gen Z is also outpacing millenials on home ownership https://www.npr.org/2026/05/15/nx-s1-5791499/gen-z-homeowner...

The idea that the latest generation is not benefiting from the current situation is in your head, not reality.

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So you seem to have at least a surface level of understanding of incentives.

Check this then:

If the census is responsible for allocating federal funds and congressional apportionment, what are the incentives for making census data private and encouraging people that would otherwise hide their identity?

First off the census is used for determining how many seats are used for congressional apportionment and allocating federal funds.

So unless you're willing to also say that counted illegals cannot used for either of those, then you're just being obtuse.

But if we can agree that they cannot be used for that then sure, lets identify and count them. If we can't identify (make non-private) and count them then why should we trust that those counts are accurate?

There will be a bunch of people that start off with the premise that this data should be private and make following arguments based on this premise.

So I'll just go ahead and ask, give me good reasons why this data should be private?

My guess is that most of you think we should be counting illegals because they should have representation. And I reject that

> All of processor above have reference manuals and sometimes example git repositories available on open internet.

okay? then give those reference manuals and git repositories? I haven't heard something know LLMs can't get around and figure out?

> Also I believe at least on coding that qwen is now the frontier model

The delusions people live in just to be a hater.

Care to explain how you'd engineer it instead?

> which eats 1GB+ of RAM. Meanwhile, my editor only consumes 80MB of RAM

And why are you comparing Claude Code to your editor?

> They can't even improve Claude Code

That depends on how you define "improve". They've added a ton of features to it over time. Who said minimizing RAM usage was something they are prioritizing right now?

You don't understand what I'm saying. I'm saying the 500K comp is not worth it and i want to quit to go compete against all the employers that are offering such comp. I am positioning myself to do it this year.

Software engineers have more leverage than ever.

> before software developers were among those that were on the winning side, now they’re on the losing side.

are you sure about that? i'm a software engineer and i feel like i'm on the wining side now, even more than before. I'm considering quitting my 500K a year job to go compete against the employers. they seem like dinosaurs to me.

This is not clever. A lot of people do not understand what LLMs are capable of now. It can be learning experience to show a product person how they can leverage LLMs rather than acting like you're the know-it-all by obfuscating the fact that you used an LLM to answer a question

Please disengage if you're not getting anything out of it. I'm sure letting random billionaires live rent-free in your head is deriving much more value for your life. It's not a rocket launch, you don't need to announce that you're disengaging.

> What exactly are you contributing here beyond discord?

Well I'm not on here very much and don't comment very much but sure I'll give this a shot:

The rejection of populist ideas that have pushed many into celebrating political violence and death. Want examples?

The rejection of the vicious cycle of envy that has been brewing in these comments and other platforms like this one that is the path that directly leads to above.

The irony of saying that I know nothing about you while saying that you know that billionaires have an endless void to fill, and think that billionaires are simply running on the compulsion of min-maxing capital instead of min-maxing the results of their capital.

Shameful and obvious envy. You're not fooling anybody because your comments betray you

Another comment that's clearly coming from a place of envy, entirely framed about what billionaires deserve rather than having any sort of introspection.

> Can you prove that taxis wouldn't have been able to do that, if Uber didn't exist?

Yes, because we only have to go back a few decades to see that the cab industry in NYC were being gatekept by medallions that people were paying 800k+ for just to have the opportunity to drive cab. That was not a system made by billionaires. That was a system made by the government and unions, which is exactly the system that you're fighting for.

> Musk is also erecting new gates, to promote himself and his ideas. I have to admit, I'm surprised what he lets stay up there, but I still don't believe it's an actual free platform.

It's more free and less friction than what we had before. The fact that you can't accept it despite the evidence in front of you and your own observations about being surprised is highlighting that you are failing to be objective.

> Vibecode it; the billionaires tore down the gates that previously blocked your ability to have any software you want -- as long as the billionaires accede to your use of their AI and running your own software against their platforms, of course.

Sure, another capability that billionaires unironically gave me. I do have other more interesting things to work towards.

> ou complain about open platforms filled with people giving you their ideas for free, and you just don't like what they're saying, but you just cited exactly that openness as one of the valuable things that billionaires deserve to have billions for.

Yes, and notice that I didn't say that they should be banned from the platform and their speech oppressed. I turned it around to make it about my own consumption. I have the free will. You're not arguing against me, you're proving my point.

> Maybe the people arguing against billionaires don't believe capital efficiency is paramount, so you'd have to persuade them of that first

Maybe we shouldn't assume the people without capital know what is paramount and what isn't when it comes to capital. It's hilarious to think there's some poor chap out there saying these people are being too efficient with capital and accumulating it while also believing that capital efficiency is not paramount. Hello? The problem you're pointing out is directly related to capital efficiency, yet you think the solution is to be capital inefficient. That has clearly not worked out for you or for anybody else in this society. We have countless examples where capital inefficiency has hurt us badly in this society.