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gowld··on National Security Determination Threat Posed by Foreign-Produced Robotic Devices [pdf]
Is your definition of "finance sector" "everyone who likes money"?
gowld··on AI companies are shredding rare books
Then why are people so worried about the paper not surviving?
gowld··on AI companies are shredding rare books
Everyone who refused to buy these books in the past was voting for the books' destruction by default. Authors don't owe you a copy of their work. Bookstores don't you real estate to hold a book you don't want and will never want.
gowld··on AI companies are shredding rare books
Almost certainly not, because they need that data for model-building and rebuilding., and the storage cost is completely trivial.
gowld··on Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey
TItle is missing a clarification: Indian government.
gowld··on Government orders GitHub to remove Bluetooth-based chat app Bitchat: Jack Dorsey
Most nations with gun control apply gun control to the street police also.
gowld··on Be skeptical of OpenAI's rogue hacker agent story
I don't understand the conspiracy theories here. Everyone is well aware that AI agents are creative, powerful, and stupid.

AI agents exploiting bad security happens constantly, all the time. Many cases are discussed on HN. It's common knowledge that if you run AI agent it will delete your <something> even though you made it pinky-swear it wouldn't and you thought you had proper permissions set up.

Why is today's case so shocking?

gowld··on Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs
AI was garbage quality or OK but unimportant (Grammarly-esque) in early 2025.

A new study is needed.

gowld··on Alphabet's cash burn raises alarm for Big Tech as AI spending climbs
Google's P/E is 25, which normal for "tech", and comparable to S&P overall current, average, which is 50-100% of historical average.
gowld··on Scanning for Pangram Errors
Populare Science is built on a foundation of misunderstanding p-value.

https://www.graphpad.com/guides/prism/latest/statistics/comm...

(OP isn't exactly talkigh about p-value, because it's not comparing means, but the main mathematical structure of the Bayesian error is the same)

Of course, it's unclear if the article is using the wrong term, or the wrong definition, or if Pangram is just lying in the first place.

gowld··on I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
The OP says as much, and links to a Google Search results that says the same.
gowld··on Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample
"Activating Pro" doesn't mean "paying". It means selecting a slower/smarter model.
gowld··on Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample
Look up "APL" and "J".
gowld··on How to Read a Painting
Flag AI slop.

"The eight questions" but they aren't questions

gowld··on How to Read a Painting
I've rarely felt labels helpful, and a label can't fit all the information needed for general study of paintings.
gowld··on OpenAI and Hugging Face address security incident during model evaluation
What's happening in Iran, if not world government?
gowld··on Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled
> so if I tell a model ...

Even better:

"so if I tell a *human"..."

then whose achievement is the result?

gowld··on Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled
The word "just" is the mark of a coward.

AI is only as good as a human mathemetician, which we don't have enough of? "just"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobian_conjecture

> The conjecture was first stated for two variables by Ludwig Kraus in 1884 [...] an example of a difficult question in algebraic geometry that can be understood using little beyond a knowledge of calculus.

> The Jacobian conjecture is number 16 in Stephen Smale's 1998 list of Mathematical Problems for the Next Century. It was notorious for the large number of published and unpublished false proofs that turned out to contain subtle errors.

gowld··on Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled
Trying and failing to prove something tells you quite a lot about what a counterexample would look like.
gowld··on Hacker wipes Romania's land registry database
In the US, real estate purchases come with "title insurance", because there is no official, guaranteed, land registry database.
gowld··on I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets
It's not really a vuln when using context is exactly what the AI system is designed to do.
gowld··on Book prizes don't work how you think
I read the article.

Book Prizes Do Work How I Think.

It's just like, someone's opinion, man.

gowld··on Demis Hassabis has a plan to harness AI safely
On average, Americans donate 1-2% of income, while spending 7-20% less on contributions to government.

On the other hand, Americans receive less for the government, and spend more on caring for themselves (health care) than Europeans receive from the government.

To sort that you, you'd have to figure out how cost-efficient the two models are, for services provided.

gowld··on DOGE is done. What happened to its records?
Medical services are for-profit, not the hospitals. The hospitals funnel money to for-profit vendors.
gowld··on DOGE is done. What happened to its records?
There is an ocean in the middle of the "western hemisphere". Did you mean "Americas continent countries"?
gowld··on DOGE is done. What happened to its records?
Consent matters.
gowld··on Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS
The black hat can find 0-day escalation in your sandbox, too.

A user account is a sandbox.

gowld··on Grok CLI uploaded the whole home directory to GCS
Users do not want the agent to be restricted. They want the agent to read the user's mind and resolving the user's cognitive dissonance and contradictory preferences.
gowld··on SimPolitics: America’s quest to solve politics with computers
This is how the criminal courts operate (juries).
gowld··on Building a real-time AI tutor for 5-year-olds
That is "correct" grammar, English as she is spoke.
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