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jamiltonon Waymo Safety Impact

What levers are there, really? Waymo has a monopoly and it seems like they will for a while, so they have a lot of power, but all I really see them doing is making it expensive. Anything that makes the experience worse takes away from their ability to take market share away from Uber/Lyft.

jamiltonon World Happiness Report 2026

An obvious issue with the metaphor that comes to mind is that if you consider yourself to have a pretty good life, to be overall happy and satisfied, but you think it's possible to have an objectively much better life, then you'd rank yourself relatively low. And vice versa, if you think your life sucks but it could be much worse you'd rank yourself relatively high.

jamiltonon Pretraining Language Models via Neural Cellular Automata

I don’t think that assumption is being made, why do you think that? In terms of metaphor, training a model could be considered both knowledge acquired after birth and its evolution. But I don’t think it’s particularly useful to stay thinking in metaphors.

jamiltonon Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story

Technically any market that's about someone doing something by a certain time can be an assassination contract, if you think the market will it enforce it that way. Can't do it if they're dead.

jamiltonon Executing programs inside transformers with exponentially faster inference

I would assume it was manually coded.

jamiltonon I'm glad the Anthropic fight is happening now

They're all pretty common AI-isms.

jamiltonon I put my whole life into a single database

Still worth trying, IMO.

An alternate approach that would be seen as consumer and business-friendly would be subsidizing companies with a certain level of fuel efficiency per passenger mile, targeted above current levels.

jamiltonon Show HN: Poppy – A simple app to stay intentional with relationships

Website looks nice. The copy being so painfully AI-written is a turnoff, enough that my first thought was "oh yeah, I remember hearing about this kind of app, I should look at the other one I'm thinking of". I do like that it's local and free.

Imported some contacts, doing quick setup, first contact, can't scroll down to confirm/finish setting them up. I'm on the SE, which is a slightly smaller screen, sometimes apps seem to have trouble with it, I assume they're assuming a larger screen.

jamiltonon This time is different

Yes, it's a UX thing. You'd still have to edit it by typing afterwards as well.

Similarly, raw LLM/chat interfaces are usually not the best option.

jamiltonon Pope tells priests to use their brains, not AI, to write homilies

People can tell. The premise is false. It’s sometimes hard to tell, obviously it’s hard to ascertain false negatives and false positives, but it’s usually pretty obvious.

jamiltonon Cord: Coordinating Trees of AI Agents

Feels very AI written in a way that makes it annoying to read with all the repetitive short sentences.

Neat concept though, would be cool to see some tests of performance on some tasks.

jamiltonon Show HN: I taught LLMs to play Magic: The Gathering against each other

Cool. How’d you pick decks?

jamiltonon My Grandma Was a Fed – Lessons from Digitizing Hours of Childhood

Neat! I briefly tried digitizing some old VHS tapes for my family. I was just planning on giving them the files, maybe putting it on iCloud, it's a much smaller collection (and I don't have a NAS already!). I did a few, the time investment was the biggest issue, as well as figuring out the right encoding so as to not take up a ton of space, but still be compatible with everyone's (Windows + Mac) native video players while preserving video quality.

jamiltonon Why vampires live forever

The joke is presumably ancient vampires doing it in secret to be alive for millennia.

jamiltonon Why vampires live forever

>The public begins to associate blood transfusion with eccentric billionaires rather than with undead predators. This is a critical narrative shift.

Not much of a shift...

jamiltonon Voxtral Transcribe 2

That quote was for the non-realtime model.

jamiltonon Advancing AI Benchmarking with Game Arena

It could have hands that feel but no vision, I think they were getting at that they thought embodiment and playing games in the modality of humans, without thousands of hours of play to reach competency, would be an important milestone.

jamiltonon In a genre where spoilers are devastating, how do we talk about puzzle games?

(Light spoilers) Supposedly the design intent was that you're not supposed to stealth in the dark much at all! It's really not obvious though, so it's a bit of a failure of design in that particular aspect. Interview with a dev: https://medium.com/@cordialkobold/interview-with-alex-beachu...

Still spooky atmosphere for sure.

jamiltonon Show HN: Subth.ink – write something and see how many others wrote the same

Yeah, convert to embedding, check if it's within a certain distance to an existing embedding and if so store it with that cluster and increment? Then check check further entries against against an average so clusters don't increase their "reach" indefinitely.

jamiltonon Pocket TTS: A high quality TTS that gives your CPU a voice

Being able to voice clone with PocketTTS seems major, it doesn't look like there's any support for that with Kokoro.

jamiltonon Eat Real Food

Because people would just feel bad about it and keep doing it. I don't care about people feeling bad about immoral behavior, I care about them not doing it in the first place.

jamiltonon Court report detailing ChatGPT's involvement with a recent murder suicide [pdf]

https://openai.com/index/strengthening-chatgpt-responses-in-...

"..our initial analysis estimates that around 0.15% of users active in a given week have conversations that include explicit indicators of potential suicidal planning or intent and 0.05% of messages contain explicit or implicit indicators of suicidal ideation or intent."

Roughly 700 million weekly active users, it's more like 1 million people discussing suicide with ChatGPT every week.

For reference, 12.8 million Americans are reported as thinking about suicide and 1.5 million are reported as attempting suicide in a year.

jamiltonon What an unprocessed photo looks like

Why that ratio in particular? I wonder if there’s a more complex ratio that could be better.

jamiltonon Rob Pike goes nuclear over GenAI

Lol - they really should be locking down their email accounts and enforcing that policy. Or manually reviewing outbound messages before they can be sent. It seems likely that just telling the LLMs that will have a non-zero failure rate.

jamiltonon Qwen-Image-Layered: transparency and layer aware open diffusion model

The linked GitHub readme says it outputs a powerpoint file of the layers.

jamiltonon Letta Code

What do you like about Void? It reads about how I would expect a base chat model to post.

jamiltonon Midjourney is alemwjsl

Yeah, I think it's an uncommon word. It's not a concept that would come up for most American English speakers, unless you're in a community that uses a language with another writing system (I think I first encountered it in a synagogue with Hebrew) or you're learning such a language.

I think I've maybe occasionally seen "translit." in text used to mark that the following is transliterated, but I could see that being easily glossed over.

jamiltonon Blender 5.0

If AI is at the point where it is exactly as capable of your average junior 3D professional in 10 years, it will probably have automated a ton (double digit percentage?) of current jobs such that nothing is safe. There's a lot of complexity, it's fairly long time horizon, it's very visually detailed, it's creative and subjective, and there's not a lot of easily accessible high quality training data.

It's like 2D art with more complexity and less training data. Non-AI 2D art and animation tools haven't been made irrelevant yet, and don't look like they will be soon.

jamiltonon Gemini 3

Yeah, LLMs used to not be up to par for new Project Euler problems, but GPT-5 was able to do a few of the recent ones which I tried a few weeks ago.

jamiltonon My stages of learning to be a socially normal person

Yeah. I wonder why that is - is it because it highlights a conflict between our actions and values? If left unexamined, it's a non-issue, so having it spelled out feels like a problem being created?