joebuckwilliams

eBay still exists?

Blah blah blah why do we even take anything he says as anything other than a short-term attempt to boost stock price?

Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49895975

These people are all mentally ill and need treatment.

lol

“Anthropic is trying to prevent catastrophic misuse, and some limits are necessary.”

No. Anthropic is trying to justify its trillion-dollar valuation by making software seem like the invention of fire or nuclear weapons. It’s a PR strategy and has been one since the beginning. Now it’s trying to slow the market because it’s got a big lead but no profits and no pricing power thanks to open-weights Chinese models.

No, it’s not. Too many people watched that movie and thought it was real. It wasn’t. What we call “AI” is not alive, not autonomous, and does not act in unanticipated ways. The people pushing this narrative are idiots, or think you are.

The "Grounding" section at the end of this blog post makes the whole read worthwhile. Most interesting combo of life and software writing I've seen in a long time...

His story is actually going viral because it was posted on X, was critical of OpenAI and Anthropic, and Elon's algos are promoting the hell out of it.

Don't bet on it. https://nochan.net/b/Internet-Crap/20260910-Asked-Claude-For...

They’re lying. They can’t do this. They’re trying to get the government to shut out competitors.

The bigger risk is going to be the fundamental inability to meet their buildout commitments. There’s not enough money in the world.

Hard disagree. Most normal people do not want to see others’ jobs automated unless it provides obvious benefits. Nobody likes self-checkout lines, but they’re “automated.” I like talking to interesting Uber drivers.

Pharmacists though? Yeah replace them with face-ID prescription vending machines…

So nice to see some real business analysis of AI that’s defter than “AI sucks; bubble pop” or “AI change everything”.

She must have the greatest publicist in the world. This was a moderately interesting story 10 years ago.

From last September.

This is the typical AI booster’s game: make vague claims about what AI can already do today without showing one single example, then extrapolate to an imaginary future and say that we’re all too stupid even to debate him.

Instead of writing some post like this, I’d love to hear ONE SINGLE EXAMPLE of AI doing a core work task faster, better, and cheaper than a person can do it, now, today. Here’s the task. Here’s how people did it before AI. Here’s how they do it now. Here’s how much time or money they save.

SHOW ME OR STFU

The article is AI-generated and admits it. I’d love to see a blanket HN ban on AI-generated “media” which is killing the internet.

Which marketing trick is best? The credulous gullible non-technical “tech” press covering fluff and hallucinations because it’s easier than learning and reporting. It’s astounding to that Axios is considered a success story - it’s the laziest of lazy “journalism” for lazy readers and lazy thinkers. It’s very 2010s. If any outlet deserves to be destroyed by Google Zero and AI, it’s Axios.

Glad to see: The Times is ON IT.

RIP. I liked this song more than his typical fare: https://open.spotify.com/album/7lHikGSGI1NzWxTx5Z5LK2

I agree with everything he wrote. I also don't believe this is actually what he believes - this is what you write when you're trying to come from behind.

This is a lot of crazy crazy with no technical value. Bro maybe needs to log off for a bit?

No, he was not right. We don’t have anything close to human-level AI. This is clickbait.

The big model makers want you to be afraid of China. But that's not what they're really afraid of. They're afraid of having no moat.

Didn’t the Supreme Court rule that Trump couldn’t do this unilaterally because there’s no “emergency”? Do the media just uncritically parrot every brain fart this guy emits, still, 11 years on? Come on.

Shopify.

Clare Stapleton, who made her name internally as the voice of the TGIF emails then was allegedly retaliated against for protesting its sexual harassment culture, tells her story:

He presents zero evidence. This has always been the far right's plan - support Israel, then drum up enough anti-Semitism in the US to create an outflow. Voila - Israel becomes like the ghetto in Warsaw, but for the entire world. WHY IS THIS STORY ON HACKER NEWS?

I love this post and agree with it but why post on X? Can’t someone get their own web page. Sigh.