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Comment · 16 days ago
This made me lol so hard, that I stopped what I was doing and logged into Hacker News to say "thank you" to whoever built this website.

This is perfect:

Against Taking My Son To Soccer Practice: A Bayesian, Longtermist, Updateless, Game-Theoretic, Kelly-Optimal Steelman of the Opportunity Cost of Reallocating My Son’s College Fund, My Ex-Wife’s Child Support, and the Proceeds of My Second Divorce Toward Methamphetamine, Escorts, Polymarket Positions, Grandma’s Pain Pills, and an Acausal Trade With Roko’s Basilisk Under Coherent Extrapolated Volition, Short Timelines, and a p(doom) I Will Not Be Updating at This Time (Part 1 of 7)

Comment · 1 month ago
Imagine if it was a coincidence
Comment · 2 months ago
I’ll second that.

It makes me think of “kindle” and “diddle.”

Comment · 3 months ago
I was so disturbed I couldn’t spell!
Comment · 3 months ago
This specific video is the first time I have been distributed by AI video.

This is extraordinary lifelike.

Comment · 3 months ago
He cited the Demis Hassabis’s framework for testing.

From Hassabis’s essay:

“It could establish a new Standards Body modelled on a federally overseen public-private partnership or self-regulatory organisation, much like the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), with a board that includes independent leading technical experts and open-source representatives.”

Comment · 3 months ago
This article has lots of links that are paywalled. Not a lot of primary sourced info.

This can be a little annoying when you’re reading.

Comment · 3 months ago
I should have clarified that it’s not difficult for technical workers to switch, but for your average knowledge worker…it’s not easy switching from Claude Cowork to Codex. I don’t think the switch from Cowork to open source is easy.
Comment · 3 months ago
Switching an agent harness is more difficult, especially on the enterprise/teams level.

Once your team gets settled with Claude teams, cowork, and the various plugins, it’s going to be a pain in the butt to switch.

Comment · 4 months ago
Meta? More like…betta.
Comment · 4 months ago
Wow! I had never heard of pooding.cool - what an awesome site.
Comment · 4 months ago
Additionally, they are one of the few for-profit companies that uses “.org” with a straight face.

Even if it was not the original intent, it’s somewhat deceptive to keep it.

Comment · 4 months ago
I don’t know if bleak is the right word, but keeping up with the pace of change with LLMs is exhausting.
Comment · 4 months ago
Fin is dangerously close to Walter Jr. naming himself “Flynn” in breaking bad.
Comment · 4 months ago
“Anthropic buys 75% of Truth Social’s ad inventory”

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