io84
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Comment · 14 days ago
A buddy and I are settting up an AI-focused reading group in Dublin, Ireland. Goal is to be more thoughtful about how we navigate whatever-comes-next, singularity or otherwise.
Curious to hear if we're missing good texts that meet the brief.
(and of course... any local HN users who might want to join, please do)
Comment · 18 days ago
Nice. The five-tile paint cursor is an excellent design choice, much easier than the single-tile default you get on apps like Golly etc.
What’s the Hypermedia reference? On mobile your About button is unclickable.
Comment · 26 days ago
Interesting result - I wonder you were capturing consensus or agreeableness towards what the user (or in this case: a group chat of robots) is proposing. I think non-agreeableness can be a very valuable trait.
Comment · 1 month ago
I’m sympathetic to OP but think this is a hopeless battle.
1 - The commercial demand for anthropomorphised models is already immense, pre AGI.
2 - There is an intellectual hunger to engage with robot minds on questions of sentience. This too will grow with AGI.
I expect that tension of godlike minds that seem to be biddable and ownable like slaves is going to leak back into human-to-human morality, regardless of where we land on how we treat AI.
There’s an interesting academic group in the UK already focused on the model welfare debate, they seem to lean in favour of AI rights. No affiliation: https://www.prism-global.com/
Comment · 1 month ago
Simple recommendation app that asks 10+ AI models for the top options for whatever you’re looking for, and it pools the results to give you the overall top three:
I mainly built it to explore which areas have model consensus and which have diversity of opinion.
Comment · 1 month ago
Their devices have never been [known to be] remotely breached, but still…
2022: Their Mailchimp account breached
2024: Their support ticket portal breached
2025: Support contact form sent phishing via official auto-replies
Aug 2026: Shipping partner ShipMonk breached
Sep 2026: Email provider breached
Anything Trezor knows about you should be considered thoroughly compromised.
Comment · 2 months ago
Yes, all of the links seem to go through to shopping funnels, even to get a PDF. I’m not seeing any freely downloadable resources. This is basically just an ad.
Comment · 2 months ago
A new and growing fear I have is that AI cuts off some of the most well-trodden pathways to intellectual growth. Every time the AI solves a problem that I would not have been able to efficiently solve alone, it has replaced an interaction that previously would have happened with a mentor/supervisor/code reviewer. This is faster for the person seeking the micro-assistance, but there is a flipside: fewer human-to-human acts of mentorship and shared problem solving. We lose a lively ingredient of team formation, expert formation, and a source of joy for all involved. As this scales up it feels plausible that we end up with a wider deagradation of intellectual standards. I like the Cognitive Comons framing.
Comment · 5 months ago
The very same - he writes about that elsewhere on the site.
Comment · 1 year ago
"In the future, everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes" _in a microniche techno-linguistic community, at a time and choosing of the swirling AI clouds_
Comment · 1 year ago
How to create a semantic search engine for colors (or anything else) using Supabase and an embedding provider such as OpenAI or Mistral