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That’s an uncharitable take. They didn’t say anything about optimizing for it, just that it was a signal for them. Maybe one of the signals.

What is your experience of the incompetence of the ownership class?

There are daily posts about how bad OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Meta, Grok are. Especially on HN. Anthropic is even considered security risk by the US. Yet here you are crying foul that Chinese models are mistreated?

What if GPT 6 small is bigger than GPT 5 large?

So you are saying, just like the Internet, there may or may not be a painful AI burst in a few years, then exponential grow in decades to come? What is the time window to fit your narrative?

What makes someone a nazi? What specific worldviews? Holocaust sympathy? Aryan supremacy?

> Trump’s biggest donor

Is it a good or bad thing? Half of Americans think that’d be the badge of honor.

What if I tell you the DeepSeek’s leadership are communist party’s members? Is that good or bad?

Who is this math community? Since when did they form the consensus that this option is not at all what they care about, before or after they knew about OpenAI’s solution?

What about Tristan Buckmaster and Levent Alpöge, did they also attempt to solve the same challenge? Didn’t they know it wasn’t interesting?

Eh. You’d have to clarify that. Google get started because other search engines at the time sucked. I had a soft spot for Ask Jeeves, but it was clear Google was better.

Advertising is the monetizing strategy from early on. AdWords came to be in 2000. Nothing fuzzy about that.

> AI labs have handwaved away as being "solvable" by AGI

Mind sharing who at AI labs saying this?

Statistics is still the most reliable indicator, because you can’t really tell if a situation is “novel”. How novel is novel? I doubt even Waymo knows for sure.

People will trust them by familiarity, not by any objective measures. Their trust grow as they see them more often, without bad accidents.