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I like talking to strangers, so feel free to email me. shrikanth at abis dot moe. Also @shrikanthup on x, formerly twitter.

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Comment · 1 day ago

Anybody can privatize their rail system???

Comment · 1 day ago

From "I suspect it was Anthropic" to "Nah it was anthropic", it's amazing how disinformation spreads... when even your source says:

> but it is unclear whether his account or another part of the publishing process was compromised.

God, people get so conspiratorial on HN when it comes to Ant

Comment · 2 days ago

Japan is a terrible comparison here because their rail network is privatized. They're also paying their pensions with debt, and their economy is really stagnant and not a shining example of a country doing well with a pension burden that high.

Comment · 2 days ago

Yeah, Golden Gate claude was in 2024! But I think the most recent/relevant thing was the monosemanticity discovery.

Comment · 3 days ago

Do you understand what the ethical objection the person who requested this exemption has?

Comment · 3 days ago

If you don't "want" to do something, that's not a religious or ethical exemption, that's just you not wanting to do something.

Comment · 3 days ago

Do you think it is unethical to be a manager?

Comment · 3 days ago

Yeah, and is this person going to turn down becoming a manager, ever, because they'll have to delegate the actual solution to someone else? Or are they going to micromanage them due to their ethical commitments?

Comment · 10 days ago

Yeah I'd rather they spend 2x on compute than leak my data

Comment · 10 days ago

I don't get what your point is WRT this article. They aren't announcing a result? They're describing a technique they used in real projects to prevent new vulnerabilities, including a change that is merged into OpenSSL. What is the "rush to announce a result" here? What are you saying they don't understand?

Comment · 16 days ago

This is a garbage article, lmao. Comparing architectures as "AI assisted (vibe coded)" and "Optimized modular CEF", and highlighting Steam as being faster in tray restore when it is slower.

Comment · 18 days ago

That is the standard pricing for Opus-class models these days.

Comment · 23 days ago

https://x.com/tszzl/status/2051045196260167790

> it is a literal and useful description of anthropic that it is an organization that loves and worships claude, is run in significant part by claude, and studies and builds claude

(E to add, for those who don't know, tszzl/roon is an MTS at OpenAI and a pretty influential researcher/personality in the AI world)

Comment · 25 days ago

Orca is too maximalist IMO, and it isn't a lot of work to switch together something with Herdr and a few vibed up plugins to get much (if not all) of the benefits that matter to you without the complexity and weight.

Comment · 25 days ago

No, it's a play on the Twitter/Reddit memeing about "Le Chaton Fat", see: https://www.reddit.com/r/MistralAI/comments/1u6f0dm/what_is_...

You'd be surprised how much of the AI world is fueled by memes.