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Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?

5. Absolut democracy is available at the liquor store in various flavors, but has negarive long-term health effects. I'd be happy with a sane system of taxation supporting a coherent budget.

The Origin of Consciousness (2008)

What a nice question. There won't be a simple answer, but if the model=actor due to survival pressures theory stands, it must be clearly testable. I would go about answering that question as follows, identify the smartest creatures, whose cognition is most alien to ours, whose behavior suggests they have a strong real-time sense of self that extends into it immediate processing, regardless of immediate action, or immediate action dependent on immediate state that is not easily explained as normally detectable or processed lower order state. Humans obviously. Then the octopus, a true alien cognition. it has an extremely curious and creative mind, and can behave quite differently in even slightly different situations, as well as coherently is situations that ought to be well out of its nich…

AI;DR (AI; Didn't Read)

This is actually a great representation of what is good and what is insidious about LLM assisted writing. The practice of writing can serve the purpose of conveying an idea or information to the readers, but it can also be an invaluable tool for the writer to process, digest, and internalize a message. The act of wordsmithing, and shaping the idea from its raw rambling form into a coherent narrative, is intellectual metabolism. A good writer will both distill the ideas, present them in such a way that will be pleasurable to their readers, and also bring the reader along the way so they can learn as well, and feel like an active participant. The LLM tend to produce prose that defeats the purpose for the writer, takes the joy out for the reader, and ultimately does nothing for anyone but ta…

People are worried about America's solvency

Ah yes, I remember Strom Thurmond, that great firebrand of the left, and his 1957 filibuster of the Civil Rights Act of 1957. Basically Lenin. /s To be fair, US political culture (and capitalism in general) contain deep, deep contradictions so it's going to require a whole lot of glue and squinting to say that there is any coherence to any US political party... The person you're responding to has it correct, though, that there was an important cultural shift around Johnson and Nixon and the Southern Strategy and all that... not that these cultural politics could ever touch the materialist facts of capital.

Ask HN: Alternatives to GitHub

That's fine, maybe they don't want casual users like you to be part of their community. There is a reason to prefer group coherence over availability. Availability doesn't actually help the group for most online communities, it's actively a hinderance.

The Origin of Consciousness (2008)

You can think abstractly about geometry problems, or graph tgeory but even about linear algebra. Feynman describes how he felt while holding and analyzing problems in his mind. I'm less eloquent. Also you can think about the narrative and the valence of a scene for a book, without blabbering to yourself while planning the story. I can narrate it like as if I imagine a friend being there and translating my thought into language but it's an extra step. It also exhausts me more. Which makes coding with LLMs more tiring for me. Before it, I could code without language use exhausting my brain, but talking to LLMs requires putting all of it into English, while before I could just imagine a certain refactor as one coherent thought in my mind without turning it into sentences. Of course above a c…

Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis

Obsessive is the right word. Over the weekend I had to stop it multiple times deep into a multi-hour long turn to ask what the hell it was doing. It was like a dog with a bone and would NOT let go of its current work to talk to me. I had to interrupt it three times with increasingly aggressive instructions to STOP and answer my questions before proceeding. In another session it straight up told me it was in the middle of debugging something important and to ask later. I'm running an RTX 6000 Blackwell. It regularly spent over an hour per turn thinking. Every time I looked at it, the thinking trace seemed coherent, sensible, appropriate. But it could never settle on a solution. Granted, I was trying to have it solve a hard problem that 5.6 Sol couldn't solve, but still. Either way, I'm sti…

On AI regulation and messaging

Well, is ”not actively make things worse in the short term?” too ambitious a goal? Considering the vast amount of money, world-class talent and political and industry vonnections Anthropic has access to, it feels a bit unfair to ask me to solve this for them.

Why does everyone hate data centers?

Not what the article says Article quotes OpenAI that anti-data-center content was being produced by ChatGPT (so it’s really sam altman funding it when you think about it)

Anthropic's War on open source AI

Suppose the upside is as Dario claims, very positive. Why should frontier companies be the ones controlling access to the model weights and gatekeeping research? Shouldn't you be giving it to everybody as quickly as possible? It's my understanding that Dario has two answers to this question: 1) bio/cyber/misalignment risk. 2) a democracy should gatekeep frontier capabilities from authoritarian adversaries, due to the aforementioned risks in 1). So it's really just one reason. There's a big problem with that, and I'm not sure if he genuinely does not understand: the bio/cyber/misalignment risk is precisely the highest when you concentrate ownership of compute and general intelligence in the hands of a few. Consider bio/cyber risk, or more generally, any sort of nov…

Anthropic Revenue Run Rate Surpasses $65B Ahead of IPO

Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing

"My writing is my work, and Anthropic's current strategy is aggressively writer-hostile."

Qwen3.8 27B scores 52 on Artificial Analysis

Sounds obvious but just try using the models for anything outside the evals. Take something arcane from Greek history, use it to create a masked linguistic puzzle, which you then ask the model to solve mathematically, all wrapped as an ask to generate ASCII art. Yes, all these elements exist in some form in the evals but the key is in how utterly unconventional the elements are that you pick and in how you combine them. I have consistently noticed Opus 4.8 and GPT-5.6 far outshine the Chinese models. Gemini is sort of middle of the road, Grok is better than Gemini but not really close to Opus/GPT. OAI & Anthropic still remain unbeaten by a wide margin in my eyes.

Anthropic's War on open source AI

I've read most of this. I find it be incredibly self-contradictory. I don't even think this aligns much with the actions of the company. > Second, there is a good chance free information really does undermine authoritarianism, as long as the authoritarians can’t censor it [...] A superhumanly effective AI version of Popović (whose skills seem like they have high returns to intelligence) in everyone’s pocket, one that dictators are powerless to block or censor, could create a wind at the backs of dissidents and reformers across the world. But hey - gotta turn Fable off and stop it from doing any security work! Dictators shouldn't be able to censor it, but we sure can, so better hope we're not the dictators. Again, the I think the problem most folks have with Anthropic's attitude is that…

Why does everyone hate data centers?

The CPP is funding the anti-AI data center movement. See https://thehill.com/policy/technology/5920573-openai-chinese...

Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing

Based on the SynthID-Text paper https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08025-4 I agree that the LLM's learned distribution isn't modified, but I don't think it's correct to say that the sampling process is not modified. Also I just read the paper today so I could be misinterpreting things. As described in the paper, you're right that it doesn't affect the main sampling technique, but what they do is they sample the distribution for 2^m samples, and then use Tournament sampling to choose the tokens among those 2^m samples, and the watermark key changes the scoring of the tournament options, using the watermark key as an input to the random generator that generates the scoring functions. Then, to calculate the watermark, they take the text, and compute the mean g-val…

Amazon, which started off selling books, is destroying rare texts to train AI

TechCrunch is trying too hard to make a connection in the title there. Amazon was trying to make money then as it is now. Their selling of books at the beginning was no more principled than the destruction of books now. This is the legal loophole that allows them to do what they need to do, and the benefit of doing it outweighs the modicum of outrage this title will generate. Edit. Because I see my statement confused all the HN experts: Anthropic's version of this was Project Panama [1]. Quoting from the page: > Judge William Alsup ruled that the destruction and digitization of legally purchased books constituted fair use [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Panama

Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices

Are you willing to short anthropic and openai on your beliefs? Would love to be on the other side of this trade.

Memory prices climb 500% in 12 months, up to 10x the lowest ever tracked prices

Are you willing to short anthropic and openai on your beliefs? Would love to be on the other side of this trade.

OpenAI President Greg Brockman: "You Need to Believe"

I "believe" Brockman would have us all live in poverty if it meant he could line his pockets with one more dollar. Remember, this is from the company who puts on the "UBI for all" mask to dodge critique. https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/brockman-openai-top-trum...