That's a stupid counterargument. Transcribing is transformative. Copying a video into a PDF is not.
Almost all those people charge for the PDFs. They know the PDF is more useful, that's why the video is free. I don't think your software is (or should be) illegal. But it's a form of theft, and incredibly unethical.…
The picture of the guy with his handdrawn "dream phone" is quite charming. Sort of a Homerphone, but it is drawn well. https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/man-in-a-village-hol... "Sir, please, a QWERTY keyboard…
The point was that we should separate "he had this coming" (true) from "he deserved this" (false).
"How could this have happened a third time??? I even italicized the rule! And Claude insisted it was sorry and wouldn't make the mistake again."
It is very useful when the LLM-generated article is full of inaccuracies. Look how confused people were in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873424 A disclaimer on HN saying "AI generated" would have…
This article is an LLM-generated summary and it got a bunch of stuff wrong. Very frustrating. Here's the actual paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5150/10/2/34
Read the title a little more closely :) As far as we know computation actually can simulate consciousness: - given any system of quantum particles, a sufficiently large Turing machine can solve the matching system of…
They did. The article explains tbat this is a trend which has been getting worse for years, specifically pointing to search engines as a major turning point. Your comment is completely off the mark.
The Church-Turing thesis is a statement about symoblic processes, and symbolism is simply not fundamental to the universe. It is fundamental to how humans understand the universe. That's the distinction.
The problem is not that it's fallinle, but that there's no noncircular explanation for why it seems to work. Inductive reasoning foesn't have a rational explanation, judt an intuitive one. I don't think your claim is…
This incredibly critical part of "early 2026" doesn't seem to hold up very well: Overall, they are making algorithmic progress 50% faster than they would without AI assistants Yes the AI labs are using LLM-assisted…
This paper is actually not a bad one to get started with. Obviously you need the proper background and I am not sure how much linear algebra you've taken. Going through a senior undergrad numerical linear algebra text…
Post-training Claude on a particular shape of edit tool doesn’t just make Claude better on that edit tool, it encourages harness authors to support that shape. It propagates that shape of edit tool. That itself leads to…
Yeah, "shockingly" the LLM summary has it wrong. The paper is really focusing on luminance contrast: the variation in contrast within a natural object tends to be narrower than the variation between objects, and the…
If it's any consolation this article was written by an LLM, so reading it is a waste of time regardless. HN should just autoblock this entire scumbag domain. The paper itself is open access:…
I cannot believe this is your problem: Humans have multiple domains, not just "the" domain. It seems like you're more interested in picking a fight than having a discussion. I will not respond to you after this. I will…
Science absolutely does depend on metaphysics. Most famously: the validity of the scientific method is ultimately a metaphysical extension of our intuitions about inductive reasoning and causality. There is no…
But that just takes us even further from physical relevance / universal fundamentals. Kolmogorov complexity is fundamental in computation, but its relevance in physical science is pretty selective.
Seems to be the first time this was confirmed via direct experimental observation of the orbitals: “This idea that relativity is important in heavy elements has been around since the 1970s,” said Lai-Sheng Wang, a…
Information and computation are not the same thing. I was very specifically talking about Turing machines and other theoretical models of computation. That said, you are still making the same mistake I pointed out,…
There are a lot of long comments basically saying what I am about to say so I will try to keep this brief: Computation is a metaphysically universal and fundamental concept, since metaphysics is (tautologically) the…
I didn't see the next paragraph after the proof. This typography is hard to read on a phone. Wish HN would let me delete the comment.
I am not very familiar with this problem but I am having trouble following the proof. Lemma 2.1 assumes the existence of an assignment of finite field elements to a cubic multigraph, but is this assignment always…
This shouldn't be ignored in the discussion here: The job performed by the humans was broader than what was requested of the model in this benchmark: humans also had to find the relevant invoices (searching through…
That's a stupid counterargument. Transcribing is transformative. Copying a video into a PDF is not.
Almost all those people charge for the PDFs. They know the PDF is more useful, that's why the video is free. I don't think your software is (or should be) illegal. But it's a form of theft, and incredibly unethical.…
The picture of the guy with his handdrawn "dream phone" is quite charming. Sort of a Homerphone, but it is drawn well. https://spectrum.ieee.org/media-library/man-in-a-village-hol... "Sir, please, a QWERTY keyboard…
The point was that we should separate "he had this coming" (true) from "he deserved this" (false).
"How could this have happened a third time??? I even italicized the rule! And Claude insisted it was sorry and wouldn't make the mistake again."
It is very useful when the LLM-generated article is full of inaccuracies. Look how confused people were in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48873424 A disclaimer on HN saying "AI generated" would have…
This article is an LLM-generated summary and it got a bunch of stuff wrong. Very frustrating. Here's the actual paper: https://www.mdpi.com/2411-5150/10/2/34
Read the title a little more closely :) As far as we know computation actually can simulate consciousness: - given any system of quantum particles, a sufficiently large Turing machine can solve the matching system of…
They did. The article explains tbat this is a trend which has been getting worse for years, specifically pointing to search engines as a major turning point. Your comment is completely off the mark.
The Church-Turing thesis is a statement about symoblic processes, and symbolism is simply not fundamental to the universe. It is fundamental to how humans understand the universe. That's the distinction.
The problem is not that it's fallinle, but that there's no noncircular explanation for why it seems to work. Inductive reasoning foesn't have a rational explanation, judt an intuitive one. I don't think your claim is…
This incredibly critical part of "early 2026" doesn't seem to hold up very well: Overall, they are making algorithmic progress 50% faster than they would without AI assistants Yes the AI labs are using LLM-assisted…
This paper is actually not a bad one to get started with. Obviously you need the proper background and I am not sure how much linear algebra you've taken. Going through a senior undergrad numerical linear algebra text…
Post-training Claude on a particular shape of edit tool doesn’t just make Claude better on that edit tool, it encourages harness authors to support that shape. It propagates that shape of edit tool. That itself leads to…
Yeah, "shockingly" the LLM summary has it wrong. The paper is really focusing on luminance contrast: the variation in contrast within a natural object tends to be narrower than the variation between objects, and the…
If it's any consolation this article was written by an LLM, so reading it is a waste of time regardless. HN should just autoblock this entire scumbag domain. The paper itself is open access:…
I cannot believe this is your problem: Humans have multiple domains, not just "the" domain. It seems like you're more interested in picking a fight than having a discussion. I will not respond to you after this. I will…
Science absolutely does depend on metaphysics. Most famously: the validity of the scientific method is ultimately a metaphysical extension of our intuitions about inductive reasoning and causality. There is no…
But that just takes us even further from physical relevance / universal fundamentals. Kolmogorov complexity is fundamental in computation, but its relevance in physical science is pretty selective.
Seems to be the first time this was confirmed via direct experimental observation of the orbitals: “This idea that relativity is important in heavy elements has been around since the 1970s,” said Lai-Sheng Wang, a…
Information and computation are not the same thing. I was very specifically talking about Turing machines and other theoretical models of computation. That said, you are still making the same mistake I pointed out,…
There are a lot of long comments basically saying what I am about to say so I will try to keep this brief: Computation is a metaphysically universal and fundamental concept, since metaphysics is (tautologically) the…
I didn't see the next paragraph after the proof. This typography is hard to read on a phone. Wish HN would let me delete the comment.
I am not very familiar with this problem but I am having trouble following the proof. Lemma 2.1 assumes the existence of an assignment of finite field elements to a cubic multigraph, but is this assignment always…
This shouldn't be ignored in the discussion here: The job performed by the humans was broader than what was requested of the model in this benchmark: humans also had to find the relevant invoices (searching through…