A bunch of actual humans have replied to this so at least HN isn't totally gone yet. :) Otherwise, yes, we agree. Although, given the other replies to this, there are clearly those who disagree who appear to be smart…
You know I think I have accepted this after a few decades on this planet, but probably can't hurt to be reminded. :) I wouldn't argue there aren't real humans excited for this drop. It was just all the circumstances…
Engagement is generally more important than purely positive sentiment. Anyway these comments were made when this thread was in an earlier state. I agree that it has gone on to be more "organic" looking. That doesn't…
I guess there are more people eagerly watching price decreases than I realized!
More than two comments per minute right when it was posted, all simple one-liners celebrating the price decrease. I would agree now that the thread has recovered to a more interesting state, but how it first…
Hopefully it is clear from my other comments that I do try to provide value too. > You have now posted accusations/assumptions of astroturfing and manipulation at least 15 times, without ever providing any evidence. I…
That is actually a great point. I have no rebuttal.
I've seen your articles in the past and I thought they were great. So I respect your thinking, and have no intention of being combative. But do you really think people were so excited about cheaper versions of Astra…
Do you think the "you can't mention astroturfing" rule is really serving HN these days? Do you think this thread hasn't been manipulated? I respect you for replying here though, and yes I get that HN forum standards…
This is the most blatantly astroturfed thread I have ever seen on Hacker News. My previous comment--which suggested astroturfing--was the highest upvoted comment here until it got flagged. Which implies to me that other…
Thirteen comments in six minutes, primarily one liners about how "insane" and "very nice" the new prices are, and how "Claude can't compete"? Within one hour of the Opus 5.5 launch announcement? Goodbye Hacker News--it…
Seems like a great way to crush dissent. But respect to you for replying to me. I wish you only the best in moderating, and I hope that this forum can remain healthy--especially in a time where enormously well-funded…
What? He quotes the opening line of the article, and notes that he reacts negatively to it. Interpreting his sentiment as "curmudgeonly" is a clear exaggeration. And sure--it isn't a high-substance comment, but it isn't…
I don't comment on HN much, and I don't really expect HN comments to hold to rigorous standards. This forum is more casual than other places on the internet where people expect heavy citations. I also wasn't expecting…
People always napkin math something low, and then every academic who formally studies it ends up with a much higher estimate. I await OpenAI's carbon footprint field.
This is such a strange reply I don't even know what to do with it. Good on you for being vegan, and not prompting? I have gone lacto-ovo vegetarian in the past year, so I'll take your 5 years of veganism as inspiration.…
Someone needs to name this fallacy. The existence of existing harmful norms does not, ex ante, justify introducing additional harmful norms. I propose naming it the "GenAI Defender Fallacy". Separately--yes, I would…
The sheer waste that accompanies image and video genAI is actually terrifying. I challenge OpenAI to put a "your carbon footprint" field next to each generation. If you have nothing to hide, more information is surely…
This one should go in the history books when we pass the 3C warming threshold. We decided that the natural world's value amounted to.. 3 billion AI-generated images per day.
I elaborated on my use of "dark forest" in another reply. We're headed for a dark forest--not between interstellar civilizations, but in intellectual work. I agree that we have not solved the Fermi paradox; I disagree…
I also think the trope is a little overused, but do wonder if there is an interesting analogy for what this will do to research: Massively incentivize keeping results secret, to avoid being scooped by someone willing to…
Sad turn of events for our world. After watching the behavior of the most prevalent OpenAI researchers on twitter, I feel even less confident in them as a team to be shepherding this much capital and compute. The dark…
This is such a good analogy, I might have to steal it. :)
Pair this with the Hugging Face incident, and it hints that OpenAI is currently training their models to aggressively reward hack. That doesn't feel like a good sign to me--for the AI bull or the AI bear cases.
Yes, this discovery is surprisingly similar to the recent counterexamples LLMs have been finding for mathematical conjectures: a semi-novel construction, built on previous work, that feels like it was found with…
A bunch of actual humans have replied to this so at least HN isn't totally gone yet. :) Otherwise, yes, we agree. Although, given the other replies to this, there are clearly those who disagree who appear to be smart…
You know I think I have accepted this after a few decades on this planet, but probably can't hurt to be reminded. :) I wouldn't argue there aren't real humans excited for this drop. It was just all the circumstances…
Engagement is generally more important than purely positive sentiment. Anyway these comments were made when this thread was in an earlier state. I agree that it has gone on to be more "organic" looking. That doesn't…
I guess there are more people eagerly watching price decreases than I realized!
More than two comments per minute right when it was posted, all simple one-liners celebrating the price decrease. I would agree now that the thread has recovered to a more interesting state, but how it first…
Hopefully it is clear from my other comments that I do try to provide value too. > You have now posted accusations/assumptions of astroturfing and manipulation at least 15 times, without ever providing any evidence. I…
That is actually a great point. I have no rebuttal.
I've seen your articles in the past and I thought they were great. So I respect your thinking, and have no intention of being combative. But do you really think people were so excited about cheaper versions of Astra…
Do you think the "you can't mention astroturfing" rule is really serving HN these days? Do you think this thread hasn't been manipulated? I respect you for replying here though, and yes I get that HN forum standards…
This is the most blatantly astroturfed thread I have ever seen on Hacker News. My previous comment--which suggested astroturfing--was the highest upvoted comment here until it got flagged. Which implies to me that other…
Thirteen comments in six minutes, primarily one liners about how "insane" and "very nice" the new prices are, and how "Claude can't compete"? Within one hour of the Opus 5.5 launch announcement? Goodbye Hacker News--it…
Seems like a great way to crush dissent. But respect to you for replying to me. I wish you only the best in moderating, and I hope that this forum can remain healthy--especially in a time where enormously well-funded…
What? He quotes the opening line of the article, and notes that he reacts negatively to it. Interpreting his sentiment as "curmudgeonly" is a clear exaggeration. And sure--it isn't a high-substance comment, but it isn't…
I don't comment on HN much, and I don't really expect HN comments to hold to rigorous standards. This forum is more casual than other places on the internet where people expect heavy citations. I also wasn't expecting…
People always napkin math something low, and then every academic who formally studies it ends up with a much higher estimate. I await OpenAI's carbon footprint field.
This is such a strange reply I don't even know what to do with it. Good on you for being vegan, and not prompting? I have gone lacto-ovo vegetarian in the past year, so I'll take your 5 years of veganism as inspiration.…
Someone needs to name this fallacy. The existence of existing harmful norms does not, ex ante, justify introducing additional harmful norms. I propose naming it the "GenAI Defender Fallacy". Separately--yes, I would…
The sheer waste that accompanies image and video genAI is actually terrifying. I challenge OpenAI to put a "your carbon footprint" field next to each generation. If you have nothing to hide, more information is surely…
This one should go in the history books when we pass the 3C warming threshold. We decided that the natural world's value amounted to.. 3 billion AI-generated images per day.
I elaborated on my use of "dark forest" in another reply. We're headed for a dark forest--not between interstellar civilizations, but in intellectual work. I agree that we have not solved the Fermi paradox; I disagree…
I also think the trope is a little overused, but do wonder if there is an interesting analogy for what this will do to research: Massively incentivize keeping results secret, to avoid being scooped by someone willing to…
Sad turn of events for our world. After watching the behavior of the most prevalent OpenAI researchers on twitter, I feel even less confident in them as a team to be shepherding this much capital and compute. The dark…
This is such a good analogy, I might have to steal it. :)
Pair this with the Hugging Face incident, and it hints that OpenAI is currently training their models to aggressively reward hack. That doesn't feel like a good sign to me--for the AI bull or the AI bear cases.
Yes, this discovery is surprisingly similar to the recent counterexamples LLMs have been finding for mathematical conjectures: a semi-novel construction, built on previous work, that feels like it was found with…