Well, it’s up to the user or post-trainer of the LLM what they believe to be above average. Then they can design around that. In the case of real world LLMs and post-training, what is above average is defined roughly…
LLMs learn a distribution during pre-training, not only an average. Then, by giving them context or by post-training, you can make them sample non-average parts of the distribution they learned.
I checked out your agent and it looks pretty well designed. Congrats on starting to share it with others! One thing I noticed: "Your Tools: Aether agents get tools exclusively via MCP servers." "...Aether ships with…
Why does its architecture or you knowing how AI is architected cause thoughts of it being conscious to go out the window? It seems like the biggest factor has nothing to do with AI, but instead that you went from being…
That’s the most common time control on chess.com according to this article: https://www.chess.com/article/view/time-controls-and-game-re... It sounds like a good idea to me!
Hey! I played against a bot and it was pretty fun. Small suggestion: too many queues can make it very difficult to build up a network of players at first. I'd suggest, for now, lowering the amount of available time…
AI comments are against Hacker News rules.
The sheer em dash density of this post really struck me, so I asked Claude to write a script which ranked text post Show HNs over the last week in order of em dash density. Script here:…
Are you trying to imply that humans don’t need generalized knowledge, or that we’re not “rewarded” for having highly generalized knowledge? If so, good luck walking to your kitchen this morning, knowing how to breathe,…
> that corporate profits would rise while consumer spend dropped are literally incompatible realities These are not incompatible realities. I would be willing to accept the statement that corporate revenues increasing…
When I hear "coding agent", I think of both the harness and the LLM as a pair. Like, Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Code is a coding agent, or Gemini 3 Pro and Pi is a coding agent. "Harness" is a way to reference the…
LLMs are not "average text generation machines" once they have context. LLMs learn a distribution. The moment you start the prompt with "You are an interactive CLI tool that helps users with software engineering at the…
It is not a "narrative", "philosophical paradigm", or him "getting high on his own supply". It is simply him sharing his thoughts about something.
It really doesn’t, at all. Every sentence has a clear, non-equivocative meaning and it doesn’t use any LLM tropes. Your LLM sensor is seriously faulty.
What is the goal of doing that vs using L2 loss?
So, I have heard a number of people say this, and I feel like I'm the person in your conversations saying it's a coarse description and downplays the details. What I don't understand is, what specifically do we gain…
> Boglehead > 140% gain on your holdings this year Choose one.
Why would one have motivation to not use activation functions? To my knowledge they’re a negligible portion of the total compute during training or inference and work well to provide non-linearity. Very open to learning…
Okay, that makes perfect sense. Thanks for the explanation!
Can you please explain the insight about reduced workweeks you are deriving from what you've linked? It is not obvious to me.
> we’d just have to do it Highly economically disincentivized collective actions like “pulling the plug on AI” are among the most non-trivial of problems. Using the word “just” here hand waves the crux.
Can you list some long textbooks on a single subject that are amazing?
Don’t forget the training data!
The phrasing “<statement> — no X, Y, Z, just <final simplified claim>” is cropping up a lot lately. 4o also ends many of its messages that way. It has to be related.
Dozens? Don't you mean, probably hundreds of trillions in the observable universe? Not that the number of planets really implies anything when we don't know the probability of life arising on one of them.
Well, it’s up to the user or post-trainer of the LLM what they believe to be above average. Then they can design around that. In the case of real world LLMs and post-training, what is above average is defined roughly…
LLMs learn a distribution during pre-training, not only an average. Then, by giving them context or by post-training, you can make them sample non-average parts of the distribution they learned.
I checked out your agent and it looks pretty well designed. Congrats on starting to share it with others! One thing I noticed: "Your Tools: Aether agents get tools exclusively via MCP servers." "...Aether ships with…
Why does its architecture or you knowing how AI is architected cause thoughts of it being conscious to go out the window? It seems like the biggest factor has nothing to do with AI, but instead that you went from being…
That’s the most common time control on chess.com according to this article: https://www.chess.com/article/view/time-controls-and-game-re... It sounds like a good idea to me!
Hey! I played against a bot and it was pretty fun. Small suggestion: too many queues can make it very difficult to build up a network of players at first. I'd suggest, for now, lowering the amount of available time…
AI comments are against Hacker News rules.
The sheer em dash density of this post really struck me, so I asked Claude to write a script which ranked text post Show HNs over the last week in order of em dash density. Script here:…
Are you trying to imply that humans don’t need generalized knowledge, or that we’re not “rewarded” for having highly generalized knowledge? If so, good luck walking to your kitchen this morning, knowing how to breathe,…
> that corporate profits would rise while consumer spend dropped are literally incompatible realities These are not incompatible realities. I would be willing to accept the statement that corporate revenues increasing…
When I hear "coding agent", I think of both the harness and the LLM as a pair. Like, Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Code is a coding agent, or Gemini 3 Pro and Pi is a coding agent. "Harness" is a way to reference the…
LLMs are not "average text generation machines" once they have context. LLMs learn a distribution. The moment you start the prompt with "You are an interactive CLI tool that helps users with software engineering at the…
It is not a "narrative", "philosophical paradigm", or him "getting high on his own supply". It is simply him sharing his thoughts about something.
It really doesn’t, at all. Every sentence has a clear, non-equivocative meaning and it doesn’t use any LLM tropes. Your LLM sensor is seriously faulty.
What is the goal of doing that vs using L2 loss?
So, I have heard a number of people say this, and I feel like I'm the person in your conversations saying it's a coarse description and downplays the details. What I don't understand is, what specifically do we gain…
> Boglehead > 140% gain on your holdings this year Choose one.
Why would one have motivation to not use activation functions? To my knowledge they’re a negligible portion of the total compute during training or inference and work well to provide non-linearity. Very open to learning…
Okay, that makes perfect sense. Thanks for the explanation!
Can you please explain the insight about reduced workweeks you are deriving from what you've linked? It is not obvious to me.
> we’d just have to do it Highly economically disincentivized collective actions like “pulling the plug on AI” are among the most non-trivial of problems. Using the word “just” here hand waves the crux.
Can you list some long textbooks on a single subject that are amazing?
Don’t forget the training data!
The phrasing “<statement> — no X, Y, Z, just <final simplified claim>” is cropping up a lot lately. 4o also ends many of its messages that way. It has to be related.
Dozens? Don't you mean, probably hundreds of trillions in the observable universe? Not that the number of planets really implies anything when we don't know the probability of life arising on one of them.