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I think NYT uses multiple titles for some articles. I had copy pasted it

I’m guessing that Amodei meant it as a humorous inside joke. It’s also shorthand for “the end of massive R&D capex” and “the transition to market capture”. The final stage, what Mc…

> It is, but when a model/harness/tools/system prompts are the same/similar in the generator and reviewer fail in similar ways. Is there empirical evidence for that? Where is it on…

Not mentioned in the article, but one interesting area where OpenAI could play is in participant identification and recruitment for clinical trials. In fact, ChatGPT could also hel…

> Someone would purchase it and run it again under a new company. That happened a long time ago! Microsoft already owns the model weights!

Loved Bluebeard as well. A mature Vonnegut who knew how to use motifs from his earlier work. And for an old guy, he kept his writing fresh and energetic. The miniature story of the…

I read the second two books this year and was unfortunately disappointed. First two were so fun but I think I got hung up on some of the more clumsy stylistic parts of the Endymion…

Neither are on-brand for hacker news but: [Best fiction] Stoner - John Williams [Best non-fiction] Say Nothing - Patrick Radden Keefe

The US crypto lobby has already raised over 240 million for the 2026 election. It’s a cancer attacking our society’s institutions.

Didn’t see that yet, interesting!

The CFO isn't talking about selling tokens to pharma companies. There's no money in that. She proposed revenue sharing. In this scenario, OpenAI's AI service helps discover drug ca…

Good point! On the other hand, Historically Amazon didnt compete with Google (until GCP). They do compete with Microsoft, which is pretty closely aligned with OAI. They also have l…

Yes that's what I meant. But Amazon will fight for its life to stop this. So OpenAI will have to go to other retailers, which don't have the same product catalogue size as Amazon. …

Yes but its not relevant to the agent use cases (which are mostly about interacting with external systems). So agents built by Microsoft (Copilot) can natively interact with Office…

Unfortunately for OpenAI, they are not positioned to capture value from any of the "big margin" use cases that they highlight as key to their future. I think all of these are prett…

> I usually play piano improvisationally, and manually hitting record never meshed well with that. So relatable. Congrats, looks like a great product. I just ordered one for my pia…

Jane street did it for a long time. They are quite large now and only recently started bringing in program managers and the like.

Well I’m not saying I agree with it, but a comparison to the Great Depression is not out of context for an article comparing today’s economic situation to that immediately precedin…

Do the private companies get some special IP rights on the public sector research? It seems like in a competitive market, those private companies would have thin margins. What stop…

I lived in Argentina for a few years. There are plenty of problems with their public healthcare system that pretty much mirror any country with a troubled economy, but one day a wo…

Gpt2 answers to gpt3. Gpt3 answers to gpt4. Gpt4 answers to God.

If you study history you’ll notice that groups and their leaders are rising and falling, conquering and pillaging and then losing it all. The world is too dynamic for your reductiv…

Well hold on now. Parent presented that as fact with no evidence too!