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prng2021

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    Comment #49014550

    What is this conversation even about? I can’t understand any of it.

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    Comment #48838380

    xAI had $2.5B in operating losses in the past quarter. What savings are being passed on?

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    Comment #48700925

    Thanks for the irrelevant comment. I’m criticizing these Chinese companies because these aren’t accomplishments. Where did I praise Anthropic?

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    Comment #48667342

    “That unlocks something beyond energy savings: the possibility of eliminating water consumption entirely.” They’ve made this claim numerous times in the article and I really don’t …

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    Comment #48406761

    We’ve got a company of several thousand employees serving hundreds of millions of people arguably the best AI model in the market. Meanwhile you’re asking for a handkerchief for yo…

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    Comment #47917843

    Yes but my original reply was to someone that seemed to imply that this founder was dumb not to verify that Railway’s API key that should have been limited to managing custom domai…

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    Comment #47917773

    “why would you not do the same for APIs you integrate with?” Who does that? Jira and Salesforce have hundreds of endpoints each. AWS has hundreds of services, and each may have hun…

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    Comment #47916800

    Sorry but are you implying that for every system you integrate with, you verify the scope of an API key by checking each CRUD operation on every API endpoint they provide?

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    Comment #47191039

    How is anyone predicting timelines for AGI when these systems can’t do basic addition of 2 arbitrary numbers with 100% accuracy?

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    “I think the decision was made because the people making this decision at Anthropic are well-intentioned, driven by values, and motivated by trying to make the transition to powerf…

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    Comment #46959561

    “You never needed 1000s of engineers to build software anyway” What is the point of even mentioning this? We live in reality. In reality, there are countless companies with thousan…

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    Comment #46945175

    This was a great article. The section “Training for the next state prediction” explains a solution using subagents. If I’m understanding it correctly, we could test if that solutio…

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    Comment #46940875

    Hard to tell how widespread it is but it’s not just 1 company. https://www.webpronews.com/silicon-valleys-2025-ai-boom-revi...

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    Comment #46920608

    Thanks for repeating what the author explained.

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    Comment #46912854

    Where did they say that?

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    Comment #46903302

    Did they post the knowledge cutoff date somewhere

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    Comment #46885754

    Yea I guess that's accurate but they also explained that AI capabilities advance every 6-12 months and managing a team of agents buys you a few years. So their proposed solution an…

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    The author gives this example of the problem and incorrect way to leverage AI: "Sarah was relieved. She thought she could focus on high-value synthesis work. She’d take the agent’s…

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    Comment #46713263

    “existence is a requirement to have morality. That implies that the highest good are those decisions that improve the long-term survival odds of a) humanity, and b) the biosphere.”…