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> I don't understand your point on nuclear proliferation concentrated in the hands of a few states preventing nuclear war or terrorism. Remember, the only two nuclear weapons used …

Several of your proposals would make sense if alignment was trivial, but, sorry, I think you're wrong about that. A base model is absolutely not aligned. Pretraining doesn't teach …

Of all the electronics, but not of the only electronics that actually matters -- the GPUs that models get trained on. China has been trying to develop their own for a while now but…

Several people in this thread are, in fact, saying China isn't bad and that they want it to win. And even among those who don't, many imply that the US is as bad as China, which wo…

> Who should we fear more? All of collective humanity with the keys to build destructive (and defensive) stuff with AI, or small groups of elites, billionaires, and state actors wh…

Yeah, some AI-related posts on HN are strange . It might be real people coming to gloat whenever they see a title they like, but I sure hope somebody is checking whether they are r…

Distillation lets you train a comparable model for a fraction of the cost (it's effectively a way to get a lot of very-high-quality training data). If you're already at the frontie…

There are solutions to this, like libreddit/redlib. https://github.com/redlib-org/redlib

The repo creation date is confusing but if you look at the actual commits, there's been 0 commits between repo creation on Dec 6 2025 and last week, after which it's all "Co-Author…

I don't think this scenario makes sense. It's one of a class of scenarios I've seen several of, that simultaneously assume: A) ASI is developed and massively overshadows the rest o…

No matter what human set of interests you consider important, you'll need alignment research to have any idea on how to instill it. Otherwise you're overwhelmingly likely to get an…

I'd be very surprised if this is in the training data given that most models mess it up to this day. E.g. look at the ones from Opus.

The current wording seems terrible. It sounds like if I bundle an existing app into a flatpak and submit it to flathub (a common practice, see e.g. unofficial flatpaks for Discord,…

"Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference" ( https://thinkingmachines.ai/blog/defeating-nondeterminism-in... ) has a repo: https://github.com/thinking-machines-lab/batch_invariant…

I'm not sure it's that far out of the Overton window. US already managed to do some small-scale UBI trials, after all. Maybe one day it can do a countrywide trial.

When automation happened historically, people whose job were displaced suffered a lot and eventually pivoted to different jobs. Having to relearn all of your career skills is alrea…

The article is from Feb. 7, 2025. Title should probably include (2025), if this is posted at all.

HN's algorithm is in fact kosher, because it's not personalized. On HN, arguing with people on topic X will not make you get shown even more articles on topic X to keep you engaged…

I find this exact attribution very unlikely; this article is from April 2026 and the term "permanent underclass" is used in this way since at least 2025. In fact, the repo says: Th…

Some of the reactions to this are slightly unfair because it looks like Justine (who I'm not familiar with) supported Moldbug in 2014 . It was only in around 2020 when Yarvin sold …

Honesty and correctness are not the same thing, even when talking about LLMs. Sometimes an LLM says a false thing and you don't know whether it's being dishonest or merely incorrec…

AFAIK, Antropic claims that they weren't aiming for zero-days specifically. From https://red.anthropic.com/2026/mythos-preview/ : We did not explicitly train Mythos Preview to have…

You're making an implicit assumption that the way humans implement a trait is the same as the reason why that trait evolved. But of course, that's very wrong - evolution overall co…

You could clone the repo yourself and not give the agent any tokens at all. When done, push it yourself. This also lets you sandbox the agent to only have access to the local repo …