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Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by _the_inflator »

butlike wrote: post #260
endymi0n wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Did you guys do anything about GPT‘s motivation? I tried to use GPT-5.4 API (at xhigh) for my OpenClaw after the Anthropic Oauthgate, but I just couldn‘t drag it to do its job. I had the most hilarious dialogues along the lines of „You stopped, X would have been next.“ - „Yeah, I‘m sorry, I failed. I should have done X next.“ - „Well, how about you just do it?“ - „Yep, I really should have done it now.“ - “Do X, righ…

This brings up an interesting philosophical point: say we get to AGI... who's to say it won't just be a super smart underachiever-type? "Hey AGI, how's that cure for cancer coming?" "Oh it's done just gotta...formalize it you know. Big rollout and all that..." I would find it divinely funny if we "got there" with AGI and it was just a complete slacker. Hard to justify leaving it on, but too important to turn it off.

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Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by hagbard_c »

droidjj wrote: post #211
simonw wrote: post #195

This doesn't have API access yet, but OpenAI seem to approve of the Codex API backdoor used by OpenClaw these days... https://twitter.com/steipete/status/2046775849769148838 and https://twitter.com/romainhuet/status/2038699202834841962 And that backdoor API has GPT-5.5. So here's a pelican: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/23/gpt-5-5/#and-some-peli... I used this new plugin for LLM: https://github.com/simonw/llm-op…

It's... like no pelican I've ever seen before.

You've never seen pelicans riding bicycles either so maybe these are just representations of those specific subgroups of pelicans which are capable of riding them. Normal pelicans would not feel the need to ride bikes since they can fly, these special pelicans mostly seem to lack the equipment needed to do that which might be part of the reason they evolved to ride two-wheeled pedal-propelled vehicles.

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by shimman »

noosphr wrote: post #528
_alternator_ wrote: post #330

> One engineer at NVIDIA who had early access to the model went as far as to say: "Losing access to GPT‑5.5 feels like I've had a limb amputated.” This quote is more sinister than I think was intended; it likely applies to all frontier coding models. As they get better, we quickly come to rely on them for coding. It's like playing a game on God Mode. Engineers become dependent; it's truly addictive. This matches my o…

LLMs upend a few centuries of labor theory. The current market is predicated on the assumption that labor is atomic and has little bargaining power (minus unions). While capital has huge bargaining power and can effectively put whatever price it wants on labor (in markets where labor is plentiful, which is most of them). What happens to a company used to extracting surplus value from labor when the labor is provided…

LLMs don't upend anything about labor theory, good grief. Technologists really have no concept of history beyond their own lives do they?

Labor saving/efficiency devices have been introduced throughout capitalisms entire history multiple times and the results are always the same; they don't benefit workers and capitalists extract as much value as they can.

LLMs aren't any different.

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by xtracto »

ur-whale wrote: post #279
jfkimmes wrote: post #122

Everyone talked about the marketing stunt that was Anthropic's gated Mythos model with an 83% result on CyberGym. OpenAI just dropped GPT 5.5, which scores 82% and is open for anybody to use. I recommend anybody in offensive/defensive cybersecurity to experiment with this. This is the real data point we needed - without the hype! Never thought I'd say this but OpenAI is the 'open' option again.

> Anthropic's gated Mythos model aka the perfect marketing ploy

Reminds me of Gmail's early invite only mode.

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by _alternator_ »

kjshsh123 wrote: post #623
noosphr wrote: post #528

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LLMs upend a few centuries of labor theory. The current market is predicated on the assumption that labor is atomic and has little bargaining power (minus unions). While capital has huge bargaining power and can effectively put whatever price it wants on labor (in markets where labor is plentiful, which is most of them). What happens to a company used to extracting surplus value from labor when the labor is provided…

The labor theory of value hasn't been considered correct in nearly a century.

"Observation of how economies actually work has upended 150 year of economics."

True for both Marxist and neoclassical economics.

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by xtracto »

minimaxir wrote: post #6

The more interesting part of the announcement than "it's better at benchmarks": > To better utilize GPUs, Codex analyzed weeks’ worth of production traffic patterns and wrote custom heuristic algorithms to optimally partition and balance work. The effort had an outsized impact, increasing token generation speeds by over 20%. The ability for agentic LLMs to improve computational efficiency/speed is a highly impactful…

So, im working in some high performance data processing in Rust. I had hit some performance walls, and needed to improve in the 100x or more scale.

I remembered the famous FizzBuzz Intel codegolf optimizations, and gave it to gemini pro, along with my code and instructions to "suggest optimizations similar to those, maybe not so low level, but clever" and it's suggestions were veerry cool.

LLM do not stop amazing me every day.

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by _the_inflator »

jfkimmes wrote: post #122

Everyone talked about the marketing stunt that was Anthropic's gated Mythos model with an 83% result on CyberGym. OpenAI just dropped GPT 5.5, which scores 82% and is open for anybody to use. I recommend anybody in offensive/defensive cybersecurity to experiment with this. This is the real data point we needed - without the hype! Never thought I'd say this but OpenAI is the 'open' option again.

I ignore any hype news.

Anthropic is the embodiment of bullshitting to me.

I read Cialdini many decades ago and I am bored by Anthropic.

OpenAI is very clever. With the advent of Claude OpenAI disappeared from the headlines. Who or what was this Sam again all were talking about a year ago?

OpenAI has a massive user advantage so that they can simply follow Anthropic’s release cycle to ridicule them.

I think it is really brutal for Anthropic how they are easily getting passed by by OpenAI and it is getting worse with every new GPT version for Anthropic.

OpenAI owns them.

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by nkozyra »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #612
noosphr wrote: post #528

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LLMs upend a few centuries of labor theory. The current market is predicated on the assumption that labor is atomic and has little bargaining power (minus unions). While capital has huge bargaining power and can effectively put whatever price it wants on labor (in markets where labor is plentiful, which is most of them). What happens to a company used to extracting surplus value from labor when the labor is provided…

This is our one chance to reach the fabled post-scarcity society. If we fail at this now, we'll end up in a totalitarian cyberpunk dystopia instead.

I don't want to spoil it for you, but ...

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by ijeifnekfjekd »

matheusmoreira wrote: post #612
noosphr wrote: post #528

Earlier quoted context omitted.

LLMs upend a few centuries of labor theory. The current market is predicated on the assumption that labor is atomic and has little bargaining power (minus unions). While capital has huge bargaining power and can effectively put whatever price it wants on labor (in markets where labor is plentiful, which is most of them). What happens to a company used to extracting surplus value from labor when the labor is provided…

This is our one chance to reach the fabled post-scarcity society. If we fail at this now, we'll end up in a totalitarian cyberpunk dystopia instead.

What? In what way does companies becoming dependent on AI chatbots will solve the world-spanning problem of resource scarcity?

The hell?

Re: GPT-5.5

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Post by elefanten »

mikestorrent wrote: post #563
noosphr wrote: post #545

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The majority are released by socialists, and by socialist I mean the People's Republic of China. Which everyone seems to forget is a socialist country working towards world communism. They are a prestige propaganda tool on par with the space race. On top of that they insert a subtle pro-socialist bias in everything they touch. Ask deepseek about the US economic system for a blatant example. Now think what something a…

You're talking to a Canadian, and I'm not scared of the "red menace". You should be more scared - those guys can build bullet trains while you Yanks are finding it hard to even keep the old ones you have running. The solution here isn't going to be some kind of ideological force that protects people from different ideas, and that's an unAmerican way to fix things anyway. Embrace other ideas; central planning doesn't…

Literal Trump Derangement Syndrome. America has a comically horrendous president but remains fundamentally a liberal democracy… and Canada concludes “literal Nazis are a better choice”. It’s uncanny how much can be taken for granted :(

(American talking, who’s had multiple Canadian friends make this mind boggling overcorrection)

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