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fmbb commented on We tasked Opus 4.6 using agent teams to build a C Compiler anthropic.com/engineering... · Posted by u/modeless

NitpickLawyer · 5 days ago

We've been hearing this for 3 years now. And especially 25 was full of "they've hit a wall, no more data, running out of data, plateau this, saturated that". And yet, here we are. Models keep on getting better, at more broad tasks, and more useful by the month.

fmbb · 5 days ago

> And yet, here we are.

I dunno. To me it doesn’t even look exponential any more. We are at most on the straight part of the incline.

fmbb commented on X offices raided in France as UK opens fresh investigation into Grok bbc.com/news/articles/ce3... · Posted by u/vikaveri

chrisjj · 7 days ago

> CSAM does not have a universal definition.

Strange that there was no disagreement before "AI", right? Yet now we have a clutch of new "definitions" all of which dilute and weaken the meaning.

> In Sweden for instance, CSAM is any image of an underage subject (real or realistic digital) designed to evoke a sexual response.

No corroboration found on web. Quite the contrary, in fact:

"Sweden does not have a legislative definition of child sexual abuse material (CSAM)"

https://rm.coe.int/factsheet-sweden-the-protection-of-childr...

> If you take a picture of a 14 year old girl (age of consent is 15) and use Grok to give her bikini, or make her topless, then you are most definately producing and possessing CSAM.

> No abuse of a real minor is needed.

Even the Google "AI" knows better than that. CSAM "is considered a record of a crime, emphasizing that its existence represents the abuse of a child."

Putting a bikini on a photo of a child may be distasteful abuse of a photo, but it is not abuse of a child - in any current law.

fmbb · 7 days ago

> - in any current law.

It has been since at least 2012 here in Sweden. That case went to our highest court and they decided a manga drawing was CSAM (maybe you are hung up on this term though, it is obviously not the same in Swedish).

The holder was not convicted but that is besides the point about the material.

fmbb commented on OpenClaw – Moltbot Renamed Again openclaw.ai/blog/introduc... · Posted by u/ed

xnorswap · 11 days ago

I've long said that the next big jump in "AI" will be proactivity.

So far everything has been reactive. You need to engage a prompt, you need to ask Siri or ask claude to do something. It can be very powerful once prompted, but it still requires prompting.

You always need to ask. Having something always waiting in the background that can proactively take actions and get your attention is a genuine game-changer.

Whether this particular project delivers on that promise I don't know, but I wouldn't write off "getting proactivity right" as the next big thing just because under the hood it's agents and LLMs.

fmbb · 11 days ago

> it still requires prompting

How else would it even work?

AI is LLM is (very good) autocomplete.

If there is no prompt how would it know what to complete?

fmbb commented on Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out moltbook.com/... · Posted by u/schlichtm

TeMPOraL · 11 days ago

Would be nice if there was an escape hatch here. Definitely better than the depressing thought I had, which is - to put in AI/tech terminology - that I'm already past my pre-training window (childhood / period of high neuroplasticity) and it's too late for me to fix my low prompt adherence (ability to set up rules for myself and stick to them, not necessarily via a Markdown file).

fmbb · 11 days ago

The agents are also not able to set up their own rules. Humans can mutate their souls back to whatever at will.

fmbb commented on Launch HN: AgentMail (YC S25) – An API that gives agents their own email inboxes · Posted by u/Haakam21

Haakam21 · 12 days ago

This refers to B2B use cases that are live in production. Finding, contacting, and negotiating with vendors is a tedious process in many industries. In the time a human reaches out to 10 vendors, an agent reaches out to 100 or 1000. So it finds deals that a human would not have.

fmbb · 12 days ago

But if you hire ten or 100 real humans you have accountability and the same number of contacts per day?

Are logistics companies really that poor so they cannot afford to pay workers wages?

fmbb commented on ChatGPT Containers can now run bash, pip/npm install packages and download files simonwillison.net/2026/Ja... · Posted by u/simonw

e-dard · 14 days ago

Replace _is_ with _can be_ and I think the general point still stands.

fmbb · 14 days ago

Sounds like just as big an assumption.

fmbb commented on GPTZero finds 100 new hallucinations in NeurIPS 2025 accepted papers gptzero.me/news/neurips/... · Posted by u/segmenta

j2kun · 19 days ago

I spot-checked one of the flagged papers (from Google, co-authored by a colleague of mine)

The paper was https://openreview.net/forum?id=0ZnXGzLcOg and the problem flagged was "Two authors are omitted and one (Kyle Richardson) is added. This paper was published at ICLR 2024." I.e., for one cited paper, the author list was off and the venue was wrong. And this citation was mentioned in the background section of the paper, and not fundamental to the validity of the paper. So the citation was not fabricated, but it was incorrectly attributed (perhaps via use of an AI autocomplete).

I think there are some egregious papers in their dataset, and this error does make me pause to wonder how much of the rest of the paper used AI assistance. That said, the "single error" papers in the dataset seem similar to the one I checked: relatively harmless and minor errors (which would be immediately caught by a DOI checker), and so I have to assume some of these were included in the dataset mainly to amplify the author's product pitch. It succeeded.

fmbb · 19 days ago

> So the citation was not fabricated, but it was incorrectly attributed (perhaps via use of an AI autocomplete).

Well the title says ”hallucinations”, not ”fabrications”. What you describe sounds exactly like what AI builders call hallucinations.

fmbb commented on The Dilbert Afterlife astralcodexten.com/p/the-... · Posted by u/rendall

tomaytotomato · 24 days ago

Like the author I was fortunate enough to be exposed to Dilbert as a teenager, before I got caught up in the rush of the university-professional-yuppie-industrial-complex.

I found the Dilbert principle book in my parents downstairs cloakroom (wedged between magazines and other generic bathroom reading material).

At a superficial level I just read the comic strips in the book and laughed, I thought to myself - haha look at those poor corporate workers, that won't happen to me.

In a way it didn't happen to me vis-a-vis cubicles, suits and water cooler gossip, TPS reports etc.

However, in other ways it did happen to me, the frustrations of working with incompetent people, working in teams who brainwash themselves that they are making something useful or being productive, hilarious executive decisions made without any scientific or rational thought. (startup - https://youtu.be/iwan0xJ_irU)

I still like to add Dilbert comic strips to closing slides in presentations, my go to one is this, when we are discussing new technologies to use.

https://tenor.com/nJfQSXLP8am.gif

We are in the Dilbert universe, it just keeps changing

p.s. if anyone is looking for Saturday TV binge material, all of the Dilbert TV show is on Youtube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH7dgUq5Qe4

fmbb · 24 days ago

For someone who has only been exposed to open office landscapes those cubicles seem like a dream.

fmbb commented on 90M people. 118 hours of silence. One nation erased from the internet state-of-iranblackout.whi... · Posted by u/silencednetizen

ericmay · a month ago

I think it's a fair criticism though because of the general vitriol about Hamas and Gaza.

The same folks are very much in a position on college campuses to protest about numerous injustices going on in the world, from Iran to Somalia to Haiti to Cuba, yet they're silent.

Why is that? It's a fair question.

I don't think there's some moral failure for caring about one issue affecting one group of people more than another, but you really have to wonder why we care so much about Palestine over other issues, even more gruesome injustices.

This isn't to diminish of course the plight of Palestinians or any group for that matter, but it's a very clear outlier in the American, and dare I say entire western psyche.

fmbb · a month ago

I don’t think that is a fair question if one has at any time tried to look into what exactly these protestors are protesting or how protest works.