neuronic (u/neuronic)

neuronic commented on Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now dosaygo-studio.github.io/... · Posted by u/keepamovin

seizethecheese · 11 days ago

Today's front page is not a clean 10 year extrapolation from this. That's where AI is wrong. The future is weird and zig zags, it's not so linear as the Gemini generated page.

neuronic · 11 days ago

This is a problem with nearly all predictions about the future. Everything is just a linear extrapolation of the status quo. How could a system have predicted the invention of the transformer model in 2010? At best some wild guess about deep learning possibilities.

Or the impact of smartphones in 2003? Sure smart phones were considered but not the entire app ecosystem and planetary behavioral adaptation.

neuronic commented on Cancer is surging, bringing a debate about whether to look for it nytimes.com/2025/12/08/he... · Posted by u/brandonb

pfdietz · 11 days ago

On the other hand, it's known that consuming the antioxidant vitamin E actually promotes the progression of lung cancer. Cancer cells are under oxidative stress so antioxidants can help them survive and grow.

https://www.lung.org/blog/antioxidants-lung-cancers

neuronic · 11 days ago

Just goes to show that biology is WAY more complicated than "if you want to prevent X then do Y" - especially at microbilogical scale. Genes influence each other for example, so by up- or downregulating stuff you are interfering in a highly complex, non-linear system with complex consequences.

Just look at this example of a gene regulation network: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Different-visualizations...

neuronic commented on Belgian Police exposed using botnets to manipulate EU data law impact assessment old.reddit.com/r/europe/c... · Posted by u/saubeidl

derelicta · 21 days ago

I wish. At least that would mean pedos, fascists and oligarchs get to face the wall.

neuronic · 21 days ago

You are responding to someone with a sex-based racist slur as their username.

neuronic commented on Original Superman comic becomes the highest-priced comic book ever sold bbc.com/news/articles/c8e... · Posted by u/1659447091

Nevermark · a month ago

Do you think a sculpture by a pre-civilization human is worth more than something banged out yesterday?

Heritage has great value. It is one of the few things that cannot be manufactured at will.

Also, since its uniqueness holds its value, its value becomes a "strange attractor". You can put a lot of money into one of these artifacts, fairly sure to get most or more back. Since future buyers will have a similar assurance. So it isn't money thrown away, but money stored in a medium the provides satisfaction and pride.

Not so different from buying real estate in some exclusive area for some crazy price. It really isn't that crazy if you are likely to get your money back later if you want. Likely at a higher amount due to a growing economy pushing prices up.

Crazy would be spending millions on something unique then grinding it up.

neuronic · a month ago

This is all a great way of describing why art works as a money laundering or tax evasion scheme.

neuronic commented on Space Elevator neal.fun/space-elevator/... · Posted by u/kaonwarb

mrec · 2 months ago

I dunno, by that rationale you could argue that Tesla Roadsters have officially beaten the X-43B's altitude record, couldn't you?

neuronic · 2 months ago

Yes, absolutely but I found it funny anyway!

neuronic commented on Space Elevator neal.fun/space-elevator/... · Posted by u/kaonwarb

neuronic · 2 months ago

Congrats, first time I noticeably hear my MBP M4 Pro fans and can feel the temperature through the keyboard.

Amazing work, as always. I love neal.fun

Edit: also good to know that paper airplanes have officially beat the SR-71, F-104 or X-43B with altitude record.

neuronic commented on GoFundMe CEO: economy is so bad his customers crowdfund to pay for groceries finance.yahoo.com/news/go... · Posted by u/sudonanohome

aborsy · 2 months ago

This method has problems too. There are more beggars in EU than in other countries in my experience, overall is not doing well.

neuronic · 2 months ago

Uh yea, thats because we tax everyone to hell EXCEPT the rich. Wealth inequality is a serious problem and we are moving to catastrophe sooner rather than later on the current path.

It's obvious why the ultra-rich are building bunkers and hide-outs. Those are of course scams by the building companies, as they give a false sense of security, but the idea of what is REALLY going on is obviously out there.

neuronic commented on Two things LLM coding agents are still bad at kix.dev/two-things-llm-co... · Posted by u/kixpanganiban

tzs · 2 months ago

Just the other day I hit something that I hadn't realized could happen. It was not code related in my case, but could happen with code or code-related things (and did to a coworker).

In a discussion here on HN about why a regulation passed 15 years ago was not as general as it could have been, I speculated [1] that it could be that the technology at the time was not up to handling the general case and so they regulated what was feasible at the time.

A couple hours later I checked the discussion again and a couple people had posted that the technology was up to the general case back then and cheap.

I asked an LLM to see if it could dig up anything on this. It told me it was due to technological limits.

I then checked the sources it cites to get some details. Only one source it cited actually said anything about technology limits. That source was my HN comment.

I mentioned this at work, and a coworker mentioned that he had made a Github comment explaining how he thought something worked on Windows. Later he did a Google search about how that thing worked and the LLM thingy that Google puts at the top of search results said that the thing worked the way he thought it did but checking the cites he found that was based on his Github comment.

I'm half tempted to stop asking LLMs questions of the form "How does X work?" and instead tell them "Give me a list of all the links you would cite if someone asked you how X works?".

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45500763

neuronic · 2 months ago

I even curated a list of 6-8 sources in NotebookLM recently, asked a very straight-forward question (which credential formats does OID4VP allow). The sources were IETF and OpenID specs + some additional articles on it.

I wanted to use NotebookLM as a tool to ask back and forth when I was trying to understand stuff. It got the answer 90% right but also added a random format, sounding highly confident as if I asked the spec authors themselves.

It was easy to check the specs when I became suspicious and now my trust, even in "grounded" LLMs, is completely eroded when it comes to knowledge and facts.

neuronic commented on OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

XorNot · 2 months ago

What you're missing is that real value can be created in these exchanges - Nvidia really makes chips for example.

The issue is that it's an industry of investment which exists solely to power more investment in AI - the entire chain is still assuming that someone will eventually pay for this.

At the end of the day all that money leaks out to employees and suppliers...but no one those people transact with may have any interest in buying what was produced.

neuronic · 2 months ago

That's only really value if the chips are useful and if there are people buying the chips for something they want to do with them.

It's entirely based on the perception that LLM training & inference is here to stay at ever growing scales when the shortcomings of Artificial Dreaming are increasingly scrutinized. Not all businesses want to end up paying refunds to their clients like Deloitte [1] because the LLM hallucinated crap into their reports (and they failed to correct it).

[1] https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2025/oct/06/deloi...

neuronic commented on OpenAI, Nvidia fuel $1T AI market with web of circular deals bloomberg.com/news/featur... · Posted by u/1vuio0pswjnm7

athrowaway3z · 2 months ago

It's worth noting Elisson is 2 years older than Trump.

What's he going to do with all that money, and what does he care for the risk it's bad or shady?

Worst case, he got to be #1 for a bit for a few dozen billion, best case he's hoping AGI will extend his life before he croaks.

neuronic · 2 months ago

What does Ellisons personal wealth have to do with this? The concern is that the circular pattern of shifting money between these companies is artificially inflating the stock market to heights that will crash very very badly when this bubble finally pops.