I'm confused about ARC-AGI. I thought the point of it was that you train a foundational model. Then you test it against ARC-AGI to figure out how well it reasons. Here and in some of the other reasoning papers, they are training on ARC-AGI. How much sense does that make in practice?
Readit Newsnumbers_guy commented on Universal Reasoning Model (53.8% pass 1 ARC1 and 16.0% ARC 2) arxiv.org/abs/2512.14693... · Posted by u/marojejian
I always feel weird reading statements from the EU regarding this relationship. There's always talk of the U.S abandoning it's position, guilt tripping, etc. but very little about what the EU plans to do in retaliation. Cut off the U.S from the research? Retaliatory tariffs? Why is the U.S leaving NATO a concern for the EU, but not a concern for the U.S? The fact that these are not the top talking points makes me think the U.S isn't entirely wrong in their approach.
It's the classic breakup story, one party is just done and want to cut contact, but the other party is still hopeful and wants to find a way to restore the relationship.
The EU is not independent minded in the same way that China and Russia are. That's the problem with them. Their leaders don't want to act independently from the US, because the European wealthy and politically connected classes consider themselves transatlantic, and they want to keep enjoying close ties to the US, even as the US pulls away.
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numbers_guy commented on OpenAI declares 'code red' as Google catches up in AI race theverge.com/news/836212/... · Posted by u/goplayoutside
The real code red here is less that Google just one-upped OpenAI but that they demonstrated there’s no moat to be had here.
Absent a major breakthrough all the major providers are just going to keep leapfrogging each other in the most expensive race to the bottom of all time.
Good for tech, but a horrible business and financial picture for these companies.
Yep, I thought they might have some secret sauce in terms of training techniques, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
numbers_guy commented on Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy jacobin.com/2025/11/peter... · Posted by u/robtherobber
The above commenter's point was actually drawing a distinction between these, and "one-upping" by saying there was a difference, or worse one, out of these extremist ideologies.
I disagreed and said that they are both equally horrid.
Expressing equal hatred for people and systems that kill countless millions through starvation, gulags/concentration camps, and disappearing them, is not childish. I have a ton of solidarity with victims of other evil regimes.
You're purposefully ignoring all the nuance. There is nothing more to say.
numbers_guy commented on Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy jacobin.com/2025/11/peter... · Posted by u/robtherobber
> they also do not dehumanize large swaths of the population
They dehumanize and kill everyone equally.
I think the West (US especially) has a great system of government figured out, and I wouldn't try to say any group attempting to break that is better than another. It's not disingenuous to say that both are authoritarians who kill millions.
Please don't be childish. I have no love for communism and I get that you probably have some personal grudge against communism because of what your family has gone through. But the way you are expressing your hatred of communism is diminishing the evil committed by the NAZIs and the suffering of their victims, and that's just not right. And it's also not winning you any friends and you'd be better served if you showed solidarity with victims of other evil regimes, instead of trying to up them with your personal victim-hood.
numbers_guy commented on Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy jacobin.com/2025/11/peter... · Posted by u/robtherobber
I think "facists" is a tiring word to describe them. I would recommend christian nationalists.
"Christian nationalist" is a term that on the one hand, insults Christians, and on the other hand flatters these power hungry grifters. Why would you use such a term?
numbers_guy commented on Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy jacobin.com/2025/11/peter... · Posted by u/robtherobber
When one side of crazies goes after a different side of crazies, “both sides are crazy” is an appropriate way to look at it.
There is obviously a huge difference between fascist-aspiring westerners and communist-aspiring westerners. It's disingenuous to pretend otherwise. Tankies are crazy and I don't approve of their ideology, but they also do not dehumanize large swaths of the population.
numbers_guy commented on Peter Thiel's Apocalyptic Worldview Is a Dangerous Fantasy jacobin.com/2025/11/peter... · Posted by u/robtherobber
It’s intentionally blunt. That’s exactly the issue right now: fascists and communists are going at each other and tearing apart what remains of our liberal world.
> and communists
Communists left the chat in 1989, grandpa. There are multiple factions competing for power but communists aren't really in the ring right now. It's mostly different flavours of establishment factions and alt-right factions.
numbers_guy commented on A new AI winter is coming? taranis.ie/llms-are-a-fai... · Posted by u/voxleone
AlexNet was only released in 2011. The progress made in just 14 years has been insane. So while I do agree that we are approaching a "back to the drawing board" era, calling the past 14 years a "failure" is just not right.