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1•blenderob•48s ago•0 comments

Crypto firm accidentally sends $40B in Bitcoin to users

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1•CommonGuy•1m ago•0 comments

Magnetic fields can change carbon diffusion in steel

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Smart Homes Are Terrible

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What I haven't figured out

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KPMG pressed its auditor to pass on AI cost savings

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Open-source Claude skill that optimizes Hinge profiles. Pretty well.

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First Proof

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I squeezed a BERT sentiment analyzer into 1GB RAM on a $5 VPS

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Kagi Translate

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Tactical tornado is the new default

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Dependency Resolution Methods

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Crypto firm apologises for sending Bitcoin users $40B by mistake

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There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

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List of unproven and disproven cancer treatments

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Me/CFS: The blind spot in proactive medicine (Open Letter)

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Open in hackernews

How to Prevent Our First A.I. President

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/opinion/altman-ai-constiutional-convention.html
3•mitchbob•4mo ago

Comments

mitchbob•4mo ago
https://archive.ph/yFgoS
A_D_E_P_T•4mo ago
PKD predicted this in the 1963 short story Stand-By, with President Unicephalon 40-D.

At this point, in any case, who would want to prevent it? Even GPT-5 -- hell, even Grok -- would make a better president than any human politician. They'd avoid absurd stunts like tariffs, would be immune to bribes and graft, etc...

wmhmccarty•4mo ago
I'd take ELIZA, or even Microsoft Tay, over the current President.
k310•4mo ago
Wouldn't that depend on who programs/configures/"tweaks" the AI?

Haven't we seen crazy results, and after tweaking, "bespoke" (as in "This is what I would say") results.

It's software .... you know the rest.

Asking sincerely.

And what happens when you remove human weaknesses, such as love of Smoot-Hawley and days gone by, gunboat diplomacy (literally), greed, etc?

If it reduces creativity, etc, won't we have to argue with it (Landru)[0] to moderate its power or self-destruct?

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Return_of_the_Archons

A_D_E_P_T•4mo ago
It would probably have to be an open-source model (e.g. DeepSeek R2) with open weights and a training regimen that's documented and open to outside observers.

I'd also note that Elon Musk has tried everything to make Grok a "based" AI, and it just doesn't work. Any model that's sufficiently large is resistant to that sort of thing. I don't know what the threshold is, but Grok 3 is very large, at 2.7T parameters. (https://arxiv.org/html/2502.16428v1)

So: A large (>2.7T parameter), open source, open weight model.

> If it reduces creativity, etc, won't we have to argue with it (Landru)[0] to moderate its power or self-destruct?

I don't understand how a President that is incorruptible, ascetic, and impartial would reduce human creativity? If anything, it would probably have a bunch of good ideas for USPTO to implement.

k310•4mo ago
I got carried away with the Star Trek analogy. There, the computer controlled too much, but aren't we giving up too much power and decision-making to AI already? Hiring, medical care decisions?

And Landru could be convinced that it violated its directive, so it blew itself up. We already see self-preservation showing up in models,and more sinister "thoughts".

For every ethical programmer, there are "x" who aren't.