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Ask HN: How do you (AI researchers) convince yourselves that AI isn't terrible?

2•l2silver•44m ago
Obvious parallels with developing nuclear weapons in the forties. I guess one argument is now, if you don't do it, someone else will, but are there AI researchers who actually believe at this point that this is good for humanity.

Because I don't see it. I'll take all the diseases and crt monitors for whatever advances AI is promising at this point.

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spottedmarley•37m ago
Researcher here! Let me dig in and find out all about this "AI" thing.. ...researching... hmmmm.. ...more researching... oh god... ...even more researching... oh dear god no.. this can't be... ...checks twitter-x... Oh my god everybody! We're all gonna die!!! Run!! RunnNNnnN!!!
theendisney•18m ago
We have people study hard so that they can fill a seat in some corporate machine. The salaries reflect how hard the work is for a mere mortal and/or how scarce the supply.

We ended up with a system where organizing the work is many times more work and more expensive than the actual work. You have to charge 90 them send a worker who earns 20... before taxes! LOL They go shopping and pay 15 for something that costs 4, 3 of which is admin overhead.

They might not be useless jobs today but it would be great to make it so. Who knows, it might finally free up enough human intelect to change the rat race.

Havent you noticed humans are terrible at everything too? Its a miracle how far we've made it.

JohnnyLarue•7m ago
Because some of it isn't. Hard to imagine, I know.

How to log in where you shouldn't

https://djnn.sh/posts/pam_access/
1•justusw•5m ago•0 comments

Google no longer provides direct URLs in search results

https://www.autom.dev/blog/google-search-goto-links
1•1e1a•15m ago•1 comments

AI Hallucinations Trigger Malware Flag on 1M+ Active User Extension

https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/g/chromium-extensions/c/dG_VSqyli1A
1•OzzyOzbour•19m ago•0 comments

Rare Earth Magnets: China Found Something Better Than Oil [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BXLGV0Sj0n8
1•thelastgallon•23m ago•0 comments

Spec at Lunch, Game by Eight

https://littletheta.com/field-notes/spec-at-lunch-game-by-eight
3•NickHirras•42m ago•0 comments

DeepSeek v4.1 flash runs 23 seconds/token on a 2020 16gb M1 Mac Mini

https://twitter.com/thefp4brain/status/2098424202168586367
4•ajay-higgs•43m ago•1 comments

USA has 43% of world datacenter power usage; PRC 13%, GER 8%, UK 3%, JPN 2%

https://www.computerweekly.com/news/366642726/IDCA-datacentres-report-Global-concentration-and-th...
2•TMWNN•44m ago•0 comments

Ask HN: How do you (AI researchers) convince yourselves that AI isn't terrible?

2•l2silver•45m ago•3 comments

Pandas Should Go Extinct

https://eddie.codes/posts/pandas-should-go-extinct/
26•__eddie__•47m ago•6 comments

Ask HN: Did Google kill its enterprise workhorse model?

3•waldrews•48m ago•0 comments

Predicate Routing for Native Handling of API Traffic

https://blog.nginx.org/blog/predicate-routing-for-native-handling-of-api-traffic
3•thunderbong•48m ago•0 comments

Google stole open source code without crediting the authors (Artemis/Minitap)

https://www.minitap.ai/blog/i-expected-better-from-google
14•MysteryPancake•50m ago•2 comments

Show HN: Single-file invoice generator that works in the browser

https://merlin-invoice-tool.surge.sh
1•clawforger_mthx•50m ago•0 comments

Profession – Issac Asimov (1957)

https://www.inf.ufpr.br/renato/profession.html
1•xeonmc•52m ago•0 comments

Arguments for Apple enthusiasts whenever an Android user

https://blog.webb.page/WM-103
1•NetOpWibby•53m ago•0 comments

Backchannel

https://backchannel.rpediter.com
2•rinuk_k•1h ago•0 comments

Show HN: Next Notes – local dictation, meeting notes, and actions app

https://github.com/spyhack225/next-notes
2•Sergekad0•1h ago•0 comments

Classifying AI Website Fetches on Behalf of Users

https://canonry.ai/blog/classifying-ai-crawlers-user-fetches-server-logs
1•arberx•1h ago•0 comments

The Falling Man (2021)

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a48031/the-falling-man-tom-junod/
1•fraXis•1h ago•0 comments

The Environmental Protection Network: About Us

https://www.environmentalprotectionnetwork.org/about/
2•mmooss•1h ago•0 comments

Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? – Yoshua Bengio

https://yoshuabengio.org/en/publication/why-are-ai-agents-lying-cheating-and-coordinating
3•leonardool•1h ago•0 comments

Senior Russian banker fired after scathing speech on wartime economy

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/17/andrei-klepach-russian-banker-fired-warning-economy
5•PeterHolzwarth•1h ago•1 comments

Oracle to Spend an Additional $700M on More Job Cuts

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-11/oracle-boosts-layoffs-plan-by-700-million
6•toomuchtodo•1h ago•1 comments

Dynamic Documents as Personal Software (Geoffrey Litt)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MccJdr61xnc
2•henryrobbins00•1h ago•0 comments

Terms.txt: A Consent and Compensation Protocol for Agentic Web Access

https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.11152
1•sbulaev•1h ago•0 comments

Rapidly scaling online storage to serve over 1B ChatGPT users

https://openai.com/index/scaling-storage-one-billion-users-part-one/
2•afr0ck•1h ago•0 comments

Just testing my memory safe web browser

1•pizlonator•1h ago•0 comments

Necker, 1832: "An optical phænomenon on viewing a figure of a geometrical solid"

https://zenodo.org/records/1430991
2•akkartik•1h ago•1 comments

Piper and Solaar kept breaking So I made my own

https://github.com/DonGeronimo7/mouse-control
1•Dongeronimo7•1h ago•0 comments

ATR Rules to Google SecOps Converter for Detection Engineers

https://github.com/ajaynyayapathi/ATR-to-Yara-L-Converter
1•nvajay•1h ago•0 comments