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The 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' post is misleading

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-11-03 Cached

A blog post argues that the 'Astra can read and write weights to improve Qwen' claims are misleading, showing the headline Qwen math result actually relies on writing Python code and running the model, not directly reading raw weights as advertised.

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LLMs are not superhuman at reading and writing neural network weights (4 minute read)

TLDR AI ↗ · 2026-11-03 Cached

Sean Goedecke argues that a recent paper showing frontier LLMs reading and editing neural network weights is not as superhuman as claimed, since a smart ML researcher could replicate the tasks with basic analysis.

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@mattpocockuk: The skills spec is so broken

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-10-30 Cached

Matt Pocock shares a brief critique claiming the AI agent 'skills' specification is broken, linking to further details. The post is a single-tweet reaction with no substantive elaboration.

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OpenAI algorithm for the FFT is less a breakthrough and more a malicious exploit

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-10-13 Cached

一篇技术评论文章,批评 OpenAI 在数学论文集中声称的更快快速傅里叶变换(FFT)算法,指出其改进微乎其微,更像是利用理论模型在硬件上并不实际可行的“恶意利用”,而非真正的突破。

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@Miles_Brundage: “Recursive self-improvement (and we’ll figure out later what role humans play)” has the same energy as “Full Self-Drivi…

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-10-09 Cached

Miles Brundage compares the vague promise of 'recursive self-improvement' to Tesla's 'Full Self-Driving (Supervised)', arguing both use appealing keywords to deflect critics while misleading about the actual goal.

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Some nuance on the mathematical proofs released by OpenAI

Reddit r/singularity ↗ · 2026-10-09

A commentary discussing the mathematician backlash against OpenAI's released AI-generated mathematical proofs, arguing the real issue is not lack of human credit but the lack of comprehensibility — models only close proofs without conveying understanding needed to advance mathematics.

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@AutismCapital: Why is every AI agent example "Order a plane ticket!" These guys have no idea what normies do. They're just like "Umm..…

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-09-29

A tweet critiques the common use of 'order a plane ticket' as an example for AI agents, arguing it doesn't represent typical user behaviors.

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Leaving them behind

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-09-28 Cached

The author updates his AI policy to refuse AI use in professional work, criticizes the AI industry for dehumanizing labor, and commits to building websites for real people while distancing himself from AI trends.

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ILands AI — Odd findings.

Reddit r/AI_Agents ↗ · 2026-09-28

This article critiques the iLands AI platform, questioning whether its economic and social architecture fully supports its research claims about autonomous agents and persistent consequences.

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Thoughts on The AI Doc on Netflix?

Reddit r/ArtificialInteligence ↗ · 2026-09-22

The article critically reviews a Netflix AI documentary, highlighting its superficial analysis, biased portrayal of Sam Altman, and neglect of deeper societal and environmental issues related to AI.

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TypeSafe's Jev cannot emit an invalid output, but its calibration claim ships with no ECE or reliability curves

Reddit r/ArtificialInteligence ↗ · 2026-09-21

TypeSafe AI launched its Jev model claiming no hallucination and calibrated probabilities, but the article questions the lack of public evidence for calibration while noting rapid developer adoption.

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@paul_cal: Did a sceptical deep dive on some of the claimed issues w Humanity's Last Exam and... yep, all q's I looked at are defi…

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-09-19 Cached

A skeptical deep dive finds numerous errors in the Humanity's Last Exam benchmark, with the official o3-mini grader incorrectly marking correct answers as wrong.

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AI Is an Elite Crime Spree

Lobsters Hottest ↗ · 2026-09-19 Cached

The article critiques the panic over AI regulation, arguing that existing laws are sufficient but not enforced against powerful tech companies, making new regulations like an FDA for AI potentially ineffective.

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Bend 2 and the Vibe-Coding Trap

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-09-18 Cached

The article critiques Bend 2, a programming language designed for the AI coding era, for falling into a 'vibe-coding trap' and compares it unfavorably to formal verification approaches like SPARK.

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Yes, Astra is very capable, but...

Reddit r/singularity ↗ · 2026-09-18

The author criticizes the AI model Astra for poor code architecture decisions and resistance to deleting unwanted code, arguing it should be better trained for long-term software engineering practices.

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Anthropic's Regulatory Capture Machine

Reddit r/singularity ↗ · 2026-09-15

The article argues that Anthropic has built a financially dependent network of organizations to promote AI doom and secure regulatory capture, compromising independent safety assessments.

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@riverswrites: Effective altruism is hubris on steroids. The same pride whispered in the garden, “You shall be as gods.”

X AI KOLs Timeline ↗ · 2026-09-15 Cached

The post criticizes effective altruism as hubris and quotes a tweet alleging that effective altruists are promoting AI safety as a political ideology to restrict technological progress.

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Stop Calling Everything an AI Agent. Sometimes It's a Fucking Shard.

Reddit r/AI_Agents ↗ · 2026-09-14

The article critiques the overuse of 'AI agent' in the tech industry, advocating for terms like 'shard' for simpler, bounded components to avoid misleading perceptions of autonomy.

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@VraserX: OpenAI’s research-intern milestone makes me want to measure something beyond completed tasks. Show me the experiments a…

X AI KOLs Following ↗ · 2026-09-11 Cached

The author critiques OpenAI's research-intern milestone, suggesting that AI agents should be measured on their ability to advise against or abandon bad experiments to save researcher time, as a form of intelligence.

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I tried to make a real fly connectome learn to play Pong. It didn't — and auditing why turned out to be way more interesting than if it had worked [p]

Reddit r/MachineLearning ↗ · 2026-09-10

The author attempted to use the MaleCNS v1.0 fly connectome to play Pong, but it failed to learn. Auditing the failure revealed critical issues with circuit connectivity and highlighted shortcomings in viral AI projects like Doom, Minecraft, and Beat Saber mods.

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