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dazzaji
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
Nope, not bored at all. I'm clicking on most HN AI threads out of sheer curiosity, eager to learn new techniques and see what folks are thinking or building. Given its transformative ripple effects, AI feels like the single biggest shift reshaping the economy and society right now. Kind of the opposite of boring.
dazzaji
·il y a 4 mois·discuss
I’m pleasantly surprised this was AI assisted so deeply that inconsistencies like that slipped by you. The writing is really extraordinary. It made me want to read for fun again for the first time in decades. Thank you!
dazzaji
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
Thanks for those links - these are the rules and norms I didn’t know before. Now that I see them, they seem pretty sensible overall. Some are of them are a bit quirky.
dazzaji
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
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dazzaji
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
By all means! I’m not sure if Hacker News rules or norms permit us to talk here or not but I’ll at least respond here as a start:

What about loyal agents would you like to talk about?
dazzaji
·il y a 8 mois·discuss
This discussion hits close to home. A few of us at Stanford and Consumer Reports have been working on a project called Loyal Agents (loyalagents.org ) that’s focused on the same core issue raised in the Economist article, namely how to make sure AI agents actually act in the interest of the people they represent.

The idea is to define what “loyalty” means for an AI agent in both technical and legal terms, and then build systems that can prove they’re acting on a user’s behalf (ie not a platform’s or advertiser’s).

It’s early-stage research, but the overlap with many of the questions here is striking. Would be great to get feedback from this crowd as the work evolves.

I’m part of the group working on Loyal Agents and happy to discuss it.
dazzaji
·il y a 9 mois·discuss
Here’s what Claude Sonnet 4.5 suggested to take this piece from something that sounds impressive but lacks substance to something that could actually deliver on its promise. I did this thought exercise to explore whether being AI-generated necessarily precludes brilliance. You be the judge - I think Claude succeeded in mapping the gap between the current draft and what a truly excellent version would actually require.

https://claude.ai/share/46dd4b7e-9adf-473d-8372-22cb1ae34249
dazzaji
·il y a 10 mois·discuss
Based on the URL correlation and content, it sure appears to be the same book.
dazzaji
·il y a 10 mois·discuss
Registration full :-(
dazzaji
·il y a 10 mois·discuss
Not quite - as I understand it box-counting measures global space-filling, manifolds handle local coordinate structure. Consider that the Earth is locally flat but globally spherical, and a Möbius strip vs cylinder are locally identical but globally different. Related problems, but the tools reveal different aspects of geometry. So I think whether “this is exactly what topological manifolds are for” depends what you’re trying to understand.