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It's vibes all the way down now.

The victim is the person who's likeness was forced into becoming sexualized content without consent.


"You might fail so don't try" is certainly a take, I guess.


You WILL fail so do not try is indeed a sane take.


Friction matters.

The locks on my doors will fail if somebody tries hard enough. They are still valuable.


> They are still valuable.

Only because of the broader context of the legal environment. If there was no prosecution for breaking and entering, they would be effectively worthless. For the analogy to hold, we need laws to throw coercive measures against those trying to bypass guard rails. Theoretically, this already exists in the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act in the US, but that interpretation doesn't exist quite yet.


Goalpost movement alert. The claim was that "AI can be told not to output something". It cannot. It can be told to not output something sometimes, and that might stick, sometimes. This is true. Original statement is not.


If you insist on maximum pedantry, an AI can be told not to output something as this claim says nothing about how the AI responds to this command.


You are correct and you win. I concede. You outpedanted me. Upvoted


Define Fail.

Preventing 100%? Fail.

Reducing the number of such images by 10-25% or even more? I don’t think so.

Not to mention the experience you get to know what you can and what you can’t prevent.


After learning that guaranteed delivery was impossible, the once-promising "Transmission Control Protocol" is now only an obscure relic of a bygone era from the 70s, and a future of inter-connected computer systems was abandoned as merely a delusional, impossible fantasy.


Strange article. Why didn't the author just try to talk to someone that does this work and ask?


It's written by a philosopher.


So it starts as a line, explodes into a huge 2D complex mess, and eventually, after many generation, returns to form the same 3.7B cells long line?

That's kind of amazing. I wish someone unpacked the units of abstraction/compilation that must surely exist here.

Surely they aren't developing this with 1 or 0 as the abstraction level!


See here: https://conwaylife.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2040&start...

It’s also a relatively sparse line, as the number of live cells is less than a hundredth of the line’s extent: https://conwaylife.com/wiki/Unidimensional_spaceship_1


I'm barely able to follow, but this part was fun:

> The third and fourth arms are extreme compression construction arms "ecca", where a programming language interpreter is created and individual incoming letters are interpreted as instructions specifying which phase (mod 2) and line of glider to emit.


> Work started in 2016 and was completed on December 1, 2025.

Almost 10 years of development.


Development, idle hacking when someone got bored at work; potato, potahto...


This kind of thing is many times more complicated and involved than my day job, I wouldn't call it "idle" if I were to do it.


Only about 1.5% of the human genome is protein coding. The human genome is about 3 billion base pairs long.


Game of life indeed!


Also share about 60 percent with bananas.


How many steps is the period? How far does it travel in that period? What direction does it go? Does it clean up after itself?


As the wiki page states, the period is 133076755768, and it moves by two cells in that time. Spaceships in GoL by definition don’t leave anything behind, they produce the exact same configuration, just shifted across the grid.

Given that it starts as a single line, it is symmetric in the axis implied by that line, and hence can’t possibly move diagonally or orthogonal to the line. Hence it moves in the direction of the line.


Thanks!

I was a bit confused by that wiki page because it says "Direction Orthogonal" but like you said that can't be.


Yeah, “orthogonal” here just means “not diagonal”. Since GoL configurations don’t have a distinguished orientation (you can rotate and/or mirror them however you like), it wouldn’t make sense to specify up/down/left/right, at least not without first fixing an (arbitrary) orientation.


Thank you for this description. I thought it's a glider for some 1 dimensional cellular automata system.


Yes, that was my first reading as well. I thought "((1D Conway's Life) glider) found" but it is "(1D (Conway's Life glider)) found".


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> I asked AI to explain it to me,

We all know how to do that, but that's not why were here.


I’m not sure where our guidelines/norms are on this kind of thing, but I get the sense that most of us feel very capable of pasting articles into LLMs ourselves.

What we’re less capable of—and the reason we look to each other here instead—is distinguishing where the LLM’s errors or misinterpretations lie. The gross mistakes are often easy enough to spot, but the subtle misstatements get masked by its overconfidence.

Luckily for us, a lot of the same people actually doing the work on the stuff we care about tend to hang out around here. And often, they’re kind enough to duck in and share.

Thank you in any case for being upfront about it. It’s just that it’d be a shame and a real loss if the slop noise came to drown out the signal here.


dang (the head moderator of Hacker News) has said multiple times that HN prefers human-only comments.


I think you're mistaking the funding and starting of companies with the execution of their vision through software engineering -- the entire point of the article, and the OP.


You are correct. I've operated under many protective orders that require me to redact portions of reports clients paid for because they were not authorized to see those specific parts due to the order.


If you do anything in America that results in a stored record it's possible it will be released in discovery and a lawyer will read it. This happens all the time, and has happened for hundreds years.

It's not like the NYT will be published this shit in the news. Their lawyers and experts will have access to make a legal case, under a protective order. I'm not going to lose my law license because I'm doing doc review and you asked it something naughty and I think it's funny.

Courts and lawyers deal with this stuff all the time. What's very very weird to me is how upset OpenAI is about it.

They look like they are hiding something.


If it doesn't play GTA 6 or CoD or whatever sports games are cool these days it won't win, but it sure looks interesting.


You've never been to Chicago.


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