Hacker News: Avicebron

New comment by Avicebron in "Don't Worry About AI Making You Dumber, Nvidia CEO Says It Doesn't Matter"

Avicebron — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 18:32:46 +0000

Man selling shovels says "keep digging"

New comment by Avicebron in "Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe"

Avicebron — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:19:44 +0000

One of the weirdest things I noticed when people around me started having kids was how immediately they picked up on their parents obsession with their phones, and would instinctively try to interact with them.

It was odd, disheartening and almost universal (barring the parents who went full 'my kid doesn't use any of the products I build')

New comment by Avicebron in "Plunging test scores are a slow-moving catastrophe"

Avicebron — Sat, 26 Sep 2026 16:01:42 +0000

You make it sounds like you're being sarcastic. But I would argue that ubiquitous digital interfaces demanding our attention is wreaking havoc on people's focus.

New comment by Avicebron in "FTC chair suggests AI developers should be liable for conduct of agents"

Avicebron — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:52:20 +0000

I mean there aren't many good options are there, AI can't be held accountable and face meaningful consequences for it's actions. Therefore, where consequences are appropriate, who is ultimately responsible for "their actions?"

New comment by Avicebron in "Altman-backed Praxis plans a $1B AI-powered town in Uruguay"

Avicebron — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:29:38 +0000

> say they could be essential laboratories for governance that could help cut through bureaucratic red tape to accelerate technological innovation.

I'm taking an educated guess that rights and managing negative externalities is the "bureaucratic red tape" they are concerned about.

New comment by Avicebron in "Too AI; Didn't Read"

Avicebron — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 22:19:11 +0000

> wide appeal or value to a lot of people.

I'm curious what value you think people are getting by being able to spew out large amounts of low to mid quality writing. I'm not saying we should complain about AI in general, just how some people use it.

> maybe you can offer an example where it played out like that for something that had a wide appeal or value to a lot of people

Sure, the French aristocracy had wide appeal and value for a lot of people, complaining played a part in keeping their behavior from becoming normalized even further.

New comment by Avicebron in "Too AI; Didn't Read"

Avicebron — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 21:32:49 +0000

Part of not allowing it to become normalized is complaining about it..

New comment by Avicebron in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

Avicebron — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 02:42:37 +0000

> The idea that land is not a pure asset leads to regular feudalism.

Yup. And despite the claims made that it's a solution for the common folk, the people who "own" and can make decisions about the land will be the megarich, so it will be feudalism, with rent due on the land you own.

New comment by Avicebron in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

Avicebron — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:59:09 +0000

To be fair 250K homes and under homes are increasingly uncommon and increasingly undesirable. Rural areas with almost zero industry are averaging out at 600-750K. Maybe a bit of a downward trend, but the average salary in the area is like 50K. so it doesn't matter.

New comment by Avicebron in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

Avicebron — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:58:45 +0000

I do understand how it works, are you saying that the zoning will magically be fixed when the taxes go up or the land becomes more exlusive? because I can tell you which one has precedent and which one is wishful thinking.

New comment by Avicebron in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

Avicebron — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:46:58 +0000

"utilized better" in that context just means that the owner of the land can support the taxes on it, it doesn't mean suddenly we are going to put skyscrapers in el cerrito.

New comment by Avicebron in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

Avicebron — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:31:53 +0000

LVT is incoherent, it pretty much only benefits people who are cash rich and land poor. Which is why it gets so much oxygen from tech elites with lots of cash and an inability to buy a house somewhere like mill valley, or wherever.

Essentially taken to the logical conclusion, there will be people competing for more cash to pay their increasing taxes on the same land, it doesn't fundamentally solve the problem. It's such a joke.

New comment by Avicebron in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

Avicebron — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 22:26:05 +0000

You take control of the shares and distribute the proceeds and make it impossible to leverage them for loans, credit etc.

Is it Zuck's networth or salary that makes it possible for him to own his ranch in Hawaii?

New comment by Avicebron in "Google’s Project Suncatcher to put ML infrastructure in space"

Avicebron — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 18:17:06 +0000

Is Kessler syndrome priced into cost? Or is that just like, someone else's problem?

New comment by Avicebron in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

Avicebron — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:55:00 +0000

Careful, you're dangerously close to an argument for the necessity of embodiment /s

New comment by Avicebron in "OpenAI breaches Medicare, Albanese reveals"

Avicebron — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:18:27 +0000

Once you learn how much people are willing to pay for security the surprise sort of goes away.

New comment by Avicebron in "Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats"

Avicebron — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 22:14:51 +0000

> The best possible next-word-predictor is omniscient.

Omniscient for the set of "meaning" embedded into it's training set. It's not broadly omniscient, big difference.

New comment by Avicebron in "28% of job postings on company career sites have been open over 90 days"

Avicebron — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:38:25 +0000

This is not helpful and untrue, if you've tried to apply for jobs within the laat ~6+ years you will know it's screaming into the void. New accounts for the N+ glassdoor/indeed/bamboo/handshake/yougettheidea clones. Poorly pulling information from an uploaded resume, requiring manually editing or adding the info _every_ time. If your dilligent/dumb you writing a cover letter for each one (no AI the signal is too bad), then you submit it and wait an arbitrary amount of time for the rejection. There is a good reason people are complaining, it's asinine to put this on jpb seekers.

New comment by Avicebron in "Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting"

Avicebron — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 16:50:54 +0000

Not taking the concerns of the people you supposedly represent seriously is more rude than a middle finger.

New comment by Avicebron in "CNN Mood 'Like a Funeral' as Paramount Acquires Warner Bros"

Avicebron — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:27:01 +0000

NNC, the Neural Network Channel