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New comment by BDPW in "Live: Artemis II Launch Day Updates"

BDPW — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 05:04:11 +0000

You're conflating coordinate and proper acceleration.

New comment by BDPW in "Mathematical methods and human thought in the age of AI"

BDPW — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 13:39:47 +0000

Physical classrooms don't really scale either, is that really a fundamental problem?

New comment by BDPW in "Social media bans and digital curfews to be trialled on UK teenagers"

BDPW — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 07:36:52 +0000

The problem seems to be that many students going to college can't seem to read any substantial texts anymore, while somehow getting themselves into college. It's pretty worrying imo. There's a bunch of articles about this as well: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2024/11/the-eli...

New comment by BDPW in "Salesforce pulls back from LLMs, pivots Agentforce to deterministic automation"

BDPW — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 11:44:00 +0000

Its unclear how they intend to fix these fundemantal problems tbh. Things like "Automate the 'must not fail' moments with rules, APIs, and triggers." And "Use policies, templates, function calling, and explicit do/don't constraints." Make sense but if you have deterministic workflows, what do the llms still add?

Using APIs makes sense but isnt the whole point of these things that they can automate away stuff, it feels like we're building really big complicated frameworks to put these things in. Does it still have any actual benefit for stuff like this?

New comment by BDPW in "More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review, often against guidance"

BDPW — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 11:11:27 +0000

I hope I'm wrong but I haven't seen anything like this in practice. I would imagine we have the same problem as before where we could use it as an extra filter but the amount of shit that comes out makes the process not actually any more accurate, just faster.

Having seen from close-up how these reviews go, I get why people use tools like this unfortunately. it doesn't make me very hopeful for the near future of reviewing.

New comment by BDPW in "More than half of researchers now use AI for peer review, often against guidance"

BDPW — Thu, 18 Dec 2025 08:51:57 +0000

LLM's still make stuff up routinely about things like this so no there's no way this is a reliable method.

New comment by BDPW in "EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in search results"

BDPW — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:23:19 +0000

I don't know. I don't really care about the details in this case, I just don't really get the dismissive attitude that often surrounds things like this. Do you think this is not something that is worth looking into if it happens at such as large scale?

Just do be clear, I use genAI all the time for finding info and answering questions, so my browsing habits changed as well. I'm the kind of person who this case would indirectly be about. But don't you think that it's valuable to look at how do we compensate people who create content when their content is being used by genAI.

Many people seem to have the feeling of 'oh it's too late and those websites were garbage anyway (whatever that means), who cares'. Don't you think that's a bit of a silly way to go about this?

New comment by BDPW in "EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in search results"

BDPW — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:19:21 +0000

If using data from those websites in a way decreases their visitors or something similar then I think there's an argument to be made for that. I don't know the details to case but just because something is publicly visible doesn't mean that you can just do anything you want with it.

New comment by BDPW in "EU investigates Google over AI-generated summaries in search results"

BDPW — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 16:04:53 +0000

Appropriate compensation is a non-issue? I have the impression many people jump on the hate-EU train for no other reason than there's many comments reinforcing it.

What do you really think about this case in particular? I'm pretty curious where this comes from.

New comment by BDPW in "The past was not that cute"

BDPW — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:50:00 +0000

I just read the 'original affluent society' and (most of) your linked essay, I kind of agree with you. That said, the conclusions of Kaplan lead to estimates or 35-60 hours a week (excluding some depending on the group) and that surprised me a lot. That's very different from the image I got from some other comments in this thread talking about extremely long days with constant back-breaking work. Would you agree?

New comment by BDPW in "The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law"

BDPW — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 12:05:24 +0000

Whats the problem with attached bottle caps or volume warnings? I used to find these things annoying when I was younger but I do realise things like that can be very useful, even though they are small steps.

New comment by BDPW in "The US polluters that are rewriting the EU's human rights and climate law"

BDPW — Fri, 05 Dec 2025 11:09:51 +0000

What do ILVA and AM stand for?

New comment by BDPW in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

BDPW — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:50:43 +0000

What is so fundamentally different about DID proposed in the UK or the US then? I read through some of the documents about it and the data scoping that will be available, which isn't with something like BankID seem to be the only difference. What am I missing here?

New comment by BDPW in "India orders smartphone makers to preload state-owned cyber safety app"

BDPW — Tue, 02 Dec 2025 09:49:24 +0000

If an authoritarian state tells a bank to block you as a customer you get exactly the same result. All these options of blocking people are already available to states in general.

New comment by BDPW in "A looming 'insect apocalypse' could endanger global food supplies"

BDPW — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:43:17 +0000

It's a pretty common thing that replanted forests turn into monocultures that don't have a lot of value for biodiversity. This then leads to all sorts of problems that healthy diverse forests don't have. I don't know if that's the case with the Appalachian forests but this is depressingly common. That being said, there are good steps being taken, e.g. the rewilding projects by mossy earth.

New comment by BDPW in "Netherlands returns control of Nexperia to Chinese owner"

BDPW — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 20:33:21 +0000

This wasn't because a Chinese CEO was appointed, it was because of his recent actions moving (apparantly critical) production away from the Netherlands. Where did you get this angle from?

New comment by BDPW in "Linear algebra explains why some words are effectively untranslatable"

BDPW — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 22:33:35 +0000

I would argue that you can consider those thoughts. But this is the difficult bit, I've had the experience before of thoughts/feelings whatever ypu want to call them where words fall short. Knowing multiple languages helps a bit but it still falls short sometimes (very rarely).

Language is very effective at this, but I don't think thought is inherently linguistic.

To me language is just a way to label, group or organise these things. So when you learn a new one you learn a new 'labeling system/taxonomy' does that sound familiar?

New comment by BDPW in "EuroLLM: LLM made in Europe built to support all 24 official EU languages"

BDPW — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 18:27:32 +0000

Spotify is not a US company.

New comment by BDPW in "Novo Nordisk's Canadian Mistake"

BDPW — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 08:08:52 +0000

Having seen AstraZeneca inside, this is not the case. There's quite a lot of development going on. It is all non-fundamental though, the focus is heavily on late stage. No identification of disease mechanisms and such.

New comment by BDPW in "They Thought They Were Free (1955)"

BDPW — Sun, 21 Sep 2025 14:17:23 +0000

>In most of Europe, and in the UK, you can't express certain ideas.

This is total BS. In many European countries (the ones I know personally) this is not at all the case.