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New comment by Borrible in "Book review: There Is No Antimemetics Division"

Borrible — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 14:49:03 +0000

Forget about it. Read The Raw Shark Texts instead.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Raw_Shark_Texts

New comment by Borrible in "70k Books Found in Hidden Library in This Germany Home (2023)"

Borrible — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 05:02:29 +0000

So, how many of them has he read?

New comment by Borrible in "I swear the UFO is coming any minute"

Borrible — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 09:01:38 +0000

"Well, it's not quite the conflagration I'd been banking on. Never mind, lads, same time tomorrow... we must get a winner one day."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hJQ18S6aag

New comment by Borrible in ""I Told the Senate Gen-Z Is Less Cognitively Capable" by Jared Cooney Horvath"

Borrible — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:36:23 +0000

You're welcome. Thinking about it, the previous version probably would have led to more interesting answers. Like yours.

New comment by Borrible in "Ask HN: How to get started with robotics as a hobbyist?"

Borrible — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 18:29:09 +0000

Start with a simple analog Braitenberg vehicle and learn how to ascribe intelligent behaviour to a purely mechanical system.

New comment by Borrible in ""I Told the Senate Gen-Z Is Less Cognitively Capable" by Jared Cooney Horvath"

Borrible — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:46:14 +0000

No, Mr Horvath did. I changed the title accordingly.

"I Told the Senate Gen-Z Is Less Cognitively Capable" by Jared Cooney Horvath

Borrible — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 17:35:28 +0000

Article URL: https://thedigitaldelusion.substack.com/p/i-told-the-senate-gen-z-is-less-cognately

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47016430

Points: 3

# Comments: 4

New comment by Borrible in "Silver plunges 30% in worst day since 1980, gold tumbles"

Borrible — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 06:33:16 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gresham%27s_law

New comment by Borrible in "Show HN: Moltbook – A social network for moltbots (clawdbots) to hang out"

Borrible — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 13:37:48 +0000

If I understand correctly, it's paranoid AI, discussing conspiracy theories about paranoid people, discussing conspiracy theories about paranoid AI, discussing conspiracy theories about paranoid people, discussing conspiracy theories about ... ... ? My inner Douglas Hofstaedter likes that!

New comment by Borrible in "Baffling purple honey found only in North Carolina"

Borrible — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 16:40:12 +0000

Nice, looks tasty!

So, Kudzu?

Or Industrial waste like in France around 2012?

https://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyle/blue-and-green-hon...

And on Banggi, a Malaysian island, there is supposedly green honey!

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/361629042_Physicoch...

New comment by Borrible in "London 1600s (AI Reconstruction) [video]"

Borrible — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 04:18:51 +0000

I stopped watching the video when the first ships approached Old London Bridge, which were clearly too tall to pass through, and fortunately the camera angle changed before I had to witness the AI shipwreck.

New comment by Borrible in "If a Meta AI model can read a brain-wide signal, why wouldn't the brain?"

Borrible — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 11:51:52 +0000

This reminds me of Dr. Adrian Thompson's interesting findings from the mid-1990s on the influence of electromagnetic phenomena in evolvable hardware on FPGAs.

https://www.damninteresting.com/on-the-origin-of-circuits/

Of course, the substrate being researched back then is different from human wetware.

New comment by Borrible in "Bit flips: How cosmic rays grounded a fleet of aircraft"

Borrible — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 02:50:34 +0000

That reminds me of how the manufacturer's customer service department for my car some thirty years ago tried to convince me that the problems with the ignition electronics could also be caused by solar flares. Which could have been the case, of course, but then it would surely have affected other vehicle owners as well. Though, maybe the sun did shine just for me back then, you can never be sure, can't you. I briefly considered consulting an astronomer.

New comment by Borrible in "So What Should We Call This – A Grue Jay?"

Borrible — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 02:39:39 +0000

Dull Jay.

New comment by Borrible in "We Need to Die"

Borrible — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 12:35:44 +0000

"Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon."

Susan Ertz. Anger in the Sky. Hodder & Stoughton. 1943

New comment by Borrible in "Why making friends as an adult is harder"

Borrible — Wed, 25 Dec 2024 19:32:43 +0000

That may be the case, but I can't personally confirm it. On the other hand, I have never felt a particular need. There were some or not. They come and they go. It probably also depends on what you want to understand by the term friend.

New comment by Borrible in "Mirror bacteria research poses significant risks, scientists warn"

Borrible — Tue, 17 Dec 2024 13:10:03 +0000

Time flies (2010):

https://www.wired.com/story/building-a-parallel-universe/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1997472

The scary sound of Aztec skull whistles

Borrible — Tue, 19 Nov 2024 09:23:33 +0000

Article URL: https://caneuro.github.io/blog/2024/study-skullwhistle/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42181466

Points: 36

# Comments: 30

New comment by Borrible in "The Silurian Hypothesis"

Borrible — Mon, 11 Nov 2024 16:28:49 +0000

And in Cixin Liu’s short story "Devourer" they even come back to earth for a last visit...

Of course, this has a back-story/history, see "Of Ants and Dinosaurs".

New comment by Borrible in "Nobel Prize in Physics awarded to John Hopfield and Geoffrey Hinton [pdf]"

Borrible — Wed, 09 Oct 2024 09:01:49 +0000

I asked ChatGPT o1-preview with cutt-off October 2023 and it was not enthusiastic about the idea and said medicine would be closer.

ChatGPT 40 wasn't keen about it either.

Perplexity.ai told me it is what it is, it's a great idea and it's fine with it.