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New comment by Eddy_Viscosity2 in "A U.S. Strategy to Prevent the Creation of Mirror Life"

Eddy_Viscosity2 — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 15:59:39 +0000

So, my first time learning that mirror life is a thing and about its terrifying implications. I guess that's enough internet for today.

New comment by Eddy_Viscosity2 in "AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry?"

Eddy_Viscosity2 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 17:13:40 +0000

My comment may have been misinterpreted, it was not meant to be anti-government. It is meant to be anti-centralized control though, regardless of the form it takes.

New comment by Eddy_Viscosity2 in "AI Can Now Design Functional Viruses. Should We Worry?"

Eddy_Viscosity2 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 16:30:31 +0000

Every person's utopia is someone else's dystopia and vice versa. What you've described is clearly some peoples (ie. already billionaires) version of the best possible world. Not so much for the rest of us though...

New comment by Eddy_Viscosity2 in "Working with AI feels more like leadership than coding"

Eddy_Viscosity2 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 15:59:11 +0000

Isn't that just regular management?

New comment by Eddy_Viscosity2 in "Gallium: Why the US Cannot Produce Precision Missiles and Fully-Functional F-35s"

Eddy_Viscosity2 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 13:17:01 +0000

The environmental costs are the same everywhere, the only regional differences are the form those costs take and who bears them.

New comment by Eddy_Viscosity2 in "Why Can't You Pack a Bag? (2024)"

Eddy_Viscosity2 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:52:14 +0000

Light packing is great for the travelling part, but has disadvantages once you're at the destination and a need a thing you didn't bring. So neither is always better, it'll be trip and person dependent.

New comment by Eddy_Viscosity2 in "The Fish Who Could Not Imagine Air"

Eddy_Viscosity2 — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 12:48:34 +0000

It could be a flying fish though, one that has never flown or even knows what that is. What if humans has an innate ability that we are all utterly unaware of and therefore can never use.

New comment by Eddy_Viscosity2 in "Newfoundland has a hard bread shortage, but why do they eat it?"

Eddy_Viscosity2 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 21:52:05 +0000

Economics says in the event of shortages, make supplies only available for more wealthy people. This 'solves' the problem because the wellbeing of less wealthy people is entirely irrelevant to economists.

New comment by Eddy_Viscosity2 in "Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove"

Eddy_Viscosity2 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 14:20:52 +0000

Is there a way to not only watermark that it was AI, but also which user generated it? Can it be used to fingerprint?

New comment by Eddy_Viscosity2 in "Text AI watermarks will always be trivial to remove"

Eddy_Viscosity2 — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:24:06 +0000

Whoever pays for them most likely. Also likely that there will some special layer of watermarking capability only the sec agencies get to use (and pay more for).

New comment by Eddy_Viscosity2 in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

Eddy_Viscosity2 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:55:14 +0000

These are valid things to be unhappy about and should be corrected. But if the implication is 'licensing has issues so we'd be better off without' then I'm not on board. It reads like one of those 'if we can't have a 100% perfect solution, then we should do nothing' arguments. Licensing does have merits and I think currently they outweigh the drawbacks. If we can make licensing better by fixing some issues, then absolutely let's do that.

New comment by Eddy_Viscosity2 in "Claude users are mad that Anthropic's new watermarks will catch them using it"

Eddy_Viscosity2 — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:40:44 +0000

If other AI vendors don't follow suit, then people will move over to them to escape detection. Then of course Claude will stop watermarking.

New comment by Eddy_Viscosity2 in "Facebook ads are so hard to block that uBlock Origin stopped filtering them"

Eddy_Viscosity2 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:47:29 +0000

I wonder how far we are away from AI being required to link to the TPM in a way that the OS and hardware people can have full authority on what you can use.

New comment by Eddy_Viscosity2 in "You can't buy 20 pieces of aluminum tube online"

Eddy_Viscosity2 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 14:13:56 +0000

I opened with saying the article was interesting, but I still feel a deep sense of revulsion when I see LLM-isms like this. I will continue to call them out because I want them to stop and I don't have any other way to vent about it. I think at this point, social pressure is the only lever left to bring people back to writing their own words.

New comment by Eddy_Viscosity2 in "You can't buy 20 pieces of aluminum tube online"

Eddy_Viscosity2 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:43:22 +0000

Interesting, but I got to this:

"Pricing cut-to-length tube is not "price per pound times pounds." It's a one-dimensional bin packing problem, and the details are where the money hides."

which is one of the a peak LLM sentence. ug.

New comment by Eddy_Viscosity2 in "uBlock Origin Is Giving Up the Fight to Keep Ads Off Facebook"

Eddy_Viscosity2 — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 12:40:44 +0000

This is the first and only use-case for LLMs that I am genuinely excited about.

New comment by Eddy_Viscosity2 in "Tech sucks: You have to vote with your wallet, or nothing will change"

Eddy_Viscosity2 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:41:08 +0000

Billionaires tell people to vote with their dollars because they will always have more votes then them.

New comment by Eddy_Viscosity2 in "Flock wanted to tap dashcams in rideshare vechicles to add to surveillance data"

Eddy_Viscosity2 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 18:41:44 +0000

I'm referring to the pattern of SCOTUS making up whatever justification they want to achieve the result they want. That and the pattern of being pro-corporation.

New comment by Eddy_Viscosity2 in "Flock wanted to tap dashcams in rideshare vechicles to add to surveillance data"

Eddy_Viscosity2 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 16:44:43 +0000

If the constitutional aspects are settled in favor of people, but current SCOTUS suggests this be unlikely. But.. even it were, then police departments would just buy the data second hand instead via direct contracts.

New comment by Eddy_Viscosity2 in "ICE to Pay LexisNexis Millions for Data to Feed to Palantir"

Eddy_Viscosity2 — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 12:58:00 +0000

The US could vote its way out of all this surveillance nonsense and add some new privacy rights. But it won't.