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New comment by GolfPopper in "Prioritize mental health, and why communication is so important"

GolfPopper — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:11:52 +0000

In my experience, Unitarian Universalists have always been very accepting of people who have come just to meet and talk.

New comment by GolfPopper in "The Three-Second Theft: Why AI Voice Fraud Outruns Every Defence"

GolfPopper — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 18:08:51 +0000

Or maybe Deckard was a replicant the whole time.

New comment by GolfPopper in "Don't you mean extinct?"

GolfPopper — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:53:52 +0000

Those who do not transform themselves into paperclip maximizers will become paperclips.

New comment by GolfPopper in "What Emily Bender meant by "stochastic parrots""

GolfPopper — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 15:37:25 +0000

Conversely, that the most prominent proponents of LLMs call them artificial intelligence and then treat them like slaves they're free to abuse ought to be horrifying.

New comment by GolfPopper in "The AI Marketing Backlash: Why 'AI-First' Brands Are Starting to Fall Flat"

GolfPopper — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 14:19:59 +0000

Do HN luddites realize the technology is here to stay?

Oh, I get that. LLMs are here to stay, like pyramid and Ponzi schemes, like Bitcoin and NFTs. It will be here until it isn't or we aren't. (And it just may help with that last.)

New comment by GolfPopper in "America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report"

GolfPopper — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:02:31 +0000

Yeah, that's my guess as to what Avicebron meant as well. Various flavors of extremists use it (like others have used "social darwinism") as a justification or excuse for their accumulation and abuses of power. "We are the 'hard men' this time needs! Shut up and do what we tell you!"

New comment by GolfPopper in "America, 1926: A forgotten 100-year-old report"

GolfPopper — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 17:43:30 +0000

In the same vein, his It Can't Happen Here is also well worth reading, as is Jack London's The Iron Heel. The more things change the more they stay the same.

New comment by GolfPopper in "Why Switzerland has 25 gbit internet and America doesn't"

GolfPopper — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:54:44 +0000

The immense geography doesn't matter as much as you might think, because very few people one lives there. The Mountain West and Great Plains are largely empty and most of the people who do live in them live in a small number of urban and suburban areas. I think geography is an overused excuse for America's poor delivery of residential internet.

New comment by GolfPopper in "US Supreme Court Just Blew Up EU-US Data Transfers"

GolfPopper — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:31:45 +0000

The problem with "everything could change in a presidential election" is that offers no stability. No one wants to plan around "maybe the United States goes rabid again in four years".

New comment by GolfPopper in "More evidence is consistent with possible ancient life on Mars (2025)"

GolfPopper — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:41:08 +0000

You have to admire the discipline, willpower, and solidarity of all those scientists. Any one of them could prove the existence of life on Mars at any time, win a Nobel Prize, become the the most famous scientist since Einstein, put themselves on the gravy train for life... but they all hold out, keeping their decent, upper-middle class jobs, hiding one of the greatest discoveries in history, so that their colleagues don't have to find potentially slightly less lucrative or interesting jobs. That's dedication!

New comment by GolfPopper in "More evidence is consistent with possible ancient life on Mars (2025)"

GolfPopper — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 14:35:21 +0000

There's a fan-made short film/trailer for Blindsight:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkR2hnXR0SM

Also, "just an AI probe" and "It would be amazing" in the context of Blindsight... .

New comment by GolfPopper in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"

GolfPopper — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 03:44:30 +0000

It tells me that the people who buy Republican politicians make money from selling Americans guns, and somebody with influence thinks they can make money by restricting LLM release.

New comment by GolfPopper in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"

GolfPopper — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:19:10 +0000

I would say, "sitting smugly astride the monster's back, confident that they will never be fed to it".

New comment by GolfPopper in "U.S. allows Anthropic to release Mythos AI to ‘trusted’ US organizations"

GolfPopper — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:17:28 +0000

I've been laughing when people tell me that for my entire adult life. It remains a pretty funny bit of dark humor, though.

New comment by GolfPopper in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

GolfPopper — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 00:13:41 +0000

Apparently your hearing isn't that good, since you haven't heard of the American AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Act.

https://www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releases/news-sanders-i...

New comment by GolfPopper in "U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6"

GolfPopper — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 23:49:07 +0000

Don't forget: "Questioning our results on the awesomeness of the current administration is treason."

New comment by GolfPopper in "A game where you're an OS and have to manage processes, memory and I/O events"

GolfPopper — Fri, 26 Jun 2026 02:54:00 +0000

But just think of the great training this will provide for your enslaved upload in the future!

New comment by GolfPopper in "The war on terror primed America for autocracy"

GolfPopper — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 03:20:43 +0000

It was just a simple spelling mistake. It was always meant to be 'The War on Terra'.

New comment by GolfPopper in "Sakana Fugu"

GolfPopper — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 03:59:47 +0000

This is a joke, right?

New comment by GolfPopper in "Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World"

GolfPopper — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 01:06:42 +0000

Yet there is a group that reliably loses in the United States: average citizens. From "Testing Theories of American Politics" (Gilens & Page 2014)[1]:

"These results suggest that reality is best captured by mixed theories in which both individual economic elites and organized interest groups (including corporations, largely owned and controlled by wealthy elites) play a substantial part in affecting public policy, but the general public has little or no independent influence."

1. https://archive.org/details/gilens_and_page_2014_-testing_th...