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The End of Upward Mobility

Gooblebrai — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 19:44:48 +0000

Article URL: https://www.noemamag.com/the-end-of-upward-mobility/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49769572

Points: 6

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How to be a wise optimist about science and technology? (2024)

Gooblebrai — Sat, 19 Sep 2026 13:04:33 +0000

Article URL: https://michaelnotebook.com/optimism/index.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49766264

Points: 2

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Artificial by Luca Guadagnino: A Movie about Sam Altman

Gooblebrai — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 08:22:36 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDZplZFnbOk

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49655144

Points: 2

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New comment by Gooblebrai in "Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (2019)"

Gooblebrai — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:57:18 +0000

Very interesting Jonathan's take on how knowledge gets lost overtime, in part, due to abstractions.

Preventing the Collapse of Civilization (2019)

Gooblebrai — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 08:57:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49574646

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Gooblebrai in "Statichost.eu – European static site hosting"

Gooblebrai — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 07:48:28 +0000

Out of curiosity, does a Ltd from the UK counts as EU nowadays after the brexit?

New comment by Gooblebrai in "Perception of Time Is, in Fact, Warped"

Gooblebrai — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:36:23 +0000

> In some ways, the scale of this phenomenon resembles an episode of mass cognitive dissonance, or even a population-level folie à deux. It’s worth asking if something about our internal mechanisms for gauging the passage of time has changed

Ted Chiang's Exhalation short story comes to mind

Perception of Time Is, in Fact, Warped

Gooblebrai — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 20:34:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.noemamag.com/your-perception-of-time-is-in-fact-warped/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49556529

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

New comment by Gooblebrai in "Sanders introduces bill to ban artificial superintelligence and pause AI"

Gooblebrai — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:31:16 +0000

From

> intelligence beyond human control. (1)

> that will obviously end humanity (2)

There's quite an assumption on the feasibility of (1) and even a bigger jump that from (1) follows (2)

Some people can have less apocalyptic / more pragmatic views of the potential of AI.

New comment by Gooblebrai in "Sanders introduces bill to ban artificial superintelligence and pause AI"

Gooblebrai — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 18:10:51 +0000

Actually, Heaven is our best shot at a post-scarcity society /s

AI has achieved the same religious undertones as your average cult. Is the new god of the gaps for some tech people. The wild card to achieve anything.

New comment by Gooblebrai in "Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them"

Gooblebrai — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:17:16 +0000

Is so fascinating and horrifying to read this. We still have to learn so much about how the brain works

New comment by Gooblebrai in "Aging brains blend memories together instead of just forgetting them"

Gooblebrai — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:14:07 +0000

The new version of this tale is that reality is a simulation. Reality being a dream is so 4th Century China

New comment by Gooblebrai in "Since it was stripped of planetary status, Pluto’s defenders have been fighting"

Gooblebrai — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:24:38 +0000

> Scientists really should have made up their own categories instead of using our words.

Doesn't really matter. The public would end up taking science words for their own purposes to sound legitimate. Look at how "quantum" and "energy" is used in alternative medicine.

New comment by Gooblebrai in "My experience has nuance, yours is a data point"

Gooblebrai — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 16:23:14 +0000

This made me think of how dystopic would be a virtual reality with an algorithm that behaves like this to give the user more of what they pay attention to

New comment by Gooblebrai in "Ask HN: What are you using to access x.com at the moment?"

Gooblebrai — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 10:39:00 +0000

This. If something is important enough, it will reach you through other media.

New comment by Gooblebrai in "The turbulent AI era is here"

Gooblebrai — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 06:44:36 +0000

Which I'm not sure it happens that often anymore because it's easier to just complain on social media

New comment by Gooblebrai in "To become a better writer, read as much as you can"

Gooblebrai — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 09:17:53 +0000

> This is the key point, I think. I've seen the same as the author: people who want to be writers but rarely read books. And I don't get it.

Because the idea of being a writer is more appealing that the action of writing

Debates over AI consciousness are a trap

Gooblebrai — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:26:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/20/1142571/ai-consciousness-debate-trap/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49385725

Points: 3

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New comment by Gooblebrai in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

Gooblebrai — Fri, 21 Aug 2026 09:07:03 +0000

It means at least, that there's something of value in the company worth that amount of money. Regardless of what it is.

New comment by Gooblebrai in "OpenRouter is joining Stripe"

Gooblebrai — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 13:17:03 +0000

https://www.requesty.ai/eu