Hacker News: Guthur

New comment by Guthur in "Abundant Intelligence"

Guthur — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 14:34:08 +0000

My intelligence dropped a few points by reading anything from this charlatan.

New comment by Guthur in "U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis"

Guthur — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 20:30:33 +0000

Mining is first and foremost a material logistics problem. If I need to study significantly more material to retrieve a economically viable amount of sight after elements it will be always a difficult proposition.

New comment by Guthur in "Geedge and MESA leak: Analyzing the great firewall’s largest document leak"

Guthur — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 20:01:32 +0000

You fundamentally misunderstand the battlefield.

New comment by Guthur in "OpenAI eats jobs, then offers to help you find a new one at Walmart"

Guthur — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 16:19:13 +0000

Walmart even used clojure at one stage, possibly still does.

New comment by Guthur in "Bourbaki – A Secret Society of Mathematicians"

Guthur — Fri, 29 Aug 2025 18:05:51 +0000

Potato -> Po Ta To

New comment by Guthur in "Some thoughts on LLMs and software development"

Guthur — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 22:42:10 +0000

In the interest of full disclosure my setup is quite esoteric for unreal dev. Linux and nixos no less. To be honest I'd probably have given up on nixos long ago without LLM support. It's actually really quite handy to be able to share a declarative specification of my environment.

New comment by Guthur in "Some thoughts on LLMs and software development"

Guthur — Thu, 28 Aug 2025 22:04:57 +0000

I just spent a good 2 hours trying to debug a SM6 Vulkan issue with unreal engine using an LLM, it had got me to good state but UE kept falling to load a project, it transpired that the specific error message would provide a fix as the top Google result, which I found when I eventually decided to look for myself.

LLM did help a lot to get some busy work out of the way, but it's difficult to know when you need to jump out of the LLM loop and go old skool.

New comment by Guthur in "No evidence ageing/declining populations compromise socio-economic performance"

Guthur — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:50:31 +0000

It's also extremely exploitative, the premise is actually that we will offload the burden of raising next generations and then effectively steal those that we need to prop up what would naturally be hollowing societies.

New comment by Guthur in "US retail giants raise prices due to tariffs"

Guthur — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 05:29:44 +0000

It has been legal for quite some time, why do you think companies and high worth individuals provide so much money to the political elites, and quite often to both sides. It's just that Trump is quite vulgar and has thrown out any pretense, but they were all quite guilty.

New comment by Guthur in "Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?"

Guthur — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 05:09:00 +0000

What so especially ironic is the posters views comes from the narrative control the UK is so disparate to get control of.

Any notion that the UK is actually run by the people is nonsensical, the so called democracy is pure and utter theatre.

New comment by Guthur in "Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?"

Guthur — Mon, 25 Aug 2025 05:06:00 +0000

You're being sarcastic, right?

The UK is morally hollow by design.

New comment by Guthur in "Vibe Coding Is the Worst Idea of 2025 [video]"

Guthur — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 06:56:35 +0000

What have you based this model on, we seem to constantly make such broad statements of ontological truth without backing it up with any sort of rigour. Just because you can create a model that seems to fit some particular empirical truth doesn't mean that it represents some broader truth.

New comment by Guthur in "Cache of WW2 bombs found under a playground in Northumberland"

Guthur — Mon, 18 Aug 2025 01:04:32 +0000

The constant delay would laughable if it wasn't for the fact that it might end up being tragic.

The UK government really does love to stick it's head in the sand when it comes to problems.

New comment by Guthur in "Cache of WW2 bombs found under a playground in Northumberland"

Guthur — Sun, 17 Aug 2025 23:23:17 +0000

The costs of UK munition dumping are quite high and varied.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaufort%27s_Dyke

New comment by Guthur in "AI is different"

Guthur — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 07:35:40 +0000

It will only be zero as long as we don't allow rent seeking behaviour. If the technology has gatekeepers, if energy is not provided at a practically infinite capacity and if people don't wake themselves from the master/slave relationships we seem to so often desire and create, then I'm skeptical.

The latter one is probably the most intellectually interesting and potentially intractable...

I completely disagree with idea that money is currently the only driver of human endeavour, frankly it's demonstrably not true, at least not in it's direct use value, it maybe used as a proxy for power but it's also not directly correlatable.

Looking at it intellectually from a Hegelian lens of master/slave dialectic might provide some interesting insights. I think both sides are in some way usurped. The slaves position of actualisation through productive creation is taken via automation, but if that automation is also widely and freely available the masters position of status via subjection is also made common and therefore without status.

What does it all mean in the long run? Damned if I know...

New comment by Guthur in "Citybound: City building game, microscopic models to vividly simulate organism"

Guthur — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 20:51:53 +0000

No, put it didn't necessarily pitch itself as a finely detailed simulation.

I'm really not sure what you were going with with this line of passive aggressive what aboutism.

New comment by Guthur in "A new poverty line shifted the World Bank's poverty data"

Guthur — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 09:38:16 +0000

I stumbled upon it because I was wondering why every country seemed to be synchronized on a 2030 plan, and found them that they had all signed up to the plan in 2015. It being bureaucratic organisation means there will be documentation galore.

https://unstats.un.org/sdgs/report/2025/

New comment by Guthur in "Citybound: City building game, microscopic models to vividly simulate organism"

Guthur — Fri, 15 Aug 2025 06:47:47 +0000

Does it simulate the darker side of city life, corruption, crime, etc.

New comment by Guthur in "NSF and Nvidia award Ai2 $152M to support building an open AI ecosystem"

Guthur — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:12:11 +0000

It's not my feelings mate, if you don't live outside the US and have not been subjected to their unipolar attitude you will probably never understand and there is literally nothing I'm going to say to convince you of the objective reality the rest of us face.

New comment by Guthur in "NSF and Nvidia award Ai2 $152M to support building an open AI ecosystem"

Guthur — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 17:09:29 +0000

Of course you can justify this, as people have, but you can't then blame the rest of us non US citizens for not aligning with that goal. The US is only a small portion of the global population and the government itself has a long history of stamping on the rest of us.