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New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Every Mac comes with an (undocumented) family member classifier"

InsideOutSanta — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 17:16:24 +0000

Maybe LLMs are better writers than the majority of people, but that's only because the majority of people just don't write. If you have any level of competency, you are a better writer than an LLM, because good writing requires empathy. It required thinking about what the audience knows, what they want to know, what kind of writing they are comfortable with, and so on.

LLMs fail at those things.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Tesla winds down Cybertruck production after years of poor sales in few markets"

InsideOutSanta — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 14:35:58 +0000

It's 100% bulletproof except for the parts it's made out of.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production"

InsideOutSanta — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 14:34:08 +0000

Found Elizabeth Holmes's alt.

(I don't necessarily disagree with you, but there's a difference between thinking outside the box and trying new ideas, and literally ignoring factual reality and repeated clear feedback from people who actually know what they're talking about.)

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Global stocks tumble as AI panic grips markets after Democrats' midterm success"

InsideOutSanta — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 09:26:37 +0000

Stock market reporting is always pretty funny. "Stocks went up because the Democrats won!" "Stocks went down because the democrats won!"

I think it's just a chaotic system and, apart from extreme events, it's impossible to know what the actual reasons for most movements are.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Tencent Hy4"

InsideOutSanta — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 09:03:42 +0000

> The implication being quite clear you were inferring it was only possible in China's surveillance state, when it was not.

Jesus fucking Christ.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Tencent Hy4"

InsideOutSanta — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 09:57:08 +0000

> Your example didn't fit the evil-bogeyman narrative you were aiming for

What in the world are you talking about. If anything, I wasn't sure if recollecting that anecdote was minimizing the harm of being surveilled constantly. The last thing I expected was being accused of an "evil-bogeyman narrative."

> Sorry if I was unclear there.

Yes, thanks for clarifying. Now I understand that this has nothing to do with me or what I wrote and is 100% projection on your part.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Tencent Hy4"

InsideOutSanta — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 08:27:05 +0000

Her phone doesn't ring.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Tencent Hy4"

InsideOutSanta — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 08:26:56 +0000

> And we're supposed to be amazed you can call up the taxi company and quote a numberplate off CCTV

No. It was just a thing that happened to me that I thought was funny and interesting, because running to the train police station and asking them to track the didi was not something I'd ever have thought to do.

I'm sorry my little anecdote didn't satisfy you.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Tencent Hy4"

InsideOutSanta — Thu, 05 Nov 2026 08:25:04 +0000

Her phone doesn't ring.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Tencent Hy4"

InsideOutSanta — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 20:36:06 +0000

I don't quite understand the question. If she had had her phone, she could have called the driver using the information from the didi app, but she had no phone, so she didn't know who to call.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Tencent Hy4"

InsideOutSanta — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 18:44:50 +0000

Last time I went to China, a friend left her phone in a taxi (I guess a "didi") near a train station. She ran to the train station's police station, pestered them into looking at the recordings, got them to tell her the license plate of the car, and figure out how to call the driver. Her phone was back 20 minutes later.

If you're going to be surveilled 24/7, at least you gotta make it work for you.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Life with Down Syndrome"

InsideOutSanta — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:28:41 +0000

This was in response to another comment.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Life with Down Syndrome"

InsideOutSanta — Wed, 04 Nov 2026 13:28:14 +0000

I'm sorry, are you speaking English? I just explained how it contradicts the original statement. Are you a bot?

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Life with Down Syndrome"

InsideOutSanta — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 19:16:54 +0000

> That was a singular event in the article

Which is what was being discussed in this thread.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Life with Down Syndrome"

InsideOutSanta — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:33:20 +0000

The instance in the article is a third party telling Gabe that he's different.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Life with Down Syndrome"

InsideOutSanta — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:44:22 +0000

> You can’t just ignore it

I agree with your comment in general, except this one point: you sometimes absolutely can just ignore it. The instance from the article is one such example.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Life with Down Syndrome"

InsideOutSanta — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:41:13 +0000

Your argument was not that it's bad for an average person with Down syndrome to have children. It's that they "absolutely shouldn't try to get pregnant, they'll be incapable of looking after the child." My response is that your argument, stated in this extreme way, is factually incorrect.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Life with Down Syndrome"

InsideOutSanta — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 15:39:59 +0000

> The point of these statements is to make an outlier appear as if it is part of the norm

Please don't lie about what I wrote. I explicitly said that 117 was "the highest measured IQ of a person with Down syndrome." My own comment says that it is an outlier.

> They're bad statements to make, because at heart they are just misleading

Please note the context of my comment, which was somebody saying that people with Down syndrome are "incapable of looking after the child." I pointed out that this does not apply to all people with Down syndrome, which is not misleading; it's correct.

TBH, I'm not sure what the purpose of your comment was, other than to start a moronic fight that does not need to be fought by lying about what I actually said. I'm not interested in having that fight.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Life with Down Syndrome"

InsideOutSanta — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 14:12:58 +0000

People with Down syndrome aren't all the same. The highest measured IQ of a person with Down syndrome in a scientific study was 117:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3707311/

Having said that, men with Down syndrome are generally infertile anyway.

New comment by InsideOutSanta in "Life with Down Syndrome"

InsideOutSanta — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 14:01:13 +0000

I don't know why people don't understand this, but something being true doesn't mean it can't also be hurtful, and it doesn't mean it has to be said. Gabe clearly already knows that he is different; there's absolutely no point in telling him this, other than to hurt him.