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New comment by NoGravitas in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

NoGravitas — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:33:43 +0000

Yes, precisely. That's also why his argument includes Freud - as a Judeo-bolshivism dogwhistle.

New comment by NoGravitas in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

NoGravitas — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 17:12:34 +0000

It's also worth looking at where Andreeson seats the origin of harmful introspection - in turn of the last century Vienna, with Freud. That is to say, introspection is a product of Judeo-bolshivism, created by the Jews to sap Aryan man of his natural vitality and dominance. It's sick, but it's just another example, along with the admiration of Italian Futurism, of how Andreeson has immersed himself in a fascist milieu.

New comment by NoGravitas in "Having Kids (2019)"

NoGravitas — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:44:19 +0000

I'm also told that being a grandparent is a lot better than being a parent - you can give them back.

New comment by NoGravitas in "TUI Studio – visual terminal UI design tool"

NoGravitas — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 16:38:56 +0000

Missing ncurses support.

New comment by NoGravitas in "New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates"

NoGravitas — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:36:44 +0000

“optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an absurd, but also a really wicked, way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the most unspeakable sufferings of mankind” ― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A Contrivance of Horror

New comment by NoGravitas in "New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates"

NoGravitas — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 19:31:10 +0000

“For better or worse, pessimism without compromise lacks public appeal. In all, the few who have gone to the pains of arguing for a sullen appraisal of life might as well never have been born. As history confirms, people will change their minds about almost anything, from which god they worship to how they style their hair. But when it comes to existential judgments, human beings in general have a unfalteringly good opinion of themselves and their condition in this world and are steadfastly confident they are not a collection of self-conscious nothings” ― Thomas Ligotti, The Conspiracy Against the Human Race

New comment by NoGravitas in "U.S. Troops Were Told Iran War Is for "Armageddon,""

NoGravitas — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:26:44 +0000

They said it under George W. Bush, too.

New comment by NoGravitas in "Porn depicting sex between step-relatives set to be banned in the UK"

NoGravitas — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 15:04:41 +0000

The Comics Code Authority kind of took that line. "Realistic" crime could not be depicted in comic books, which is a big part of why Silver Age comic book villains are so surreal.

The Hater's Guide to Oracle

NoGravitas — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 14:51:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.wheresyoured.at/haters-guide-oracle/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47233255

Points: 5

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New comment by NoGravitas in "The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic"

NoGravitas — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:33:21 +0000

That, to me, is the biggest sign that all this is kayfabe.

New comment by NoGravitas in "The Pentagon is making a mistake by threatening Anthropic"

NoGravitas — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 19:24:54 +0000

Yes, but the important bit is that autonomous drones can't be held accountable for not adhering to the published rules of engagement.

New comment by NoGravitas in "Dear Time Lords: Freeze Computers in 1993"

NoGravitas — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:25:38 +0000

I do admit to suffering from nostalgia, but I also think it is the case that everything useful you could do with a computer was doable in 1993, and anything that you couldn't is probably a bad idea.

New comment by NoGravitas in "Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win"

NoGravitas — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:17:38 +0000

Paramount wants CNN, which is currently under Discovery.

New comment by NoGravitas in "Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win"

NoGravitas — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:16:52 +0000

The Communists Have the Music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvCGZEqk8Ak

New comment by NoGravitas in "Netflix Backs Out of Warner Bros. Bidding, Paramount Set to Win"

NoGravitas — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:12:29 +0000

The Ellisons already own Star Trek, and I shudder to think what they will do with it once the current shows are out of the pipeline. Now they get to do it to DC Comics and their characters. Which is I guess good news for Frank Miller, bad news for the rest of us.

New comment by NoGravitas in "The Pentagon Feuding with an AI Company Is a Bad Sign"

NoGravitas — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:42:53 +0000

The film 'Slaughterbots' presents a scenario which could be either of those, but is implied to be the latter.

New comment by NoGravitas in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

NoGravitas — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:11:07 +0000

Taste is not scaleable.

New comment by NoGravitas in "Nano Banana 2: Google's latest AI image generation model"

NoGravitas — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:04:35 +0000

> Too bad no philosopher or political scientist or economist every thought about this stuff before

I see what you did there and know exactly the political economist you are talking about, but if you Speak His Name, the shrieking hordes descend.

New comment by NoGravitas in "AI makes you boring"

NoGravitas — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 14:39:39 +0000

On the whole you're right, but it's also the case that scale matters. Show HNs have always been mostly bullshit, but producing a bullshit Show HN was on the same order of magnitude difficulty of producing a good one. If LLMs were to provide 10x productivity, we'd have the same number of good Show HNs, and 10x more bullshit ones.

New comment by NoGravitas in "Terminals should generate the 256-color palette"

NoGravitas — Wed, 18 Feb 2026 19:02:00 +0000

I'd say it's easily the least bad of the bunch, anyway, if you're really committed to cross-platform.