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New comment by NotSuspicious in "The last time my family was replaced by technology"

NotSuspicious — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:38:23 +0000

I think of doing this except for suicide (which you shouldn't do) I fantasize about becoming a monk. That's a life role that can't be replaced with AI, provides meaning to yourself and to the community and guarantees you a certain amount of happiness – probably more than most jobs.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "12,000-year-old Göbeklitepe burials explain scattered bones"

NotSuspicious — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 12:06:12 +0000

We have evidence of crop cultivation going back much further than 10kya. I would imagine they just used a different cereal than wheat. The Ohalo II site in Palestine shows cereal cultivation (Barley and Millet) 23kya. While it would certainly be interesting to have evidence of a non-cereal-cultivating metropole, the evidence doesn't quite bear that out.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Sonnet 5.5"

NotSuspicious — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:22:29 +0000

Only if your company (and government) lets you!

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented"

NotSuspicious — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 22:47:16 +0000

How does it make sense to say that speech developed 60 kya when Mitochondrial Eve and Y-Chromosomal Adam are commonly dated 200+ kya? Not to mention the recent advances within the past few years that more or less prove Neanderthals and Denisovans spoke as well. With that information Homo heidelbergensis almost certainly spoke as well and if I could bet on it, I would advocate that the smart money would be on Homo Erectus having some level of speech too. In fact a recent paper argues that case: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13752-025-00521-8 It's unfortunately not on SciHub though so I can't attest to it.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Suspected sabotage causes major Netherlands rail disruption"

NotSuspicious — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 21:31:29 +0000

Exactly. If anything, the country that would benefit most from heightened Europe-Russia tensions (as a result of these sorts of infrastructure "accidents") isn't even on the continent. I'm not ruling out Russia completely, but it would sure be stupid for them to effect this strategy. Additionally, Russians weren't the ones that blew up a pipeline at the start of the Russia-Ukraine war.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "We must pace the frontier"

NotSuspicious — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 21:22:03 +0000

It sounds like people with terminal illnesses are getting thrown under the bus in order to justify banning open weight models, along with decreasing AI Capex in order to increase profit margins at American AI labs?

New comment by NotSuspicious in "The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative"

NotSuspicious — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:52:20 +0000

Is it just me or did this entire essay feel like it was penned by an LLM?

New comment by NotSuspicious in "On the Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem"

NotSuspicious — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 21:55:57 +0000

I really hope OpenAI doesn't take the bad press some people are giving them too seriously here. They should throw their whole weight behind the rest of the Millennium Prize Problems. To think – if everyone lets their egos calm down we could have the Riemann Hypothesis solved by the end of the year...

New comment by NotSuspicious in "GPT‑Live"

NotSuspicious — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 10:45:03 +0000

Super nice to be able to finally have voice mode search stuff in the background. The more conservational vibe is also a nice touch. The real game-changer we're all waiting on, though, is being able to vibecode/deeply interact with an OS through voice mode. Until then voice mode will continue to be a niche, interesting product. Once that's implemented, though, it will be one of the most important technologies available. There's a lot of people I know that don't use a lot of the frontier capabilities of AI right now because of the required typing interface. Once that's changed and you can interact with these capabilities through voice mode (and ideally on your phone) I definitely see them and lots of people like them becoming big users of AI.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO"

NotSuspicious — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 05:16:39 +0000

The interesting thing about models this small is they should be able to be put on a single Taalas chip (the HC1 already runs a Llama 3.1 8B model). We're already at the point where half-decent reasoning could be run on an ASIC (and at mind-boggling speeds).

New comment by NotSuspicious in "How Dating Sites Automate Racism"

NotSuspicious — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 21:29:12 +0000

If the way someone is rejecting a trans person is considered a hate crime, maybe that someone is the problem? If someone were to beat you up or misgender you just because you're Southeast Asian that would kind of also be a problem.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "It's time to break free from Corporate Agile"

NotSuspicious — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 01:19:54 +0000

Exactly. It's so interesting seeing the unstated assumptions software engineers let slip out. It really reveals the bubble they live in.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Semiconductor Fabrication 101"

NotSuspicious — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 01:09:17 +0000

PurdueX has had some really interesting courses. I wouldn't recommend paying for them though since you can't deduct them like normal tuition expenses.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Detroit's abandoned tunnel systems open door to another world"

NotSuspicious — Sun, 11 Feb 2024 14:17:02 +0000

Why can't these remotest jobs just be done anywhere in the world? Why restrict it to people who are citizens/residents of the US?

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Patients say keto helps with mental illness. Science is racing to understand why"

NotSuspicious — Tue, 30 Jan 2024 10:05:52 +0000

Except OP has noticed that when they go out of ketosis everything gets worse again. They've effectively run numerous trials on themselves.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Prediction markets have an elections problem"

NotSuspicious — Mon, 29 Jan 2024 23:33:23 +0000

> But instead, the majority of the bettors against Biden bet on the astonishing outcome of “Trump wins by 280+ electoral votes.” That, it should be clear, was impossible — it would require results to be overturned not just in states with tight races but also in Democratic bellwethers like California.

That was not impossible at all once you take into account Trump's VP certification plan, which many people understood very early on. A longshot, yes, but certainly not impossible.

If anything, the prediction markets priced in an insurrection better than any pundit I recall watching. To flip it around and call prediction markets "irrational" in this situation is misguided and ignorant of political history.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Ubisoft Says Out Loud: We Want People to Get Used to Not Owning What They Bought"

NotSuspicious — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 17:01:42 +0000

> intellectually piracy is still not stealing

Piracy is a clear and self-evident moral good irrespective of how close or not it is to stealing. Justifying piracy based on wordplay opens you up to attack by people and organizations that like to destroy what is good through manipulative wordplay.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Most STEM grads don't work in STEM jobs"

NotSuspicious — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 21:10:41 +0000

This is a huge source of emotional pain for me to be completely honest.

New comment by NotSuspicious in "A week with a Ford F-150 Lightning"

NotSuspicious — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 17:10:54 +0000

Are you vegan?

New comment by NotSuspicious in "Meta-analysis: On average undergraduate students intelligence is merely average"

NotSuspicious — Fri, 05 Jan 2024 16:29:26 +0000

For most people I can understand why this would be true, especially if you have a family. For me, however, it was the exact opposite. When I first went to college I was abysmal at it and soon dropped out. After a few years of work experience, however, I went back and finished my degree while working full-time. Despite having much more to juggle I did vastly better at college my second go-around. I think having better time-management skills, being emotionally more mature and intuitively knowing that I needed that degree in order to get a better job all worked "against" it being more of a struggle, in my opinion.