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New comment by VieEnCode in "I guess I kinda get why people hate AI"

VieEnCode — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 11:02:44 +0000

And a great deal of the talking shops/podcasts/keynotes/nonprofits around AI existential risk are all part of this same play. They receive funding from the large AI companies so that the latter can continue to talk their own books using this angle.

New comment by VieEnCode in "I wasted years of my life in crypto"

VieEnCode — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 11:51:35 +0000

If, after all these years, Crypto has not become a stable store of value that can replace a fiat currency and let you buy your groceries with it, why do we suddenly 'need it' to do that now, and what would change that will enable that to happen?

New comment by VieEnCode in "The top 10% owns 87% of the stocks"

VieEnCode — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 16:27:17 +0000

You are missing the mass destruction of assets of the wealthy in WWII and the increase in bargaining power of labour in the post-war years (perhaps driven by loss of life/injury for those of a working age). The post-war public sentiment, at least in the UK, was that the lower orders of society had fought the most and suffered the most, and there was an appetite for a new social contract that saw Churchill voted out from office and gave rise to the National Health Service, etc.

New comment by VieEnCode in "More than 20 Musk staffers resign over DOGE's 'dismantling of public services'"

VieEnCode — Tue, 25 Feb 2025 20:49:43 +0000

Unfortunately, they will be replaced with those sympathetic to the nerd reich takeover and thus ultimately reduce friction and for those in charge looking to wield the wrecking ball. It feels like half the goal of DOGE and similar measures is to purge those with a conscience and loyalty to public service and replace them with those willing to do almost anything asked of them.

New comment by VieEnCode in "Our Epidemic of Loneliness and Isolation [pdf] (2023)"

VieEnCode — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 15:37:10 +0000

'We' being techno-utopian, libertarian startup types I guess. Which isn't that unfair on this site.

Elon Musk's Business Empire Scores Benefits Under Trump Shake-Up

VieEnCode — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 15:29:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/politics/elon-musk-companies-conflicts.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43090629

Points: 12

# Comments: 2

New comment by VieEnCode in "Cheaper to rent in Barcelona and commute to London (2013)"

VieEnCode — Tue, 12 Nov 2024 11:55:45 +0000

I've often wondered why HN so often seems to prefer to prefer to upvote some tangential rabbit hole rather than discuss the topic in the article itself.

New comment by VieEnCode in "What Excessive Screen Time Does to the Adult Brain"

VieEnCode — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 12:15:15 +0000

Surely the same thing could be said about picking up a book or a newspaper first thing in the morning?

New comment by VieEnCode in "The Double Irish Dutch Sandwich: End of a Tax Evasion Strategy"

VieEnCode — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 22:08:45 +0000

“Given that 100% tax compliance at the highest rates would not solve any high tax nation’s budget holes“

Can I ask where this claim originated from please?

New comment by VieEnCode in "Americans' love affair with big cars is killing them"

VieEnCode — Mon, 02 Sep 2024 08:51:20 +0000

"tax policies subsidize heavier vehicles"

Interesting post. Can I ask you/somebody to expand a bit on the quote above please?

New comment by VieEnCode in "What comes after the AI crash?"

VieEnCode — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 11:59:16 +0000

There are plenty of legitimate points made in the article. It also seems uncontroversial at this point to claim that companies are struggling to justify the expenses and inflated share prices brought about by the rush to implement LLMs in as many use cases as possible.

As far as I am aware, the author is right to claim that there is no solution to AI hallucination on the horizon, which is a severely limiting problem. Also I understand we are reaching the boundaries of useful training data available. Both factors suggest current AI improvement simply cannot follow the same trajectory as transistors under Moore's law.

New comment by VieEnCode in "Ask HN: Why are employee-owned tech companies so rare?"

VieEnCode — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 12:47:13 +0000

Very helpful, thanks for sharing the link.

New comment by VieEnCode in "Ask HN: Why are employee-owned tech companies so rare?"

VieEnCode — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 11:42:09 +0000

What you say makes sense for the kind of business that wants to scale quickly to try and build a moat and dominate a given market (that is, before it frequently goes downhill once the investors and founders have exited and the cheap money ends).

On the other hand, it doesn't seem like the best move for some product that solves a very specific problem for a very specific group of clients. Why would such a product necessarily even need multiple rounds of funding to be profitable?

New comment by VieEnCode in "Ask HN: Why are employee-owned tech companies so rare?"

VieEnCode — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 11:02:25 +0000

Do you mean VCs work undermine employee-owned businesses in some way? Why would they bother if we're talking about businesses servicing tiny niches?

Ask HN: Why are employee-owned tech companies so rare?

VieEnCode — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 10:33:47 +0000

It seems odd to me that employee ownership is not more commonplace in the global tech world. Especially for companies that serve a small niche with a useful product that won't necessarily scale massively, why try and chase VC funding instead?

Particularly for techies outside the major global funding hubs, employee ownership seems to be a model much more aligned with building a sustainable business with the potential for greater employee satisfaction and a healthier culture.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41234095

Points: 5

# Comments: 11

New comment by VieEnCode in "The AI Scientist: Towards Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery"

VieEnCode — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 10:18:27 +0000

I found this guy's take on the AI safety scene to be quite insightful.

In summary, he feels the focus on sci-fi type existential risk to be a deliberate distraction from the AI industry's current and real legal and ethical harms: e.g. scraping copyrighted content for training without paying or attributing creators, not protecting those affected by the misuse of tools to create deepfake porn, the crashes and deaths attributed to Tesla's self-driving mode, AI resume screening bots messing up etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsLf4lAG0xQ