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New comment by YackerLose in "OpenAI’s head of ethics leaves less than a year after joining"

YackerLose — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 13:18:06 +0000

Homeless people are a better way to keep cowardly minions (I mean, valuable employees) in line than cops. The homeless are an important part of capitalist power structures. They are a visible reminder of the consequences for not meeting quarterly goals.

New comment by YackerLose in "No Data Centers in My Backyard"

YackerLose — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:50:03 +0000

Post-industrialization, AI-fication, Human Replacement (whatever it ought to be called) could take that all away.

New comment by YackerLose in "No Data Centers in My Backyard"

YackerLose — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 11:47:09 +0000

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice -- can't get fooled again. - actual Dubya quote

New comment by YackerLose in "Resetting Xbox"

YackerLose — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 18:27:48 +0000

Tomodachi Life sounds like The Sims but with rounded corners.

New comment by YackerLose in "The Self-Cancelling Subscription"

YackerLose — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:28:15 +0000

The author's LinkedIn style usage of emojis repulsed me and had me closing the article.

New comment by YackerLose in "AI-assisted cognition endangers human development?"

YackerLose — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 19:20:47 +0000

A real artificial intelligence would be capable of independent and original thought. What we have today are mere plagiarism factories. They need to be called out for what they are.

New comment by YackerLose in "Yann LeCun raises $1B to build AI that understands the physical world"

YackerLose — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:29:46 +0000

AI is developing backwards. The simplest organisms eat and find food. More complex ones can smell and sense tremors. After several steps in evolution comes vision and complex thought.

AIs that can't smell, can't feel hunger, can't desire -- I do not think it can understand the world the way organic life does.

New comment by YackerLose in "The Dilbert Afterlife"

YackerLose — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 16:45:50 +0000

> Scott Adams felt the contradictions of nerd-dom more acutely than most. As compensation, he was gifted with two great defense mechanisms. The first was humor (which Freud grouped among the mature, adaptive defenses), aided by its handmaiden self-awareness. The second (from Freud’s “neurotic” category) was his own particular variety of reaction formation, “I’m better than those other nerds because, while they foolishly worship rationality and the intellect, I’ve gotten past it to the real deal, marketing / manipulation / persuasion / hypnosis.”

Scott Adams was basically a classic Sophist, believing that rhetoric was the only thing worth cultivating. Nobody special; snake oil salesmen are up there with prostitutes and mercenaries in oldness of profession.

New comment by YackerLose in "SparkFun Officially Dropping AdaFruit due to CoC Violation"

YackerLose — Wed, 14 Jan 2026 15:33:29 +0000

Typing in all lowercase makes you look more vulnerable, it's a pretty common rhetorical tactic in PR.

New comment by YackerLose in "Honeycrisp apples went from marvel to mediocre"

YackerLose — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 17:40:05 +0000

I always cut them into slices, then leave them in an airtight plastic container for an hour or two, so the juice can seep out a little.

New comment by YackerLose in "Stages of Argument (2000)"

YackerLose — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 18:43:28 +0000

This analysis totally ignores the power of snappiness. Of being laconic. It's the sort of stuff that works in the walled garden of academia but completely ignores the state of reality, where the average person is so bogged down by information overload that the gist is all they ever desire. I think a pie chart or an infographic is infinitely more powerful than a "Stage 4 argument".