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New comment by alchemist1e9 in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

alchemist1e9 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:36:20 +0000

Orthodox and Catholic Christian theology of suffering is actually very logical. Just most people were not taught it unfortunately.

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "Introducing System One Models and Jev"

alchemist1e9 — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 01:11:58 +0000

What do you find dishonest?

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "We must pace the frontier"

alchemist1e9 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 23:43:59 +0000

Exactly. Textbook definition of “Crony Capitalism”. Which isn’t actually capitalism at that point.

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "We must pace the frontier"

alchemist1e9 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 23:40:25 +0000

> So it's either they truly think AI is going to kill us all, or there's some other motives at play here.

Duh! It’s called collusion. They want to try and hoard the technology for themselves if possible!

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "Usenet rewind archive search engine"

alchemist1e9 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:03:28 +0000

Are those still up? no brainer to have for anyone serious.

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "DeepSeek v4.1 Flash"

alchemist1e9 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 09:21:58 +0000

And the logical conclusion you will make is you need to run your own open weights models or you are at a competitive disadvantage. Frontier labs gonna be Ancient labs soon, that’s how fast this is moving.

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "DeepSeek v4.1 Flash"

alchemist1e9 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:19:16 +0000

quant HFT is pretty decent mental exercise and it has given them “deep” brain muscles. that’s my take.

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "DeepSeek v4.1 Flash"

alchemist1e9 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 08:16:58 +0000

keep me safe big brother

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "An Alien Mind"

alchemist1e9 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:08:19 +0000

non-capitalist systems have even worse externalities historically. democracy to introduce regulations is healthy. state participation is unhealthy and destructive. I fully understand and you can read my sibling reply for more context.

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "An Alien Mind"

alchemist1e9 — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 14:06:02 +0000

East Germany emitted 10x West Germany’s SO2 per km2, USSR drained the Aral Sea for cotton quotas and Mao wrecked forests and harvests. central planning hid the costs but capitalism generates the wealth. with democracy the public forces that wealth into cleaner air and water. That pairing, not central planning is what works in history. The anti-capitalist comments on HN reflect deep failure of the education systems experienced by those with such views. Capitalism is the single greatest force for good in human history. Don’t confuse oligarchy and cronyism for capitalism, those are just different failure states of The State which is the greatest force of evil in human history, most death most destruction most suffering originated from governments. capitalists make lives better, by definition, it’s why you part with your money voluntarily and pay them!

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "An Alien Mind"

alchemist1e9 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 20:40:48 +0000

hyper-capitalism would mean hyper-growth and not a nightmare, at least that is what the historical data would suggest for the effect of capitalism on human quality of life. if you’ve been told otherwise then you’ve been lied to.

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "'Old Person Smell'"

alchemist1e9 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 15:31:53 +0000

Yes with that soap. The soap is expensive but also it does dry skin and hair come, I find washing scalp helps for scalp health, and face, but requires moisturizer and conditioner use.

Article claims it doesn’t help but I think that is wrong and many others agree.

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "'Old Person Smell'"

alchemist1e9 — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 12:41:20 +0000

2-3 times per week shower and lather fully with persimmon extract soap. Plus wash clothes with a “sport”/“activewear” laundry detergent on extra heavy cycle, like Persil Activewear. And yes the soaps and detergents that are effective on nonenal are more expensive.

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "Aztecs by Inga Clendinnen: Disorienting and nauseating as cosmic horror itself"

alchemist1e9 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:01:27 +0000

Human sacrifice and cannibalism seem to reoccur independently though history across cultures. It’s obvious extremely disturbing but important to know about.

Aztecs by Inga Clendinnen: Disorienting and nauseating as cosmic horror itself

alchemist1e9 — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 06:09:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thepsmiths.com/p/review-aztecs-by-inga-clendinnen

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49518529

Points: 3

# Comments: 3

Modern humans evolved from an 80-20 mixture of two deep streams

alchemist1e9 — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 17:21:17 +0000

Article URL: https://www.johnhawks.net/p/modern-humans-evolved-from-an-80

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49452693

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "Hister – A private, full content search index that you control"

alchemist1e9 — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 11:50:01 +0000

Take a look at msgvault. It might handle your email archives very well.

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "Hister – A private, full content search index that you control"

alchemist1e9 — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 11:41:25 +0000

Orion browser hopefully can run the Firefox extension on iOS.

Then joining the mobile device to tailscale network where Hister is hosted on a server on a host in the network … probably this will work at least that is my plan to try.

Thank you for an amazing project. I’m a heavy msgvault user and adding Hister to my browsing will be hugely complementary.

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%"

alchemist1e9 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 13:12:28 +0000

I agree. It’s flagged me on discussing fast GEMM implementations for large regressions, a discussion on theoretical physics math, a discussion on designing a type of RAG system. I’m super baffled as to what the safety instructions actually are other than “advanced anything” and even then their definition of advanced is a joke, I’m an idiot and my questions are almost laughable.

New comment by alchemist1e9 in "GPT-5.6 Sol Pricing Cut by 50%"

alchemist1e9 — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 04:02:16 +0000

Fable is almost unusable for anything but super boring mainstream stuff. I was getting safeguard flagged so often I’ve significantly reduced my usage out of fear they will blacklist/ban me.

Some of the topics it’s flagged have been hard for me to understand what it seeing that can be remotely concerning in my requests.