Hacker News: altpaddle

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

altpaddle — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 03:21:42 +0000

What a foolish comment, LLMs empower capital owners far more than the 'working class'

New comment by altpaddle in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

altpaddle — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:28:27 +0000

Unfortunately I think the writing is clearly on the wall. Fully autonomous weapons are coming soon

New comment by altpaddle in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

altpaddle — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:25:55 +0000

Props to Dario and Anthropic for holding firm on these two points that I feel like should be a no-brainer

New comment by altpaddle in "Nvidia to buy assets from Groq for $20B cash"

altpaddle — Wed, 24 Dec 2025 22:11:08 +0000

I do not understand this move by Nvidia, they are afraid of being out competed by this startup in their core competence of building chips for AI? They may be eliminating a competitor for now but this move will immediately many more AI chip startups to get founded

New comment by altpaddle in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

altpaddle — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 00:12:33 +0000

Right because countries with smaller populations can't beat larger ones when defending their homeland. Oh wait that's exactly what happened in Afghanistan vs USSR and USA, Vietnam etc.

New comment by altpaddle in "Zelensky leaves White House after angry meeting"

altpaddle — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 00:06:48 +0000

And who is China's strongest ally in the world?

New comment by altpaddle in "The young, inexperienced engineers aiding DOGE"

altpaddle — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 08:25:17 +0000

This only takes into account income tax and not other taxes which are often more regressive such as sales tax, payroll tax etc. When analyzing taxes paid we should take into account all taxes

New comment by altpaddle in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

altpaddle — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 18:49:09 +0000

That's fair to call our democrats when they say things with contempt but is this not a phenomenon that happens from both sides now? What about when JD Vance calls out 'miserable childless cat ladies'? Donald Trump is a person who more so than anyone else I know of in American history is filled with grievance and contempt.

Right leaning supporters online love to throw around contemptuous terms like groomer, pedophile, cuck, soyboy etc

New comment by altpaddle in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

altpaddle — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 08:23:11 +0000

> Higher child tax credit, and generally pro-family

You mean like the one that democrats proposed and republicans in the senate killed?

New comment by altpaddle in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

altpaddle — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 07:55:31 +0000

Give me a fucking break. Trump trashes segments of America for years and gets a pass but if a democrat makes a single pissed off comment it's a big deal.

New comment by altpaddle in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

altpaddle — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 07:37:58 +0000

Was Mike Pence getting chosen for his Christian background not an example of identity politics? Was JD Vance being a younger politician to balance old Trump identity politics? Everything relates to identity politics

New comment by altpaddle in "Trump wins presidency for second time"

altpaddle — Thu, 07 Nov 2024 07:26:59 +0000

Agreed and Trump is not going to do it, he's going to try and make the richer richer just like he did with his tax cuts last time

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-how-capitalism-needs-refo...

New comment by altpaddle in "US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case"

altpaddle — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 03:11:21 +0000

Do you realize what the cost was to society to have a Bell Labs? Telephone service was expensive as hell and you couldn't even own your own telephone. There was no incentive for innovation in many areas like answering machines, cell phones etc

New comment by altpaddle in "US weighs Google break-up in landmark antitrust case"

altpaddle — Sat, 12 Oct 2024 03:07:28 +0000

You have no idea what you're talking about. China has been cracking down on it's capitalist class/entrepreneurs 100x what the US gov has done.

New comment by altpaddle in "Yes, social media is a cause of the epidemic of teenage mental illness"

altpaddle — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 23:31:22 +0000

There really aren't that many platforms that 'everyone' uses. So yes you regulate them. Just like we regulate the thousands of bars in the country from allowing minors in

New comment by altpaddle in "We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO"

altpaddle — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 07:55:54 +0000

Time will tell. Hopefully the new board will still be mostly independent of Sam/MSFT/VC influence. I really hope they continue as an org that tries its best to uphold their charter vs just being another startup.

New comment by altpaddle in "We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO"

altpaddle — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 07:21:52 +0000

Dude just think about that for a moment. By definition if existential risk has been proven. It's already too late

New comment by altpaddle in "We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO"

altpaddle — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:47:43 +0000

Well it depends on who's on the new board and what they believe. If Altman, Greg, and MSFT do not have direct representation on the new board there would still be a check against his decisions

New comment by altpaddle in "We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO"

altpaddle — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:41:22 +0000

The most plausible explanation I've found is that the pro-safety faction and pro-accel factions were at odds which was why the board was stalemated at a small size.

Altman and Toner came into conflict over a mildly critical paper Toner wrote involving Open AI and Altman tried to have her removed from the board.

This is probably what precipitated this showdown. The pro safety/nonprofit charter faction was able to persuade someone (probably Ilya) to join with them and oust Sam.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/21/technology/openai-altman-...

New comment by altpaddle in "We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO"

altpaddle — Wed, 22 Nov 2023 06:29:44 +0000

I think it was mostly a bluff to try the pressure the board. I don't think Sam and most of Open AI rank and file would want to be employees of MSFT