<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: arcticfox</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=arcticfox</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Thu, 09 Apr 2026 09:40:34 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=arcticfox" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arcticfox in "Polymarket gamblers threaten to kill me over Iran missile story"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I used to be pro-betting legalization and now I see the light. It is a corrosive influence On everything it touches. I hope there's another opportunity to put the genie back in the bottle.</p>
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<p>Singapore is also an island that is ~twice as wealthy as the UK per capita. I believe you in general but I'd love a lower-income country that could be true for.</p>
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<p>Is this not trivial to get a random person to check stuff for you in exchange for making requests for them (on people they are interested in)? Or is that illegal?</p>
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<p>The answer is not a governor but a speed camera, they have them all over in Brazil and they send you a ticket if you speed through them. Put an exception in the law for emergencies, provide an appeal process, and voila.</p>
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<p>I have a hard time reading sci-fi these days because the rapid advances of AI have altered or closed off entirely a lot of the futures that I would find most interesting. I have a hard time seeing much other than computers in the future. Maybe stories like the Hyperion Cantos with the AIs in the TechnoCore largely fighting amongst themselves over the future of humanity are still intersting to me.</p>
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<p>"Why don't most people simply create billion-dollar companies so they can also benefit from tax benefits you can only capture at scale? As long as we make it easy to create billion-dollar companies this should work."</p>
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<p>Even if they can't afford it... Too bad for them?<p>I am kind of rooting for the AI slop because the status quo is horrific, maybe the AI slop cancer will put social media out of its misery.</p>
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<p>Greenland already has a wealthy benefactor, I'd be surprised if poor countries wouldn't be interested</p>
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<p>The 2006 book 'Daemon' is a fascinating/terrifying look at this type of malicious AI. Basically, a rogue AI starts taking over humanity not through any real genius (in fact, the book's AI is <i>significantly</i> weaker than frontier LLMs), but rather leveraging a huge amount of $$$ as bootstrapping capital and then carrot-and-sticking humanity into submission.<p>A pretty simple inner loop of flywheeling the leverage of blackmail, money, and violence is all it will take. This is essentially what organized crime already does already in failed states, but with AI there's no real retaliation that society at large can take once things go sufficiently wrong.</p>
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<p>I've gotta come to OPs defense here. In the age of Suno indistinguishable-from-human-quality hits, this whole endeavor was an art piece and more interesting than most human OR AI music I've heard in the past year.<p>The medium was using the "wrong" tool for the job, which creative musicians do on a regular basis. And the output was so cool, it really felt like a relic from a different era even though it's hyper-modern.</p>
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<p>I'm going to blow your mind: people are different! I have lived in several cities in the PNW and New England and now live in Houston metro by choice. It is far easier, more efficient, and more economical for my family which are our priorities.  (Also infinitely more diverse, which is a big plus, but doesn't really have anything to do with urban planning). We like it a lot here.</p>
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<p>IMO that is different than rank-and-file. My theory is that once you make a certain amount of money you run a high risk of becoming divorced from reality.</p>
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<p>> Yes, a tired doctor sucks. But a tired doctor who already has the patient's state loaded into their head may still be better than doctor who is completely fresh in both senses.<p>AI fixes this. Imagine the boot time of loading a patient's state from dozens of labs and files vs. a summary that gets you to exactly what they're going to end up remembering anyways. And if a doctor finds something interesting that the AI doesn't flag, they should be flagging it in the chart for the next doctor anyways.</p>
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<p>How does this compare to moon?<p><a href="https://github.com/moonrepo/moon" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/moonrepo/moon</a></p>
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<p>What does it mean about me if I looked at the image and the article headline and thought "scientific replication crisis"?<p>I'd honestly be shocked if this was repeatable. A brief search didn't turn up any attempts.</p>
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<p>I've got concepts of an idea</p>
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<p>"Pre-idea stage" support is wild to me</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 22:42:31 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45227614</link><dc:creator>arcticfox</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45227614</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45227614</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by arcticfox in "Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle lawsuit with book authors"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> And what about all the other stuff that LLM's spit out? Who owns that. Well at present, no one. If you train a monkey or an elephant to paint, you cant copyright that work because they aren't human, and neither is an LLM.<p>This seems too cute by half, courts are generally far more common sense than that in applying the law.<p>This is like saying using `rails generate model:example` results in a bunch of code that isn't yours, because the tool generated it according to your specifications.</p>
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<p>I was so confused by the "no airborne transmission" theory because it seems naive - like you'd need a lot of evidence to convince me that it <i>wasn't</i> the case given the fundamentals of viruses.</p>
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<p>This is uninformed - my Navimow is close to silent. It makes a slight clicking/snipping sound as it cuts through grass.<p>The mechanical components are entirely different, instead of a helicopter-like blade it is a ~silent solid disc with some razor blades on the edges.</p>
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