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New comment by arolihas in "Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio in $400M deal"

arolihas — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:51:19 +0000

I'm having a hard time understanding what IP of value could have possibly been generated in less than 8 months to make it worth $400 million. I guess it's just spending some stock into hiring some very smart experienced people to get ahead in the life sciences domain.

New comment by arolihas in "How to talk to anyone and why you should"

arolihas — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 00:19:42 +0000

Then there isn't really anything to argue over. No one should have to convince you. Either you see its value or you don't.

New comment by arolihas in "America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks"

arolihas — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 12:38:22 +0000

They have money. It’s taken from the rest of us and given to them. The rules you follow in life will be based on the behavior of the bottom quintile, the taxes you pay are to support the bottom quintile, the greatest risks to your life and property will come from the bottom quintile, the dearth of comfortable public spaces is because you have to allow the bottom quintile to be there, our zoning laws are developed for fear of the bottom quintile.

New comment by arolihas in "America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks"

arolihas — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:06:44 +0000

The bottom quintile gets everything handed to them and it's still not enough. We all live at the mercy of them and their dysfunction.

New comment by arolihas in "America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks"

arolihas — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 17:06:00 +0000

Boomers are getting way more than they ever put in.

New comment by arolihas in "America vs. Singapore: You can't save your way out of economic shocks"

arolihas — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 15:56:24 +0000

Like half of our budget goes to welfare (Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, Income Security, etc). https://www.usaspending.gov/explorer/budget_function

New comment by arolihas in "Why are 38 percent of Stanford students saying they're disabled?"

arolihas — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 20:08:26 +0000

The problem is the promotion of values and behaviors that plague a low-trust society. I think making excuses for it is truly inappropriate and immoral.

New comment by arolihas in "The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win"

arolihas — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:48:44 +0000

A lot of teetotalers here

New comment by arolihas in "The longest baseball game took 33 innings to win"

arolihas — Mon, 20 Oct 2025 20:48:27 +0000

5 drinks in 2 hours once in a blue moon isn't that bad. It's not a problem.

New comment by arolihas in "Delete FROM users WHERE location = 'Iran';"

arolihas — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 21:06:17 +0000

Israel has been peddling that lie for 40 years now

New comment by arolihas in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

arolihas — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 20:23:57 +0000

The job isn't finished if a complaint has to go viral every time slack has an oversight and threatens to delete nonprofit chat data within 7 days. The comment you're calling unprocessed rage and tar-and-feathering just said it's more than a simple mistake. If anything your comments have been harsher to individuals.

New comment by arolihas in "Slack has raised our charges by $195k per year"

arolihas — Thu, 18 Sep 2025 20:17:57 +0000

So what exactly was the oversight here? Is it normal practice to change contracts and billing plans and threaten deactivation within 7 days?

New comment by arolihas in "GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it"

arolihas — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 15:11:30 +0000

Can you just train one to have a favorite ice cream? You think training on a bunch of words saying I like vanilla ice cream is somehow equivalent to remembering times you ate ice cream and saying my favorite is vanilla? Just because an LLM can do recall when prompted to based on training data doesn’t make it the same as human memory, in the same way a database isn’t memory the way humans do it.

New comment by arolihas in "GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it"

arolihas — Mon, 11 Aug 2025 13:44:46 +0000

So when I tell you I like vanilla ice cream I am just hallucinating and calling it a memory? And when chatgpt says they like vanilla ice cream they are doing the same thing as me? Do I need to prove it to you that they are different? Is it really baseless of me to insist otherwise? I have a body, millions of different receptors, a mouth with taste buds, I have a consciousness, a mind, a brain that interacts with the world directly, and it's all just words on a screen to you interchangeable with a word pattern matcher?

New comment by arolihas in "GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it"

arolihas — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 19:03:24 +0000

Ok, that is memory. I am talking about hallucination vs human or even animal intent in an embodied meaningful experience.

New comment by arolihas in "GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it"

arolihas — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 19:01:09 +0000

We’re all prone to anthropomorphizing from time to time. It’s the mechanizing of humans that concerns me more than the humanizing of these tools, those aren’t equivalent.

New comment by arolihas in "GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it"

arolihas — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 02:50:10 +0000

It's insane that this has to be explained to a fellow living person. There must be some mass psychosis going on if even seemingly coherent and rational people can make this mistake.

New comment by arolihas in "GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it"

arolihas — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 02:13:04 +0000

Do you genuinely believe that humans just hallucinate everything? When you or I say my favorite ice cream flavor is vanilla, is that just a hallucination? If ChatGPT were to say their favorite ice cream flavor is vanilla, are you taking it with equal weight? Come on.

New comment by arolihas in "GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that's not the worst of it"

arolihas — Sun, 10 Aug 2025 01:47:18 +0000

It doesn't "know" anything. Everything that comes out is a hallucination contingent on the prompt.

New comment by arolihas in "We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness"

arolihas — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 22:29:00 +0000

What city would that be? In the Northeast? Midwest?