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New comment by asdff in "U.S. science is in chaos"

asdff — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 05:18:37 +0000

https://old.reddit.com/r/FirstTimeHomeBuyer/comments/1thk1bn...

Cheaper than 120k?

New comment by asdff in "Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct"

asdff — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:55:06 +0000

Wikipedia's ownership section on broadcom is stale 2024 data but back then at least 10 investment firms and banks owned about 40% of it.

New comment by asdff in "A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?"

asdff — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 04:37:18 +0000

You can probably give grokbot an elon salute and it will stop in its track to return one at you.

New comment by asdff in "A robot is sprinting towards you. Do you want it running on Claude or Grok?"

asdff — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:55:42 +0000

That taco is going to show up cold and soggy. All these delivery services for cold and soggy food. I don't get it. When I get my al pastor I want as little time to pass between the taquero slicing it off with his machete and it hitting my mouth as possible.

New comment by asdff in "OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B"

asdff — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:51:03 +0000

Cheap car =/= unreliable car. Expensive car =/= reliable car.

New comment by asdff in "OpenAI Losses Increased Nearly 8X in 2025, with Spending Hitting $34B"

asdff — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:31:49 +0000

The uber situation was even more insidious than that. It wasn't like college students were calling cabs to go to bars in 2013. Uber created a market. It was essentially a mind virus. Gee now I can go to this place all for $7. Chum the water, establish the new pattern of living that people won't ever back away from, then twist the knife and raise prices knowing they won't revert back to whatever Old Way now long forgotten or not even engaged with by the upcoming generation.

Many such cases.

New comment by asdff in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

asdff — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:23:29 +0000

Have you heard about working for mercor? You aren't working full time for them or sniffing anywhere close to a proper annual wage.

New comment by asdff in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

asdff — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:17:25 +0000

It is still drawing bike lane networks in cemeteries and random bits of grass and pavement. So no. The way I see it is is actually worse than it was in 2006. When I opened it today it asked me if I would like to see Dua Lipa's recommended restaurants.

New comment by asdff in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

asdff — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:49:24 +0000

Why would land and water and material be devoted to that by the robot overlords? Just cull the humans.

New comment by asdff in "Peopleless economy? Not technically impossible"

asdff — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:45:32 +0000

No it doesn't. Propagandize the population sufficiently and they won't accept the reality in front of them.

New comment by asdff in "Is Meta destroying its engineering organization?"

asdff — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:14:34 +0000

It has always been this way though. Who is really qualified to evaluate something but another engineer? Perhaps the first record of a slop product is the Complaint to Ea-nāṣir from 1750 BC.

New comment by asdff in "An interview with an Apple emoji designer"

asdff — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:04:58 +0000

No more gun emoji. Humanity could not be trusted with the cartoon revolver emoji. Take your squirtgun, citizen.

New comment by asdff in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

asdff — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:03:19 +0000

You just brute force it with compute. What is the goal? Evaluating a function. So, given enough compute, you can just generate random functions, plot output distribution, select the function that meets threshold and move on.

New comment by asdff in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

asdff — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 19:00:36 +0000

Except the loitering autonomous ordinance over the data centers and power stations and mining operations. Good luck with your stashed ar15 and couple hundred rounds of ammo against a drone at 50k feet with 1ft ordinance precision. You will be basically fighting the Sentinels in Halo but without any of Master Chiefs plot armor.

New comment by asdff in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

asdff — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:57:59 +0000

The issue with any UBI proposal is two fold. For one, initial payments will see inflation making them always need to be higher. And for two, this inflation mechanism is basically a bribe that companies are paying to humanity in order to keep their position in control of the earth's resources and not see a destructive revolution.

There will be a threshold point where companies decide it will be cheaper to just cull the human population and no longer pay these bribes. Maybe they can do it without a bomb dropped; make people convinced they are too hard up to reproduce or even just sterilize them without them realizing it via water or food supply. If we are truly in the "job free" period then there will be no trained experts to even appreciate what is happening, because why would anyone get expert training if you cannot do anything with that knowledge anymore?

New comment by asdff in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

asdff — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:54:21 +0000

The scary part is that it doesn't need to be reliable. I mean look at the direction of vibe coding. We went from caring about efficiency to just saying screw it, 100k lines of code as long as it ships a day sooner. Look at ai emails and calendars. Ai marketing. Ai, in its present state, is already taking people's jobs. It is already good enough. None of these jobs we have really actually need the precision we assume we bring to the table over AI. And company leaders are beginning to appreciate that.

We are in a very dangerous position. Frogs in hot water now with the boiling point on the near horizon.

New comment by asdff in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

asdff — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:51:52 +0000

You know zuck has been training his own AI replacement right? Humans rubber stamping control of resources will just be that and a temporary blip.

New comment by asdff in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

asdff — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:49:33 +0000

There was always ignorance, just in recent decades and centuries we decided to give these people the reins. When you look at early democratic models it was never a case of literally anyone with a pulse given the right to vote. They all had their own heuristics that attempted to select for the better educated of the populace to be in control of the reins of power.

New comment by asdff in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

asdff — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:42:57 +0000

More likely is people are stripped entirely of any economic value and influence. Tribesmen struggling to survive in a mad max apocalyptic scenario while the world's money is spent and made in a business to business environment, in protected sites defended by autonomous loitering munitions that the uneducated masses attribute to god entities within a few generations of knowledge loss.

New comment by asdff in "Humanity isn't ready for the coming intelligence explosion"

asdff — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 18:39:54 +0000

Democracies will not have any easier time. The issue is the voting base is poorly informed by design so that it might be manipulated by outside forces. The US government does a poor job propagandizing its own citizens and defers that task to the free market. As such the people are never really voting in their own best interest, but in the interest of these free market propagandists who are also invested in this AI outcome.

People being poor is fine for these free market elites. Look at how billionaires live in India, probably even better than they live in the US.