Hacker News: ausbah

New comment by ausbah in "Study estimates 75% of NFL players who died over 15-year span had CTE"

ausbah — Tue, 03 Nov 2026 20:01:11 +0000

i think no one cares. it’s a “you know what you’re signing up for” sort of thing akin to the military, oh and you’re compensated hundreds of thousands of dollars to do so

New comment by ausbah in "Google illegally cut down 250K trees in Finland for data center"

ausbah — Sat, 24 Oct 2026 15:11:26 +0000

it’s ok i think the megacorp can fend for themselves and their illegal and amoral actions

New comment by ausbah in "How the Military Will Hack the Election"

ausbah — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 19:44:35 +0000

it’s a lot harder to do a third term or a “coup” when you don’t have a majority support. i don’t have faith in many republican officials but i would bet many would not tie themselves 59 the sinking ship of trumpism, especially absent a heir apparent

New comment by ausbah in "Why is every rationalist blog post way too long?"

ausbah — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 14:28:09 +0000

i think there is room for word vomit overexplaining every little nuance, detail, and caveat as a style of writing especially if one is trying to be through and “rational”, but I think it takes much more skill to condense the meat of a subject

New comment by ausbah in "Religious scholars met with Anthropic"

ausbah — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:55:46 +0000

no it’s not. that’s the whole point of humanism.

New comment by ausbah in "Tokens too cheap to meter"

ausbah — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 15:02:56 +0000

bultarian jihad when

New comment by ausbah in "DoorDash Spent $1.4M Trying to Stop Mamdani from Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why"

ausbah — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 20:30:32 +0000

the common unifying theme of most tech companies over the past 15 years has been rent extraction. whether posing as middlemen who VC’d their way to monopoly power ruining both sides of their target market, or taking a common good without attribution (attention, knowledge) tech hasn’t been much a game changer beyond digitizing something and charging everyone more for it

New comment by ausbah in "Why I'm still bearish on LLMs after Navier-Stokes"

ausbah — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 22:44:14 +0000

> the best alternative to rigorous specification is human review. human review doesn't scale well to the volumes of output produced by language models. to make matters worse

when the business model is selling more tokens you get such per serve ice times that lead to “more” thinking, engagement baiting, fluffy narratives, and straight up dark patterns

New comment by ausbah in "Do people prefer stories written by AI?"

ausbah — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 16:07:29 +0000

but most of what humans create isn’t novel, esp in saturated areas like art. so even LLMs can “just do that” they’re very capable at outputting worthwhile materisl

New comment by ausbah in "U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications"

ausbah — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 23:33:45 +0000

straight up lying and doomer boomer mentality, sad and gross.

very consistent correlations between migrants being net positive economic providers, more law abiding then native citizens, and just straight up regurgitating racist myths

mass deportations won’t solve anything economic when it’s the same admin hamstringing prices and rates with tariffs, war, and defacto support of the oligopoly

i really wish basement dwellers like you though of something original now and then

New comment by ausbah in "[dead]"

ausbah — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 21:02:18 +0000

i’m not trying to dismiss this article entirely as i did get value around from discussion around verifying

but this coming from a VC firm invested in token producing companies and quoting the “genius” behind openclaw makes me think this is just an psyop of over engineering to get ppl to blindly spend tokens on the LLM slot machine

New comment by ausbah in "Anthropic appears to be A/B testing reduced effort levels in Claude Code"

ausbah — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:47:52 +0000

i have unlimited tokens being a large corp so i’m a bit detached from billing and even general best practices for promoting

but the incentives of these companies to become profitable at any cost slipping into entire new types of dark patterns around token based billing seems gross

- charging for injected prompts and cot tokens

- changing default thinking effort to be higher

- training models to give longer winded answers that don’t say anything more of substance

- refusing to fulfill a request and still charging you

i wonder if you could ever just charge based of each user message and it so how breaks even across short and long replies

New comment by ausbah in "Why aren't smart people happier? (2022)"

ausbah — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 20:31:16 +0000

i’m sure everyone replying to this thread has a level headed and unbiased assessment of themselves

New comment by ausbah in "On AI regulation and messaging"

ausbah — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:55:47 +0000

substack has devolved into the same thing. opening the app first thing you see if a infinite scroll of twitter like takes

and i honestly would rather have a reddit lite site like hacker news where there appears to be at least a diversity of opinion than the pseudo-intellectualization cjing occurring among the exact same sort of AI cockgobblers on LW

New comment by ausbah in "On AI regulation and messaging"

ausbah — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:49:19 +0000

and how does the public view AI tech workers?

New comment by ausbah in "Why Can't You Pack a Bag? (2024)"

ausbah — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:37:43 +0000

if you’re visiting major cities and need basic clothing you’re probably shopping at the some of the same name brand outlets or lines

New comment by ausbah in "Why Can't You Pack a Bag? (2024)"

ausbah — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 20:36:48 +0000

interesting how much overlap onebagging has with ultralight backpacking

New comment by ausbah in "Study links GLP-1 drugs to bigger jump in women's employment than a degree"

ausbah — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 17:52:33 +0000

first sentence is one step from outright discrimination even if not everyone recognizes it. if you’re visibly transgender/queer, have noticeable accent, visible disability, and on and on and on

New comment by ausbah in "Taxi drivers rarely die of Alzheimer's"

ausbah — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 15:17:39 +0000

idk have you ever driven in boston?

New comment by ausbah in "What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers"

ausbah — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:55:15 +0000

i’m in the US, if you took a call for more than a few mins a busy metro car I’d tell you to knock it off