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New comment by bloppe in "Anthropic boss Dario Amodei calls for AI development to slow down"

bloppe — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:30:55 +0000

Hell I'd do it

New comment by bloppe in "The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution"

bloppe — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 17:18:59 +0000

Your fixation on "injustice" makes your point unfalsifiable. Any rebellion could be construed as righteous or treasonous. The point is that people really do take up arms against the govt all the time, and that fact has historically had major effects on the conduct of police and politicians

New comment by bloppe in "The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution"

bloppe — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:53:55 +0000

You can't be a feudal lord if you're forced to accept razor-thin margins (assuming they're positive at all) due to relentless competition

New comment by bloppe in "The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution"

bloppe — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:47:57 +0000

This doesn't make any sense. Americans wield guns against the government literally every day. Usually it's not very widespread or organized, but sometimes it is. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_rebellions_in_the_Unit...

New comment by bloppe in "The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution"

bloppe — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 08:36:24 +0000

You can't hike up the price on open-weight frontier models. It's a commodity.

New comment by bloppe in "OpenAI’s Navier-Stokes release included a Lean 4 formal proof"

bloppe — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 22:55:47 +0000

Most people do, so the literal interpretation matters a lot

New comment by bloppe in "What will our economic future look like?"

bloppe — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:51:51 +0000

But what's the point of holding something accountable here? Creating an incentive for them to take your needs seriously? Why does an incentive matter if you already know that one has a superior expected outcome?

New comment by bloppe in "What will our economic future look like?"

bloppe — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 07:44:03 +0000

How about just abolish poverty, so everyone is rich

New comment by bloppe in "What will our economic future look like?"

bloppe — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 05:29:22 +0000

This is the same faulty standard you constantly hear applied to self-driving cars, where human lives are also often at stake. You don't need the AI to be perfect. You just need it to be substantially better than the average human (which self-driving cars are). Your nurse who's caring for 15 patients at once might not make perfect decisions either. That doesn't categorically disqualify humans from delivering health care

New comment by bloppe in "What will our economic future look like?"

bloppe — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 03:04:32 +0000

No worries. The US can totally just sanction China into giving up on AI research.

New comment by bloppe in "What will our economic future look like?"

bloppe — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 03:02:18 +0000

It is systemic due to baumol

New comment by bloppe in "We have a year to fix security everywhere"

bloppe — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 16:42:39 +0000

We're talking about reporting breaches, not giving yourself some sort of abstract security score

New comment by bloppe in "Watch Los Angeles get built, one building at a time (1880–2026)"

bloppe — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 23:56:21 +0000

I've never heard anybody say anything like that when criticizing prop 13. It usually has more to do with housing prices and the fact that 2 people with the same home value should pay the same in property taxes. If you wanted to create a hereditary landed gentry, it would be hard to come up with a better policy to achieve that than prop 13.

New comment by bloppe in "An Alien Mind"

bloppe — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:49:08 +0000

Lying to the bad guys to save the good guys sounds great. Too bad everybody thinks that they are the good guys.

New comment by bloppe in "An Alien Mind"

bloppe — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:43:09 +0000

I have a pretty poor world model

New comment by bloppe in "Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes"

bloppe — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:27:35 +0000

By that standard, this is totally over-engineered. Just hardcode it.

New comment by bloppe in "Show HN: GET Together – A social network where you don't need POST to Post"

bloppe — Mon, 07 Sep 2026 08:16:55 +0000

People seem to be throwing around the term "break out" pretty loosely. I wouldn't consider abiding by the rules of the sandbox a "break out".

New comment by bloppe in "“Next-token predictor” is the wrong mental model for LLMs"

bloppe — Sat, 05 Sep 2026 01:54:23 +0000

I think a better simplistic analogy would be that humans are progeny-maximizers. Optimization problems can give rise to all sorts of interesting behaviors but the simplistic perspective is also useful and interesting in both cases

New comment by bloppe in "EFF to Governor Newsom: Veto California's AB 1709"

bloppe — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 16:16:09 +0000

Are cigarettes banned?

New comment by bloppe in "Apple caught off guard by AI demand for Mac Mini and Mac Studio"

bloppe — Tue, 01 Sep 2026 03:23:20 +0000

Companies that ignore everything besides their legacy cash cow tend to go downhill. I'm sure there are at least a few people at Apple who's main concern is marketing the Mac mini, and those people are highly definitely trying to cook up new marketing strategies all the time