Hacker News: blotfaba

New comment by blotfaba in "Palantir: The Most Evil Company"

blotfaba — Mon, 04 Aug 2025 06:25:22 +0000

Progressive dementia, perhaps. If you get human beings who are ideologically programmed to go on suicide missions and believe they're reaping an eternity in heaven it blows the most enormous hole in such transparently self-serving, as cartoonishly idiotic as insane logic.

New comment by blotfaba in "Tokens are getting more expensive"

blotfaba — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 20:53:44 +0000

We're not going to be using tokens forever, and inevitably specialized hardware will solve this bottleneck. Underestimating how much proprietary advancements are loaded into Google TPUs is sort of like thinking the best we've got are Acura TSXs when somebody's driving around in a Ferrari.

New comment by blotfaba in "Replit AI deletes entire database during code freeze, then lies about it"

blotfaba — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 00:26:34 +0000

There was no database, it was a hoax.

New comment by blotfaba in "Protecting my attention at the dopamine carnival"

blotfaba — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 07:38:01 +0000

> Using ChatGPT on cognitive tasks can reduce your brain connectivity by up to 50% and reduce your ability to recall information about the task by 8x.

I hate this thing. I don't think it added anything to this article to conflate this "study" - did no one stop to think your brain isn't firing on all cylinders when the AI is doing the work because that's what the whole point of AI is?

It's supposed to free up your mind to attend to other matters.

We're not building muscles like we used to when we use tractors and heavy machinery instead of building houses brick by brick by hand either. So what?? Attend a gym and read something technical and dense.

New comment by blotfaba in "Sam Altman Slams Meta’s AI Talent Poaching: 'Missionaries Will Beat Mercenaries'"

blotfaba — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 19:17:50 +0000

In a for-profit system, literally everybody is a mercenary. Thoughts, prayers, and vibes don't put food on my table or pay my bills and compute expenses.

New comment by blotfaba in "Early US Intel assessment suggests strikes on Iran did not destroy nuclear sites"

blotfaba — Wed, 25 Jun 2025 12:00:10 +0000

Sounds like Israel and the United States have "no idea what the fuck they are doing," as one sage was heard saying..

New comment by blotfaba in "New US visa rules will force foreign students to unlock social media profiles"

blotfaba — Thu, 19 Jun 2025 03:25:29 +0000

Principles such as... slavery, white supremacy, bigotry, genocide, tyranny..

New comment by blotfaba in "The Army’s Newest Recruits: Tech Execs From Meta, OpenAI and More"

blotfaba — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 12:50:47 +0000

Lol this "AI alignment" rap is such a crock in light of all these things.

New comment by blotfaba in "Ex-UK Special Forces break silence on 'war crimes' by colleagues"

blotfaba — Tue, 13 May 2025 03:14:25 +0000

Decades of war crimes and they still lost, that's gotta bite. Master race hard at work?

New comment by blotfaba in "Redis is open source again"

blotfaba — Thu, 01 May 2025 16:40:55 +0000

Hashtag #ThankYouValkey?

New comment by blotfaba in "Amazon Just Happens to Hold Book Sale During Independent Bookstore Day"

blotfaba — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 05:24:37 +0000

That thumbnail is chef's kiss

New comment by blotfaba in "A new form of verification on Bluesky"

blotfaba — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 19:39:53 +0000

It's giving Twitter "official teller of truth" vibes

New comment by blotfaba in "The skill of the future is not 'AI', but 'Focus'"

blotfaba — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 20:15:13 +0000

On the other hand: with thinking models, agents, and future models to come we are offloading the exploration phase to the models themselves. It really depends on constraints and pressures.

New comment by blotfaba in "OpenAI is a systemic risk to the tech industry"

blotfaba — Mon, 14 Apr 2025 21:36:05 +0000

Show us on the doll's ATM's number pad how much money Zuck paid you to write this

New comment by blotfaba in "Linux laptop maker called me a Zombie"

blotfaba — Mon, 03 Mar 2025 17:18:48 +0000

Dramatic!! Who even needs Netflix

New comment by blotfaba in "You can’t build a moat with AI (redux)"

blotfaba — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 23:22:47 +0000

Forgot to mention teaming up with government so they can literally create and defend your moat with the entire armed forces

New comment by blotfaba in "ICE wants to know if you're posting negative things about it online"

blotfaba — Fri, 14 Feb 2025 16:26:51 +0000

Oh well in that case let me just put this out there: to hell with ICE.

New comment by blotfaba in "CDC: Unpublished manuscripts mentioning certain topics must be pulled or revised"

blotfaba — Sun, 02 Feb 2025 11:03:22 +0000

It does feel like some straight "war is peace" kind of, uh.. shenanigangs and things