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New comment by bongripper in "Wired headphone sales are exploding"

bongripper — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 11:02:17 +0000

The idea is that you're at home with the other person and want to listen to some music from a bluetooth speaker.

AI toys for kids talk about sex and issue Chinese Communist Party talking points

bongripper — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 12:39:31 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ai-toys-gift-present-safe-kids-robot-child-miko-grok-alilo-miiloo-rcna246956

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46301290

Points: 6

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New comment by bongripper in "If you believe in "Artificial Intelligence", take five minutes to ask it"

bongripper — Sat, 15 Feb 2025 09:08:29 +0000

The author may not be as smart, educated, hot and successful as you, but the fact that today, people around the world, including students and educators, use LLMs as knowledge machines and take their output at face value shows that such critical posts are still urgently needed.

New comment by bongripper in "Missile Game"

bongripper — Sun, 04 Feb 2024 18:42:27 +0000

Its too hard for me.

New comment by bongripper in "Responses to unicycling"

bongripper — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 22:14:18 +0000

> I imagined it to be similar to how some "blue collar" professions attract mostly men who openly discuss women in sexual ways with each other while at work and will cat-call a pretty woman walking by.

Bro if you're trying to count those responses by class you can't use those same responses to put them into the bins in the first place, and reproducing a classist stereotype for no reason doesn't make the point any more valid.

New comment by bongripper in "Lessons learned from bringing promotional sweets to a conference"

bongripper — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 20:34:53 +0000

Where do you source your chargers now where you can track the entire supply chain?

New comment by bongripper in "OpenAI suspends bot developer for presidential hopeful Dean Phillips"

bongripper — Sun, 21 Jan 2024 19:13:51 +0000

"just spend $1000 on a new GPU"

New comment by bongripper in "Americans are spending billions on stuff they forget to cancel"

bongripper — Sat, 20 Jan 2024 08:39:29 +0000

Dude you're literally so retarded

New comment by bongripper in "Why I Like Obsidian"

bongripper — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 15:19:10 +0000

> Knowledge is a mosaic crafted from interconnected ideas.

source?

New comment by bongripper in "How to Be More Agentic"

bongripper — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 03:24:55 +0000

>I told her that she was a really inspiring person, and that I would keep her in my life indefinitely whether or not we ended up together

Whats wrong with men

New comment by bongripper in "How to Be More Agentic"

bongripper — Sun, 14 Jan 2024 03:18:59 +0000

There are some interesting points in there, but the author sounds like a bit of a narcissistic jerk.

> In many contexts, the way to get good feedback is to give people a way to provide it anonymously. Anything else creates friction by layering on social dynamics. To get honest feedback, you want to make it as comfortable as possible for people to give it. You also want to make it easy to find -- I have a link to my feedback form in my Twitter bio, and get a few comments a week through it.

> I imagine resistance from some people on the grounds that anonymity frees people to be assholes, but in my experience they rarely are. 90% of what I get in my inbox is either nonsense or nice -- I get lots of “keep up the good work!” type messages

So 10% are assholes, and the rest are "nonsense" or nice - does she get any actual criticism in her "feedback inbox" (kind of a strange concept in my opinion in itself)?

Also, all of the accomplishments she bragged about in the intro are from business. Impressive as they may be, it seems a bit narrow minded to be only focusing on that part of life when recounting what you are most proud of.

New comment by bongripper in "Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019)"

bongripper — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 16:29:39 +0000

Yeah, I read some of his essays. I like some of the ones where he stayed in his area of expertise, like "Ontology Of Psychiatric Conditions: Taxometrics" ( https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/ontology-of-psychiatric-con...). The other ones I've read are big fancy word salad unfortunately. Can you recommend others like the series I linked above?

New comment by bongripper in "Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019)"

bongripper — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 16:25:20 +0000

Broke: Reading books or attending classes on philosophy and cognitive science to learn from hundreds of years of combined research from the world's greatest minds.

Woke: Pulling up a new theory of intelligence and for why everyone else is too damn stupid for "fourth order thinking" out of thin air, talking to it about an LLM and deeming it so important it has to be shared with an online community.

New comment by bongripper in "Epistemic Learned Helplessness (2019)"

bongripper — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 16:19:24 +0000

>I don’t think I’m overselling myself too much to expect that I could argue circles around the average uneducated person. Like I mean that on most topics, I could demolish their position and make them look like an idiot. Reduce them to some form of “Look, everything you say fits together and I can’t explain why you’re wrong, I just know you are!” Or, more plausibly, “Shut up I don’t want to talk about this!”

> And there are people who can argue circles around me. Maybe not on every topic, but on topics where they are experts and have spent their whole lives honing their arguments.

He is admitting he might lose an argument against experts with decades worth of experience in their topic (most humble rationalist.)

New comment by bongripper in "Discord is laying off 17 percent of employees"

bongripper — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 20:30:08 +0000

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAiPcPRZlBk

The main character is nicknamed "Big Head", just referencing his big ol' dome.

New comment by bongripper in "Possible Meissner effect near room temperature: copper-substituted lead apatite"

bongripper — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 21:17:28 +0000

There have been scientific breakthroughs throughout human history and none of them "liberated" humanity in regards to sickness, poverty, energy, travel, entertainment. Why should this one now be different? There will always be sickness and poverty in a capitalist system that is built on the exploitation of others to sustain itself. During capitalism, medical ånd technological advances such breakthroughs might bring will always disproportionately benefit the rich. Sickness, poverty at least could already be "solved problems", as some people I think say, if not for class injustice in a system that depends on inequality to function.

New comment by bongripper in "Thinking About Internet History"

bongripper — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 21:51:15 +0000

I much rather think about real history, there is more to learn from it for the future.

RecipeSage – Personal Recipe Keeper

bongripper — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 21:37:24 +0000

Article URL: https://recipesage.com/#/welcome

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38819441

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by bongripper in "DRµGS: Deep Random Micro-Glitch Sampling"

bongripper — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 18:48:08 +0000

"Despite GamerGate’s positive changes on the industry, it has been met with heavy criticism from the journalists and publications under fire and their supporters, as well as third-wave feminists involved who have attributed the harsh criticism towards female offenders to misogyny and sexism."

That summary seems a bit tendencious!

New comment by bongripper in "NY Times copyright suit wants OpenAI to delete all GPT instances"

bongripper — Thu, 28 Dec 2023 12:24:04 +0000

I would argue the people of Hungary would be better off without hatred against asylum seekers and minorities, political opponents, lies and misinformation.