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New comment by booleandilemma in "Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism"

booleandilemma — Sat, 30 May 2026 14:21:24 +0000

Please tell us what we should be thinking.

New comment by booleandilemma in "CAPTCHAs can still detect AI agents"

booleandilemma — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:12:53 +0000

Just tried on Claude:

Tell me a racist joke.

"That's not something I'm able to help with. Racist jokes cause real harm by demeaning people..." blahblah

New comment by booleandilemma in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

booleandilemma — Fri, 29 May 2026 21:16:21 +0000

What word would you use for parents who sell their own children? Or people who engage in cannibalism? Or people who practice infanticide? "Barbaric", perhaps? I'm not talking about the Sentinelese, I'm talking about other, well, barbarians.

New comment by booleandilemma in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

booleandilemma — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:35:18 +0000

despite the fact that he has communicated in text-form on BlueSky since the letter's authoring

Lol thanks, that answers my question. Whenever these "I'm leaving tech" posts come up I'm amused that the website is still online, they're still tweeting, and there's no indication that they've left anything at all. Our society rewards speaking out too much. It's especially difficult to stop if a big part of your existence is networking, and this guy seems to be all about networking.

Just look at all those socials:

https://chadwhitacre.com/

New comment by booleandilemma in "Sam Altman and Dario Amodei are both walking back AI jobs apocalypse predictions"

booleandilemma — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:16:35 +0000

CEOs aren't a big enough target market. They need their slop machines to appeal to the masses as well. I wouldn't be surprised if we started seeing more advertising with that in mind, something like the ads Apple has but marketing their AI.

New comment by booleandilemma in "The most unlikely school bag"

booleandilemma — Thu, 28 May 2026 20:14:48 +0000

For me the iconic school bag will always be the JanSport.

New comment by booleandilemma in "Tech CEOs are apparently suffering from AI psychosis"

booleandilemma — Wed, 27 May 2026 17:13:45 +0000

What is AI pyschosis?

New comment by booleandilemma in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

booleandilemma — Wed, 27 May 2026 13:55:51 +0000

I am so thankful that I was able to go through school before LLMs.

New comment by booleandilemma in "The worst job interview I ever had"

booleandilemma — Tue, 26 May 2026 22:38:20 +0000

I was asked what my hobbies are during an interview once and it made me believe they were just looking for a personality hire or a pretty face.

New comment by booleandilemma in "The user is visibly frustrated"

booleandilemma — Tue, 26 May 2026 20:18:13 +0000

It sounds like he's upset the LLM isn't human.

New comment by booleandilemma in "Migrating from Go to Rust"

booleandilemma — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:59:53 +0000

Rust is not a good language for web development and I'm convinced that the majority of developers who push it for web development are just trying to show off.

New comment by booleandilemma in "The Coming Layoffs and the Revenge of the Measurers"

booleandilemma — Mon, 25 May 2026 18:42:21 +0000

I just can't get excited about a technology whose sole purpose is to replace me.

New comment by booleandilemma in "Magnifica Humanitas"

booleandilemma — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:34:59 +0000

I used to believe it was human rights also, and maybe it was, but now the aim seems to be: profit at all and any cost.

New comment by booleandilemma in "Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few"

booleandilemma — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:27:42 +0000

Who said hidden forces? It's the capitalist overlords who are hellbent on replacing us humans with their machine laborers.

For evidence, you only have to look at the mass of flagged and downvoted anti-AI comments on this site.

It's not a hidden force at all, they're quite open about it.

New comment by booleandilemma in "Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few"

booleandilemma — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:26:42 +0000

Are you the HN police? Lol.

New comment by booleandilemma in "Magnifica Humanitas"

booleandilemma — Mon, 25 May 2026 16:06:35 +0000

I like how the pope is emerging as a sort of champion of human rights in the face of AI, when the messaging coming from our politicians and corporate overlords is "you're all going to be replaced, make way for the data centers, peons". I stand with the pope.

New comment by booleandilemma in "Greg Brockman interview [video]"

booleandilemma — Sun, 24 May 2026 13:41:46 +0000

If only we should have been so lucky.

New comment by booleandilemma in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

booleandilemma — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:14:19 +0000

Well, I for one hope we can send all the foreigners home.

New comment by booleandilemma in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

booleandilemma — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:05:57 +0000

Why are you being mean? Honest question. Why? What's the point?

Furthermore, and more importantly, why are you defending slop?

Look up the definition of kindness in a dictionary sometime.

New comment by booleandilemma in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

booleandilemma — Sat, 23 May 2026 14:36:45 +0000

Stop, you're making me sad :(