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New comment by bratbag in "The main way I've seen people turn ideologically crazy (2025)"

bratbag — Mon, 10 Aug 2026 08:13:19 +0000

You are filtering out politically engaged people who have assesed the current mechanisms of state to be too flawed to be worth continued interaction.

This is likely quite a large group.

New comment by bratbag in "Danube's record low levels force shutdown of Hungary's only nuclear plant"

bratbag — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 07:36:58 +0000

Nuclear without greed is fine.

Its only where shortcuts have been taken with cooling that there will be issues.

New comment by bratbag in "Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes Reality of Urban Surveillance"

bratbag — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 14:15:45 +0000

It's because ignoring rights happens faster than they can be protected.

Move fast enough with sufficent scale and you can eliminate peoples ability to protect their own rights before they even realise they are under threat.

Sometimes friction in government is necessary for individual liberty.

New comment by bratbag in "Death of the Status Update: Why 55% of Americans Stopped Posting on Social Media"

bratbag — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 07:26:09 +0000

I would say they create more addictive content than people with lives away from social media.

But that doesnt help with building 1:1 connections.

New comment by bratbag in "EU Commission: addictive design Instagram and Facebook in breach of the DSA"

bratbag — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:45:48 +0000

Why instead of?

Do both.

New comment by bratbag in "AI-generated videos to maximally drive a target brain region"

bratbag — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 14:30:55 +0000

Not even close chief.

Earth has been a rich, life sustaining planet in far hotter conditions then anything we are projected to take it to.

We can kill billions of ourselves, but short of ww3 earth will crack on just fine.

Social media emotional hot-takes dont match the numbers.

We are still screwed though.

New comment by bratbag in "I think I have LLM burnout"

bratbag — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 05:19:43 +0000

At one point we considered adding artifical delay to responses because irrational users dont trust something that finishes fast, even if its the same quality.

How empirical are your comparisons of new and old outputs?

New comment by bratbag in "The Internet Is Drowning in Secret Ads"

bratbag — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 17:09:24 +0000

Users dont understand the externalised cost of free services.

Worse than that, they feel entitled to them, to the point that the actual expectation of having to pay for something that requires effort to maintain is treated as an insult.

New comment by bratbag in "Open Source Low Tech"

bratbag — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 08:19:51 +0000

Because i would rather solve the problems close to home, the problems involving those billionaires.

Im not going to put effort into turning those other people in another country into a new cash crop for billionaires.

New comment by bratbag in "U.S. science is in chaos"

bratbag — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:34:51 +0000

Their needs are met.

They are turning to racism because of their wants and fears.

New comment by bratbag in "U.S. science is in chaos"

bratbag — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:21:50 +0000

And if you are any kind of strategic thinker when faced with that problem, you will do two things

1. Invest in propaganda to ensure the US becomes hostile to immigrants.

2. Invest in opening yourself up to immigration.

China is openly doing 2. It would be foolish to assume they are are not also investing in 1 and secretly cheering on the current administrations hateful stupidity.

Immigration is the US superpower, and everyone who wants to knock them off the number 1 spot is eroding it.

New comment by bratbag in "Show HN: Forge – Guardrails take an 8B model from 53% to 99% on agentic tasks"

bratbag — Wed, 20 May 2026 05:45:11 +0000

I found it fun to read.

New comment by bratbag in "Create value for others and don’t worry about the returns"

bratbag — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 08:26:42 +0000

War against someone who wants my society eradicated provides a lot of value to my people.

New comment by bratbag in "Show HN: Algorithmically finding the longest line of sight on Earth"

bratbag — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 14:06:59 +0000

Its a really interesting question.

Lets take it to its farthest extent: can you take a picture of a black hole?

New comment by bratbag in "On Being a Human Being in the Time of Collapse (2022) [pdf]"

bratbag — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 11:56:15 +0000

Or a life where everyone operates in absolutes, with no shades of grey allowed.

Zero reflection and total constant analysis paralysis are both non viable.

New comment by bratbag in "As AI gobbles up chips, prices for devices may rise"

bratbag — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 13:08:29 +0000

Or the value of everything non ai drops to zero, which makes the value of ai infinite by comparison.

New comment by bratbag in "AI is a front for consolidation of resources and power"

bratbag — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:22:31 +0000

It's not about blindly accepting autogenerated code. Its using them for tooling integration.

Its like terminal autocomplete on steroids. Everything around the code is blazing fast.

New comment by bratbag in "U.S. already has the critical minerals it needs, according to new analysis"

bratbag — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 08:21:37 +0000

The majority of obese people want to be thin, but will die obese anyway.

Just wanting something that requires a significant overhaul of how you do things, is not enough.

New comment by bratbag in "Copilot broke audit logs, but Microsoft won't tell customers"

bratbag — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 05:46:30 +0000

If this reduces error rates to below those of a human, then that's an acceptable approach.

Unless you think humans code reviewing humans is pointless because errors sometimes still slip through?

New comment by bratbag in "Wikipedia loses challenge against Online Safety Act"

bratbag — Tue, 12 Aug 2025 12:20:16 +0000

Pass.

Im glad not to be confined by historical rules invented by people who could not hope to predict the future, and would not choose to put that kind of burden on my descendents.