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New comment by bsenftner in "Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People"

bsenftner — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 15:00:33 +0000

You can create a patent that builds on other patents. You can make up all kinds of "what if" "inventions" and spend a lot of money acquiring patents for them, if you have the money to do this originally. Then it is a game of having the financing to "protect" those patents from infringers. If a corporation has more legal reserves than a patent holder, it can be a long drawn out legal battle where the corporation eventually wins, or the patent holder can just not fight and it ends there. This is the patent system.

New comment by bsenftner in "Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People"

bsenftner — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 14:55:28 +0000

In this future you describe, you forgot the key feature: that "everyone" is not really "everyone", because if you are not an individual in the system with all this augmentation, you are "no one" and effectively cut out of the economy. so, sure "everyone" will have this, because society will create an environment where the tech have nots are treated as if they do not exist.

New comment by bsenftner in "Anthropic's ‘watermark’ text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing"

bsenftner — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:10:52 +0000

In practice, it is theater. Are they going to do this with the code output too? This is nonsense security theater for the low thinkers to have a sense that someone is in charge. When we all know nobody is in charge, anywhere.

New comment by bsenftner in "Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things"

bsenftner — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:02:20 +0000

Curious minds what to know what you are doing animation-wise with Qwen.

New comment by bsenftner in "We're not done with point clouds"

bsenftner — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 20:22:08 +0000

The number of shallow thinkers that believe making video games is playing games all day long and is not incredibly complex software without the people, without the formal educations, and never enough budget to do what one is asked in any reasonable amount of time. And we'd pull it off.

I left games, of course, and after various shenanigans ended up writing facial recognition software. Surprised everyone and became the project lead, nobody was even close in the technical real time simulation requirements space that FR requires.

New comment by bsenftner in "Understanding is the new bottleneck"

bsenftner — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:19:23 +0000

Understanding has always been the bottleneck, everywhere for everything. And now, with this new realization, are you going to finally realize that Communications and your skills with it are basically everything?

New comment by bsenftner in "We're not done with point clouds"

bsenftner — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:10:16 +0000

This reminds me of writing physics in game engines.

New comment by bsenftner in "GLM-5.3: Frontier coding with emergent cyber capabilities"

bsenftner — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 11:05:03 +0000

So, "cyber capabilities", whoa there horsey, what the fuck is that? Are we making up words or are you trying to court the black hat crowd?

New comment by bsenftner in "Should you stop cracking your knuckles?"

bsenftner — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 10:57:54 +0000

I'm in my 60's, and I crack my knuckles dozens if not hundreds of times a day. I started very young, and I do every joint on both hands, every finger joint all the way up to the wrist. This is my hands while I deep think, and I think a lot. I'll do one hand, then the other, and go back to the first hand and repeat.

Due to this habit, I have researched the cause of the crack, and this article is absolutely nothing new whatsoever. The same information I've been reading for 50 years, since I was first "ordered" to stop.

For the record: zero issues. Zero ramifications beyond "stop that!" verbalized endlessly through out my life.

"No."

New comment by bsenftner in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

bsenftner — Sat, 08 Aug 2026 12:52:47 +0000

Thank you for including these facts.

New comment by bsenftner in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

bsenftner — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 19:04:09 +0000

It used to be taught, every high school and many early junior high and elementary schools had debate clubs, and the ability to hold complex and nuanced debate used to be intellectual entertainment for many. however, then the 60's youth rebellion saw the "debate stars" all on the youth side and arguing against the hypocrisy of the status quo. Soon, debate clubs were disbanded, and the formal rules of debate changed to allow for "cheap tactics" that destroyed the intellectual purity and allowed literal stunts, information overflow and diversion tactics to be allowed. That set the stage for debate and a pop culture intellectualism to die a quick death. Within a decade, the ability to discuss controversial topics without emotional outrage was lost. Now we are bereft.

New comment by bsenftner in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

bsenftner — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:38:34 +0000

...and this inability to get people to work together is architected, designed, and reinforced constantly. Fact: no where in any general education within the United States are people taught how to discuss issues with disagreement. This is strategic: the lack of this education creates easily emotionally swayed non-intellects that fall for cons over and over. The US is a conman paradise.

New comment by bsenftner in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

bsenftner — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 13:35:32 +0000

Dumb is evil. Dumb chooses shortcuts every time, even if it harms others, dumb is selfish evil.

New comment by bsenftner in "US strikes $1.2B deal to pay German firm to halt offshore wind projects"

bsenftner — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 11:17:56 +0000

The USA is governed by evil people, and the people of the nation are too stupid and expecting someone else to stop them. Plain as day light.

New comment by bsenftner in "Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck"

bsenftner — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 12:06:46 +0000

And this is why humanity is so filled with failure, the skill of effective communication is not recognized nor respected. It is literally providing the information for others to follow one, and that necessity is unrecognized?

New comment by bsenftner in "Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck"

bsenftner — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 16:15:27 +0000

Well, let me just throw in it is our communication skills, or lack of them, that is our main bottleneck. That goes for pretty much everything humans do, and everything we fail trying to do: it is the quality of those engaged and their communications that is the critical aspect determining success or failure.

New comment by bsenftner in "How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood"

bsenftner — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:24:07 +0000

You're pretty propagandized. It's an international city that is the playground for the world's wealthy, no it is not the "Mexicans", it is the stupid dirty wealth. What I describe is an international event every night; you do not hear much English nor Mexican/Spanish, you hear every language on the planet.

New comment by bsenftner in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

bsenftner — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:20:10 +0000

This nation is sitting ducks? The only reason we don't have Red Dawn is nobody wants this nation idiots.

New comment by bsenftner in "The End of an Era"

bsenftner — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 20:08:47 +0000

> but their biases are still your biases so long as you are the one writing the prompts.

That is if you only work with your LLMs / Agents in a "straight ahead" manner, versus using knowledge of the bias baked into AIs and purposefully invoking a specific type of subject matter expert for problems that require specialized knowledge. It is similar to using people skilled at what you need, invoke through the vocabulary and language of your prompts specialized skills that are not tapped until using the terminology only those specialists use, and like magic their skills are suddenly in-context and the AI acts accordingly.

New comment by bsenftner in "How Hollywood stopped making movies in Hollywood"

bsenftner — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 16:27:54 +0000

I'd say it is the size of the population, far far too many people try to make it in Los Angeles without any specialized educations, so the car washers have 40 people that dry your windows, and the wait staff jobs are exponentially Orwellian. When I finally moved away, I was living over an hour away from Santa Monica, paying $4K a month for rent, and the entire neighborhood lights up every night like a gangsters' paradise. Street racing, graffiti everywhere, sidewalk food vendors everywhere, the local high school kids are covered in tattoos, including their faces. No thank you.