<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: card_zero</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=card_zero</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2026 02:29:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=card_zero" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by card_zero in "Desire to Move Permanently to U.S. at New Low"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I parsed it as <i>daishi man</i>, and looked up <i>daishi</i> on Wikipedia instead. Daishi could be his own Japanese surname, a DJ, a rugby player, a sumo wrestler, or could represent the fact that he went on the Shikoku Pilgrimage of 88 temples like the monk Kobo Daishi. Though in that case I think daishi just means "a virtuous and strong monk", per Wiktionary.</p>
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<p>October 1929. Tenuous.</p>
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<p>Indeed, for many small squeaky animals, a predator may kill their offspring, and they will set about making another batch the next day. Consider the lilies of the field, they have no jobs, and would go around naked, if they could move.</p>
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<p>But what kind of doom did they anticipate in the roaring 20s? I guess Upton Sinclair wasn't very happy, but that's not the same as crises everywhere you turn.</p>
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<p>> bargaining with superintelligence<p>This part is nonsense, still. There's no known AI -> AGI path, and superintelligence doesn't mean anything, and AGI is assumed to be (going to be) both malicious and a slave, both for no good reason.</p>
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<p>Incessant shit.</p>
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<p>That's a perception. <i>Do</i> they, though? If so, why? "I hope I die before I get old", sang The Who. Roger Daltrey is 82. Trump (slightly younger) was one of His Generation, although I expect he probably wasn't a mod. But what I mean is, the coercive oppression visited upon you by your elders is coming from the youth of yesterday, who had it lurking in them latently, waiting to gain status and money and influence. Those things arrive gradually (if at all) along with age, and I guess they make a person complacently comfortable, but the driving cause is that the person is a coercive dogmatist with a drive to oppress inferiors, <i>and always was</i> in most cases, because we don't usually learn to be wronger,* only how to <i>express</i> our terrible attitudes. So age isn't <i>doing</i> this, it's just revealing it.<p>* Undoubtedly sometimes the spark of malevolence develops into more coherent and sophisticated badness, I have to admit, so an old person has had more time to mature into being truly terrible. But this is against the pressure of rationality.</p>
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<p>So it's things like: some people died because there was a famine and they didn't have lactose tolerance (and thus didn't have any cows, or they'd just eat the cows, a detail). Some people died due to having unnecessarily large and sturdy jaws in the era of cooked food. (Not sure how this would cause death, perhaps due to greater surface area for tooth trouble? It's always the teeth.) Then, their offspring - wait, I mean other people's offspring - are more adapted and less vulnerable.<p>Well sure, we should become less vulnerable, including biologically. But there are better ways to accomplish this than having people killed.</p>
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<p>That is a really wanky, lazy, cliched, annoying trope - to a longevity advocate, of course. For the many people who inexplicably think death is friendly and wonderful, these tired old storylines are <i>utterly insightful.</i> (see also: Doctor Who, they did stories about immortality-seeking villains a few times.)</p>
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<p>We should kill the dictators deliberately, improve our biology deliberately, and get stuffy old people like me to change their minds deliberately. No stupid use of death as a proxy, it's a horribly blunt instrument. "Let your ideas die in your place".<p>Besides, maybe it's the young people who are the most dogmatic. Studies are inconclusive: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle#Rebuttal" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planck%27s_principle#Rebuttal</a>  If we're going to go around killing people for having rigid ideas, perhaps concentrate on the young ones, for statistical reasons.</p>
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<p>Well, accidents. Inconveniently close supernovas. Something is likely to get you eventually, some few millennia later.</p>
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<p>"Contrary to popular belief," <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_human_evolution" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recent_human_evolution</a><p>I don't think it <i>matters,</i> mind you.</p>
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<p>Walk me through it: in order to get dictators killed, because they defend themselves very effectively, we should put <i>everybody on the planet under a biological death sentence,</i> which will get the dictators too.<p>No, I cannot endorse this.</p>
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<p>I have no idea what the mechanism would be, I was just enjoying the irony of the worst case being that <i>individual</i> fridges would fail sometimes.</p>
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<p>Over in the "AI is not a tool" post there's this comment: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063732">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50063732</a><p>Which says that it's a tool for querying and summarization, but not a tool for reading or writing, because it helps you to do something different from those.<p>(Yes I know, <i>don't cross the streams.</i> I just thought it was a shame for this nice distinction to languish over there when you need it over here.)</p>
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<p>True, those are the most honest and least horrible car wheels I've seen for a long time. Everything else has pretentious alloys in a unique but meaningless swirl or flower shape.<p>I dislike the rigidity-giving ridges, though, those are echoing a distinctive feature of the 2CV but are surely non-functional this time around. The ridges are a lie.</p>
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<p>Suppose they're unable to innovate, but their enormity and their parasitism of human creativity makes up for it. This makes their output similar in the short term but crucially different in the long term. Things <i>don't</i> function through "no process at all"; things have ways in which they work. The process is relevant to the output, and gives insights into subtle but crucial differences in output. By knowing about the process we can avoid being deceived by apparent similarity.</p>
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<p>If they didn't do it that way, some bad things would happen: sometimes a fridge would fail and the food in that fridge would spoil.</p>
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<p>This sense of <i>biscuit</i> persisted in US English for a long time. The National Biscuit Company (makers of oreos and fig newtons) only changed its name to Nabisco in 1931. The Kennedy Biscuit Company was subsumed by the New York Biscuit Company which merged with the American Biscuit Company to form the National Biscuit Company in 1898. <i>Closes Wikipedia</i></p>
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<p>In UK English ginger isn't exactly a color either. It's not like yellow or orange. It's a state of being.<p>I don't know why this is being downvoted. Does "ginger-colored" sound right to you? It doesn't quite work.</p>
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