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New comment by cooper_ganglia in "Are We Idiocracy Yet?"

cooper_ganglia — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:59:53 +0000

"Public education" is exactly the thing that will guarantee Idiocracy, that was practically the whole point of the movie

New comment by cooper_ganglia in "Stranger Things creator says turn off “garbage” settings"

cooper_ganglia — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 11:26:57 +0000

The only garbage I'm turning off is Stranger Things. How did they manage to keep going after the train-wreck that was Season 3??

New comment by cooper_ganglia in "Netflix Open Content"

cooper_ganglia — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 11:25:13 +0000

Cool! I'm looking forward to going through some of these, looks very interesting!

New comment by cooper_ganglia in "High school student discovers 1.5M potential new astronomical objects"

cooper_ganglia — Sun, 28 Dec 2025 20:55:46 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Cook#Early_life_and_educat...

New comment by cooper_ganglia in "High school student discovers 1.5M potential new astronomical objects"

cooper_ganglia — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 16:29:11 +0000

Being handed things because your parents have money VS being handed things because you've prepared yourself for the opportunity couldn't be more different.

New comment by cooper_ganglia in "Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot"

cooper_ganglia — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 19:22:39 +0000

  >Boston Dynamics has been releasing actual product demos of such robots (not cherry-picked ads) for ~20 years now. Not a single one has graduated to any mass market real world use case.

Good point, which is why Boston Dynamics didn't really excite me. It was very cool to see the bot balance itself while being pushed with a hockey stick, but LiDAR-based pathfinding on hydraulic actuators has never truly felt like the future. Balancing and doing backflips is different than walking through a home and being able to perform delicate or visually difficult tasks like loading a dishwasher or caring for your baby in it's crib at night (just kidding, lol)

I'm sure a lot of BD's initial R&D has made Figure able to ramp so quickly and I don't mean to speak negatively of BD at all, but within 3 years, Figure has made it feel like the future is at our doorstep, meanwhile BD hasn't really done that for me in 3 decades. That's very impressive to me.

New comment by cooper_ganglia in "Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot"

cooper_ganglia — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 18:22:38 +0000

  >This is the Nth time I've seen a robot folding a shirt

This is precisely what I mean. These systems aren't perfect, and won't be widely usable in the home for several more years, but this is the worst they'll ever be! This is the first glimpse of a future without the need of physical human labor, for better or worse.

We're watching robots intelligently find a shirt, figure out how to fold it relative to its position, and then parse all that data, tokenizing both vision + text instructions into actionable movements that actually result in the physical world being affected!

All this, and people are criticizing it's manufacturing cost or ability to do things it hasn't been explicitly trained to do in 2025. I see these things and don't think about 2025, I'm thinking about 2040 and the inevitable future we're diving into.

New comment by cooper_ganglia in "Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot"

cooper_ganglia — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:52:54 +0000

Crazy to me how negative the comments are here. None of this was even remotely possible less than 5 years ago. Now, we're demoing consumer-facing robotics that will soon, within a couple iterations, be able to perform most of your household tasks without issue.

The frog boils quickly.

New comment by cooper_ganglia in "Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot"

cooper_ganglia — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 17:37:21 +0000

The first 5 seconds of that intro already had me dying with laughter, and this isn't even the first time I've seen it lmao

New comment by cooper_ganglia in "Voyager – An interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction"

cooper_ganglia — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 15:26:12 +0000

Novo is a success story, sure, but it's not uniquely dominant. Eli Lilly is more than 3x bigger in the same space, and J&J, Merck, Pfizer all rival or surpass it.

Pharma as a whole is still dwarfed by the trillion-dollar US tech giants that the EU has no equivalent of. One standout doesn't change the broader lag.

New comment by cooper_ganglia in "Voyager – An interactive video generation model with realtime 3D reconstruction"

cooper_ganglia — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 20:28:56 +0000

Technology, AI, semiconductors, cloud computing, consumer electronics, social media, app ecosystems, e-commerce, military technology, energy independence, venture capital, unicorns and scaling, banking innovation, space exploration, biotech and pharma...

New comment by cooper_ganglia in "We regret but have to temporary suspend the shipments to USA"

cooper_ganglia — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 19:28:06 +0000

That seems exceedingly reasonable.

New comment by cooper_ganglia in "Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts"

cooper_ganglia — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 13:33:16 +0000

A high-trust society cannot be built any way other than force!

Once you've removed the dredges of society (by force), all of the good, law-abiding citizens have better lives.

New comment by cooper_ganglia in "Home Depot sued for 'secretly' using facial recognition at self-checkouts"

cooper_ganglia — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 13:29:48 +0000

>an N95 is a good idea in a pharmacy on a college campus, where the Covid factories that are college students will go

Did I just step into a time portal to 2022? Have you... been in a coma for the past several years? haha

New comment by cooper_ganglia in "Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria"

cooper_ganglia — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:02:06 +0000

No, I don't think I will.

New comment by cooper_ganglia in "Sleep all comes down to the mitochondria"

cooper_ganglia — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 13:00:41 +0000

  >You're never going to get anywhere with *gestures broadly*... this.

Very self-aggrandizing, very 2016, very devoid of tact.

Also, fat people have a 5-10x rate of sleep apnea over someone of a normal, healthy weight. Being fat is bad for you. That is not a "stigma", it's just factually true. You don't have to dress it up as something sexy, because being fat is neither healthy nor sexy.

New comment by cooper_ganglia in "VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in"

cooper_ganglia — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 21:48:21 +0000

“Queer/Disabled techies post porn that I think is good for kids, which is great because otherwise children would have to just use PornHub” is a GREAT ideology to viscerally radicalize the majority of people against you AND the people you’re speaking about.

New comment by cooper_ganglia in "VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in"

cooper_ganglia — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 21:41:18 +0000

By the definition of every major nation in the world, which is that anyone under 18 is a minor, which is a child who should not be intentionally exposed to pornography. Kids shouldn’t grow up viewing content that demeans women and distorts their worldview on sex and relationships, much less having the trusted adults in their lives advocate for them to watch it!!

Very bold choice to argue the nuance of “But how do we define ‘child’?” in a discussion about showing pornography to kids, though!

New comment by cooper_ganglia in "Age Verification Laws Send VPN Use Soaring–and Threaten the Open Internet"

cooper_ganglia — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 21:31:28 +0000

I don’t think censorship of nearly any kind has any place on the internet, but neither do kids.

It’s a parent’s responsibility to keep their children away from that type of content, not to hand them access to it so they can develop maligned, destructive ideas about sex, intimacy, and women.

New comment by cooper_ganglia in "VPN use surges in UK as new online safety rules kick in"

cooper_ganglia — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 15:52:53 +0000

  > Also, I'm for teenagers (not little children) having access to pornography.

Anyone who supports literal children of any age viewing pornography needs their hard drives checked immediately.