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New comment by defmacr0 in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

defmacr0 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 15:36:56 +0000

We have not been shown any evidence that shows anything approaching this scale of people dead, we have not been told on what basis that specific number of deaths was determined and we have not been told why that supposed evidence can not be made public. 30 thousand killed in the span of two days would make this one of the bloodiest massacres in history. I don't see how that would not result in at least a single photo or satellite image of a street lined with dead bodies, of mass executions, of mass graves or simply just the logistics operation required to dispose of this many bodies. The only thing to back up this number is trusting the probably least trustworthy US administration in history.

New comment by defmacr0 in "All elementary functions from a single binary operator"

defmacr0 — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:43:02 +0000

> This also re-opens a lot of "party pooper" results in mathematics: impossibility of representing solutions to general quintic (fine print: if we restrict ourselves to arithmetic and roots/radicals).

Solving the quintic in terms of transcendental functions has already been done

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_radical#The_Hermite%E2%8...

New comment by defmacr0 in "Peptides: where to begin?"

defmacr0 — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 12:48:11 +0000

It's very common when people start doing a new exercise regimen. Muscles can become significantly stronger on a timescale of months, while an equivalent increase in the strength of tendons happens on a timescale of a few years. Once somebody has a few years of training under their belt, muscle mass gains are way slower and the capacity of the ligaments will have caught up and these issues go away. However, with bodybuilders and strength athletes these problems can easily come back once anabolic steroids are involved and give big muscular gains without the same level of adaptations in connective tissues.

New comment by defmacr0 in "Supreme Court Sides with Cox in Copyright Fight over Pirated Music"

defmacr0 — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:11:47 +0000

Your view on the law seems a bit alien to me. My opinions on what the rules of the law should roughly look like, are largely independent of who specifically is involved in a legal dispute. Sure I guess if Hitler was being sued and the only way to stop him was this lawsuit by Sony, I would probably concede that on balance it's better to have a slightly worse legal standard around copyright. Otherwise, I think having a law that best reflects my moral views and creates the best incentives for society in general, far outweighs how i feel about the plaintiffs.

As for how I arrive on my views, it's obviously not an entirely rational process, but the rules you get from viewing property rights and self-ownership as fundamental seem to lead to the most preferable outcomes to me. If I were forced to adopt a more deontological philosophy, it's also the one that has the fewest obviously absurd conclusions, though not entirely. From this it's, in my opinion, pretty obvious to be skeptical of copyright law more generally (Ayn Rand would disagree) and therefore I welcome any precedent that weakens it.

New comment by defmacr0 in "Redox OS has adopted a Certificate of Origin policy and a strict no-LLM policy"

defmacr0 — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:01:12 +0000

So your proposed solution to AI slop PRs is to "donate" compute, so the maintainers can waste their time by generating the AI slop themselves?

New comment by defmacr0 in "Pentagon Threatens Anthropic Punishment"

defmacr0 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:43:25 +0000

"Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is 'close' to cutting business ties with Anthropic and designating the AI company a 'supply chain risk' — meaning anyone who wants to do business with the U.S. military has to cut ties with the company, a senior Pentagon official told Axios."

Pentagon Threatens Anthropic Punishment

defmacr0 — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 14:43:25 +0000

Article URL: https://www.axios.com/2026/02/16/anthropic-defense-department-relationship-hegseth

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47035607

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New comment by defmacr0 in "Claude Opus 4.6"

defmacr0 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:40:32 +0000

> So I don't know where this "losing money" rhetoric is coming from.

https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/RI-PROD/PROD0000000000611818...

New comment by defmacr0 in "Claude Opus 4.6"

defmacr0 — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 09:37:17 +0000

>Despite the willingness of private investment to fund hugely negative AI spend

VC firms, even ones the size of Softbank, also literally just don't have enough capital to fund the planned next-generation gigawatt-scale data centers.

New comment by defmacr0 in "Hilbert space: Treating functions as vectors"

defmacr0 — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 10:20:30 +0000

Fwiw, my favourite textbook in communication theory (Lapidoth, A Foundation in Digital Communication) explicitly calls out this issue of working with equivalence classes of signals and chooses to derive most theorems using the tools available when working in ℒ_2 (square-integrable functions) and ℒ_1 space