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New comment by diomedes in "GPT-6 Astra"

diomedes — Fri, 04 Sep 2026 01:38:35 +0000

>be able to sort through research and come to conclusions on complex geopolitical/sociological topics (e.g. theorize on whether AGI will result in mass poverty or mass abundance and be able to argue persuasively)

i'm not sure what makes you think AI cannot do this already. in my experience, this sort of deep research is something AI is quite good at.

example i just tested: https://chatgpt.com/share/6a9a20e3-1d20-83ea-a125-31aa240c74...

New comment by diomedes in "Ask HN: Are We in a Mega Bubble?"

diomedes — Wed, 09 Jun 2021 11:44:51 +0000

> The whole system is a fiction and can be patched for a long time with new fictions

That's a good way to summarize it, I tend to see this trend of governments creating their own digital currencies as the next step in the economic shitshow. One can even argue that's what a complex system would do: add more complexity, create more branches, justify the new bureaucracy with funny numbers and statistics, do anything to self perpetuate. Only time will show us if that's really feasible or if it'll all come crushing us down under it's own weight.

New comment by diomedes in "Intelligence on Sick Staff at Wuhan Lab Fuels Debate on Covid-19 Origin"

diomedes — Mon, 24 May 2021 02:13:41 +0000

Huh... sorry your whole post is borderline racist and denies science, please refrain from posting from on similar topics in cyberspace.

Regards, Ministry of Truth

New comment by diomedes in "Brazil’s mismanagement of Covid-19 threatens the world"

diomedes — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 01:17:41 +0000

> Our national healthcare system is completely ready to face a pandemic like that

I lost a younger brother to that national healthcare system 10 years ago. Maybe this might be the case for the more developed regions (like the south & southeast), go to the north/northeast and you'll see the abyss.

New comment by diomedes in "Gitlab default branch name changes to main"

diomedes — Sun, 14 Mar 2021 18:31:26 +0000

> But common sense doesn't seem to play a role anymore.

If it were just a common sense problem the damage could be reverted in it's due time. It is about hierarchy, if you put weak people in power they'll game the system and push whatever the mob wants, it won't stop with random tech lingo.

New comment by diomedes in "GoboLinux"

diomedes — Fri, 05 Feb 2021 11:29:04 +0000

Nope, but it's not the same thing. NixOS can easily provide me with free rollbacks and is mostly reproducible (https://r13y.com/). The funny part about NixOS is that once someone reports a weird behavior, almost everyone will have it and can verify/fix.

New comment by diomedes in "A Worsening Culture War"

diomedes — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 15:15:50 +0000

As someone who lives in Latin America and sometimes interacts/works remotely with North Americans I get this same impression. For better or for worse, America always seemed like the a place with issues, but with a people which could quickly gather and get shit done. Nowadays it seems you folks worry too much about semantics & ideology (on both sides) and will keep electing the next populist in hopes it'll fix all problems, just like Latin America lol.

Your opponent nowadays is a very pragmatic autocratic regime, with it's own issues, but this corona-crisis at least showed they can keep their mandate of heaven. Four more years in this culture war and you won't be able to get consensus on anything.