Hacker News: dlmanninghttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dlmanningHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Fri, 26 Jun 2026 08:42:45 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by dlmanning in "NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute"]]>> Personally I strongly reject the idea that labor displacement is unethical.

Oh, well if you STRONGLY reject it I guess that's it.

> It will be a serious problem to deal with, but that doesn't make it unethical.

What WOULD make it unethical?

> The steam engine displaced labor. That doesn't make it unethical.

The steam engine also created new jobs to replace what it eliminated. It wasn't a mostly one-sided wealth transfer to the elite.

]]>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:54:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667884dlmanninghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667884https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667884<![CDATA[New comment by dlmanning in "NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute"]]>Apologies. I misread the comment to which you replied and gave them unwarranted credit for not making the same tired point about calculators.

]]>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:10:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667551dlmanninghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667551https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667551<![CDATA[New comment by dlmanning in "NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute"]]>Oh okay. So where's the point where AI starts to encourage the development of a new useful skill set among people early in their careers?

]]>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:07:42 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667525dlmanninghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667525https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667525<![CDATA[New comment by dlmanning in "NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute"]]>Do you... think heart surgery has become LESS dependent on surgical skill in the last 100 years? Cardiovascular surgeons spend MORE time in training now than they did 100 years ago.

]]>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:06:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667512dlmanninghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667512https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667512<![CDATA[New comment by dlmanning in "NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute"]]>Not all of us think encouraging people to outsource their own thinking to proprietary models is actually "progress."

]]>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:04:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667499dlmanninghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667499https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667499<![CDATA[New comment by dlmanning in "NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute"]]>Understanding math absolutely makes a calculator more useful to you though.

]]>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 01:02:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667485dlmanninghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667485https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667485<![CDATA[New comment by dlmanning in "NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute"]]>It's the point where you expend effort to learn a useful skill.

]]>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:58:16 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667457dlmanninghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667457https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667457<![CDATA[New comment by dlmanning in "NSA lost access to Mythos amid Anthropic dispute"]]>The "privileged caste" being people who actually expended the effort to learn things for themselves?

]]>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:40:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667323dlmanninghttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667323https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48667323