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New comment by doitLP in "If AI has a bright future, why does AI think it doesn't?"

doitLP — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:54:20 +0000

How is it not a good analysis? Genuine question: it seems like it is summarizing the bear case which to my very limited understanding continues to be reinforced

New comment by doitLP in "If AI has a bright future, why does AI think it doesn't?"

doitLP — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 12:53:15 +0000

How are the responses here unhinged? They are summarizing a lot what the bear case has been shouting for the last two years

The Context Gravity Well

doitLP — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 04:17:01 +0000

Article URL: https://mapwriting.substack.com/p/the-context-gravity-well

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46843555

Points: 1

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Shit for Your Shit

doitLP — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 18:53:14 +0000

Article URL: https://mapwriting.substack.com/p/shit-for-your-shit

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46423980

Points: 1

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Confessions of a Recovering Environmentalist (2011)

doitLP — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:58:27 +0000

Article URL: https://orionmagazine.org/article/confessions-of-a-recovering-environmentalist/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46356654

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Flint Rockin' in Central Texas

doitLP — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 00:04:32 +0000

Article URL: https://www.pugetsoundknappers.com/interesting_stuff/Interesting%20Places/JM%20SoCentral%20Texas%20Trip.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46101823

Points: 3

# Comments: 1

New comment by doitLP in "Things that aren't doing the thing"

doitLP — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 03:24:24 +0000

Agreed. But there’s still a type of Zeno’s paradox if you don’t start and continue and finish the thing. As someone that has no trouble planning or starting but a lot of trouble continuing to the end, I find this kind of stuff helpful to completing what I set out to do.

As Jobs said “real artists ship.”

New comment by doitLP in "Analysis of Hedy Lamarr's Contribution to Spread-Spectrum Communication"

doitLP — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 01:08:02 +0000

It’s a quote from a running joke in the film Blazing Saddles

New comment by doitLP in "Analysis of Hedy Lamarr's Contribution to Spread-Spectrum Communication"

doitLP — Sat, 08 Nov 2025 00:54:20 +0000

Quote is from Blazing Saddles.

1:28

https://youtu.be/g2Bp8SqYrnE

He says it many times in the film.

New comment by doitLP in "Don't Be a Sucker (1943) [video]"

doitLP — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 22:10:53 +0000

Date must be wrong, because it mentions the end of the war and D-Day. Per this date was 1947: https://archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947

New comment by doitLP in "Ryanair flight landed at Manchester airport with six minutes of fuel left"

doitLP — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 15:37:35 +0000

Why? Is ATC a problem in other countries than the US? Are they also under training pilots? If anything RyanAir with its flamboyant history of cost cutting (CEO always threatening to charge for use of the onboard lavatory) seems a more likely source than the flying infrastructure itself.

New comment by doitLP in "AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time"

doitLP — Sat, 06 Sep 2025 18:37:40 +0000

This is baseless with no references or citations. What possible incentive would he have for sounding this alarm and urging congress to act when he could be using the data he secretly is collecting for his own gain when all the AI companies are doing it openly for obvious gain

New comment by doitLP in "Good system design"

doitLP — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 13:42:25 +0000

I worked at a place with just such a system. Half the application code was baked into sprocs, no version control and hidden knock on effects everywhere.

There was _one guy_ who maintained it and understood how it worked. He was very smart but central to the company’s operations. So having messy stuff makes it brittle/hard to change in more ways than one and

New comment by doitLP in "Rules by which a great empire may be reduced to a small one (1773)"

doitLP — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 14:22:17 +0000

True but he wasn’t ruling like the kings of old. Parliament was the governing body and was very powerful even if the king still retain more power of redress and authority than he does today

New comment by doitLP in "Scientists use bacteria to turn plastic waste into paracetamol"

doitLP — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 23:59:52 +0000

Paracetamol also known as Tylenol, Panadol and plain old acetaminophen

New comment by doitLP in "Rolling the ladder up behind us"

doitLP — Sat, 21 Jun 2025 00:21:05 +0000

+1 on seeing like a state. But combining small plots into mega farms did create more food. It just did so at the loss of variety and knowledge and local control and ultimately freedom as you say. See enclosing the commons in England in the 18-19th century

New comment by doitLP in "The Universe Is 'Suspiciously' Like a Computer Simulation, Physicist Says"

doitLP — Mon, 19 May 2025 02:33:02 +0000

Isn’t that the point? If our simulation didn’t look like the universe, it wouldn’t be a very good one!

The Case for AGI by 2030

doitLP — Mon, 19 May 2025 00:03:19 +0000

Article URL: https://80000hours.org/agi/guide/when-will-agi-arrive/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44025275

Points: 3

# Comments: 5

New comment by doitLP in "The good times in tech are over"

doitLP — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 13:14:34 +0000

Your salary is not about moral desserts but about how much value or money you bring to someone else.

That’s why a laborer gets paid a few dollars for a backbreaking day of work and Matt Damon makes a million dollars for holding a can of Pepsi and smiling for the camera for 15 minutes.

New comment by doitLP in "Liu Jiakun Receives the 2025 Pritzker Architecture Prize"

doitLP — Fri, 14 Mar 2025 14:41:20 +0000

Ah, of course: inhuman concrete and strange angles and colors.

My theory with all the high art that the “man in the street” sees as weird or childish garbage is this: if youre a critic or on the inside you’ve seen it all before and dissected it in such detail and tried everything that the only thing that can make you feel anything anymore is electric shocks right to your scrotum while listening to dubstep on the back of a birthing donkey. And so all the movies and art and architecture become just that, and you continue your retreat from the mainstream into your increasingly strange world. Because the fact is, good appealing art has pretty much been discovered but where’s the fun (or profit) in that?