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New comment by drdrek in "U.S. used 'virtually all' of its long-range precision missiles during Iran war"

drdrek — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 11:45:20 +0000

Does this mean that from now on bombings will happen with dumb bombs and that we can expect way more Iranian casualties? Otherwise this seems incorrect.

New comment by drdrek in "Situational Awareness and the Impending Stock Market Volatility"

drdrek — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 13:33:18 +0000

This article is stating the obvious that is written in many different places (except the ETF angle) while sounding like its some kind of expert being ignored. I would presume AI is afoot.

Stopped writing the comment, went and clicked the logo, yup a personalized AI reporting service.

New comment by drdrek in "The Shape of Things to Come"

drdrek — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 10:33:17 +0000

Essays became way to easy to write with AI. It used to be a basic filter that if text was long the author put a lot of thought (even if misguided) and effort (even if low quality) into it.

Not its just another torrent of words.

We need proof of work on long texts, a service that guarantees that the author was whipped for more than 20 lashes for this text to exists and thus we know he cared enough to publish it.

New comment by drdrek in "Our position on open-weights models"

drdrek — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:29:42 +0000

I'm really wondering what nightmare scenario does he imagine with super intelligent drones.

I can already imagine it, a tiny drone carrying a 8x GPU rack thinking about life and deciding to go and build an idyllic society on a pacific island.

New comment by drdrek in "Chinese chipmaker shares surge 470%"

drdrek — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 07:22:40 +0000

But why do you assume that you need unlimited amount of intelligence to perform work? If you can cut out just the parts that are required for doing SDR work or Development, etc you can get performance beyond what we have with generalized intelligence. Even on the physical aspect think about it, if you need to do less networking between GPUs and can do more in each single chip, you can use more "tokens" for reasoning without increasing time/cost.

New comment by drdrek in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

drdrek — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 07:20:16 +0000

My bets for the actual story behind this are: 95% a criminal hiding evidence 4.99% an autistic attempt to "keep his privacy" for no reason at all 0.01% a genuine need to keep something away from the government

In all cases just don't cross security checks with evidence you wouldn't want to be seized, its not that hard

New comment by drdrek in "Grok Build is open source"

drdrek — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:52:48 +0000

I like that the trailing players strategy (Meta, xAI) is to open source the moat of the leaders. I think we will all benefit from it. and hopefully both the leaders and the trailing players will be much less powerful in the end.

New comment by drdrek in "The Economics of Recursive Self-Improvement [pdf]"

drdrek — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 09:29:26 +0000

I love that Sci-Fi fan-fiction is having a moment <3

New comment by drdrek in "Why skilled workers come to Germany and then leave again"

drdrek — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 08:33:03 +0000

Emigrating is hard. Expect language issue, culture issue, bureaucracy issues. Other countries are not your country but with a different language, living somewhere is not the same as visiting as a tourist.

Emigrating is a generational project, you will forever be a foreigner, your children will be immanent children and only your grandchildren will be true locals.

This is not a government issue, right wing issue, racism, or what not its just a fact of life. Be prepared for it when making the decision.

New comment by drdrek in "Building relationships with customers through support didn't turn out as hoped"

drdrek — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 12:54:11 +0000

Common wisdom is often common for a reason. Its good to try new things but expect 9/10 experiments that goes against common wisdom to come up with negative results, it's not that you are not smart, its just 1,000,000 hours of cumulative experience vs your personal 1,000.

New comment by drdrek in "Anthropic says Alibaba illicitly extracted Claude AI model capabilities"

drdrek — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:45:20 +0000

This is like a Gardner complaining that you watch him as he works to learn his craft. My dude you do not have to take the job, but most people just accept it as the way the world works. If they feel like they do not want to serve the Chinese they can do that on their own, why do they need the government?

New comment by drdrek in "How to earn a billion dollars"

drdrek — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 13:30:08 +0000

its even easier with a 9999% month over month growth

New comment by drdrek in "Human brains are misaligned, hallucinative, stochastic parrots"

drdrek — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:26:35 +0000

Ah yes just the kind of pretentious writing I would expect of a VC Associate. Great thought leadership there buddy.

New comment by drdrek in "Domain expertise has always been the real moat"

drdrek — Sun, 31 May 2026 14:07:28 +0000

Kernel developer is not the job same as a game developer or an ERP integrator...

But Generalizations aside I think people greatly under estimate how rare is the ability to reduce complex subjects into concrete steps that someone else can follow, human or machine.

Go ask your grandma for a recipe you will find that it never turns out the same, giving her Claude Code is not going to change that.

New comment by drdrek in "How long until AI automates all cognitive labor?"

drdrek — Thu, 28 May 2026 15:08:27 +0000

I predict that it already happened in 99 and we are all living in the Matrix Out AI optimist me if you dare

New comment by drdrek in "Google's Antigravity bait and switch"

drdrek — Thu, 21 May 2026 14:17:20 +0000

I'm very surprised, goggle are usually known for their customer focused approach and long standing support of legacy systems!

New comment by drdrek in "Ten Signs of Fascism. America has all of them"

drdrek — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:15:08 +0000

No, I'm actually saying that while the US is getting worse, it is in fact not fascist. You obviously disagree, and the fact that you do proves the point that it can get a lot worse.

Did you know Germany has really fascist laws on regarding displaying Nazi symbols even more than the US? You can get deported for it!

In China you can disappear talking about Taiwan, In the UAE you can by saying something anti Islam. There is a long way to go until you reach real bad places...

You obviously do not like the USA, but just because you do not like it does not mean its fascist... its just clearly not perfect and free enough for you to be able to point it out.

New comment by drdrek in "Ten Signs of Fascism. America has all of them"

drdrek — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:58:34 +0000

It's funny how much democracies with free speech are always self critical with rampant doom saying while actual autocracies that crack down on this kind of speech are quiet and content when economic times are good only really cracking at the seams during distress.

I know its a healthy part of democracy but it is very draining.

New comment by drdrek in "delta time"

drdrek — Thu, 14 May 2026 08:52:00 +0000

Its funny to me that adolescence is until 20, where I'm from its 18 or even sooner.

New comment by drdrek in "New stainless steel can survive conditions for hydrogen production in seawater"

drdrek — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:14:56 +0000

Material science is so cool