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New comment by erentz in "Bernie Sanders unveils plan to give the public direct ownership of AI companies"

erentz — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 02:12:45 +0000

It’s a tax. So the government wouldn’t be buying anything. OpenAI (for example) would need to issue 100% new shares and give them to the government to hold in this new sovereign wealth fund. This the new sovereign wealth fund holds 50% of the company.

I don’t know how you decide what companies are targeted though. OpenAI/Anthropic are pure AI plays. But what about an AMZN or AAPL that have AI as only a part of their business.

New comment by erentz in "Vance: Iran can have access to $300B reconstruction fund"

erentz — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 05:15:17 +0000

This would be an incredible $1,800 from each taxpayer sent overseas to the Iranian regime. On top of what’s already been spent and the inflation caused. In any other time in history just this alone (ignoring all the other scandals) would lead to something like a landslide 100 seat swing in the house. The fact polls show we’ll be lucky to see 10 seats switch shows how incredibly broken our information environment has become.

New comment by erentz in "EY Canada published a cybersecurity report and most citations were hallucinated"

erentz — Sun, 31 May 2026 04:06:59 +0000

It looks like when you sum up: the cost to generate information using an LLM + the cost to actually verify the information, the result on average is the same as not using the LLM. That does not mean some times it isn’t faster and cheaper. It just means other times it’s slower and more costly. This along with different people’s tolerance for accuracy explains why we see such diverging experiences with it.

So in order to make it pan out the forces at play are trying to make everyone believe we now have to accept wrong, even dangerous results.

New comment by erentz in "The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100"

erentz — Sun, 24 May 2026 22:19:53 +0000

NZ is even worse than Australia on the housing tax vs shares tax front. No housing taxes. Yet they have what is effectively an annual wealth tax on shares (FIF) even on their pitiful retirement savings schemes. This discourages saving in shares and encourages putting money in real estate.

New comment by erentz in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"

erentz — Sun, 10 May 2026 01:41:03 +0000

But now even this is just producing more information and requires more work both of you and of the original sender.

New comment by erentz in "Meta's embrace of AI is making its employees miserable"

erentz — Sat, 09 May 2026 23:42:13 +0000

Seems AI has made it cheap to produce information but now you have to spend more time parsing the information. And it’s now the less competent/useful people spending less time producing more information with the more useful people spending more of their valuable time parsing that information. This is why I’m skeptical of LLMs ever becoming a net benefit in most organizations.

New comment by erentz in "The X-Files has made me nostalgic for a time I never experienced"

erentz — Fri, 01 May 2026 23:40:48 +0000

> What I remember most about the 90s was the overwhelming optimism.

To me it felt we were slowly making the world better for all. Progress was happening and would continue to happen.

Now it feels like we are rapidly on the path to a dystopian Elysium like future. A dystopia for everyone but the sociopathic ultra wealthy that want to rule over us. And they’re not even hiding their intent from us anymore.

New comment by erentz in "U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official"

erentz — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:35:17 +0000

This is where the media (or your media bubble) failed you. Trump was always this way. In his first term he significantly increased the amount of bombs dropped and number of countries bombed over previous presidents.

New comment by erentz in "U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official"

erentz — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:30:00 +0000

Democrats shouldn’t have wasted effort on trying to reduce student loans simply because the constituency (students) didn’t even give them recognition for it. They simply blamed Biden when SCOTUS blocked it.

But more generally we shouldn’t do one off things like this when we still haven’t fixed the cause of the problem. A better policy would be to start by making community college or first two years of college free or something like that.

New comment by erentz in "U.S. war in Iran has cost $25B so far, says Pentagon official"

erentz — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 22:22:24 +0000

> our politicians seem entirely unwilling to do anything about colossal expenditures on this "expedition"

Not all politicians. Most democrats have tried to do something about it with the help of just one republican. They aren't the same.

New comment by erentz in "Do I belong in tech anymore?"

erentz — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 05:35:02 +0000

The way AI is being used feels like it is proving that, in many orgs, what has always mattered has been the appearance of work, not results of work. Will we wake up in a few years and find out we’ve fired all the doers and are now overloaded with the fakers?

New comment by erentz in "Refuse to let your doctor record you"

erentz — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 23:57:58 +0000

Be warned though that life and disability insurance will absolutely use errors in your medical records to refuse your coverage or claims.

New comment by erentz in "Mexico's President Sheinbaum Decrees Universal Healthcare for 120M"

erentz — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 06:48:14 +0000

I rely on Medicare as a disabled person. I love it. The reduction in stress I experienced when I got to transition from my former employer plan to Medicare is pretty indescribable. I want every American to have at least this as a baseline.

Most of the complaints around Medicare come from those who get sold (conned) on takin Medicare “Advantage”, which is a privatized option for Medicare that denies a lot of coverage.

New comment by erentz in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

erentz — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 23:11:55 +0000

> Website operator: I do not care about serving UK citizens and am now blocking UK IP addresses. Thank you for notifying us.

Wait did 4chan actually block UK addresses? My understanding was it hadn’t which makes your story fall apart.

The idea that a router is responsible for the packets it forwards rather than the person that made the content and put that content in those packets is getting silly.

New comment by erentz in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

erentz — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 07:31:45 +0000

In the original example the Parisian bars sells and sends the alcohol.

You’ve modified that to introduce a proxy, DoorDash, that now sells and sends the alcohol. If DoorDash sells it they’re the ones in trouble in your example.

New comment by erentz in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

erentz — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:54:07 +0000

If that were true why is everyone so irritated by this? Just ignore it in that case. But for those people that may want to become subject to British jurisdiction in future or do other business there in future, they will take requests from Ofcom seriously.

New comment by erentz in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

erentz — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:51:02 +0000

The Parisian bars are the ones writing the address on the package not the courier.

New comment by erentz in "4Chan mocks £520k fine for UK online safety breaches"

erentz — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 05:41:07 +0000

Why should it be done that way?

If a country has media or broadcast standards laws, and you distribute or broadcast content in that country that violates those laws, that’s on you. The country can just fine you if you chose not to comply. Just the same as they would if you were doing it while living in that country. You’re not obliged to care about the fine if you don’t live there and never intend to travel there. But if you do then you’re going to be subject to their laws at that point, for violating those laws when you distributed that content in that country.

New comment by erentz in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

erentz — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:51:23 +0000

The founders mistake was creating a presidential system.

New comment by erentz in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

erentz — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:45:32 +0000

You have to couple that with their use of STV voting and lack of a presidential system.