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New comment by fauchletenerum in "AI is dramatically accelerating AI research"

fauchletenerum — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 07:54:10 +0000

> computational tasks will be less of a bottleneck in the overall progress of the world (which, by the way, is great, and extremely valuable).

Won't they also be less of a bottleneck in the destruction of the world as well? i.e. the power grid, the financial system, industrial control systems, military command and control networks, etc.

New comment by fauchletenerum in "The AI sell-off compared to well-known stock market crashes"

fauchletenerum — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 07:45:27 +0000

Or it could be a sign of a greater amount of financial intervention to preserve the value of the stock market after crashes, particularly since most people are largely counting on their 401k/IRAs to maintain their value in their retirement years

New comment by fauchletenerum in "Ask HN: What in the world is taking Ubuntu so long?"

fauchletenerum — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 04:30:39 +0000

No, just the ones rated 9 or higher

New comment by fauchletenerum in "The AI sell-off compared to well-known stock market crashes"

fauchletenerum — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 04:22:42 +0000

The crashes seem be getting smaller and more frequent

New comment by fauchletenerum in "It's Time to Investigate the AI Labs"

fauchletenerum — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:05:58 +0000

> Yes you can, the US could shut down the entire internet if it wanted.

No, they can't. The rest of the world would just route around the US with BGP. All of the US infrastructure/service providers would be down, so a ton of things would break, but the Internet would not be "shut down". The US government also no longer has authority over the DNS root servers. So unless you're referring to thermonuclear war or some similar scenario then the US does not have this capability.

New comment by fauchletenerum in "Chinese AI Companies Conducting Distillation Campaigns Against U.S. AI Companies [pdf]"

fauchletenerum — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 03:16:15 +0000

That is the longest run-on sentence I've seen in quite some time

New comment by fauchletenerum in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

fauchletenerum — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:45:37 +0000

If you read the comments on the Github issue for Nitter shutting down you'll see that's precisely what it is

New comment by fauchletenerum in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

fauchletenerum — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:44:29 +0000

Tell your 5 followers on Bluesky about it?

New comment by fauchletenerum in "Nitter and XCancel receive cease and desist notices"

fauchletenerum — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:43:47 +0000

At first I thought Redlib was a pejorative term for how left-leaning Reddit is

New comment by fauchletenerum in "AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?"

fauchletenerum — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 03:35:38 +0000

Liability for the professional that knows if they botch a job in horrendous fashion that they could lose the ability to continue practicing their profession.

New comment by fauchletenerum in "Let kids be kids: When collectibles lose their playfulness"

fauchletenerum — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 02:21:26 +0000

Emulation and realistic proxies are the solution for people who simply want to play and not invest

New comment by fauchletenerum in "Apple sues OpenAI, accuses ex-employees of stealing trade secrets"

fauchletenerum — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 23:17:06 +0000

> According to a report by The New Yorker, Swartz described Altman as a "sociopath" who "can never be trusted" and "would do anything

Who is surprised by this development?

New comment by fauchletenerum in "Study finds no clear advantage for trans women over cisgender women in sports"

fauchletenerum — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:01:18 +0000

> If one truly cared about (un)fairness in sports there are other issues that you'd address long before you ever even think of trans

Such as?

New comment by fauchletenerum in "Study finds no clear advantage for trans women over cisgender women in sports"

fauchletenerum — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:00:35 +0000

Excellent reference

New comment by fauchletenerum in "Tesco moving 40k server workloads off VMware amid Broadcom's abusive conduct"

fauchletenerum — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 06:10:02 +0000

Do it anonymously?

New comment by fauchletenerum in "We Think the SpaceX IPO Is Overvalued"

fauchletenerum — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 05:33:30 +0000

It's only being added to the Nasdaq 100, not the SP500, and only a very small number of people have their 401K tied to the Nasdaq

Edit: Actually, I didn't realize that it's being added to MSCI, so I was wrong: https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/msci-confirms...

New comment by fauchletenerum in "Dopamine Fracking"

fauchletenerum — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:52:46 +0000

> Anecdotally I know of some parents having a battle with their local school because their kids have been watching this sort of crap in kindergarten.

I'm imagining a scene from Idiocracy where a kindergarten teacher is the person whose job it is to press play on Youtube videos

New comment by fauchletenerum in "Israel's AI targeting system: how data from a phone become a death sentence"

fauchletenerum — Wed, 13 May 2026 07:38:09 +0000

Irrelevant

New comment by fauchletenerum in "Israel's AI targeting system: how data from a phone become a death sentence"

fauchletenerum — Wed, 13 May 2026 06:02:52 +0000

This is the fate that awaits us all once the machines take over

New comment by fauchletenerum in "Getting arrested in Japan"

fauchletenerum — Sun, 10 May 2026 05:54:29 +0000

Blow your nose?