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New comment by filoeleven in "Math Is Still Catching Up to the Mysterious Genius of Srinivasa Ramanujan (2024)"

filoeleven — Tue, 14 Apr 2026 13:54:49 +0000

I've never seen a 1x1x1 Rubik's cube, but I bet I could solve it!

New comment by filoeleven in "Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny"

filoeleven — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:30:07 +0000

It certainly makes more sense than any of the explanations proffered by the regime so far.

New comment by filoeleven in "Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny"

filoeleven — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:26:19 +0000

Amusingly enough, she was Speaker of the House, which means at one point she had more legitimate power to enact war than Trump ever has. The Congress must first vote to declare war, and only then can the President sign and execute it. Legitimately.

New comment by filoeleven in "Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny"

filoeleven — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:14:56 +0000

This is a bananas foster republic.

New comment by filoeleven in "Mystery jump in oil trading ahead of Trump post draws scrutiny"

filoeleven — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 23:06:10 +0000

4 billion in one year [EDIT] in total, not just in crypto. https://www.npr.org/2026/01/14/nx-s1-5677024/trump-profits-m...

New comment by filoeleven in "New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates"

filoeleven — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 16:15:34 +0000

And those "proper rendering facilities" don't exist in reality. This is why ag-gag laws exist.

New comment by filoeleven in "New farm bill would condemn pigs to a lifetime in gestation crates"

filoeleven — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 15:50:32 +0000

A high-quality diamond is worth more than its weight in gold. That does not make the gold worthless.

New comment by filoeleven in "Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’"

filoeleven — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:05:24 +0000

It's not the department of war. Don't call it that to appease the toddler in chief.

> However, only an act of Congress can legally and formally change the department's name and secretary's title, so "Department of Defense" and "secretary of defense" remain legally official.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_De...

New comment by filoeleven in "Dario Amodei calls OpenAI’s messaging around military deal ‘straight up lies’"

filoeleven — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:03:39 +0000

It's not the department of war. Don't call it that.

> However, only an act of Congress can legally and formally change the department's name and secretary's title, so "Department of Defense" and "secretary of defense" remain legally official.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_De...

New comment by filoeleven in "US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters"

filoeleven — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 17:01:14 +0000

But AI is absolutely an incinerator of knowledge.

A helper tool that I can ask a question and which responds with relevant information gleaned from the vast collection of human-gathered knowledge and experience would be fantastic.

What we have instead is something that often gets things mostly right, if you don't look too hard at it. And the poisoned output of this thing seeps back into the knowledge pool, reducing its accuracy and therefore usefulness.

The problem of LLMs is the dissolution of human knowledge into a sea of slop.

New comment by filoeleven in "Everett shuts down Flock camera network after judge rules footage public record"

filoeleven — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 14:14:49 +0000

Flock cameras are advertised as ALPR but have facial/vehicle/etc recognition systems running on them as well. You can see one panning up to track other people near the end of this Benn Jordan video on the cameras.

https://youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo

New comment by filoeleven in "Microslop Manifesto"

filoeleven — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 13:52:03 +0000

> Meanwhile all this criticism totally ignores what AI will make possible and is already making possible.

I'm not ignoring it, I simply haven't seen compelling evidence of the hype.

New comment by filoeleven in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

filoeleven — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 18:17:11 +0000

It's not an unrealistic fear. Trump has been making noises about "taking over elections." Abolishing elections wholesale is very unlikely, sure, but a sham election rigged by a corrupt government? That's standard fare for authoritarians. And there's evidence of voting anomalies in swing states in the 2024 election.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/27/trump-voting...

https://electiontruthalliance.org/

New comment by filoeleven in "An autopsy of AI-generated 3D slop"

filoeleven — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 13:03:42 +0000

No, that is hopium.

New comment by filoeleven in "Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat"

filoeleven — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:03:44 +0000

It's an assertion not backed by data. Non-citizens voting is infinitesimally small. Between that, Noem saying out loud "we want the right people to vote", and Trump calling for nationalized elections, it's clear what the real purpose is.

New comment by filoeleven in "Stephen Colbert says CBS forbid interview of Democrat because of FCC threat"

filoeleven — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 21:01:43 +0000

The idea was that the House of Reps exists to represent the people of the state, and the Senate exists to represent the state itself. The 17th Amendment did away with state legislatures choosing senators, so we have this wonky system left for no good reason.

And don't get me started on freezing the rep count to 435. I certainly don't feel represented by my congresscritter.

New comment by filoeleven in "The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory"

filoeleven — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:32:19 +0000

Yeah. The XKCD "Timeline of Earth's Average Temperature" is, I'm pretty certain, the most frightening chart I have ever seen.

https://xkcd.com/1732/

New comment by filoeleven in "The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory"

filoeleven — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:19:39 +0000

The government is failing to control the problem because it got bought out by the capitalists who run the companies that continue to cause the damage. The law in the US explicitly allows this, though it's "decent" enough to hide it in a paper bag.

It's certainly a governance failure, but I'm not sure what the fix for it is, and I don't see how capitalism gets off scot-free.

New comment by filoeleven in "The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory"

filoeleven — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:05:33 +0000

If you're near Lake Powell, you could also visit it right now and compare it to what you remember. Not a simulator, just a pretty scary real thing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCEJDU9_p4Q

New comment by filoeleven in "The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory"

filoeleven — Wed, 11 Feb 2026 21:01:25 +0000

I remember when that switch at grocers from paper to plastic was taking hold, and you could choose. "Paper or plastic?" was the question asked. Some comedian (probably) had a good one liner: "That'll be 42.39. Kill a tree or choke a fish?"