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New comment by gizmondo in "Dispatches from the possibly last days of human relevance"

gizmondo — Thu, 28 May 2026 19:06:04 +0000

> Aaronson has worked for OpenAI and probably has stock options.

IIRC he explicitly stated that he doesn't.

New comment by gizmondo in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

gizmondo — Thu, 21 May 2026 08:24:40 +0000

At this point the term "AI psychosis" is the more apt label for AI skeptics. Here we have literal Fields medalists vouching for correctness and relative importance of the result, but who cares, "I don't believe the result at all". Just pure denial of reality.

New comment by gizmondo in "Mistral's CEO: Europe has 2 years to stop becoming America's AI 'vassal state'"

gizmondo — Sun, 17 May 2026 18:42:53 +0000

Switzerland is the closest you can get to USA without leaving Europe. Taxes in Zurich are lower than in the Bay Area, at will employment, healthcare that is primarily funded by flat fees rather than income tax, etc. Even the constitution was originally inspired by the American one.

New comment by gizmondo in "Roblox shares plummet 18% as child safety measures weigh on bookings"

gizmondo — Sat, 02 May 2026 18:39:23 +0000

So are you buying Roblox hand over fist? Didn't think so.

It's easy to talk big, it's hard to beat the supposedly stupid, myopic market.

New comment by gizmondo in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

gizmondo — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:19:06 +0000

A human representing the company should be physically present in the provider's office to perform such an action or what? Otherwise you would just grant your agent a way to impersonate a human.

New comment by gizmondo in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"

gizmondo — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:40:18 +0000

> IIRC no fewer than 5 naval drones attacked the Moskva missile carrier at once, and successfully sank it eventually.

That's a hallucination, Moskva was by all accounts sunk by a couple of conventional anti-ship cruise missiles.

New comment by gizmondo in "Having Kids (2019)"

gizmondo — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 19:43:55 +0000

> Sorry, but maybe some people should feel shame sometimes

Yes you definitely should try that.

New comment by gizmondo in "Atlassian to cut roughly 1,600 jobs in pivot to AI"

gizmondo — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 14:17:26 +0000

There is no connection between profits and dividends, some monstrously profitable companies pay little to no dividends and return money to shareholders via buybacks. The act of doing an acquisition by itself also does not affect profits.

The reason Atlassian doesn't "declare a profit" is that they are not profitable - they pay a lot with SBC, thus diluting shareholders year after year and not returning anything.

New comment by gizmondo in "Against Query Based Compilers"

gizmondo — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 11:02:43 +0000

The author is the former lead developer of the Rust's LSP server, so it seems natural to have a preference for languages that would allow him to do a better job. Slow compilation (including incremental) is one of the most common complaints about Rust, despite a lot of effort spent on optimizations there. I think it would be good if more people are aware of the inherent downsides of maximizing expressiveness.

New comment by gizmondo in "Switzerland to vote on capping population at 10M"

gizmondo — Sat, 14 Feb 2026 19:21:06 +0000

In Switzerland most people rent, in Zurich/Geneva it's more than 80% of inhabitants, doesn't help one bit. I kid you not, we have the renter association that is working tirelessly to prevent new construction.

New comment by gizmondo in "AI makes the easy part easier and the hard part harder"

gizmondo — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 19:45:44 +0000

This point is irrelevant when discussing capabilities. It's like saying that your brain is literally just a bunch of atoms following a set of physics laws. Absolutely true but not particularly helpful. Complex systems have emergent properties.

New comment by gizmondo in "Sergey Brin is joining Larry Page, in reducing ties to CA"

gizmondo — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 10:08:05 +0000

How much tax breaks and subsidies did Brin and Page get? I'd think it's close to zero. And apparently they are asked to give half of their wealth (https://x.com/garrytan/status/2009776299666223265) in a "one time" tax (of course we both know people like you won't be satisfied with it being one time, because look, still homeless people). I'd also leave without blinking, this level of expropriation is absurd.

New comment by gizmondo in "Wall Street ruined the Roomba and then blamed Lina Khan"

gizmondo — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 08:33:17 +0000

But they can do that regardless of what arguments the company makes to the antitrust authorities.

New comment by gizmondo in "Wall Street ruined the Roomba and then blamed Lina Khan"

gizmondo — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 22:52:20 +0000

> They didn't because the purchase price would be lower

He said that alright, but what's his source of that information?

New comment by gizmondo in "Wall Street ruined the Roomba and then blamed Lina Khan"

gizmondo — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 22:42:12 +0000

Why the price would be lower? Presumably the price was already agreed upon. Having a provision in the contract that the price is reduced if this argument is made to the antitrust authorities makes no sense.

I now realized that I recently saw some old tweets from this guy where he first opposed this merger and then celebrated the cancellation of the deal. So it seems he's just grasping at straws to look less like an idiot.

New comment by gizmondo in "A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size"

gizmondo — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 08:30:36 +0000

... You want users to risk their money to make your product better? Might as well just remove the report button, so we're back at the model being poisoned.

New comment by gizmondo in "Genetics Startup Sells Test to Rank Embryos by IQ, Height and Looks"

gizmondo — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 17:10:25 +0000

Screening for the Down syndrome has been available to consumers for a long time, it's eugenics in exactly the same way. While technically correct, I think in practice this term is only used by despicable people to tar these great ideas with the guilt-by-association.

New comment by gizmondo in "Don't force your kids to do math"

gizmondo — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 12:37:06 +0000

> I can't thank my parent enough for having me to continue playing in my teenage years.

Counter-example to anyone reading this and thinking about imposing this misery on their child - I absolutely hated piano lessons, and nowadays I absolutely hate that my parents forced me to do it. Total waste of time, even spending more time on Civilization or whatever instead would've been more valuable to me.

New comment by gizmondo in "UK to take emergency control of British Steel, with nationalisation on the table"

gizmondo — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 16:55:50 +0000

It's probably more about pandering to unions to keep an uneconomical plant running. What kind of national security concern the plant that is completely dependent on imported ore and coal actually addresses?

New comment by gizmondo in "Googler... ex-Googler"

gizmondo — Sat, 12 Apr 2025 12:16:58 +0000

In this particular case the impending layoff was basically obvious to everyone months in advance (see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42893463).