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New comment by gsf_emergency_4 in "Peter Thiel sells off all Nvidia stock, stirring bubble fears"

gsf_emergency_4 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 06:03:10 +0000

I've already edited to say "make moves counter to Altman's". You are right, but Thiel thinks about progress in a fundamentally different, I'd argue opposite, way from Zuck or Altman. More aligned with Elon or Karp. Or even some of the Chinese.

To be concrete, he'd never consciously engage in the kind of circular financing or rentseeking that Altman/Zuck would be open to.

(also he has enough social aptitude not to take Altman on in public.)

New comment by gsf_emergency_4 in "Peter Thiel sells off all Nvidia stock, stirring bubble fears"

gsf_emergency_4 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 04:59:48 +0000

It's in Thiel's nature to make moves counter to Altman's. Certainly, he does not share Masa's (or PG's) weakness for the genii of the day. (Secretly despises, actually?) They are kinda nontechnical in the same way (chess or SaaS are equally relevant to the future), but what Thiel has passion for are flexible moral abstractions, not politics (the whys rather than the whats of winning)

New comment by gsf_emergency_4 in "Peter Thiel sells off all Nvidia stock, stirring bubble fears"

gsf_emergency_4 — Mon, 17 Nov 2025 04:30:00 +0000

Detailed perspective from someone with insight into Thiel's thinking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6LakOrqDL4&t=1s

That watched, imho Thiel is interested in the post-Straussian tension between "thinking in the open" (ideal science) and "focussed value creation" (which is best done behind closed doors)

AI as driven by premium mediocre Millennials combines the worst of both: lazy group-think promoted by stochastic parrots, expensive hardware weaponized by people who didn't earn that privilege

Capitalism or communism is a false dichotomy. You'd want any given pre-Jedi to access the Force, build their own lightsabers (in a cave), but not turn to the dark side.

GitHub serves Midichlorians. NVDA serves the Federation (and is one of the deadly sins to boot)

Design equations for 3 precision current sources

gsf_emergency_4 — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 05:24:22 +0000

Article URL: https://www.edn.com/basic-design-equations-for-three-precision-current-sources/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45942981

Points: 1

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OpenAI's 250GW data center target would match India

gsf_emergency_4 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 13:20:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/openais-colossal-ai-data-center-targets-would-consume-as-much-electricity-as-entire-nation-of-india-250gw-target-would-require-30-million-gpus-annually-to-ensure-continuous-operation-emit-twice-as-much-carbon-dioxide-as-exxonmobil

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45937264

Points: 1

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Strilanc uses gauge symmetry to help Aaronson ward off quantum hype

gsf_emergency_4 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 08:26:46 +0000

Article URL: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9325

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935919

Points: 2

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Magic Words

gsf_emergency_4 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 06:38:20 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Magic_words

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935505

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Tamil Nadu sub-State model of climate action

gsf_emergency_4 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 06:23:12 +0000

Article URL: https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/the-tamil-nadu-model-of-sub-state-climate-action/article70276313.ece

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45935468

Points: 1

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New comment by gsf_emergency_4 in "The Useful Personal Computer"

gsf_emergency_4 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 06:00:25 +0000

TIL from a closer read: EasyWriter was made with a custom Forth compiler.

(This looks it came from the 3rd-chance pool... because the rate at which old-timers contribute to

https://news.ycombinator.com/highlights

seems to have dropped)

New comment by gsf_emergency_4 in "Async Mutexes"

gsf_emergency_4 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 05:00:11 +0000

So..not even wait-free? (Since you still have locks)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-blocking_algorithm#Obstruc...

New comment by gsf_emergency_4 in "Marc Andreessen as Avatar for Societal Decay"

gsf_emergency_4 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 03:56:20 +0000

(1) ac.. I approx Foucault as a centrist, but 'fess that shit could be undecidable ( without reviewing the inputs ) Conservatives are self-destructive :)

(2) Countersignalling is older than your parlance makes it sound. See Fussell Class, hipsters, etc

New comment by gsf_emergency_4 in "Indexing Coffee with Notion"

gsf_emergency_4 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 03:36:11 +0000

I'm glad that you are still a believer in Coffee!

Other academics think it's bipolar that provides value

https://www.its.caltech.edu/~matilde/DarkBrightness.pdf

I've seen others argue for schizotypy using the same biographical examples rotfl.

My working slogan now is "Schizotypes transmute ("magic") Coffee to Coin ("value").

The flip side: (functioning) Schizotypes (adjoining academia) have lost their obsession with magic, AND self-diagnosed this loss with depression/anxiety/senescence etc. it's more subtle imho, but CS is a confounding factor (muddling the pipeline between "dopamine" and "coin", as exemplified by TFA)

Related dysregulatory mechanism (institutional) https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00283-015-9577-2

Status doesn't fuck with Schizotypes all that much... Unless? Let me affirm that you are "NPD-free" from my vantage point :)

New comment by gsf_emergency_4 in "Ask HN: Is Computer Science still a good choice?"

gsf_emergency_4 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 03:28:36 +0000

Guys... Give me say, an accepted PR to mathlib and we can talk entropy

New comment by gsf_emergency_4 in "Ask HN: Is Computer Science still a good choice?"

gsf_emergency_4 — Sat, 15 Nov 2025 03:26:36 +0000

Other academics think it's bipolar (the 6-7 version of FOMO really) that provides value

https://www.its.caltech.edu/~matilde/DarkBrightness.pdf

I've seen others argue for schizotypy using the same biographical examples rotfl.

My working slogan now is "Schizotypes transmute coffee to coin (value)."

The flip side: (functioning) Schizotypes (adjoining academia) have lost their obsession with magic, AND self-diagnosed this loss with depression/anxiety/senescence etc. it's more subtle imho, but CS is a confounding factor* (muddling the pipeline between "dopamine" and "coin")

As to the below.. it's why I try to keep my credibility inscrutable on this site :)

*Used to be Math if you follow the Erdos quip and understand theorems as a long-now stand-in for "Coin"

Heat engine uses the cold of space to run a fan (400mW per sqm)

gsf_emergency_4 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 23:53:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VSmBl8Rv_o

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45933588

Points: 3

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Aaronson handles some of that quantum hype

gsf_emergency_4 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 07:16:22 +0000

Article URL: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9325

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45924637

Points: 1

# Comments: 1

Chinese co's roadmap for aneutronic fusion

gsf_emergency_4 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 02:20:56 +0000

Article URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.11338

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45923139

Points: 11

# Comments: 3

@5m23s: Denmark's GDP growth rivals Cali's: pharm,wind,balanced worker rights

gsf_emergency_4 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 02:06:08 +0000

Article URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ba-I5SPsvp8

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45923044

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by gsf_emergency_4 in "Anti-Communism Week, 2025"

gsf_emergency_4 — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 01:55:13 +0000

Yeah, but he needs to win back his swingfluencers (eg Thiel) quick

short term prediction: The D self-distances from anti-anti-semitism

New comment by gsf_emergency_4 in "Hemp ban hidden inside government shutdown bill"

gsf_emergency_4 — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 20:40:21 +0000

The main thing the Swiss have that Americans don't are referendums that can seriously challenge federal action. And then there are the state versions of that. And they don't have to wait for "the cycle". Or have results made null by arbitrary veto powers.