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New comment by harimau777 in "Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work"

harimau777 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 20:10:24 +0000

You might want to read some more Marxist analysis. TLDR: Eventually the real owning class decides they no longer need to pretend that the professional class is one of them.

New comment by harimau777 in "Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs"

harimau777 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:32:47 +0000

In my most recent job I was definitely under that sort of timer.

New comment by harimau777 in "Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs"

harimau777 — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:31:27 +0000

Presumably that's because in the 40k game, humanity has outlawed AI. ^_^

New comment by harimau777 in "The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You"

harimau777 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:13:12 +0000

The biggest thing that I want is a way for ADA to realistically apply to invisible disabilities like autism. Although in theory people with invisible disabilities can get accomodations, in practice the accomodation that they really need is "stop being a shitty employer".

New comment by harimau777 in "The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You"

harimau777 — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 18:11:11 +0000

Yet even if we accept your premise, he is still worlds better than the alternatives.

New comment by harimau777 in "The Silicon Valley Founder Meat Grinder"

harimau777 — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 01:42:40 +0000

I think that a lot of that may come from the degree to which "contribute to an open source project" has been the advice for almost any job search problem. If people who are just looking for a job have to contribute to open source, then there's to be a lot of people who aren't passionate but have to do it.

New comment by harimau777 in "The End of an Era"

harimau777 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:59:40 +0000

At the very least there is no doubt in my mind that he would have used it to create something intellectually provocative! Maybe something in the spirit of "Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote"?

New comment by harimau777 in "The End of an Era"

harimau777 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 20:57:48 +0000

That's a great point! I wonder if the difference might be that, as you mentioned, Hirst's lack of direct involvement was part of his artistic message. I wonder "work where the medium is part of the message" might just be an exception to the rule? Although in general I am suspicious of whether AI art is really art, I would consider it art if using AI was part of the message. However, does that generalize to other messages that people use art to communicate?

New comment by harimau777 in "Dubious research tied to Red Bull has shaped energy drink policy"

harimau777 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 16:38:03 +0000

My understanding is that part of the problem with mixing caffine with alcohol is that it can prevent someone from passing out; which is the body's defense mechanism against alcohol poisoning.

From that perspective I think that an argument could be made that restricting caffinated alcohol is regulating substances with known health risks.

Full disclosure: I like vodka Redbulls. So I'm not saying this like I'm someone who is moral panicking.

New comment by harimau777 in "The End of an Era"

harimau777 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:20:51 +0000

Price is determined by what someone is willing to pay but value isn't. If the value from art comes from expression, then LLMs directly attack the core value of art.

New comment by harimau777 in "The End of an Era"

harimau777 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:18:48 +0000

The issue is that word processors and photoshop replace the traditional technique of art. AI replaces the expression of art. Since the invention of the camera made representation trivial, the art community has moved towards viewing expression as the soul of art.

New comment by harimau777 in "The End of an Era"

harimau777 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:16:01 +0000

Off topic, but you name is somewhat ironic. Argentina's most famous writer, Jorge Luis Borges, built much of his career on the idea that writing is inextricably and inherantly linked to its author.

New comment by harimau777 in "The End of an Era"

harimau777 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:11:18 +0000

The problem as I see it is that you cannot communicate your internal feeling if no one reads you book. Therefore, even for people whose motivation is personal expression, there is a very real risk of being flooded out of the market by AI slop.

New comment by harimau777 in "The End of an Era"

harimau777 — Fri, 31 Jul 2026 14:09:12 +0000

They are quoting John 1:14. At the beginning of his book, John describes Jesus as being the personified word of God. That was likely an early example of the influence of Neo Platonism on Christianity.

New comment by harimau777 in "Underwater oxygen loss threatens earth's stability, researchers warn"

harimau777 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:37:20 +0000

They've also gone through 13 major dynasties and about 2 societal collapses. That of course doesn't undo China's amazing cultural, technological, and social advances and achievements over the millenia, but it does suggest that their history is more nuanced.

New comment by harimau777 in "Underwater oxygen loss threatens earth's stability, researchers warn"

harimau777 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:30:16 +0000

Socialism is increasingly popular because people are seeing that capitalism makes them LESS free. People don't have the freedom to own a home, the freedom to get medical care, the freedom to travel, etc. When they see that many of those things (particularly medical care) are available in socialist (relative to the US) countries, it's no surprise that they abandon capitalism.

New comment by harimau777 in "Underwater oxygen loss threatens earth's stability, researchers warn"

harimau777 — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 01:27:39 +0000

The average person in the rest of the world lives in a dramatically different social structure than Western late stage capitalism. In effect the social contract of capitalism was "give up the culture, social institutions, etc. that make for a stable collectivist society and in exchange enjoy the benefits of consumerism." I don't think it is surprising that people are angry when the Capital class decides that they don't get the consumerism either.

New comment by harimau777 in "Residential Proxies Are a National Security Threat"

harimau777 — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 04:30:36 +0000

I know there've been efforts to scrape information that MAGA is trying to purge from government websites.

New comment by harimau777 in "Did They Ghost You?"

harimau777 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:54:24 +0000

At this point I'd be completely fine with just going by feel. It would be better than what we have now.

New comment by harimau777 in "Zero roadkill as Amazon canopy bridges secure 15,000 crossings"

harimau777 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 19:28:34 +0000

A lot of Christians argue that it does say exactly that. In Genesis 2:15, God tells Adam to care for the planet:

The Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and keep it.

Of course fundamentalists tend not to see it that way.