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New comment by hazbot in "The dead economy theory"

hazbot — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:46:42 +0000

> I feel like 20 or 30 years ago, the average person seemed to have more disposable income.

Big if true but is it true?

New comment by hazbot in "The dead economy theory"

hazbot — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:43:37 +0000

Totally - the (useful) economic models they are bringing are being extrapolated into very unusual territory!

New comment by hazbot in "The dead economy theory"

hazbot — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:39:42 +0000

If AIs become smart enough to outperform a critical mass of humans across the board, that's the singularity and whilst the economic model says all humans out of jobs means no consumers, the model isn't really valid anymore because the underlying assumptions are just broken too, so you can't take the model too seriously. Obviously it would be very disruptive but the demand destruction economic model just isn't making useful predictions anymore.

New comment by hazbot in "The Impossibility of Supersized Machines (2017)"

hazbot — Sun, 17 May 2026 05:25:28 +0000

It's satirical argument against claims that computers will never be as intelligent as humans.

New comment by hazbot in "Netflix Prices Went Up Again – I Bought a DVD Player Instead"

hazbot — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:20:19 +0000

I enjoy having a DVD player for the kids, it makes curating their options so much easier.

New comment by hazbot in "Glasses Got Worse on Purpose"

hazbot — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 21:03:57 +0000

Thankyou, this is the comment I came here for - advice on alternatives!

New comment by hazbot in "Students using “humanizer” programs to beat accusations of cheating with AI"

hazbot — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 20:44:33 +0000

Yes, it is much easier to train someone to use AI than to train them to have sufficiently baked-in math and language skills to be able to leverage the AI.

New comment by hazbot in "Samsung releases new all-in-one heat pump for residential use"

hazbot — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 21:27:56 +0000

Integration of the air cooling and water heating. For example, I have a air conditioner pumping heat out of my house right next to a box that's putting heat into the water coming into my house.

New comment by hazbot in "Open-Meteo is a free and open-source weather API for non-commercial use"

hazbot — Mon, 12 Jan 2026 20:11:40 +0000

We are a happy paying customer at $DAYJOB.

Also, I looked into omfiles for a project recently, I was very impressed with their speed and blown away by the compression ratios!

New comment by hazbot in "Tesla US sales drop to nearly 4-year low in November"

hazbot — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 11:50:16 +0000

Yes this is much stronger and relevant evidence

New comment by hazbot in "Tesla US sales drop to nearly 4-year low in November"

hazbot — Sat, 13 Dec 2025 00:02:49 +0000

When I watched a very short clip juxtaposed next to a clip of a nazi salute, then it looked like one to me.

But when I watched it in context, it looked like a man putting a hand on his heart and then proffering his thanks to the audience.

My belief is that it was most likely not a nazi salute and is not relevant evidence in the important task of assessing Musk's political stances.

New comment by hazbot in "Show HN: Chess on a Donut/Torus and Deep-Dive"

hazbot — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 19:52:14 +0000

It's fun to sit down and draw what the board looks like when you cut and flatten the torus before you watch the video!

Bonus points if you hit upon the other 2D projection that is useful (I didn't)

New comment by hazbot in "Implications of AI to schools"

hazbot — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 10:58:17 +0000

The way you learn is totally different from the way a novice learns; they don't have a vast memorised store of knowledge, let alone the connected structure over that memorised knowledge. When you learn something, it gets incoporated thanks to these foundations.

But the foundations start with memorisation.

New comment by hazbot in "Implications of AI to schools"

hazbot — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 10:47:01 +0000

Projects are less efficient for learning foundational skills. They have their place, but with infinite funds I would still give my children an education with a bedrock of boring drill and testing and memorisation.

New comment by hazbot in "Implications of AI to schools"

hazbot — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 10:43:46 +0000

I just went and had a flutter at being a high school math teacher. I went in saying 'I never used math to create until my honours year, I want different for my students'.

I soon changed my mind; I think those of us who become expert have often have really rich memories of a project where we learnt so much, but we just don't remember episodically all the accumulated learning that happened in boring classrooms to enable the project-induced higher order synthesis.

New comment by hazbot in "YouTube announces 'voluntary exit program' for US staff"

hazbot — Fri, 31 Oct 2025 10:12:08 +0000

Nothing, they just don't make the headlines.

New comment by hazbot in "What Dynamic Typing Is For"

hazbot — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 20:07:49 +0000

> Okay, but you can do the same in dynamically typed Python

But the rust code is still safer, e.g. you haven't checked for an `AttributeError` in case `req.cookies`, the point is Rust protects you from this rabbit-hole, if you're prepared to pay the price of wrestling the compiler.

New comment by hazbot in "A magnetic field orientation that changes the fundamental design of motors"

hazbot — Fri, 17 Oct 2025 07:11:26 +0000

Don't talk about it, be about it.

New comment by hazbot in "The average Apple Watch user gets 49 minutes of deep sleep per night"

hazbot — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 06:56:10 +0000

"deep sleep" here has a technical definition which wasn't what I assumed, and the top 10th percentile is 68 minutes of "deep sleep", so this is probably fine and not a problem.

New comment by hazbot in "The Gentle Singularity"

hazbot — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 12:30:59 +0000

I'm feeling a bit cheated it's 2025 and I just bought a brand new car that does not drive itself and runs on dead dinosaurs.