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New comment by highstep in "Landmark L.A. jury verdict finds Instagram, YouTube were designed to addict kids"

highstep — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 13:48:49 +0000

otherwise know as mandatory identification

New comment by highstep in "So where are all the AI apps?"

highstep — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:08:24 +0000

Is it really that big of a deal to help/encourage a friend/family in these simple ways?? Do you have no time in life to smell the flowers?

New comment by highstep in "More honey bees dying, even as antibiotic use halves"

highstep — Wed, 30 Jul 2025 00:33:22 +0000

After one season of bee keeping I concluded the same thing. Its horrifying how poorly bees are treated in this industry to control parasites (forced exposure to acidic gas) I sold my hives and will probably never buy honey again, much in the same way I avoid factory farmed meat.

New comment by highstep in "AI: Accelerated Incompetence"

highstep — Wed, 28 May 2025 15:52:35 +0000

Your job will disappear even faster with your head that deep in the sand. At least learning the new tools you can carve out a new role/career for yourself.

New comment by highstep in "Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails"

highstep — Mon, 26 May 2025 22:20:42 +0000

but Social media companies suppress human curation in favor of their algorithmic recommendations; while human curation doesn't scale as a business model, it still competes for attention—and is thus marginalized.

New comment by highstep in "The Friendship Recession: The lost art of connecting"

highstep — Sat, 26 Apr 2025 15:25:19 +0000

you're right. Now delete that app!

New comment by highstep in "How to lock down your phone if you're traveling to the U.S."

highstep — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 19:33:56 +0000

Vegas is fun, but not fun enough to justify having to worry about this stuff. My days of visiting the USA are over.

New comment by highstep in "The belay test and the modern American climbing gym"

highstep — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 19:34:25 +0000

Good thing you werent about to fall off the route! The older i grow the more I've come to realize that its not uncommon for people to lack awareness about risk and consequences. These days it takes me many outings with a climber partner to truly trust them. This is why it always blows my mind when i see people going out on multi pitch climbs with people they've never climbed with before.

New comment by highstep in "Eggs US – Price – Chart"

highstep — Thu, 06 Feb 2025 19:34:45 +0000

highly agree. after using a cone anything else seems haphazard and cruel.

New comment by highstep in "Dwarf Fortress Steam Version Just Got Even Better"

highstep — Sun, 26 Jan 2025 15:45:53 +0000

that was enjoyable, but someone anxiety inducing :) reminded me of ProZD's take on TCGs: https://youtu.be/EBIsZlV1jHk

New comment by highstep in "For Brilliant Color: Packaging the First LSD Blotter"

highstep — Mon, 25 Mar 2024 15:38:09 +0000

that's the thing about resetting to default settings... sometimes your custom preferences were useful and they'll some time to reconfigure

New comment by highstep in "Autonomous excavator constructs a six-metre-high dry-stone wall"

highstep — Sat, 25 Nov 2023 09:36:06 +0000

Not only ugly, but unstable and sketchy. I wouldn't go near that wall.

New comment by highstep in "Large-scale violence in Late Neolithic Western Europe based on skeletal evidence"

highstep — Sat, 04 Nov 2023 13:28:20 +0000

you must be a be fan of chatgpt :)

New comment by highstep in "MDMA and the Quest for Connection in a Fractured World"

highstep — Tue, 26 Sep 2023 01:06:07 +0000

i found that it showed me the path to that happy place, and now that i know the route, i can find my way back from time to time. Of course without mdma i can't stay there for long, but when i do visit its sublime and doesn't involve the multi week depression afterwards

New comment by highstep in "A boy saw 17 doctors over 3 years for pain. ChatGPT found the right diagnosis"

highstep — Tue, 12 Sep 2023 01:45:20 +0000

Ask it to do a role play as a doctor, or maybe just rephrase your question so it's less of a request for advice, but instead a discussion of scientific data/facts. It should be easy to get around thus guardrail.

New comment by highstep in "California moves to decriminalize use of magic mushrooms, other psychedelics"

highstep — Fri, 08 Sep 2023 04:21:33 +0000

what strain of mushrooms?

New comment by highstep in "AI Safety and the Age of Dislightenment"

highstep — Tue, 11 Jul 2023 21:15:42 +0000

i think you might be focusing too much on ai risk presented in fantasy (killer robots), meanwhile we can already clearly see how LLMs negatively impact society via disruption or popular opinion, politics (recommendation algorithms), and rapid uncontrolled scientific discovery. Such disruptions could potentially result in nuclear war, human created plagues, etc. You might be getting down voted without comment because you're message comes across like cheerleading that only examines one future distant risk. Your framing as "extential fear" is particularly dismissive and doesn't seem to be in good faith for such a serious and subject.

New comment by highstep in "The entire finance industry will repeat this quote for a thousand years"

highstep — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 19:17:59 +0000

and yet you're willing to admit to your shady style on hn and describe that style as "best". its no wonder your industry is looked upon with disgust.

New comment by highstep in "Killer whales wreck boat in latest attack off Spain"

highstep — Fri, 26 May 2023 21:59:24 +0000

don't worry, we'll be gone soon and some sort of life on earth will go on

New comment by highstep in "Doom the Way It Was Meant to Be Played – v1.1 Multi-Monitor [video]"

highstep — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 18:57:08 +0000

having participated in both activities, I can concur the frustration was very similar.