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New comment by hisfraudulency in "Sixteen Years After Deepwater Horizon, Deep Sea Life Shows Few Signs of Recovery"

hisfraudulency — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:37:23 +0000

TMI hadn't even entered my mind while typing out that comment which just goes to show how political the historiography of this stuff is.

New comment by hisfraudulency in "Sixteen Years After Deepwater Horizon, Deep Sea Life Shows Few Signs of Recovery"

hisfraudulency — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:18:53 +0000

Interesting that the spill hasn't dampened long term prospects for offshore drilling (besides the brief push against it around 2016) whereas Chernobyl basically nerfed American nuclear power gen.

New comment by hisfraudulency in "Why We're Banning AI"

hisfraudulency — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:48:55 +0000

Too much ambiguity on my part, I meant the WSJ staff shouldn't use it in the final output of their op-eds.

New comment by hisfraudulency in "Why We're Banning AI"

hisfraudulency — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 14:42:05 +0000

Good point.

New comment by hisfraudulency in "Why We're Banning AI"

hisfraudulency — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:56:54 +0000

I'm kinda ambivalent on the Druckenmiller WSJ case. He's admittedly a poor writer, and probably wouldn't have published anything had it not been for AI.

Obviously the WSJ staff shouldn't be using it in the final output, but if it's a prominent guest's opinion filtered through ChatGPT, I'm mostly fine with it.

New comment by hisfraudulency in "OpenAI's average basic pay for British staff hits £794,000"

hisfraudulency — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:59:07 +0000

This is like making $5M in the US.

New comment by hisfraudulency in "Americans' social activity has steeply declined in the past 30 years"

hisfraudulency — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 12:01:32 +0000

It feels strange to assign all the blame to media, like theoretically it should be a number of factors, but that's what I got from reading Bowling Alone (fwiw I read the 1995 essay and not the 2000 book).

Even on the TFR point, the birth rate in 1976 in USA was 1.74, 2025 it was 1.6. So it's not like a China situation where it went from over 3 to less than 1 in 50 years.

New comment by hisfraudulency in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

hisfraudulency — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:42:01 +0000

Huh. Idk if that makes it more or less strange. Post GPT-3 and he thought the future of AI was an artificial version of Cameo.

New comment by hisfraudulency in "Character.ai has initiated voluntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy"

hisfraudulency — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 13:30:31 +0000

It was always odd to me that talent like Noam Shazeer was working at a company with such a gimmicky premise to begin with.

New comment by hisfraudulency in "Mark Zuckerberg grilled on usage goals and underage users at California trial"

hisfraudulency — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:04:04 +0000

There's an incredible cultural contempt for social media, everyone recognizes the harms, but we collectively spend more and more time on social media apps.

Wat mean?