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New comment by idiotsecant in "Claude Fable 5"

idiotsecant — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:58:01 +0000

It's more useful to everyone when you engage with the strongest part of someone's argument

New comment by idiotsecant in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

idiotsecant — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 13:16:49 +0000

There is an absolute gulf between knowing what assembly is and a functional computer

New comment by idiotsecant in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

idiotsecant — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 04:23:13 +0000

When you destroy pensions by crushing organized labor, create 401k incentives, and place your new captive audience by default into a certain investment class, a whole lot of people are going to leave it there. Whether the provider forces anyone to do anything is irrelevant, it creates second order impacts that ultimately lead to what is perhaps the greatest attempted fleecing in market history

New comment by idiotsecant in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

idiotsecant — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 01:58:27 +0000

The diverse investment is the reason that funds will be forced to buy these worthless stocks. It's a direct transfer of money from the working class to the extreme capital class.

If you're good with that, I'll send you my PayPal so you can get me my 5 bucks. It's a tiny fraction of your overall cash flow, whats the big deal?

New comment by idiotsecant in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

idiotsecant — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:45:40 +0000

Thats exactly what that means. The UK did the thing you want to do and had a bad outcome because they didn't do it right. The true and best and correct way to get it done of course would have none of those bad outcomes.

New comment by idiotsecant in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

idiotsecant — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:54:34 +0000

no true scotsman

New comment by idiotsecant in "Switzerland wil have a referendum to cap population at 10M"

idiotsecant — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:52:52 +0000

is the idea of economic destruction akin to what the UK has suffered abhorrent to you? In your excitement about the one you might consider the other.

New comment by idiotsecant in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

idiotsecant — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:48:39 +0000

This doesnt fix the systemic issue. Most people put their money in a target fund and leave it alone. Those target funds are at risk of being forced to buy these over-inflated assets. The incentive to do this is there because those target funds and naive investors exist.

New comment by idiotsecant in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

idiotsecant — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 19:46:20 +0000

I dont think so. These entities and the hardware they own would be bought for legitimate AI use long before they'd hit the open market. AI is very useful, and even profitable at the inference level. It's just an open question whether this monumental amount of spend for research is worth it.

New comment by idiotsecant in "VibeOS: First ever AI-native operating system"

idiotsecant — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 23:45:13 +0000

Optimistic of you to assume that future operating systems will run on local compute. Windows 35 requires datacenter level resources, but cortana will sell you minecraft capes with real-time emotionally personalized unskippable advertisements!

New comment by idiotsecant in "How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time"

idiotsecant — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:40:33 +0000

It's unfashionable but I still love brutalist architecture. It feels stable, like it would still be there whether it had people in it or not. Like living in a cave.

New comment by idiotsecant in "How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time"

idiotsecant — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:36:45 +0000

Yes, a lot of public spaces are dying or dead. If you don't have these spaces in your area you are certainly the only exception.

New comment by idiotsecant in "How Liminalism Became the Defining Aesthetic of Our Time"

idiotsecant — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 18:35:39 +0000

Good luck preserving the meaning of words. Words have no meaning outside how people use them to express ideas. Words can and do change to mean different things, or even 'literally' the opposite of themselves.

New comment by idiotsecant in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

idiotsecant — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 06:07:37 +0000

Kids today don't even know the most basic x86 assembly instructions! A whole class of third graders, and not one of them could tell me the difference between MOV and LEA!!!! Can you believe it?!?!

New comment by idiotsecant in "The Smart TV in Your LivingRoom Is a Node in the AIScraping Economy"

idiotsecant — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:41:30 +0000

But it lets you continue without reading them? There's a lot of questionable terms of service rules but this one has to be unenforcable.

New comment by idiotsecant in "Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?"

idiotsecant — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 05:49:32 +0000

I can't imagine where we are headed. You understand every step of what it did and can appreciate the complexity but it'll only take a few generations for this to become something like magic to the tech priests beseeching the machine spirits for blessings

New comment by idiotsecant in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

idiotsecant — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:24:33 +0000

If the US wants to stop seeing unstable, barbaric regimes in the middle east, maybe it should stop making unstable barbaric regimes in the middle east. We don't get to literally create the problem on Tuesday and then cry that it's an existential threat on Thursday.

New comment by idiotsecant in "Tracing a powerful GNSS interference source over Europe"

idiotsecant — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 13:20:43 +0000

There is a very good reason to do this. Suppose you had a device that would make the shoplifting detectors at stores go off. The first time you did it everyone would get hassled. And the second time and so forth. But if you kept doing it eventually the employees would stop caring. Then you just walk out the door with your stuff.

New comment by idiotsecant in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

idiotsecant — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:54:39 +0000

Does the F35 do that? Wasn't Iran shooting those down recently? If there's anything Iran has taught us it's that airpower doesn't win wars, allies do. The US will leave the middle east with their tail between their legs. This is the beginning of the end of the American Empire.

For the privilege of spending enormous sums of treasure flying around dropping bombs on brown people what did we get?

I would have rather seen that spent on giving lunch to every school age child or paying graduate students a wage above poverty level. At least something useful would have been accomplished

New comment by idiotsecant in "Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing"

idiotsecant — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 13:36:32 +0000

I don't think they'll have a choice, open weights models are not far behind. At some point it's essentially a commodity game