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New comment by intuitionist in "The dead economy theory"

intuitionist — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:38:53 +0000

Do you have a reference here, or are you just going to continue to baldly state it as a fact? I’m looking at “Attention is All You Need” and don’t see any grant numbers or anything like that.

New comment by intuitionist in "GameStop makes $55.5B takeover offer for eBay"

intuitionist — Mon, 04 May 2026 16:02:04 +0000

Worth also pointing out though that if you can sell new shares above intrinsic value that is accretive to existing shareholders. Dilution isn’t always a bad word. (It’s bad for the people buying new shares.)

New comment by intuitionist in "GPT-5.5"

intuitionist — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:42:39 +0000

ChatGPT isn’t literally or figuratively cutting off anybody’s limbs though. It’s more like, the guy on the assembly line had a mech suit, and now he doesn’t have a mech suit, and he’s sad. Skill atrophy is a real concern but unless you assume that nobody is working to maintain those skills it doesn’t change my analysis much.

New comment by intuitionist in "GPT-5.5"

intuitionist — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 22:33:13 +0000

I am not a Marxian economic expert but this doesn’t make sense to me. Modulo skill atrophy, the big AI model provider can’t capture that surplus value because its customers can just go back to bidding for human labor instead.

New comment by intuitionist in "Sir Tony Hoare has died"

intuitionist — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 00:05:37 +0000

Sadly it seems to be true. Heard it late last week from a coworker in a position to know.

New comment by intuitionist in "The Brand Age"

intuitionist — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:36:12 +0000

“There are three of these things made in a year, and I’ve got the juice to get one of them” is. Zuck doesn’t care about a million dollar price tag, any more than I would care about a couple bucks.

New comment by intuitionist in "The Brand Age"

intuitionist — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:32:05 +0000

Grand Seiko makes some truly beautiful watches, and also some terribly gaudy horrors.

New comment by intuitionist in "The Brand Age"

intuitionist — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 23:14:56 +0000

The price isn’t keeping anyone at that level of wealth from buying a Nautilus or a Lange 1 or a panda Daytona. But they can still flex with ultralimited pieces like Zuck’s Greubel Forsey.

New comment by intuitionist in "Global Intelligence Crisis"

intuitionist — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:42:04 +0000

The point is that the market doesn’t move enough on the jobs data to trigger a circuit breaker, not that there’s a -20% move and it doesn’t trigger.

New comment by intuitionist in "The Programmer Identity Crisis"

intuitionist — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 20:48:27 +0000

A Russell conjugation: my LLM-based coding output, your Claude throwaway code, his complete AI slop.

New comment by intuitionist in "LandChad, a site dedicated to turning internet peasants into Internet Landlords"

intuitionist — Sun, 31 Aug 2025 13:04:25 +0000

you don’t know that, maybe the term “landlord” hurt their feelings

New comment by intuitionist in "Tom Lehrer has died"

intuitionist — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 11:05:53 +0000

I like to think Lehrer would have appreciated the irony of being predeceased by his obituary’s author.

New comment by intuitionist in "Mary had schizophrenia, then suddenly didn't"

intuitionist — Tue, 22 Jul 2025 20:57:51 +0000

For my money Rachel Aviv is the best and most interesting writer currently on the New Yorker staff (give or take a David Grann, who is pretty much just writing books these days it seems). I go out of my way to read whatever has her byline.

New comment by intuitionist in "QSBS Limits Raised"

intuitionist — Sat, 05 Jul 2025 21:04:47 +0000

IANAL but I believe the option has to be exercised before the company reaches $50M in assets—that’s when you buy the stock.

New comment by intuitionist in "Gov. Greg Abbott vetoes THC ban"

intuitionist — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 15:13:16 +0000

> Now the question I ask is: how was it distilled? what chemicals were used in the process? are those chemicals safe? and a million other related questions. With regular pot there's none of that.

You absolutely should be asking those questions about “regular pot” as well. AIUI concentrates are among the bestselling and most profitable products in legal states, and they use uncertain chemicals of questionable provenance even if the delta-9 THC is 100% natty. But even if you’re just buying flower you could reasonably be concerned about pesticides or mold [1].

I think there are some quite good reasons to oppose cannabis legalization (for example, it’s made the super-high-potency concentrates which are associated with bad outcomes much more widely available) and it’s possible your own culture war or other biases are getting in your way here. But there are also lots of good arguments in favor of course.

[1] https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/marijuana-mold-contami...

New comment by intuitionist in "The cultural decline of literary fiction"

intuitionist — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 00:21:15 +0000

This might prove too much, particularly for the case of literature. There were people writing commercially successful and culturally relevant literary fiction in 1970; back then you already had Austen and Tolstoy and Dostoevsky and Cervantes, plus Joyce and Woolf and Hemingway and Faulkner. I think there’s books published in the last 50 years that deserves a place on a short list of Best Novels, but I don’t think it has much overlap with the best-selling literary fiction being published at that time.

New comment by intuitionist in "Walkers' Sensations Poppadoms vs. HMRC: The Chip of Theseus"

intuitionist — Sun, 01 Jun 2025 17:49:09 +0000

> This is not necessarily a paper read by the rich and powerful, but just by those in the finance industry/politics/academia/c-suites/board-members.

I’m not sure who you think wealthy and powerful people are, if not those

Notes from the BugBash Conference

intuitionist — Thu, 29 May 2025 22:32:18 +0000

Article URL: https://emptysqua.re/blog/notes-from-antithesis-bugbash/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44131016

Points: 1

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New comment by intuitionist in "Walkers' Sensations Poppadoms vs. HMRC: The Chip of Theseus"

intuitionist — Thu, 29 May 2025 15:42:57 +0000

The FT is well worth reading (regardless of anyone’s personal beliefs, it’s useful to get a sense of how the wealthy and powerful think by reading their papers) but note that the FT Alphaville blog, which published this piece, is free to read if you create an account (you don’t need to pay).

New comment by intuitionist in "Remembering Alasdair MacIntyre"

intuitionist — Fri, 23 May 2025 17:32:58 +0000

I dunno. Utilitarianism sounds nice on the surface—how can you be against the greatest good for the greatest number?—but it’s pretty under-specified (hedonic or preference? act or rule? do you discount future beings’ utils, and at what rate?) and if you take any particular specification seriously you get moral claims that are wildly counterintuitive, like “insect suffering is orders of magnitude more important than heart disease in humans” or “there may be quadrillions of sentient beings in the far future, and making their lives 1% better is a better use of resources than eradicating malaria now” or “it’s morally justified to steal billions of dollars of other people’s money to give to pandemic prevention and AI safety.” And maybe these are correct claims, but they definitely don’t align with many people’s moral intuitions, and it’d be a tall task to convince those people.