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

j_maffe — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 22:43:01 +0000

> Maybe the solution is not more EU, but less EU.

You haven't given a single reason why that would be beneficial.

New comment by j_maffe in "Apple reveals new AI architecture built around Google Gemini models"

j_maffe — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 20:51:34 +0000

Because Tesla hasn't been classified as a gate-keeper in the DMA.

New comment by j_maffe in "Gmail thinks I'm stupid, so I left"

j_maffe — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:14:53 +0000

Not sure what you mean by blackmailing but it can't be the right word here.

New comment by j_maffe in "Meta repeatedly snubs EU body over Facebook and Instagram user bans"

j_maffe — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 17:09:51 +0000

yes but it's also the other way around, no? _businesses pages_ bring hundreds of thousands of eyes to _facebook/instagram_ that otherwise would not see FB/IG.

New comment by j_maffe in "Claude Opus 4.8"

j_maffe — Thu, 28 May 2026 17:13:08 +0000

it took significant research efforts to just understand how these models learn how to multiply two numbers. The fact that we know how they operate doesn't mean we understand it.

New comment by j_maffe in "I'm Tired of Talking to AI"

j_maffe — Wed, 27 May 2026 18:24:35 +0000

I prefer https://stopsloppypasta.ai/en/

New comment by j_maffe in "Netherlands blocks US takeover of vital digital supplier"

j_maffe — Tue, 26 May 2026 13:48:12 +0000

> Mark Rutte Daddy calls

Mark Rutte, the chief of NATO and ex-PM, that has nothing to do with civilian tech? Can we please leave unfounded conspiracy theories to Reddit?

New comment by j_maffe in "US tech firms share Dutch regulator officials' names with Senate"

j_maffe — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:28:39 +0000

How is it clickbait? They're describing the topic of the discussion in a transparent and accurate manner.

New comment by j_maffe in "US tech firms share Dutch regulator officials' names with Senate"

j_maffe — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:27:27 +0000

The curve of willingness to oppose aggressive action rises significantly before it drops off at some safety threshold. I believe US-Europe relations are still well below that threshold and the rise in level of aggression is only stirring up more resistance, not less.

New comment by j_maffe in "Google officially announces that ads will be included in AI Mode search results"

j_maffe — Thu, 21 May 2026 11:30:46 +0000

But wouldn't that break FCC rules?

New comment by j_maffe in "How fast is N tokens per second really?"

j_maffe — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:40:00 +0000

I think the metric should be reading speed, not writing speed. At the very least it should be speech speed.

New comment by j_maffe in "We've made the world too complicated"

j_maffe — Sat, 16 May 2026 23:06:05 +0000

But did the writer understand how the language got created and how the words shape her thoughts?

New comment by j_maffe in "We've made the world too complicated"

j_maffe — Sat, 16 May 2026 23:04:46 +0000

Perhaps so. But then one would need to argue that it is not inherently bad to be unaware of how different element in our lives work and that somehow there's an optimal amount that we're exceeding. The blog post does no such thing.

New comment by j_maffe in "We've made the world too complicated"

j_maffe — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:32:13 +0000

The lows have literally been getting higher consistently for millenia. There are new types of lows, sure, but not equal in magnitude. The solution is to fight and fix them in sustainable manners.

New comment by j_maffe in "We've made the world too complicated"

j_maffe — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:29:58 +0000

But society and civilization systems are inherently unadministered. No single person has a top down engineered view or control of this system. Even kings and pharaohs didn't have as much control as people would think.

New comment by j_maffe in "We've made the world too complicated"

j_maffe — Sat, 16 May 2026 11:27:51 +0000

> I'm writing this with technology I will never fully understand in a building with rooms I can never enter, living in a country dictated by laws I can't control. We spend the majority of our waking hours and lives in an abstract world of compressed life. The moment I walk through my door I'm in a zoning area on a city-owned sidewalk, flanked by ugly metallic monsters, floating through a sea of strangers.

This has been true through literally the entirety of human civilization. It's the basis of civilization to collectively contribute and influence in each others lives through means that no one solely fully comprehends.

New comment by j_maffe in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

j_maffe — Thu, 14 May 2026 22:35:02 +0000

> I don't think you've ever worked in academia or research.

I'm doing a PhD in STEM in a major Western European university.

New comment by j_maffe in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

j_maffe — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:10:02 +0000

The US is an aggressor. The research conducted in MIT and elsewhere in the US is literally used for weapons.

New comment by j_maffe in "A message from President Kornbluth about funding and the talent pipeline"

j_maffe — Thu, 14 May 2026 19:08:51 +0000

Those great minds will go to other nations where they're more appreciated.

New comment by j_maffe in "Cuba says it has run out of fuel, blames U.S. embargo"

j_maffe — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:59:57 +0000

it is cut off from oil. it is effectively an oil-blockade, except for the one shipment the US allowed through, as reported by the media. Sorry, I'm done talking with someone who's this pedantic, it's not good for my blood pressure.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/mar/29/us-russian-o...