Hacker News: jackphilson

New comment by jackphilson in "An interactive intro to quadtrees"

jackphilson — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:01:17 +0000

School should be this, but applied to literally everything. Ideally with AI generating it all.

New comment by jackphilson in "The Software Development Lifecycle Is Dead"

jackphilson — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 22:36:50 +0000

What is your take on the optimal usage of AI, and why would it not be N + 1? I think the article is largely correct here.

New comment by jackphilson in "Show HN: Arcmark – macOS bookmark manager that attaches to browser as sidebar"

jackphilson — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 00:38:15 +0000

Interesting example on how I envision software to evolve in the future because massive abundance caused by AI. Massively composable and interoperable.

New comment by jackphilson in "Prism"

jackphilson — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 20:25:14 +0000

Triangle kind of reminds me of the Bermuda Triangle. You know how many people died there?

New comment by jackphilson in "NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy"

jackphilson — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:46:54 +0000

not derailing, just pointing out effective ways of producing good which is what i was responding to. i think its good for people to be aware of this. those people are all examples of people who have influenced culture for bad. you can do it for good: bryan johnson, civil rights leaders, leftist streamers. andrew tate was just the most effective, recent, and obvious one which is why I pointed him out.

New comment by jackphilson in "NanoChat – The best ChatGPT that $100 can buy"

jackphilson — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:19:29 +0000

I mean just an example. He obviously wasn't the most ethical person. Depends how you do it

New comment by jackphilson in "Boring Company cited for almost 800 environmental violations in Las Vegas"

jackphilson — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 19:43:33 +0000

Regulations can often be bad for progress so a CBA is probably best. Doesn't matter about the framing.

New comment by jackphilson in "GPT-5-Codex is a better AI researcher than me"

jackphilson — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 18:50:37 +0000

I suppose you would need to weigh the utility points lost from people no longer enjoying their jobs with the positive utility points gained by the consumers of products and services.

My intuition is that with the law of leverage in mind, the former would be relatively low and the latter would be relatively high.

It is of course up to the government and culture to minimize the former and maximize the latter.

New comment by jackphilson in "Be Worried"

jackphilson — Fri, 03 Oct 2025 18:08:50 +0000

for fear of being overly utilitarian here its not really an issue that people are manipulatable but that they are manipulated into doing the wrong things (consumerism, political divide-and-conquer strategies)

and rejecting manipulation from a deontological stance reduces agency and output for doing good in the real world

manipulation = campaigns = advertisements = psyops (all the same, different connotations)

New comment by jackphilson in "ChatGPT Pulse"

jackphilson — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 06:52:37 +0000

I would recommend talking out loud to it with speech to text software, it has been pretty helpful for me. Like around 60s of talking.

New comment by jackphilson in "AI might yet follow the path of previous technological revolutions"

jackphilson — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:42:07 +0000

It was a compliment and I was hoping to nudge the behavior of other HN comments.

New comment by jackphilson in "AI might yet follow the path of previous technological revolutions"

jackphilson — Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:46:47 +0000

Irrelevant but I like this pattern of using Gemini (or AI outputs in general) as sources. Please continue to do so and I encourage any readers to also adopt this pattern. I will also try to implement this pattern.

New comment by jackphilson in "AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time"

jackphilson — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 21:40:21 +0000

Right, what I am saying is an AI powered ad blocker essentially. Because some ads are good and mutually beneficial.

New comment by jackphilson in "AI surveillance should be banned while there is still time"

jackphilson — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 06:12:50 +0000

Right. I think ai on the user's side is going to be necessary soon. Then they can negotiate with the advertiser's AI to determine what to show. This will need to be on the platform level or the hardware level.

This solves the problem of seeing ads that are not best for the user.

New comment by jackphilson in "All of our lives overlap in the Network Of Time"

jackphilson — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 20:25:51 +0000

I just find it interesting how any new data added to this past the year 2023 is probably unusable

New comment by jackphilson in "OpenAI eats jobs, then offers to help you find a new one at Walmart"

jackphilson — Fri, 05 Sep 2025 17:38:03 +0000

The solution is for our government to onboard us onto the internet economy like China is doing. Rather than slow down tech advancement.

New comment by jackphilson in "My experience creating software with LLM coding agents – Part 2 (Tips)"

jackphilson — Sat, 23 Aug 2025 11:10:32 +0000

I often like to just talk out out. Stream of thought. Gives it full context of your mental model. Talk through an excalidraw diagram

New comment by jackphilson in "Releasing weights for FLUX.1 Krea"

jackphilson — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 22:16:05 +0000

Hi. Thanks for this. What is your goal of doing so? From a business standpoint. Or is it purely altruistic?

New comment by jackphilson in "Find Your People"

jackphilson — Fri, 23 May 2025 21:33:49 +0000

Well, we have it mildly solved on the internet layer (hackernews). Issue is these bonds aren't very strong because they're not supported by physical space (can't use evolutionary hardwiring). This is why I think network states are good because they're a projection of community on the internet layer onto the physical layer. I think community is very important, and the world will tend more and more towards happiness (generally speaking), so the resurgence of community living I think is inevitable. I think the atomization is a temporary blip caused by increased convenience (tiktok, amazon).

I think the characterization of a community as an angler fish has some merit but might be a little pessimistic. In any case, it's way better than interacting with people who you know are definitely not your community.

New comment by jackphilson in "Find Your People"

jackphilson — Fri, 23 May 2025 19:56:50 +0000

Right. I feel like cultural fit is very important. You need to find the community you're most aligned with (share same memetic space) and go to them. This is why I think network states will succeed