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New comment by jdkee in "The AI Demand Bubble"

jdkee — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 17:45:53 +0000

https://x.com/edzitron/status/1817955630784917548

The Triangle Game, from Zero

jdkee — Sun, 02 Aug 2026 14:58:41 +0000

Article URL: https://muchmirul.github.io/conjectures/multicolor-ramsey/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49145267

Points: 15

# Comments: 1

Six Months at OpenAI

jdkee — Sat, 01 Aug 2026 17:05:28 +0000

Article URL: https://mihai.page/six-months-at-openai/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49136212

Points: 4

# Comments: 1

New comment by jdkee in "The lost civic life of movie rental stores"

jdkee — Thu, 30 Jul 2026 23:36:08 +0000

It doesn't have to be that way. It is a policy choice in some communities.

New comment by jdkee in "The New AI Superpowers: Focus and Followthrough"

jdkee — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 19:57:03 +0000

AI slop.

New comment by jdkee in "China's open-weights AI strategy is winning"

jdkee — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:13:40 +0000

You can't steal intellectual property, only infringe on the copyright holder.

New comment by jdkee in "Decoy Font"

jdkee — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 22:11:27 +0000

5.6 Sol Medium:

The obvious outlined text says “SORRY ROBOT,” but the hidden message is “HAPPY HUMAN.” It’s Mixfont’s Decoy Font: the outlined letters attract machine vision, while the softer tonal pattern becomes readable to humans when viewed from farther away or at a smaller size. It’s an optical trick, not encryption.

New comment by jdkee in "Generative AI is an Engineering Disaster"

jdkee — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 02:32:46 +0000

"AI does not have to be built this way. Traditionally, the goal of AI was to solve problems in ways that simulated human mental processes. Researchers observed their own thinking and tried to implement their mental habits in code. This approach has mostly been abandoned, partly due to the difficulty of discerning and articulating the rules of human thought, but it did have the benefit of consuming far fewer resources and data."

And it didn't work.

New comment by jdkee in "The Estranged Worlds of J. G. Ballard"

jdkee — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 02:06:10 +0000

"For instance, there is no exploration of outer space in Ballard’s fiction: there are no robots or supercomputers, and the scientist characters who continue to populate his novels are usually extremist cranks."

Ballard wrote at least four stories dealing with space and spaceflight. Most notable is his "Report on an Unidentified Space Station" which is quite haunting.