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New comment by jimbooonooo in "GPT-6 Astra"

jimbooonooo — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 23:52:02 +0000

except you are missing the one versus many argument here. sure we could make one human much smarter, could we make endless copies with the same intelligence? no

New comment by jimbooonooo in "Scrap"

jimbooonooo — Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:49:57 +0000

conversely, people can make the same decisions in the same-ish environment, with very different outcomes. it sounds like you discount the effect of luck in timing, or geography, or acquaintance, which are wildly different from just making intellectually robust decisions.

New comment by jimbooonooo in "Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died."

jimbooonooo — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:41:25 +0000

respectfully, a majority of the "do your own research" crowd are not reading any PubMed or professional guidelines.

New comment by jimbooonooo in "Delta flight hit by firework while landing at Midway Airport on Fourth of July"

jimbooonooo — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 00:37:59 +0000

freedom loving Democratic socialist here, this stance is very St Thomas Aquinas of you. let people continue to do the things you did without pulling up the ladder behind you. it's just for a night or two, the animals will live.

New comment by jimbooonooo in "EFF letter to FTC on X consent order [pdf]"

jimbooonooo — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 02:03:09 +0000

Yes and we should stop at elsewhere too. " it happened elsewhere n times" is a terrible excuse for inaction.

New comment by jimbooonooo in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

jimbooonooo — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 01:48:15 +0000

how is expecting integrity a scam?

New comment by jimbooonooo in "Are 'mind children' the future of reproduction?"

jimbooonooo — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 01:26:44 +0000

It seems like a possible progression for human beings, particularly as that technology comes online, and barriers (cost, environmental, societal instability) to having physical children increase. just as we see people today having relationships with llms or parasocial relationships, I don't view this as being much different. I think almost everybody has the desire to propagate.

I am faced with a variation of this right now. I have a relatively short-term prognosis, and am trying to document as many meaningful question and response multimedia as I can for my family, before I pass. interestingly, if I had the option to upload my mind or conscious, I don't think I would choose to, given the many ways that could turn sour. similarly, I don't think I would choose to have progeny that couldn't experience the sun on their face, and who were only black box models that I could speak to.

New comment by jimbooonooo in "Colorado Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill"

jimbooonooo — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 03:07:27 +0000

You are the person requesting others comply (on behalf of the aggregate) the onus is on you to provide this solution. The solution that was provided, specifically engaged parenting, is the appropriate response.

New comment by jimbooonooo in "Why Switzerland has 25 Gbit internet and America doesn't"

jimbooonooo — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 01:31:33 +0000

we still had luxury goods without monopolies, so I think I'll take more competition please.

New comment by jimbooonooo in "Ask HN: Is using AI tooling for a PhD literature review dishonest?"

jimbooonooo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 01:20:08 +0000

I was diagnosed later in life with ADHD and struggled academically, but agree with this completely. Everybody faces difficulties in life, and ADHD doesn't justify constant exceptions. Your workplace will be far less accommodating, and you need to figure out how to adapt.

Using AI for literature review is a great tool, but I think the onus is on you to to both verify the output, AND disclose usage of said tool. Clearly describing your methodologies is it important skill for writing papers anyways.

New comment by jimbooonooo in "Electric motor scaling laws and inertia in robot actuators"

jimbooonooo — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:40:59 +0000

There is no free lunch: using mechanical amplification results in the same problem as described above, and spring return means that your actuator has to push that much harder to overcome the spring.

Net is that a couple of figures of merit limit the performance of electromagnetic systems, and being sneaky won't let you exceed them.

New comment by jimbooonooo in "Quillx is an open standard for disclosing AI involvement in software projects"

jimbooonooo — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:53:28 +0000

They sure don't, but often insight into/alignment with the story and development process makes all the difference for which projects people choose to contribute to.

New comment by jimbooonooo in "Quillx is an open standard for disclosing AI involvement in software projects"

jimbooonooo — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 04:23:19 +0000

Is honesty an important quality to you? Does lying by omission concern you for the people and projects you choose to interact with?

New comment by jimbooonooo in "Mondrian Entered the Public Domain. The Estate Disagrees"

jimbooonooo — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 01:52:41 +0000

Of course it seems fair to you, it's not your IP that's being stolen before you were able to extract all it's worth from.

New comment by jimbooonooo in "A party balloon shut down El Paso International Airport; estimated cost –$573k"

jimbooonooo — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 03:28:07 +0000

hey friend, this comment is better suited for Reddit than here, even though likely agree with you.

New comment by jimbooonooo in "How to Have a Bad Career – David Patterson (2016) [video]"

jimbooonooo — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 00:14:20 +0000

hello, yes 911? I'd like to report a hate crime against me

New comment by jimbooonooo in "Game Boy Advance Audio Interpolation"

jimbooonooo — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 02:36:33 +0000

sure, and you know what their design intent was right?

New comment by jimbooonooo in "Arduino Terms of Service and Privacy Policy update: setting the record straight"

jimbooonooo — Sat, 22 Nov 2025 17:40:05 +0000

I have to dig around, I think I still have one of the original wiring boards from around 2006 (maybe)?

New comment by jimbooonooo in "Rapid Liquid Print: Patented Gravity Free Manufacturing"

jimbooonooo — Sat, 19 Oct 2024 20:56:30 +0000

I'm curious about materials safety, some platinum/tin 2 part hardners are pretty nasty...

New comment by jimbooonooo in "Next gen 3D metal printing"

jimbooonooo — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 06:17:51 +0000

Tons of questions, this is incredibly cool! Can you discuss:

1.) How you compensate for anode consumption/geometry changes over the lifetime of the anode. For instance, does the center get worn away or do you try to uniformly use each "pixel".

2.) More details on anode "pixel" geometry and minimum feature size.

3.) Can you talk about the development process? Did you have in situ measurement, or post build analysis of the part and anode.

4.) Typical surface finish?