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Bots Among Us

johnecheck — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:22:10 +0000

Article URL: https://7hird.dev/3mgzlboei5k2i?auth_completed=true

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47479096

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

New comment by johnecheck in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

johnecheck — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:50:26 +0000

Seems like the solution is to either not incriminate yourself online or get plausible deniability with a pseudonym.

New comment by johnecheck in "Bluesky CEO Jay Graber is stepping down"

johnecheck — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 03:40:22 +0000

Personally, I really like that my feeds aren't getting that level of granular detail. I prefer the explicit control I have with 'Show more like this' and 'Show less like this'.

New comment by johnecheck in "Polis: Open-source platform for large-scale civic deliberation"

johnecheck — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 02:08:35 +0000

You're describing Liquid Democracy[1]. Seems challenging to implement but definitely an interesting idea.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquid_democracy

New comment by johnecheck in "A Social Filesystem"

johnecheck — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 14:56:48 +0000

Trust is subjective! Let's establish trust in each other rather than rely on one-size-fits-all solutions.

Personally, I trust my friends, family, and some public figures and institutions to varying degrees. I want to see social experiences that reflect that.

New comment by johnecheck in "A New Year's letter to a young person"

johnecheck — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 15:43:49 +0000

It's X, not twitter. That system is directly controlled by a single man for his own benefit; we should use the name that reminds us of that.

He openly promotes himself and those that pay him. If you think Musk doesn't have an admin dashboard where he can demote accounts he dislikes and promote his friends, I have some... unkind words for you.

It's about control. Control over your information intake is partial control over you.

We can do so much better than ceding that power to the highest bidder.

New comment by johnecheck in "Parental controls aren't for parents"

johnecheck — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 02:11:30 +0000

We're not sinister, we just have these metrics that we prioritize at all costs, up to and including child well-being!

New comment by johnecheck in "Reflections on AI at the End of 2025"

johnecheck — Sun, 21 Dec 2025 05:09:54 +0000

> There are trust issues all the way down.

Nonetheless, we must somehow build trust in others and denounce the undeserving. Some humans deserve trust. Will these AI models?

New comment by johnecheck in "Why do commercial spaces sit vacant?"

johnecheck — Wed, 17 Dec 2025 22:01:25 +0000

That's unbelievably stupid. But then again, so is not renting out the space at the market rate so you can pretend it's worth more than it really is. So... good luck, I guess?

New comment by johnecheck in "NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle"

johnecheck — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 05:31:24 +0000

If someone generates a massive essay with AI, you don't have a moral obligation to do anything.

If you want to argue that the reasoning in the essay is incorrect, I do expect you to refute the reasoning instead of merely attacking the source.

New comment by johnecheck in "NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle"

johnecheck — Mon, 08 Dec 2025 20:40:30 +0000

> Even if the conclusion is broadly correct, that doesn't mean the reasoning used to get there is consistent.

This is the conclusion of a reply that focused entirely on critiquing OP's style/AI use instead of their reasoning? Ironic.

New comment by johnecheck in "Nano Banana Pro"

johnecheck — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 17:45:35 +0000

I strongly suspect it's the latter, though someone please chime in if I'm wrong.

Even so, this is a real advancement. It's impressive to see existing techniques combined to meaningfully improve on SOTA image generation.

New comment by johnecheck in "Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max"

johnecheck — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 22:33:39 +0000

It's funny, this release comes right after the Gemini 3 release that coincided with day 1 of Microsoft's Ignite conference.

New comment by johnecheck in "Copyright winter is coming (to Wikipedia?)"

johnecheck — Fri, 14 Nov 2025 05:32:16 +0000

Are you religious? If not, you should assume that your cognition is a product of your body, a magnificent machine.

I don't think LLMs are sapient, but your argument implies that creativity is something unique to humans and therefore no machine can ever have it. If the human body IS a machine, this is a contradiction.

Now, there's a very reasonable argument to be made concerning the purpose of copyright law, but "machines can't be creative" isn't it.

New comment by johnecheck in "Widespread distribution of bacteria containing PETases across global oceans"

johnecheck — Tue, 11 Nov 2025 17:36:02 +0000

Time to invent a type of plastic that's poisonous to these bacteria!

> Is it harmful to humans?

> Not at all! You can definitely trust that my company has studied this in depth. I'm sure it isn't going to make it into everyone's bloodstreams before we learn it's actually terrible.

Trump Media to Enter Booming Prediction Markets Business

johnecheck — Tue, 28 Oct 2025 14:15:33 +0000

Article URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-28/trump-media-plans-to-enter-booming-prediction-markets-business

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45733188

Points: 3

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New comment by johnecheck in "Show HN: Play abstract strategy board games online with friends or against bots"

johnecheck — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 13:23:01 +0000

Dart/Flutter, custom engine. I've been very satisfied with it; does everything I need for a 2d game. Once it can natively use shaders/GPU on web it'll be perfect.

New comment by johnecheck in "Show HN: Play abstract strategy board games online with friends or against bots"

johnecheck — Thu, 23 Oct 2025 04:30:01 +0000

This seems like the time to mention my unreleased board/video game, Star Gambit!

It's a turn-based abstract space fleet battle coming to your browser in 2026. It's already playable over the internet w/ time controls and ratings. If that interests you, join the discord for updates and playtest invites!

https://stargamb.it

https://discord.gg/f3MUSkJjFx

New comment by johnecheck in "Why the open social web matters now"

johnecheck — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 15:52:30 +0000

You're right, Bluesky moderation is centralized. Unless content is served p2p, some moderation has to be centralized. At the end of the day, there's a server serving content and that server operator is legally obligated to remove illegal material.

Hopefully, atproto + community will provide alternatives for moderation services. Work is being done on this, we'll see what we end up getting. I feel that a competitive ecosystem of moderation services is probably the best answer we can hope for to that inherently messy problem.

New comment by johnecheck in "A small number of samples can poison LLMs of any size"

johnecheck — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 23:02:17 +0000

It's all about trust. How do we help machines (and humans) know what to trust?