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New comment by jorblumesea in "U.S. science is in chaos"

jorblumesea — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 20:22:42 +0000

expat is usually synonymous with fire/retire early. most people move to spain or portugal and see their purchasing power multiply.

New comment by jorblumesea in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

jorblumesea — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:32:59 +0000

project 2025 is also just about the wholesale destruction of the opposition, including academia.

New comment by jorblumesea in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"

jorblumesea — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:17:06 +0000

anecdotal but a good number of people have clearly stopped working as much or quiet quit. some even left the company or the industry. CEOs are also telling everyone to 5x their output, AI will replace them.

Whatever productivity gains models are giving us is being eaten away by other factors.

New comment by jorblumesea in "A Farmer Donated Land to Turn into a Park. The City Is Building a Data Center"

jorblumesea — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:25:04 +0000

if you've ever bought and sold a house, you will know people who look at deeds and titles aren't very detail oriented. they even have title insurance because it happens so often.

New comment by jorblumesea in "Confidential submission of draft S-1 to the SEC"

jorblumesea — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 23:04:37 +0000

that's not the issue, Elon is just a petulant child that is losing the ai game ever since he left OAI. Elon wanted full control, and that dispute over control is the central issue.

Elon is 100% a for profit person, it's just a 10 year rivalry between Sam and Elon.

New comment by jorblumesea in "India's surprise baby bust"

jorblumesea — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:26:50 +0000

most retirement systems assume at least stable population growth. if the system can't sustain itself, debt borrowing can be done but eventually creditors will come calling.

what it means in practical terms is the destruction of the modern social safety net. some declining birth rates are ok but places like Japan, Spain, and South Korea look disastrous.

New comment by jorblumesea in "Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition"

jorblumesea — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:22:52 +0000

wow, that's really high. average price for the us is maybe $0.25 kwh adjusted for AUD

New comment by jorblumesea in "Iran Shock Jolts Asia and Europe to Speed Up Energy Transition"

jorblumesea — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:06:15 +0000

very jealous of how cheap AUS solar prices are. < $1 AUD per watt after rebate

New comment by jorblumesea in "Robinhood now lets your AI agents trade stocks"

jorblumesea — Fri, 29 May 2026 17:58:35 +0000

awesome, now you can spend your money burning tokens to enable burning your retirement

New comment by jorblumesea in "U.S. researchers face new restrictions on publishing with foreign collaborators"

jorblumesea — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:19:17 +0000

The US is trending towards a Russian style oligarchy and these latest moves are just one of a wider pattern of trying to suppress academia, freedom of speech, personal freedoms.

New comment by jorblumesea in "Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center"

jorblumesea — Fri, 15 May 2026 21:28:49 +0000

right my point is these are 1 time investments, locals will be dealing with the consequences and most of the workers will just leave after the job is done.

New comment by jorblumesea in "Meta to receive $3.3B in tax breaks for its $10B Louisiana data center"

jorblumesea — Fri, 15 May 2026 20:59:12 +0000

What's the value add for states and cities? data centers don't create a lot of long term jobs, the skills required are highly specialized and will probably hire out of state. the construction itself will likely hire locals but that can't go on forever. these centers are loud, increase power costs and water usage.

feels like short term job creation program at best.

New comment by jorblumesea in "Amazon workers under pressure to up their AI usage are making up tasks"

jorblumesea — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:39:20 +0000

Has anyone actually seen true business lift from agents or is this one of those "do stupid things faster" situation?

New comment by jorblumesea in "China blocks Meta's acquisition of AI startup Manus"

jorblumesea — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 19:34:41 +0000

So China is just claiming that anyone who is ethnically Chinese should be pressured? Manus is in Singapore and has no direct connections to China physically and financially. SG offices, SG product, SG founders with family on the mainland.

New comment by jorblumesea in "An update on recent Claude Code quality reports"

jorblumesea — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 17:19:04 +0000

models are great but models don't magically fix things. you need to set up systems to handle the output of code, you need to instrument metrics to llm to listen to and flag. experimentation is a huge problem, with the huge output of code, how to you keep your business metrics clean and isolate issues. these are all hard challenges.

in response, most companies are explicitly trading velocity for quality, and finding out that quality is actually important at the end of the day. if you look at the roadmap it's just ship ship ship. eng is being told to 3x their output. quality in the llm coded world is tough and there's not much appetite for it right now.

New comment by jorblumesea in "Codex for almost everything"

jorblumesea — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 17:49:42 +0000

really struggling to understand where this is coming from, agents haven't really improved much over using the existing models. anything an agent can do, is mostly the model itself. maybe the technology itself isn't mature yet.

New comment by jorblumesea in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

jorblumesea — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 16:43:24 +0000

I really don't think he thought it was equivalent, he was just larping and thought he could trick people.

New comment by jorblumesea in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

jorblumesea — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:08:51 +0000

they will get poor people to die fighting each other, as it works today.

New comment by jorblumesea in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

jorblumesea — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:29:47 +0000

As if this isn't intentional or an added benefit. AI is the wet dream of the capital class, no need to negotiate with greedy workers asking for rights and benefits. There will be a chasm between the wealthy and everyone else. the future is looking more and more like feudalism.

New comment by jorblumesea in "American aviation is near collapse?"

jorblumesea — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 21:10:16 +0000

This is largely true for almost all US public services. Decades of focusing on the needs of the 1% is producing a situation where almost everything is under funded or poorly implemented. Critical infrastructure isn't a priority.