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New comment by kelseyfrog in "Italo Calvino: A traveller in a world of uncertainty"

kelseyfrog — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:31:27 +0000

Definitely! That's what kicked off my interest :)

New comment by kelseyfrog in "Molotov cocktail is hurled at home of Sam Altman"

kelseyfrog — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:08:34 +0000

Napkin math puts him at ~5,800-11,500 deaths.

More of a mass murderer in my eyes, but I'm willing to be wrong on that point.

New comment by kelseyfrog in "Italo Calvino: A traveller in a world of uncertainty"

kelseyfrog — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:54:15 +0000

If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller gives the reader the impression that there must be a system at play and gives up some of its secrets easily. However, there remains a persistent feeling, after reading each section, that there are other connections - threads of deliberate meaning - between them all that slip through your fingers as you desperately try to clutch more and more fragments passing by.

It's one of my favorite books precisely because it generates this feeling and led me to Perec's Life: A User's Manual among other fantastic works.

New comment by kelseyfrog in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

kelseyfrog — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:39:56 +0000

At the same time considering the people participating, there wasn't a way out of the problems that didn't involve violence. Different outcomes would require different choices that require different people.

New comment by kelseyfrog in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

kelseyfrog — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 23:29:37 +0000

No one deserves to be attacked.

I also believe that there will be more casualties in the AI Wars. We should be prepared for that. Capitalism, AI, and human life are mutually incompatible and I'm still not sure which two will survive the conflict.

New comment by kelseyfrog in "Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members"

kelseyfrog — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 19:28:52 +0000

You can lookup made up terms if you want.

New comment by kelseyfrog in "Peers vote to ban pornography depicting sex acts between stepfamily members"

kelseyfrog — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 17:24:57 +0000

You are absolutely right! It takes incredible bravery to admit that if we cannot solve the problem in totality then incremental improvements are useless.

New comment by kelseyfrog in "What game engines know about data that databases forgot"

kelseyfrog — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 19:39:58 +0000

The connection between ECS and DBs wasn't lost on developers in the early days of ECS. I'm reminded of Scott Bilias's 2002 ECS presentation: A Data-Driven Game Object System[1] which clearly says, "This is a database."

In my mind, there's a pedagogical gap in OOP where ontologies are formed using classes and this almost never works in real life applications (no in real life for that matter). We almost always construct ontological relations using predicates not rigid hierarchies. For this, ECS tends to be flexible, and expressive enough to be a pragmatic choice.

1. https://www.gamedevs.org/uploads/data-driven-game-object-sys...

New comment by kelseyfrog in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

kelseyfrog — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 19:09:34 +0000

They shouldn't _have_ to do anything. The point is that no demands should be placed upon users.

Same problem with age gating. It's fine, as long as zero additional demands are placed upon users.

New comment by kelseyfrog in "Microsoft terminates VeraCrypt account, halting Windows updates"

kelseyfrog — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 18:50:15 +0000

Anything that restricts user freedom is entirely bad, even if it's at the expense of security.

New comment by kelseyfrog in "USD Purchasing Power in Real Time Since 2000"

kelseyfrog — Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:02:22 +0000

> If the dollar stops being the reserve currency, the purchasing power of the dollar will crash.

And thus manufacturing will return to the US! I thought we wanted that. It's the only way out of the Triffin dilemma.

New comment by kelseyfrog in "Bernie Sanders: "AI Is a Threat to Everything the American People Hold Dear""

kelseyfrog — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 23:32:13 +0000

Pathological demand avoidance.

New comment by kelseyfrog in "Polymarket apologizes for allowing wagers on fate of U.S. pilots downed in Iran"

kelseyfrog — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 05:04:23 +0000

Without 'skin in the game'? Preposterous

New comment by kelseyfrog in "Age verification on Systemd and Flatpak"

kelseyfrog — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 22:05:19 +0000

Why reach for a slippery slope fallacy when plenty of other fallacies will do? Have you considered reworking your argument to use proof by assertion or even the moralistic fallacy[1]? You might get better milage out of those.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fallacies

New comment by kelseyfrog in "Polymarket apologizes for allowing wagers on fate of U.S. pilots downed in Iran"

kelseyfrog — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 21:50:23 +0000

How are we supposed to come to a prediction, if wagers are disallowed?

The primary function of prediction markets is to reflect real world probabilities in terms of price in order to make better decisions. Without this function, we're acting in the dark.

New comment by kelseyfrog in "Group Pushing Age Verification for AI Turns Out to Be Backed by OpenAI"

kelseyfrog — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 19:52:57 +0000

Whew, for a moment I was worried it was Big Corn.

New comment by kelseyfrog in "UK Government unveils rules to end subscription traps"

kelseyfrog — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 15:52:48 +0000

Not far enough. A seat on the board.

New comment by kelseyfrog in "US FDA Expected to Lift Restrictions on Dozen Peptides Previously Banned"

kelseyfrog — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 21:52:42 +0000

The push around peptides stems from a supplier realization that consumers are much more open to injections than previously assumed. This means drugs that were previously thought to be non-marketable might in fact have demand.

Producers love recurring and subscription sales models. It's consumers who get the short end of the stick.

Telling More Than We Can Know: Verbal Reports on Mental Processes(1977)[pdf]

kelseyfrog — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 17:15:59 +0000

Article URL: https://home.csulb.edu/~cwallis/382/readings/482/nisbett%20saying%20more.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47603718

Points: 2

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New comment by kelseyfrog in "Marc Andreessen's dangerously unexamined life"

kelseyfrog — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 16:47:46 +0000

Nesbit and Wilson(1977)[1] suggest that we have little or no direct intro-spective access to higher order cognitive processes.

Most of our behaviors are a result of System I thinking and most of our moral rationalizations exist as System II thinking. It's extremely difficult to do what we feel is wrong so it's easier to intellectually synthesize a frame where we're morally correct than force ourselves to act against our possibly wrong intuitions.

1. https://home.csulb.edu/~cwallis/382/readings/482/nisbett%20s...