Hacker News: kraken_cult

New comment by kraken_cult in "Show HN: SimCity, but with Permits"

kraken_cult — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 02:23:51 +0000

And even more elite players eventually come to realize that above the non-roving, entrenched bandits, there are roving bandits forming their own government. :-)

New comment by kraken_cult in "LA restaurant group used $60k Dodgers bet to hedge playoff risk, Kalshi says"

kraken_cult — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 00:20:13 +0000

the future is now

New comment by kraken_cult in "Terence Tao: Math 2.0 [pdf]"

kraken_cult — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 18:35:21 +0000

Most of the boosterism around AI is also starting like religious mysticism, the kind of arguments religious people made (and make), trust in God/AI, abundance is here, no one will have to work. I wonder what that tells us?

New comment by kraken_cult in "Documents add to evidence in climate deception case against ExxonMobil"

kraken_cult — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:10:41 +0000

Maybe how much time you serve correlates to how much money/stock/etc you have made?

New comment by kraken_cult in "Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program"

kraken_cult — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 16:44:35 +0000

Hopefully H1B is next, or at the very least capped so there can only be a certain number at a time, and if someone wants to get another h1b visa they need to ensure that someone who is here currently is gone before it's issued. Too many "temporary" workers who come into the country, work "temporarily" then end up moving here. Ask yourself how many people from Indian origin own houses in San Francisco and the surrounding area? Are we sure they aren't putting pressure on housing for Americans? How can they prove that, until they can prove they don't impact citizens in any way, they shouldn't be here.

New comment by kraken_cult in "How did Rosalind Franklin miss the helix in her iconic DNA image? She didn't"

kraken_cult — Wed, 07 Oct 2026 22:20:53 +0000

Sure, and I'm sure there are countless people through history, lab techs, post docs, the scribe of Machiavelli, the person who washed da Vinci's shirts who made contributions - maybe major. Hell, stuff I bring up at work now will somehow make it in to our staff meeting as coming from the CEO when it was a conversation him and I had.

The questions is, why, there's clearly an obsession around it. And I honestly doubt if Rosalind Franklin we wouldn't be having the conversation, can you see any indicator to the contrary?

New comment by kraken_cult in "Why do tech CEOs sound like doomsday cult leaders?"

kraken_cult — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 21:47:55 +0000

It's likely Eliezer Yudkowsky

New comment by kraken_cult in "The AI industry is booming. Women are getting left behind"

kraken_cult — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:56:53 +0000

Well, never fear, Aella has advice on how to get ahead as a woman in the scene. Apparently she's immensely popular in the community.

Here's an inside look from the other day: https://www.thenewcritic.com/p/safe-at-slutcon

New comment by kraken_cult in "Ask HN: If you're struggling with p(doom), how are you handling it?"

kraken_cult — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 13:32:52 +0000

Religion has a way of stirring fear in people. Part of the reason it is so successful is that it can cause existential fear. The yudowskys, the Scott Alexanders, and the Dario Amodeis of the world want you to be in the state of fear because it gives them power over you. And with that power they can create generational wealth and power for themselves and their friends, effectively taking that from you. That's what they are doing at a grand scale.

It's modern day fire and brimstone. "Forgive us our sins and render your flocks unto us, for we are speaking to the natal god".

Look up Yudwowsky's "math pets", his desire to essentially build a cult of women with math PhD's around him to sleep with. It's textbook narcissism that is focused on the self, not the world around him. That is not someone who should be able to dictate public discourse.

New comment by kraken_cult in "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything"

kraken_cult — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:36:43 +0000

The west has long since let people who get off on usury hold too much sway.

New comment by kraken_cult in "Federal judge calls Flock 'indiscriminate mass surveillance'"

kraken_cult — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 22:48:38 +0000

If someone set up their own camera and analytics platform outside of politicians and police officers homes and places of work, they would be taken down the next day. It's clearly biased towards people they see as not being able to fight back.

New comment by kraken_cult in "U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Falls to Lowest Level Since 1982"

kraken_cult — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 03:29:28 +0000

They aren't winning the midterms with this. Hopefully the grifter hopefuls will take the lesson to heart.

New comment by kraken_cult in "Who should be held accountable when an AI Agent (accidentally) acts maliciously?"

kraken_cult — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 00:57:45 +0000

I think a lot of the developers in these big labs barely understand how it works

New comment by kraken_cult in "Oil Slips as Iran Diplomacy Sparks Fresh Hopes for a Market Reset"

kraken_cult — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 19:58:59 +0000

never waste a crisis

New comment by kraken_cult in "Does Georgism work? Five years later"

kraken_cult — Sun, 27 Sep 2026 02:37:44 +0000

And by jobs what they mean is that they will import labor to build housing you can't afford in your neighbourhood.

New comment by kraken_cult in "Territory claims in Antartica look when Antartica has no ice"

kraken_cult — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:48:10 +0000

Looks like it needs an American flag and the biggest data center the world has ever scene. Strategic South anyone?

New comment by kraken_cult in "Paul Graham on LLMs 'Thinking'"

kraken_cult — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 01:12:07 +0000

If you can convince a sufficient number of people of something does it become true?

New comment by kraken_cult in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

kraken_cult — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:49:19 +0000

> There's like $20 trillion worth of capitalized land value in the USA. That could mean like $1 trillion a year on-going assuming 5% discounting. Land rent is a perpetual stream of wealth.

Leasing the land of the US? That's your big revelation?

listen to the other commenter, fixing it means reducing wealth disparity.

New comment by kraken_cult in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

kraken_cult — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 00:19:06 +0000

I'm curious as to how you think we should divide up who gets what plots, can you explain how that works?

New comment by kraken_cult in "California is chasing wealth that has feet"

kraken_cult — Thu, 24 Sep 2026 23:57:04 +0000

And what's being litigated here is how people deal with limited supply when "just make more money" isn't a real option.