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New comment by kranke155 in "The best response to AI slop and online noise is from Robin Williams"

kranke155 — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 10:47:20 +0000

You’re touching upon the very essence of being an actor, which is a form of shamanism of the human experience.

All societies I know of developed actors and forms of theatre. Why? Because they are essential, I suspect.

New comment by kranke155 in "There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days"

kranke155 — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 22:16:33 +0000

The thing is they seem to have taken Romero as a template vs an exceptional individual that might have required two people to duplicate in output (which is common).

New comment by kranke155 in "The AirPods Effect"

kranke155 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:51:15 +0000

Incarceration would be nuts.

New comment by kranke155 in "John Jumper to join Anthropic"

kranke155 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:49:26 +0000

Is it possible they are just falling behind ?

Their newest model wasn’t really SOTA. And honestly fable 5 was the most human like model I’d ever tried. It was an incredible jump.

And recently lots of Claude users at r/ClaudeAI are noticing Opus 4.8 has really increased in capability. Not new things but maybe redirected compute. It just feels like one of the best models ever, maybe because the compute that was previously assigned to Fable has been redirected? It feels incredible.

New comment by kranke155 in "If your product is Great, it doesn't need to be Good (2010)"

kranke155 — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 18:47:22 +0000

The minidisc was probably beautifully designed. I still have a player and some sample discs because I found them so beautiful. No wonder Ive and Jobs used to go “what would Sony do?” As a design round at early Apple 2.0

New comment by kranke155 in "Midjourney Medical"

kranke155 — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 07:54:09 +0000

Why is this shocking ?

New comment by kranke155 in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

kranke155 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 19:33:03 +0000

Decades. It took decades. My understanding is a lot of historians see the first decades as major economic growth while most British people actually became smaller and shorter due to malnutrition.

New comment by kranke155 in "Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging is a turnoff"

kranke155 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:23:57 +0000

All people I know hear when they hear AI is - they are automating art, there are layoffs incoming, they want to build a data centre next to me that will make my electricity costs go up, they are automating the consumer help call center.

The positive views of AI are really increasingly concentrated amongst some of the tech heavy population.

New comment by kranke155 in "U.S. science is in chaos"

kranke155 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 11:44:35 +0000

It is absolutely a Chinese century. Even the comment above isn’t wrong per se - great power competition is normal during the interregnum, ie as Arrighi described it - one hegemon is rising while another is declining. But eventually one of them does rise and the world conforms to that - ie America in post WW2.

New comment by kranke155 in "Has AI already killed self-help nonfiction books?"

kranke155 — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:17:51 +0000

I suspect AI summaries are just reducing peoples need to click through on anything, possibly.

New comment by kranke155 in "Anthropic's Safety Superpower"

kranke155 — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 16:05:09 +0000

The issue with EU is its not one market, for funding or deploying a company of any kind. There is both no funding scale and no easy distribution scale. Same thing with any kind of lobbying you need to do to move laws to be more amenable to tech, you have to do it 20+ times. Nobody does this, which is why smart EU and UK talent migrates to the US, scales, then just uses the weight of their US business to change reality around them in the EU anwyay. For the most part.

New comment by kranke155 in "Notes on DeepSeek"

kranke155 — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:03:10 +0000

LLM assisted search is now one of the best ways to look into dense and obscure topics though, particularly given as google search quality has degraded. All it needs is for you to read the sources.

Source hallucination has also come down tremendously.

New comment by kranke155 in "Claude Fable 5"

kranke155 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 19:12:14 +0000

it seems to dislike biological chats. Rejected me on a chat that I am running with 4.8 as well on a rare condition I have.

New comment by kranke155 in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

kranke155 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 14:49:43 +0000

75$ a month for a cell phone? I pay 18$ monthly for mine. This is Southern Europe where the average monthly wage is 1000$. I dont know who could afford yet another 75$ expense.

New comment by kranke155 in "xAI is looking more like a datacentre REIT than a frontier lab"

kranke155 — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:25:58 +0000

Can 5% of the population even pay for that? Some kind of huge increase in prices for compute and inference and companies maintaining large bills for AI assistants for key employees or teams (1000-2000$) seems most likely to me.

New comment by kranke155 in "India's surprise baby bust"

kranke155 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:44:48 +0000

This is nowhere near the plane of possibilities, unless you assume the system is completely incapable of self correcting.

New comment by kranke155 in "DaVinci Resolve 21"

kranke155 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 13:03:12 +0000

Its not. I’m happy we had this conversation. I respect your attention to detail and fastidiousness.

New comment by kranke155 in "The Causes of Long Covid"

kranke155 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 08:59:29 +0000

I knew this would be the conclusion. Again - good luck. You are always right.

If you’re right and everyone else is wrong about hundreds if not thousands of studies, then you should be writing a book, not comments in HN.

We started at “some studies have errors” and we ended in “an entire field of research is wrong”.

You have already decided the field has no valid studies. Even when given dozens of examples you picked one and made up a series of points about one study. You made mistakes, never admitted it, and now are calling into question an entire field of medical research.

Again. Good luck with that.

New comment by kranke155 in "India's surprise baby bust"

kranke155 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:49:40 +0000

We seem to have reached, maybe, the point where more human beings is not necessarily a positive. Capitalist society through supply and demand seems to be signalling this - we seem to be running out of transformative capacity to keep building essential stuff like housing in many countries, without increasing our already fairly disruptive footprint.

This just seems self correcting to me - on both axis. It’s an organism not a linear process. It will fix itself later same as it seems to be doing now.

New comment by kranke155 in "India's surprise baby bust"

kranke155 — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:47:47 +0000

Why are you concerned about something that’s so far away from your lifetime ? There are so many problems - this one might even be self correcting - yet you seem prone to seeing it as an imminent catastrophe where you have to focus your attention on?