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New comment by letmevoteplease in "We’re making Bunny DNS free"

letmevoteplease — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 12:10:39 +0000

I think you're confusing this with the more classic "it's not X, but Y" trope. That sentence is a comma splice that I'd expect LLMs to avoid by default.

New comment by letmevoteplease in "Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics"

letmevoteplease — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 19:28:51 +0000

Not sure how to square this post with recent headlines like "SoftBank posts $46 billion gain at Vision Fund driven mainly by massive OpenAI bet".

New comment by letmevoteplease in "Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea"

letmevoteplease — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 15:22:33 +0000

Figure 03 is 134 pounds. 1x NEO (the only one really designed for household usage) is 66 pounds. Unitree R1 is 55 pounds. None of these are ready for real work yet but probably at some point in the future we will have practical humanoids.

New comment by letmevoteplease in "Nvidia partners with LG robotics to build humanoid robots in South Korea"

letmevoteplease — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:03:03 +0000

In a competitive market, this won't happen: "passing along more of the value to major shareholders like myself." The price of human labor will go down, but competition will force the price of goods to go down alongside it. Profit margins will stabilize, but the cost of living and the cost of goods will plummet. It's like the invention of the power loom: it was terrible for the wages of hand-weavers, but it made clothing radically cheaper and more abundant for the rest of humanity. The only way the shareholders keep all the value is if we allow monopolies to form.

The potential difference here is that it might eliminate all human labor which would likely force us into some new kind of economy. Hopefully something better than one where humans waste their lives on manual labor.

New comment by letmevoteplease in "Vitamin D3 During Pregnancy and Cognitive Performance at 10 Years"

letmevoteplease — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 17:48:02 +0000

Where are you getting "after they corrected for multiple testing the significance of 2 of those disappeared"? The text you quoted says, of the three, one disappeared and two remained.

New comment by letmevoteplease in "Cloudflare CEO is lying to you about the bot traffic jump"

letmevoteplease — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 19:09:54 +0000

The author is also not very good at interpreting data himself. He claims "the AI number is padded by counting Googlebot twice" and links to [1], but there is nothing on that page that could support that assertion. It looks like he misinterpreted this part: "Googlebot crawls for both search indexing and AI training and is included as a separate entry due to its crawl volume" (Googlebot was NOT included in the "AI bot" count, so it was not counted twice.)

[1] https://radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-review/2025

New comment by letmevoteplease in "Maladaptive Frugality"

letmevoteplease — Fri, 01 May 2026 04:00:38 +0000

No, "tend" means "incline" here, but the normal grammatical reading of the sentence does not suggest wives have profligate tendencies.

New comment by letmevoteplease in "Maladaptive Frugality"

letmevoteplease — Fri, 01 May 2026 03:55:17 +0000

This usage is fine. "A dependable friend is a rare thing to find."

New comment by letmevoteplease in "A statement from members of the Toki Pona community"

letmevoteplease — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 19:52:33 +0000

Judging by her Twitter, she has renamed herself "Major General Musk" (claiming to be the wife of Elon) and appointed herself as CEO of Discord and "Unicode" while claiming to be the first "Jewslim."

New comment by letmevoteplease in "UAE to leave OPEC"

letmevoteplease — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 14:27:21 +0000

OPEC has no rules requiring its members to sell oil in US dollars. Iran and Venezuela are members of OPEC.

New comment by letmevoteplease in "Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal"

letmevoteplease — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 17:15:52 +0000

Let me just repeat that: "Microsoft" came to your school in 2002 and "confidently stated" that AI had been solved. Really interesting story.

New comment by letmevoteplease in "Claude mixes up who said what"

letmevoteplease — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 16:12:04 +0000

Can you elaborate? As far as I understand, for each message, the LLM is fed the entire previous conversation with special tokens separating the user and LLM responses. The LLM is then entrusted with interpreting the tokens correctly. I can't imagine any architecture where the LLM is not ultimately responsible for determining what messages came from who.

New comment by letmevoteplease in "Was the Iran War Caused by AI Psychosis?"

letmevoteplease — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:46:03 +0000

Yes. I really think this piece is an AI-generated hallucination. Look at the table of "AI Predictions vs. Operational Reality" for example; that's classic ChatGPT style. An interesting irony.

New comment by letmevoteplease in "Was the Iran War Caused by AI Psychosis?"

letmevoteplease — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 21:06:44 +0000

This reads like an AI-generated hit piece on AI. "According to Bloomberg, CNN, and the Soufan Center, AI simulations run before February 28 produced projections of overwhelming success for a decapitation strike against Tehran." - can anyone find anything like this in Bloomberg, CNN, or the Soufan Center? I tried and could not. Seems like fiction inspired by the known fact that Claude was used for targetting and so on.

New comment by letmevoteplease in "Epoch confirms GPT5.4 Pro solved a frontier math open problem"

letmevoteplease — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 01:54:06 +0000

Lots of examples here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632

New comment by letmevoteplease in "Super Monkey Ball ported to a website"

letmevoteplease — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 02:55:46 +0000

The author commented on their ko-fi: "there isn't much to say that would require a big writeup - a lot of the code is already reversed, and anything that's missing can be yoinked from ghidra decomp output and cleaned up, so it's just a matter of transpiling to a different language. plus much of the game's proprietary formats are thoroughly documented by the modding community. time consuming but quite easy if you're just patient haha"

New comment by letmevoteplease in "Google Antigravity just deleted the contents of whole drive"

letmevoteplease — Mon, 01 Dec 2025 13:28:03 +0000

   rmdir /s /q Z:\ETSY 2025\Antigravity Projects\Image Selector\client\node_modules.vite

Running this command in cmd attempts to delete (I ran without /q to check):

Z:\ETSY (-> Deletes if it exists.)

"2025\Antigravity" (-> The system cannot find the path specified.)

"Projects\Image" (-> The system cannot find the path specified.)

"Selector\client\node_modules.vite" (-> The system cannot find the path specified.)

It does not delete the Z:\ drive.

New comment by letmevoteplease in "PRC elites voice AI-skepticism"

letmevoteplease — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 23:23:38 +0000

"The latest survey data available, compiled by researchers at CAS, revealed that most experts hold negative attitudes towards LLM development"

Let's check the source...[1]

"The survey was conducted in 2021 from May to July."

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[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20250903025427/https:/long-term-...

New comment by letmevoteplease in "Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot"

letmevoteplease — Fri, 10 Oct 2025 14:58:50 +0000

I'd love to be greeted by a robot when arriving at a hotel. Of course there's the novelty factor, but even without that, self-checkouts show that many people prefer interacting with a machine over a human for service.

More importantly, who wants to stand behind a desk 8 hours a day and handle fussy customers? Probably some people, but the main motivation for the average hotel clerk is receiving money. Can we reorganize the economy so robots perform this kind of mundane work, while humans still receive money but can spend their time on more meaningful activities than standing behind a desk? I think a future like that is possible although it remains to be seen whether we will get it.

New comment by letmevoteplease in "A human metaphor for evaluating AI capability"

letmevoteplease — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 21:08:41 +0000

The tweet is not an accurate summary of the original post. The person who said they talked to the organizer did not say that. And now we are relying on a tweet from a person who said they talked to a person who said they talked to an organizer. Quite a game of telephone, and yet you're presenting it as some established truth.