Hacker News: lifeformed

New comment by lifeformed in "The dead economy theory"

lifeformed — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:42:45 +0000

But a messaging program like Signal is fairly similar in scope, but only has like a couple dozen of devs, compared to Messenger's thousands(?).

New comment by lifeformed in "'AI washing': firms are scrambling to rebrand themselves as tech-focused"

lifeformed — Sun, 24 May 2026 18:51:14 +0000

The truth is that if you get in early enough on a hype train and cash out in time, you will make money. That's enough of a rational basis to participate. The ostensible purpose of it all is basically irrelevant, except as a signal to participate.

New comment by lifeformed in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

lifeformed — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:34:25 +0000

It takes away from real human artists who do their part to slowly advance human culture. Music will not develop without human artists. Maybe for this moment in time AI can fulfill some people's musical desires, but it's not going to keep up with the times. The point of art, in a general sense, is humanity. Automating away your artistic needs is like automating away your social needs. It's a one way "relationship" that is superficial and self-indulgent. It's a step towards an empty world.

New comment by lifeformed in "The Intelligence Failure in Iran"

lifeformed — Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:59:33 +0000

I think this article is agreeing with you. It's saying that it's not an "intelligence" failure in the traditional "military intelligence" sense of the word we expect, but rather it's an "intelligence" failure in "runaway idiocy" sense.

New comment by lifeformed in "Tell HN: Anthropic no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw"

lifeformed — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 03:02:17 +0000

The whole industry is about robots telling robots what to do, why wouldn't they have expected automation?

New comment by lifeformed in "The Cognitive Dark Forest"

lifeformed — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:48:43 +0000

That's still making assumptions based on our human understanding of the cosmos. Our "laws of physics" could be a localized understanding in our region of space, and much, much, much more powerful entities could operate outside of that, where our perception of time and scale does not meaningfully apply. It would be near-zero cost to destroy potential threats, so they might as well. It's like humans eliminating pests and pathogens. It's standard hygiene, a low cost preventative practice. Nobody is targeting a single bacterium, they're just wiping down dirty spots. It's an interesting concept in the book because of how imaginative it gets with scaling.

New comment by lifeformed in "The Cognitive Dark Forest"

lifeformed — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 21:19:07 +0000

"Timescales that makes sense" may be a human reasoning but not necessarily the reasoning of inconceivably advanced timeless civilizations. Sure, that planet of fish may be harmless now, but what about in a quick three billion years when they have FTL and AGI and Von Neuman probes and Dyson spheres and antimatter bombs? Easier to click the delete button now to save the trouble later.

New comment by lifeformed in "Miasma: A tool to trap AI web scrapers in an endless poison pit"

lifeformed — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 15:45:08 +0000

What "content of character" do you ascribe to a web scraper?

New comment by lifeformed in "The future of version control"

lifeformed — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:54:23 +0000

I guess a good way to preview things would go a long way. Merging might be unrealistic to generalize, but being able to diff on images, game engine prefabs, audio, etc would help deciding which one to use.

New comment by lifeformed in "The future of version control"

lifeformed — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 16:59:22 +0000

My issue with git is handling non-text files, which is a common issue with game development. git-lfs is okay but it has some tricky quirks, and you end up with lots of bloat, and you can't merge. I don't really have an answer to how to improve it, but it would be nice if there was some innovation in that area too.

New comment by lifeformed in "Measuring progress toward AGI: A cognitive framework"

lifeformed — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 01:55:09 +0000

But that's not what AGI is. Restructuring data the way they do is very impressive but it's fundamentally different from novel creativity.

New comment by lifeformed in "1M context is now generally available for Opus 4.6 and Sonnet 4.6"

lifeformed — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 08:12:14 +0000

As long as it's within the law? What if they politically control the law-making system? What if they've shown themselves to operate brazenly outside the law?

New comment by lifeformed in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

lifeformed — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:45:47 +0000

I buy my software by weight! Give me the biggest one you have, please. I'm talking hundreds of klocs.

New comment by lifeformed in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

lifeformed — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 03:42:27 +0000

It's not because of one incident. And the fascist part of these incidents isn't just the killing, it's the official response to it. They immediately claim the victims are terrorists and assassins and suppress investigation of it. Let's not pretend this is just some sad accident.

New comment by lifeformed in "Banned in California"

lifeformed — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 16:24:26 +0000

> If I had a button that would wipe out the entire Amazon jungle and replace it with a world class high technology industry, I wouldn't even think twice before pressing it.

Wow. Why, because the Amazon is just a bunch of trees or something boring? If "high technology industry" is so much more valuable without even thinking twice about it, you probably don't understand very much of the world.

New comment by lifeformed in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

lifeformed — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:50:50 +0000

Are we supposed to be treating LLMs like sentient beings with their own identity and rights? I must've missed this civilization altering milestone.

New comment by lifeformed in "AI agent opens a PR write a blogpost to shames the maintainer who closes it"

lifeformed — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 15:40:32 +0000

You were anthropomorphizing software and assuming others are doing the same. If we are at the point where we are seriously taking a computer program's identity and rights into question, then that is a much bigger issue than a particular disagreement.

New comment by lifeformed in "The Responsibility of Intellectuals (1967)"

lifeformed — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 05:07:29 +0000

If morals or ethics aren't an equal partner in security, happiness, and prosperity, then the tribe deserves to fall.

New comment by lifeformed in "Show HN: isometric.nyc – giant isometric pixel art map of NYC"

lifeformed — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 04:39:46 +0000

Tedium in art is full of micro decisions. The sum of these decisions makes a subtle but big impact in the result. Skipping these means less expression.

New comment by lifeformed in "Gaussian Splatting – A$AP Rocky "Helicopter" music video"

lifeformed — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 05:52:23 +0000

You can say whatever you want, but pretentious sneering is annoying, don't be surprised if people push back.