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New comment by littlecorner in "Quirks of Human Anatomy"

littlecorner — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 12:59:40 +0000

And, in weird circumstances, men can lactate. There's even a story about a viking whose name is escaping me who nursed his son after his wife died.

New comment by littlecorner in "Honda is killing its EVs"

littlecorner — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 13:11:59 +0000

The world we live in is capitalistic. We can imagine another world that isn't, but when we're considering specific pieces of technology, it's worthwhile to judge it by how it will perform or be exploited in the world we live in.

New comment by littlecorner in "India's top court angry after junior judge cites fake AI-generated orders"

littlecorner — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 18:25:41 +0000

>>Some human still has to be accountable. Someone has to get fired / go to jail when something screws up.

Now I'm trying to imagine a way they could apply a criminal charge against an AI in such a way that it would prevent the AI from being used in official capacity or something

New comment by littlecorner in "Tech companies shouldn't be bullied into doing surveillance"

littlecorner — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 14:21:56 +0000

On the plus side, the current administration isn't obscuring the corruption like previous administrations, which is somewhat refreshing.

New comment by littlecorner in "Show HN: Jemini – Gemini for the Epstein Files"

littlecorner — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 14:44:39 +0000

It's very disconcerting to think that this "innocent" toy or clothing I see my children playing with as "tainted" by this monster. Suddenly he's not just some nebulous monster out there, but in some way the idea of him is here with my children, arousing protective instincts without anything in particular to direct that energy towards.

It also shows him as a human like other humans, which then makes me ponder is that person walking down the street also a monster? Could I become a monster like Epstein?

Such thoughts are very disconcerting

New comment by littlecorner in "What your Bluetooth devices reveal"

littlecorner — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 18:58:24 +0000

Did not realize I could do that! Thank you!

New comment by littlecorner in "Discord/Twitch/Snapchat age verification bypass"

littlecorner — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 13:57:10 +0000

And have schools stop giving kids laptops or tablets. I wonder how much of the Chromebooks for school incitive was to develop a new market for Google

New comment by littlecorner in "Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month"

littlecorner — Tue, 10 Feb 2026 12:54:21 +0000

Everyone thought that we were designing the system, but it's really been the system designing us.

(Only half joking; the medium is the message, and changes us as much as we change it)

New comment by littlecorner in "A case study in PDF forensics: The Epstein PDFs"

littlecorner — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 16:18:19 +0000

I think some of the released documents included images of victims, which where redacted. So it's not necessarily malicious removals

New comment by littlecorner in "Sins of the Children"

littlecorner — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 13:42:13 +0000

The Sun Eater series is an interesting one that kind of goes both ways. The big alien baddies are basically demons, and humanity gets a lot of love, but all the politicking and whatnot shows humanity to be both good and bad

New comment by littlecorner in "This is not the future"

littlecorner — Tue, 16 Dec 2025 15:34:18 +0000

Hopefully without spoiling it, Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time has an interesting take on game theory at the end

New comment by littlecorner in "The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora"

littlecorner — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 18:07:22 +0000

There's an instinct in many of us to destroy and pervert, and it can lead to very dark places.

New comment by littlecorner in "'Calvin and Hobbes' at 40"

littlecorner — Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:44:58 +0000

Many of the fairy tales have it too. Maybe its something deeper common to humanity

New comment by littlecorner in "What influence has the BBC had on history?"

littlecorner — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 13:28:52 +0000

Its the messy application of FDR's claim that the USA should be the arsenal of democracy and should protect people everywhere. Which sounds all well and good, until you get different ideas about what is the best and that 'I' know better than you. Basically all the mess of the Cold War and propaganda and advertising

New comment by littlecorner in "FBI tries to unmask owner of archive.is"

littlecorner — Fri, 07 Nov 2025 12:49:46 +0000

The FBI is also used by various organizations to investigate various crimes, whether real or not. For instance, the Bureau of Industry and Security thought my company was flaunting export regulations and had the FBI raid my company to investigate. It turned out to largely be due to a paperwork problem, but the BIS didn't have the power to investigate so they contracted the FBI to provide the manpower to do the raid. So who we saw was the FBI, but it was really the BIS originating the raid.

New comment by littlecorner in "Facts about throwing good parties"

littlecorner — Tue, 04 Nov 2025 12:34:16 +0000

Until kids show up lol

New comment by littlecorner in "This map is not upside down"

littlecorner — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 12:09:27 +0000

Almost every map is oriented wrong. They should be oriented towards the East (orient comes from the Latin word for east)

New comment by littlecorner in "I will do anything to end homelessness except build more homes (2018)"

littlecorner — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 12:24:17 +0000

While there's some things that's can be done in the political and legislation spheres, there's a lot more need for just basic human relationships. Talking to those people and making friendships with those who different than you, and might be a little scary or uncomfortable. I suspect a lot of out social and political problems could be solved were we to get off of these shiny screens and spend time being in our bodies, building relationships with real people who don't fit all of our lofty ideals

New comment by littlecorner in "They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers Sent Them Spiraling"

littlecorner — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 13:04:06 +0000

Two problems: 1. We don't have community anymore and thus don't have people helping us when we're emotionally and mentally sick. 2. AI chatbots are the crappy plastic replacement of community.

There's going to be a lot more stuff like this, including AI churches/cults, in the next few years.

New comment by littlecorner in "What If We Had Bigger Brains? Imagining Minds Beyond Ours"

littlecorner — Thu, 29 May 2025 12:54:57 +0000

If you want to go down the rabbit hole of higher order intelligences, look up egregores. I know John Vervake and Jordan Hall have done some work trying to describe them, as well as other people studying cognition. But when you get into that you start finding religion discussing how to interact them (after all, aren't such intelligences what people used to call gods?)