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New comment by lovecg in "NTSB issues investigative update on B-767 runway excursion accident in Miami"

lovecg — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 05:36:37 +0000

You’re imagining a last minute perfectly executed response after what appears to be a series of gross errors of judgement. Rarely works that way.

New comment by lovecg in "Study links coffee consumption to metabolic health and sex hormones"

lovecg — Fri, 14 Aug 2026 23:36:51 +0000

FDA requires 97% reduction to claim “decaf”. Swiss Water Process removes 99.9% for example.

New comment by lovecg in "Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI"

lovecg — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 02:09:40 +0000

> studies at Microsoft and elsewhere showing it’s closer to 14 percent

This is a depressing stat. The real productivity gains come from leaving soul sucking big tech companies where nothing gets done with any sort of urgency.

New comment by lovecg in "Elon Musk Becomes First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading"

lovecg — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:38:25 +0000

Yeah I’m confused about this part. Is there some loophole where they never have to pay the loan back? Otherwise they’d be taxed at that point.

New comment by lovecg in "Elon Musk Becomes First Trillionaire as SpaceX Starts Trading"

lovecg — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 18:57:11 +0000

Do people do that? Can I e.g. borrow against my assets and not pay any taxes? Curious to learn more.

New comment by lovecg in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

lovecg — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 03:15:24 +0000

Perhaps it’s a generational change? People who grew up with computers went on to be more productive with them, something like that might happen with AI too.

New comment by lovecg in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

lovecg — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:14:51 +0000

I’d give humans some credit, they’re an adaptable bunch. AI won’t replace humans in the same way humans did not replace cockroaches. It’s a non-sequitur.

New comment by lovecg in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

lovecg — Wed, 20 May 2026 22:12:05 +0000

By making it think for 100+ pages https://cdn.openai.com/pdf/1625eff6-5ac1-40d8-b1db-5d5cf925d... Regular ChatGPT users don’t have a way to do that, this is something they do internally only.

edit: apparently that’s only the _condensed summary_ of the chain of thought.

New comment by lovecg in "An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry"

lovecg — Wed, 20 May 2026 21:59:25 +0000

The problem is the amount of data with that cutoff is really minuscule to produce anything powerful. You might be able to generate a lot of 1700s sounding data, you’d have to be careful not to introduce newer concepts or ways of thinking in that synthetic data though. A lot of modern texts talk about rates of change and the like in ways that are probably influenced by preexisting knowledge of calculus.

New comment by lovecg in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

lovecg — Mon, 04 May 2026 20:40:47 +0000

I’ve noticed some people with seemingly fulfilling hobbies stop doing them after quitting their job as well. It’s entirely possible all those hobbies are valuable precisely as something powerful to latch onto and disconnect from the day job, and seem pointless the day after quitting. Seems like you had a strong sense of identity outside of your job already before quitting. Building that could be a lot of hard work for other people (and it sometimes comes as a surprise that it even needs to be built).

New comment by lovecg in "System Card: Claude Mythos Preview [pdf]"

lovecg — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 10:35:22 +0000

This could have been written almost verbatim after the printing press came out and printed pamphlets became ubiquitous.

New comment by lovecg in "Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin's creator"

lovecg — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 01:45:28 +0000

It would be hilarious if he intentionally or accidentally lost the key, and has been trying to cash out through those Bitcoin adjacent business ventures ever since.

New comment by lovecg in "AI overly affirms users asking for personal advice"

lovecg — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 16:19:36 +0000

Let’s just hope that the people in charge of the really important decisions that affect us all approach LLM generated advice with the same wisdom.

New comment by lovecg in "Return of the Obra Dinn: spherical mapped dithering for a 1bpp first-person game"

lovecg — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 01:25:45 +0000

(2017)

New comment by lovecg in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

lovecg — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:52:44 +0000

Don’t know why this is being downvoted, that’s exactly right. One needs only to attend a local city meeting about any smallest step towards more development to see how the voters think.

New comment by lovecg in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

lovecg — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:43:13 +0000

I see quite a few:

“what X actually is”

“the X reality check”

Overuse of “real” and “genuine”:

> The real story is actually in the article. … And the real issue for Cursor … They have real "brand awareness", and they are genuinely better than the cheaper open weights models - for now at least. It's a real conundrum for them.

> … - these are genuinely massive expenses that dwarf inference costs.

This style just screams “Claude” to me.

New comment by lovecg in "The first airplane fatality"

lovecg — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:32:14 +0000

Definitely, you can’t get much safer mode of travel than a modern airline. There are some humorous statistics that hour for hour taking a shower is more dangerous.

Accidents generally go up as you move down the scale of regularly scheduled airlines -> charter -> private with professional crew -> private flying.

New comment by lovecg in "The first airplane fatality"

lovecg — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:26:07 +0000

You’d be surprised. Small aircraft crashes, if control is not lost before hitting the ground, are much more similar to car crashes than to large airliner crashes. For example, a recent “innovation” that saved a lot of lives was making shoulder belts (as opposed to lap only belts) standard.

New comment by lovecg in "No, it doesn't cost Anthropic $5k per Claude Code user"

lovecg — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 05:08:58 +0000

I can’t get past all the LLM-isms. Do people really not care about AI-slopifying their writing? It’s like learning about bad kerning, you see it everywhere.

New comment by lovecg in "Files are the interface humans and agents interact with"

lovecg — Sat, 07 Mar 2026 19:25:15 +0000

As in, you used 0 AI to write or edit this text? Or some AI? I’d like to calibrate myself.