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New comment by luisfmh in "Anthropic raises $13B Series F"

luisfmh — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 21:22:22 +0000

Hard disagree on this. The gap between the levels of statistical significance you get in economics vs physics is massive. They're not at the same levels of inevitability. The predictive power of the laws of physics vs the laws of economics is vastly different.

New comment by luisfmh in "A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in"

luisfmh — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 05:57:53 +0000

So people that look to chatgpt for answers and help (as they've been programmed to do with all the marketing and capabilities from openai) should just die because they looked to chatgpt for an answer instead of google or their local suicide helpline? That doesn't seem reasonable, but it sounds to me like what you're saying.

> So did the user. If he didn't want to talk to a chatbot he could have stopped at any time. This sounds similar to when people tell depressed people, just stop being sad.

IMO if a company is going to claim and release some pretty disruptive and unexplored capabilities through their product, they should at least have to make it safe. You put a safety railing because people could trip or slip. I don't think a mistake that small should be end in death.

New comment by luisfmh in "Hundreds of agencies tap Atherton surveillance system for feds; Fails own rules"

luisfmh — Thu, 31 Jul 2025 16:55:26 +0000

Maybe the fix to home invasion burglaries isn't increased surveillance but actually helping people? We increasingly put people in bad situations and then blame them when they lash out.

This sounds like a "first they came for the socialists..." moment. Where we might not feel oppressed with the increased surveillance but as we go further and further into the surveillance state, eventually we'll be the ones that are pushed into a bad situation where a surveillance state is used against us.

New comment by luisfmh in "People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report (2020)"

luisfmh — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 03:51:40 +0000

The system that is killing our planet, that exploits and ends up killing the majority of its unwilling participants? Yeah, I don't think the loss in productivity will be a bad thing. Maybe people will consider the effect of their work before doing it a little more when they don't have a gun to their head.

New comment by luisfmh in "People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report (2020)"

luisfmh — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 03:48:29 +0000

Did you read the article? Because it says that about half of the ones that stopped working stopped working because they were going back to school. That doesn't seem like a drain on the system...

New comment by luisfmh in "People kept working, became healthier while on basic income: report (2020)"

luisfmh — Fri, 18 Jul 2025 03:47:11 +0000

So not sure if you read this part

> Lewchuk added that while some people did stop working, about half of them headed back to school in hopes of coming back to a better job.

But they didn't just stop working, they went back to school

New comment by luisfmh in "Introduction to Stochastic Calculus"

luisfmh — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 17:17:01 +0000

Itô is the name of the type of calculus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%C3%B4_calculus) and calculare I think is just the plural of calculus. So something like "all the itô calculus are notable examples of fairly high level mathematics ..."

New comment by luisfmh in "Is the world becoming uninsurable?"

luisfmh — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 04:40:11 +0000

My only hope for climate change is that insurance companies start lobbying to have a more predictable environment since risk models works better when things aren't chaotic, and that gives a monetary incentice for companies to do better

New comment by luisfmh in "Forests around Chernobyl aren’t decaying properly (2014)"

luisfmh — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 05:27:13 +0000

Check out cronenberg's recent movie, crimes of the future, seems relevant haha

New comment by luisfmh in "GPT-4 gets a B on my quantum computing final exam"

luisfmh — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 20:15:52 +0000

agreed, not to mention that there's things that just can't be expressed. Speaking as someone fluent in spanish and english there's nuance to some things that don't really translate well.

New comment by luisfmh in "Ask HN: 10k hours rule to master anything. Could I switch career when I am 43?"

luisfmh — Fri, 07 Oct 2022 14:25:19 +0000

Reminds me of the classic yoda quote "do or do not there is no try".

New comment by luisfmh in "Scientists discover an ancient forest inside a giant sinkhole in China"

luisfmh — Tue, 24 May 2022 17:53:15 +0000

It sucks there are no pictures of the actual sinkhole or forest, but this is amazing!

New comment by luisfmh in "Success and Failure at Pebble"

luisfmh — Tue, 12 Apr 2022 01:27:10 +0000

What about teenage engineering. Though it's kind of niche?

New comment by luisfmh in "Explore Seasonal Fruit and Vegetables in Europe"

luisfmh — Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:57:37 +0000

anyone know of anything like this for Canada? Specifically Ontario.

New comment by luisfmh in "English is relatively easy to learn, but not to master (2018)"

luisfmh — Sun, 28 Mar 2021 04:09:39 +0000

That's the whole concept of esperanto afaik. Google it, it's a language designed to be easy to learn.

New comment by luisfmh in "Googling Strangers: One Professor's Lesson on Privacy in Public Spaces (2019)"

luisfmh — Thu, 11 Mar 2021 20:37:05 +0000

I think they meant DDos'ing as in the person gets overwhelmed with notifications and can't actually see the notification about the password change. (i.e. the person's attention is the service)

New comment by luisfmh in "Pipenv: Python Dev Workflow for Humans"

luisfmh — Wed, 03 Feb 2021 22:14:03 +0000

Seeing all the comments in this thread that people have had bad experiences with pipenv, this contrasts with my own experience which has been pretty good. How has pipenv failed for everyone?

Gonna take a look at poetry, but would love to hear what problems people have had with pipenv?

New comment by luisfmh in "What’s Wrong With The Honeywell Humidifier"

luisfmh — Tue, 02 Feb 2021 04:54:28 +0000

Are there any of those Japanese ones you can buy in North America? Any brands you're aware of?

New comment by luisfmh in "FedEx shipping damage creates fractured artworks"

luisfmh — Wed, 20 Jan 2021 19:36:50 +0000

It would be so cool if they did not just shipping to art galleries, but also mass produced it so you could get your own fedex shipping box art at home.

New comment by luisfmh in "Amazon: Not OK – Why we had to change Elastic licensing"

luisfmh — Tue, 19 Jan 2021 15:17:53 +0000

So what should we be using instead of elasticsearch for logs? To mitigate that licensing risk?