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New comment by maxdoop in "Where do scientists think this is all going?"

maxdoop — Sat, 03 May 2025 16:15:17 +0000

Do you use AI tools at all?

I am slightly astonished someone makes these sorts of comments in 2025. AI has been remarkably useful for many many things across many industries; I’m curious what you think

New comment by maxdoop in "I genuinely don't understand why some people are still bullish about LLMs"

maxdoop — Fri, 28 Mar 2025 13:47:48 +0000

And how would you define intelligence then?

New comment by maxdoop in "AI 'wingmen' bots to write profiles and flirt on dating apps"

maxdoop — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 17:06:26 +0000

Black mirror episode about exactly this

New comment by maxdoop in "In Severance, Office Perks Couldn't Be More Sinister"

maxdoop — Thu, 06 Mar 2025 14:22:33 +0000

Do you enjoy … any fiction? Sheesh

New comment by maxdoop in "Egg prices are soaring. Are backyard chickens the answer?"

maxdoop — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:30:09 +0000

Erewhon is probably THEE most expensive place lol

New comment by maxdoop in "Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world"

maxdoop — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 01:11:33 +0000

So how can you claim what an LLM is doing if we cannot define it regardless?

New comment by maxdoop in "Modern-Day Oracles or Bullshit Machines? How to thrive in a ChatGPT world"

maxdoop — Sun, 09 Feb 2025 23:14:33 +0000

What is reasoning? What is understanding? Do humans do either? How do you know?

New comment by maxdoop in "Does current AI represent a dead end?"

maxdoop — Fri, 27 Dec 2024 15:21:44 +0000

And how is what humans do any different ? What does it mean to understand ? Are we pattern matching as well?

New comment by maxdoop in "OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB"

maxdoop — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:31:26 +0000

So then what is AGI?

New comment by maxdoop in "OpenAI O3 breakthrough high score on ARC-AGI-PUB"

maxdoop — Fri, 20 Dec 2024 18:20:41 +0000

How much longer can I get paid $150k to write code ?

New comment by maxdoop in "Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist"

maxdoop — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 01:38:42 +0000

Choice is different than free will. We have will, but it is not free. We will make choices.

New comment by maxdoop in "Confessions of a Theoretical Physicist"

maxdoop — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 01:37:05 +0000

What will your next thought be? Think of a movie — why did that movie arise in your mind?

It’s an illusion but that doesn’t negate we must operate as though our will is free!

New comment by maxdoop in "The upstream cause of the youth mental health crisis is the loss of community"

maxdoop — Fri, 02 Aug 2024 15:45:46 +0000

Majority of kids and teens do not care about that, as much as we’d assume. They are aware, but their day to day is what is important to them.

Friends, relationships, drama — they are kids.

New comment by maxdoop in "OpenAI may lose $5B this year and may run out of cash in 12 months"

maxdoop — Wed, 24 Jul 2024 16:59:10 +0000

Gary Marcus is unquestionably one of the most negative , and consistently wrong voices in the AI community. I do not understand why he is continued to be given credence or ears to anything he claims.

New comment by maxdoop in "Andrew Huberman's Claims About Cannabis Annoy Drug Experts"

maxdoop — Fri, 10 May 2024 07:57:03 +0000

Do you often discount studies and science when it comes to ideas that don’t align with your natural instinct?

Is addiction a disease or a moral failure? Is depression a chemical imbalance or is it your own fault, maybe just “exercise and smile more”?

Questions of that nature are fair but simply being against a researcher or author because they have a viewpoint different your own is entirely what’s wrong with so much of discourse today.

Ask HN: How would you orient your life if you could not have children?

maxdoop — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 14:50:04 +0000

There was an article posted here yesterday about the decline of children having counsins. Aka, more and more people are not having children.

This spawned several threads about the "importance" of having children; about how "selfish" it is to not have children (I will refrain from voicing thoughts on that claim); and how having children is, in and of itself, the most meaningful thing a person can do.

As someone who cannot have children due to cancer as a teenager, I am curious to hear others' experiences in having a life without their own offspring.

How have you organized your life? What have you attached yourself to in order to find fulfillment? What tips or ideas might you have on the topic?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39345357

Points: 3

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New comment by maxdoop in "Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?"

maxdoop — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 14:45:15 +0000

OK, it sounds like your experience was selfish simply because later ON you had children, and the time you spent alone was time you could've had with your eventual children.

But what of someone who will not have children at all? How is it, literally (in the definition of the word), "selfish" to not have children? From whom are you robbing experience? What is being "taken away" and from whom?

New comment by maxdoop in "Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?"

maxdoop — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 14:42:04 +0000

What of the people that have children but those children do not contribute in any meaningful way to society? Is the implication here that every child born must somehow be a net-positive to society?

I see what you're saying about the replacement rate, but I don't see how, on a smaller scale, someone choosing to not have children is a selfish act within the context of a society that is not yet below "replacement" level.

New comment by maxdoop in "Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?"

maxdoop — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 14:39:59 +0000

"I'm not giving anyone else a chance" -- there is no "anyone else". There is nothing being robbed, as there is no other party that literally exists in the universe.

New comment by maxdoop in "Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?"

maxdoop — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 05:30:58 +0000

There are studies that show quote plainly that people with kids are unholier than those without. The difference is much later on life when the happiness “winner” switches to the group with children.

One theory aside from the obvious is that the brain makes sense of whatever might happen to it, over time. Like how you miss out on some big opportunity, but years later you say, “ah, that’s ok because it led me to where I am today.”

No idea if that was coherent as I’m a bit tired, but wanted to share