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New comment by mondrian in "Computation as a universal and fundamental concept"

mondrian — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 19:00:06 +0000

Undecidability is a problem of answer-extraction from a process, it doesn’t preclude the process from executing deterministically. The universe could well be the live execution of a deterministic, even basic algorithm, with all kinds of questions about its execution being undecidable.

New comment by mondrian in "Fable turned reMarkable into Tom Riddle's diary from Harry Potter"

mondrian — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 10:24:48 +0000

Guy made an account just to post that gem.

New comment by mondrian in "What Emily Bender meant by "stochastic parrots""

mondrian — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 19:05:03 +0000

One of the key points of that paper is that the body of written works is biased and those biases will be amplified by compressing that body into LLMs, with outlier data, with low coincidence rate, being suppressed as unreliable - data that is structurally dissimilar to the bulk is noise. Similarly to how PageRank suppressed nodes with low number of edges, probably contributing significantly to the homogenous corporate mall-internet we enjoy today.

New comment by mondrian in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

mondrian — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 21:28:43 +0000

Structurally speaking, being left and pro-open borders is incoherent. The left is about collective power controlling labor supply and using it to tamp down corporate overreach. Open borders and H1B that allow corporations to side-step local worker bargaining power are squarely antithetical to being Left.

I think 'liberal progressives' that are mainly concerned with identity representation, not working class power, are rhetorically bundled as 'far-left'. To people who buy that, Bernie Sanders (a Leftist) and Kamala Harris (a Third Way liberal progressive) are both far-left. It's incoherent but rhetorically potent.

New comment by mondrian in "The CEO of Mullvad is the main financer of the Swedish Örebro party"

mondrian — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:51:48 +0000

A better chart: https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/1536/cpsprodpb/f3fb/live/1ca3d...

New comment by mondrian in "πFS"

mondrian — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 21:21:43 +0000

The index of your 20 line file is <20TB number>

New comment by mondrian in "Green card seekers must leave U.S. to apply, Trump administration says"

mondrian — Sun, 24 May 2026 03:54:53 +0000

Of course native people didn’t call themselves Indian prior to settlers assigning them that name, with legal consequences. But native people usually refer to their tribe identity, like Diné or Lakota, rather than the generic term Indian.

New comment by mondrian in "UK government replaces Palantir software with internally-built refugee system"

mondrian — Fri, 15 May 2026 10:16:20 +0000

The irony in your example is the modern Pentagon is largely a collection of private companies.

New comment by mondrian in "Is anybody else bored of talking about AI?"

mondrian — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:59:14 +0000

Let's get back to filling the front page with Web3, DeFi, NFTs. Oh the good ol' days.

New comment by mondrian in "Texas is suing all of the big TV makers for spying on what you watch"

mondrian — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 18:56:02 +0000

Sounds like this: https://solidproject.org/about

But yea privacy is a silly thing to propose to a surveillance industry.

New comment by mondrian in "Show HN: Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now"

mondrian — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 18:49:33 +0000

Black Mirror episode: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_People_(Black_Mirror)

New comment by mondrian in "Peter Thiel sells off all Nvidia stock, stirring bubble fears"

mondrian — Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:05 +0000

I was off by a zero, thanks! He sold about 100M of NVDA on 16B net worth which would be 6.25k on 1M.

New comment by mondrian in "Peter Thiel sells off all Nvidia stock, stirring bubble fears"

mondrian — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 22:36:18 +0000

So this 'portfolio' is <200M on a net worth of 16B? This is like someone worth 1M selling $600 worth of stock.

New comment by mondrian in "Peter Thiel sells off all Nvidia stock, stirring bubble fears"

mondrian — Sun, 16 Nov 2025 22:28:56 +0000

The parent comment is probably just talking about temporarily timing the bubble pop.

New comment by mondrian in "Replacement.ai"

mondrian — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 20:26:04 +0000

How will the AI wealth get distributed to people at large?

New comment by mondrian in "Replacement.ai"

mondrian — Sun, 19 Oct 2025 20:19:07 +0000

Bernie Sanders talks about a "robot tax" that is roughly what you're talking about. https://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-sanders-robot-tax-ai-...

New comment by mondrian in "The story of DOGE, as told by federal workers"

mondrian — Thu, 25 Sep 2025 18:33:59 +0000

Comparing it to GDP doesn’t seem to make sense. Maybe to government revenue.

New comment by mondrian in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

mondrian — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 22:31:41 +0000

Good point. In the scenario I described, I'm assuming Stripe will launch their own stablecoin. I tend to think all major tech companies are incentivized to launch stablecoins and give you discounts and perks when you transact using their stablecoin in their own ecosystem. The more of their stablecoin they issue out, the more money they make on interest.

New comment by mondrian in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

mondrian — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 22:17:19 +0000

Yeah and this is codified in the GENIUS act which passed recently. It enables tech companies to act like banks in certain dimensions, without being regulated like banks.

New comment by mondrian in "Stripe Launches L1 Blockchain: Tempo"

mondrian — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 22:00:31 +0000

Yeah. Stablecoins create demand for Treasuries which drives the price of Treasuries up and interest rate down. So this pressure lowers debt servicing cost for the US government, and Stripe is the holder of those Treasuries and gets paid interest.

This would also serve to counter the drop in global Treasury demand due to recent tariff stuff where presumably our traditional debt holders are losing appetite for US debt...

It also creates a kind of strange situation where stablecoins are basically spendable "Treasury tokens". So you give 1 USD to Uncle Sam (via a middle man like Stripe), get back 1 stablecoin. Then you go and spend the stablecoin, and Uncle Sam goes and spends the USD. It's like a weird double spend situation. Prior to stablecoins, you buy a treasury bill with USD, you hold this unspendable treasury bill while Uncle Sam gets USD to spend.