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New comment by monknomo in "Taste in the age of AI and LLMs"

monknomo — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 17:13:32 +0000

do you need taste if you can massively parallel a/b test your way to something that is tasteful? say like you take your datacenter of geniuses and have a a rubin-loop supervising testing different directions. shouldn't that be close enough?

New comment by monknomo in "Marc Andreessen is wrong about introspection"

monknomo — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:22:00 +0000

I think they also suddenly had to deal with a bunch of people being mean to them, and telling them they were wrong, which drove them a little mad.

Sort of an oppositional defiant thing, filtered through immense wealth and power

New comment by monknomo in "America Is Now a Rogue Superpower"

monknomo — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 21:34:44 +0000

china benefits from America eroding its global power is what the thesis is, I believe.

Iran being a quagmire that erode's America's global power.

How to Make AI Serve the Public

monknomo — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:55:41 +0000

Article URL: https://oneproject.org/how-to-make-ai-serve-the-public/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47577541

Points: 1

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New comment by monknomo in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

monknomo — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 17:26:08 +0000

attributing incremental revenue to gross engineering effort is challenging, imo.

Cost savings is primarily a function of headcount here. Which is also easy to measure, and so if we take my thesis that easy to measure stuff is prioritized...

New comment by monknomo in "How the AI Bubble Bursts"

monknomo — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 16:25:01 +0000

nobody know how to measure software productivity + ai is supposed to mean productivity goes up = more ai means more productivity

As best as I can tell, that's the thinking. It's one number, it's very easy to find and manage, and there is a belief that it directly measures productivity.

I disagree that it does; seems to me the throughput of useful features is a better measure, but I'm not in the drivers seat on this one

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

monknomo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:43:12 +0000

I deeply wish to hear about other tech trends; I get enough of use more ai, do more with less, and ship faster at work. I'd rather hear about new tools and techniques here

New comment by monknomo in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

monknomo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 20:42:07 +0000

you give a nod to the solution. If we have an undamped oscillator, or a system with a tendency in an undesirable direction, we can damp it.

And currency (given that we make it up and have a reasonable degree of control over its worth and distribution) does not have to be a static cumulative ledger

New comment by monknomo in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

monknomo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:58:39 +0000

There is a more direct action possible here.

The thing is, in advocating for removing 999 out of 1000 people (how? I don't hear a suggestion for a gradual decline, so assuming a bloody genocide seems like a reasonable interpretation), opens a body up to pretty harsh criticism. It's reasonable to read that line of reasoning as a direct threat!

New comment by monknomo in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

monknomo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:58:09 +0000

georgism would make owning property, such as ai, very expensive. it is a way of ensuring that rents get recirculated back into the rest of society

New comment by monknomo in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

monknomo — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:51:50 +0000

I think this is a good way of thinking, and it suggests that breaking up large clumps of money and resources is a reasonable way forward

New comment by monknomo in "Grief and the AI split"

monknomo — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 23:59:42 +0000

what about the fear is irrational?

New comment by monknomo in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

monknomo — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:31:56 +0000

That usage turns the entire meaning of social responsibilities on its heads. It's one of those maddening fash tics where they reverse the plain meaning a statement.

New comment by monknomo in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

monknomo — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:25:30 +0000

It is narrower than that by law, though not by their proclamation.

That label forbids contractors on DoD contracts for billing DoD for Anthropic, or including Anthropic as part of their DoD solution.

So - AWS can keep claude on bedrock, but can't provide claude to the DoD under its DoD contracts

New comment by monknomo in "CBP signs Clearview AI deal to use face recognition for 'tactical targeting'"

monknomo — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 18:58:14 +0000

do you think the records of the vast number of police departments and agencies would be combinable with the separate court records, as well as the facial recognition access data source (if it exists?)

I think that is pretty unlikely

New comment by monknomo in "CBP signs Clearview AI deal to use face recognition for 'tactical targeting'"

monknomo — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:59:54 +0000

are you sure it won't enabled targeted enforcement for people law enforcement finds irritating, more than evenly applied law? It's still people setting the priorities and exercising discretion about charging.

New comment by monknomo in "Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists"

monknomo — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:17:50 +0000

people working for corporations produce things, I think you'll find the incorporating docs, and the property owned do not produce things by themselves.

New comment by monknomo in "Ireland rolls out basic income scheme for artists"

monknomo — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 16:15:33 +0000

I think you two are using different definitions of society.

In this comment society seems to mean "the government, and its tax revenue profit/loss statement"

In the previous comment society seems to be construed more broadly and encompass both non-economic activity and economic activity outside the collection and disbursement of tax funds.

New comment by monknomo in "Show HN: Craftplan – I built my wife a production management tool for her bakery"

monknomo — Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:55:00 +0000

I have started to notice some similarities to MS Access development, where an SME creates a useful app for themselves and begins to share it.

I wonder if it will have a similar pattern of creating a mess as the app starts to get uptake and the SME can't scale their attention to be an app owner, as well as an SME at the same time.

Also makes me think that an llm-developed-app-friendly shared datastore would be a useful thing to have

New comment by monknomo in "Heritability of intrinsic human life span is about 50%"

monknomo — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:16:55 +0000

the more little old ladies around, the easier it is to raise kids.