Hacker News: mudlus

New comment by mudlus in "DeepSeek Open Infra: Open-Sourcing 5 AI Repos in 5 Days"

mudlus — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 23:56:52 +0000

In China businesses are not treated as a type of person under law. The word "business" does not mean the same thing there.

New comment by mudlus in "Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores"

mudlus — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 22:01:55 +0000

This is another thing Japan has implemented in certain areas. There's a supermarket near us called Trial that has this method of checkout: https://www.trial-net.co.jp/prepaid/regi-cart/

New comment by mudlus in "The Great Oxygenation Event"

mudlus — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 21:57:41 +0000

Yeah, it's really a shame that geo-engineering projects keep getting shut down. We either control the climate, or it kills people. It's that simple. Without controlling the climate you don't get to pick and choose who lives and who dies because of "nature". It's not even a coordination problem. It's a regulation problem. People don't all need to agree before progress can happen and errors can be corrected. We just need any organization to show some backbone and stop kowtowing to the suicidal environmentalists.

https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2024/3/20/harvard-geoengi...

New comment by mudlus in "The world is awful. The world is much better. The world can be much better"

mudlus — Tue, 06 Feb 2024 22:00:46 +0000

Every point is a growth point, every point was a growth point.

New comment by mudlus in "Sam Altman is still trying to return as OpenAI CEO"

mudlus — Mon, 20 Nov 2023 21:57:10 +0000

EA is a national security risk

New comment by mudlus in "No one wants to talk to your chatbot"

mudlus — Thu, 27 Jul 2023 22:45:47 +0000

Doesn't matter, we're all talking about McDonalds now.

New comment by mudlus in "Is the United States Exceptional?"

mudlus — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 22:10:14 +0000

Yes. It's one of the few countries where citizens are protected from the government. This means anyone can make huge mistakes, and it's viewed as immoral to stop them. Myopically, it drives a politics of fear and control ('Won't someone please think of the children [who we don't consider people with rights, so as to individually choose not to go to school, for example]'). Long term, America has provided more progress to the world in terms of ideas, technology, knowledge, than any other community in human history. It also means that they are free to make ideological mistakes, no one is embraced to say their opinion even if it's wrong. This is a Tradition of Criticism, and it extends to the West in general, but is exemplified by America (Hollywood, US media, etc). All progress comes from criticism. America is 'exceptional', but with that power comes great responsibility--something recent generations don't seem to want. So, giving up rights, puts the responsibility in some other's hand--an appeal to authority. This has lead to a great culture of pessimism. I hope that will end soon and more American's will be optimistic and proud of their responsibility to infinite knowledge growth through a Tradition of Criticism.

New comment by mudlus in "Vangelis has died"

mudlus — Thu, 19 May 2022 22:37:35 +0000

RIP. One of the most influential musicians on me, for sure. A legend...Love to his family and friends.

New comment by mudlus in "Crypto is an unproductive bubble"

mudlus — Sat, 19 Mar 2022 00:11:58 +0000

Claim 1: bubbles are natural, that doesn't mean that underlying solutions are wrong, just that not all speculators are right or understand the problems being solved.

Claim 2: Google 'Bitcoin Spacechains'

Claim 3: On a long enough time scale all discoveries are minor, this is what it means to always be optimistically solving problems at the beginning of infinity.

New comment by mudlus in "US Federal Reserve raises interest rates for first time since 2018"

mudlus — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 21:56:25 +0000

All value is explanatory, that is, even if it has "intrinsic value" like carbohydrates in ATP in a cell, it is still knowledge instantiated for a resilient purpose (eg to power a cell to replicate its knowledge).

As explanations change, value changes, so anything can be a currency at the level of the individual--in this way, at least for conscious minds, a public monopoly on money is, while possible, morally wrong. It's a form of Marxism.

There's already been a solution the problem of state monopoly on symbolic abstractions for value (money), that started with Bitcoin and has been growing a new global economy since 2009.

New comment by mudlus in "Why does the "chart increasing" emoji show in red?"

mudlus — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 23:58:07 +0000

It starts with knowing why it was originally pronounced "eh-mohjee", and not "ee-mojee".

The better question, then, if you really want to learn about culture, is why red is a good color in Japanese culture.

I'll just tell you: Red is related to sun symbolizm in Shinto, it scares away evil spirits of 'the dark'. And the Japanese emporer (before McArthur said otherwise) was a sun god (descended from Amaterasu). Some Japanese still intrinsictly believe this. This is represented in the Japanese 'asahi' emperial flag with the red circle and red lines, and in the current national flag with the red circle (white is a symbol of purity in Shinto, as well, btw). Torii gates are also red, etc etc.

New comment by mudlus in "Ask HN: My boss doesn't think I'm doing good work, how to proceed?"

mudlus — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 22:54:52 +0000

I don't think you should quit, but oddly enough, this other HN post about quitting seems really appropriate. Check out the first flow chart here: https://jmsbrdy.com/blog/leaving-spring/ Mirroring what some others have said, if it was me, I'd talk to the manager and work things out from there.

New comment by mudlus in "Ledger – the first peer-reviewed journal on blockchains and cryptocurrencies"

mudlus — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 00:37:05 +0000

Peer review is a waste of time, it becomes gatekeepers. Even Einstein got in a huge argument with a journal that went over his head because of this kind of gatekeeping. The best ideas can't be bought with money or PhDs. Bitcoin itself is a great example of this. But so is: geocentricism, relativity, quantum multiverse, etc etc.

New comment by mudlus in "Rubin's 2021 Bitcoin Advent Calendar"

mudlus — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 01:01:58 +0000

Best Bitcoin content of the year, hands down. Check out BIP-119, too utxos.org. Bitcoiners may also want to consider sponsoring him on Github (I am), it's good for the ecosystem to support and signal paths for the future of Bitcoin: https://github.com/JeremyRubin

New comment by mudlus in "Whatever happened to Flickr?"

mudlus — Thu, 30 Dec 2021 00:37:36 +0000

Flickr is awesome. As Instagram plays out, Flickr, and those that have paid for it for years, will be rewarded with full control over years and years and years of photos. I have full control of tens of thousands of photos I've taken since I was in high school. I LOVE Flickr. hey have excellent customer support, too. I'm less interested in the community aspect, though that is fun, as just the photo storage and organization product. It is indeed leaps and bounds ahead of the competition.

New comment by mudlus in "Player of Games"

mudlus — Wed, 22 Dec 2021 06:48:53 +0000

Knowledge isn't knowledge without an explanation: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_deutsch_a_new_way_to_explain...

New comment by mudlus in "What is a Bitcoin worth?"

mudlus — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 06:59:26 +0000

I suspect most people won't understand the value until they immediately need the privilege of using it--a privilege which anyone with a computer has, but no one is required to exercise (unlike every other national currency).

New comment by mudlus in "Player of Games"

mudlus — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 10:16:40 +0000

Yawn, show me a computer that game make fun games

New comment by mudlus in "Crypto lobbying is going ballistic"

mudlus — Wed, 08 Dec 2021 10:15:50 +0000

Reading the top comments in this thread we are still hilariously early.

New comment by mudlus in "The Problem of Induction (1953)"

mudlus — Tue, 07 Dec 2021 00:05:01 +0000

Love to see it on the top of HN. To Popper!

"Popper has argued (I think successfully) that a scientific idea can never be proven true, because no matter how many observations seem to agree with it, it may still be wrong. On the other hand, a single contrary experiment can prove a theory forever false."

But then how do we decide which theory is worth taking the time to criticize?--I think this is where David Deutsch comes in. Redefining scientific progress in therms of "hard-to-vary explanations". No need to eat a pound of grass to test if it cures the common cold, because it's an easy-to-vary and doesn't _explain why_ it works (eg why not a pound of rosemary or a pint of beer)? Seems like a pretty obvious thing, perhaps, but then why is homeopathy such a huge industry? See also, A New Way to Explain Explanation: https://www.ted.com/talks/david_deutsch_a_new_way_to_explain...

The AIM of science: https://www.bretthall.org/uploads/3/1/2/9/31298571/karl_r._p...

The Open Society and it's Enemies: https://antilogicalism.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/open-s...

Economist article: https://www.economist.com/democracy-in-america/2016/01/31/fr...

Also, David Deutsch: https://archive.org/details/TheFabricOfReality/page/n45/mode...

The Beginning of Infinity: https://ia800107.us.archive.org/29/items/RichardDawkinsTheSe...