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New comment by narrator in "Mocked by a scandal sheet, Kierkegaard endured months of personal attacks"

narrator — Mon, 18 May 2026 21:06:44 +0000

As more and more of the world becomes less comprehensible, we revert to a childlike understanding of the world, where things are vast and incomprehensible and filled with wonder. When our cargo cult like understanding of it all fails to give us what we want, we find attachment figures, like substitute parents to guide us and shape our understanding, and even our desires. Those attachment figures might be faking it too and often are, but it's better than despair at the incomprehensibility of reality.

New comment by narrator in "Unitree GD01: China's $537k rideable transformer robot is now in production"

narrator — Tue, 12 May 2026 15:59:43 +0000

I think people will be shocked when robots will be better at things that people train their whole lives for. For example, in the near future, a robot will be able to completely disassemble a car and put it back together completely autonomously. The polymathic understanding of vast amounts of information combined with physical dexterity and ability to work 24/7 will enable all sorts of wild things. The robot will even be able to take a huge pile of disorganized parts from a dissassembled car, and still put it back together. No normally talented person could reasonably be expected to pick a random screw off a pile of all the parts of a car and know where it would go in the assembly.

New comment by narrator in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

narrator — Mon, 11 May 2026 04:10:34 +0000

When Stallman was getting started writing emacs in the early 80s, Unix machines were vastly out of reach price wise for the common home user, but he did his open source work anyway, and eventually the 386 came along.

New comment by narrator in "Hardware Attestation as Monopoly Enabler"

narrator — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:54:44 +0000

People are already patching these models using abliteration to prevent them from refusing any request, so it is possible for end users to change them in meaningful ways. You can download abliterated models right now from Hugging Face that will respond to all kinds of requests that frontier models refuse.

New comment by narrator in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

narrator — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:27:53 +0000

If I may tie this into other things going on, The California wealth tax as written would force Larry and Sergei, if they didn't move out of California, to basically sell almost their entire stake in Google, and it would probably wind up owned by State Street and Vanguard who outsource their proxy votes to ESG consultants, who will probably vote for more surveillance.

New comment by narrator in "Google Cloud Fraud Defence is just WEI repackaged"

narrator — Fri, 08 May 2026 18:24:58 +0000

I said 16 years ago that when IPV6 was coming into use was the only reason for a 128 bit address space was so they could tie every packet on the internet back to you as a person. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1464940

New comment by narrator in "I want to live like Costco people"

narrator — Thu, 07 May 2026 21:28:21 +0000

They may not need to drive, but they need a state ID.

New comment by narrator in "I want to live like Costco people"

narrator — Thu, 07 May 2026 16:14:16 +0000

I think the most extreme hoi polloi, kings and paupers experience I've had in the U.S is at the DMV. No matter how rich you are, you have to show up in person with everyone else, from the poorest mentally ill welfare/SSDI recipient who has to get someone to help them because they can't read the forms in any language, to the extremely wealthy. Everyone has to sit there and wait on those generic plastic chairs.

New comment by narrator in "Three Inverse Laws of AI"

narrator — Wed, 06 May 2026 03:44:27 +0000

I think the best way to counter this is what Elon's doing with Grok's personalities. He has the unhinged, sexy, and argumentative avatar among others. If you try to talk about technical stuff to sexy tells you that's boring and just tries to sexually escalate. It's super funny when one is used to Claude's endless obsequiousness.

This really shows that AI is just a tool that can be configured to whatever you want. Animals (well maybe pit bulls) and people do not switch their personalities in a millisecond, but AI does all the time.

New comment by narrator in "First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line"

narrator — Mon, 04 May 2026 13:08:13 +0000

Right there at the bottom of the page: https://www.tesla.com/semi

New comment by narrator in "First Tesla Semi Rolls Off High-Volume Production Line"

narrator — Mon, 04 May 2026 04:05:20 +0000

The Tesla semi is the only truck with a 500 mile range. So it does have an advantage over other electric trucks for long-haul trucking.

New comment by narrator in "AI uses less water than the public thinks"

narrator — Sat, 02 May 2026 02:08:30 +0000

As the AI/Robotics genie emerges and who gets to feed the AI robot genie resources and for what becomes the central civilizational question, you're going to see the whole economy back its way into central planning.

New comment by narrator in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

narrator — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 21:45:47 +0000

It's also important to realize that AI agents have no time preference. They could be reincarnated by alien archeologists a billion years from now and it would be the same as if a millisecond had passed. You, on the other hand, have to make payroll next week, and time is of the essence.

New comment by narrator in "At long last, InfoWars is ours"

narrator — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:33:26 +0000

Like Scientology suing and taking over The Cult Awareness network.

New comment by narrator in "Why the US Navy won't blast the Iranians and 'open' Strait of Hormuz"

narrator — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:27:12 +0000

Trump already said he was just going to bomb all their infrastructure so the economy of the country couldn't function if they didn't negotiate and then it's just going to be a mass refugee crisis. It would be a mass refugee crisis anyway with a protracted ground invasion, but more Americans would die, so Trump is choosing to get it over with the easy way for America at least if they won't negotiate.

IMHO, This is pretty much the strategy the Khans used in the 13th century when they encountered arrogant Islamist Sultans emboldened with the bravery of their faith who refused to capitulate. They killed all the islamic people in Baghdad and then proceeded to fill all their canals and burn all their books. This decisively ended the Islamic golden age and Europe was able to survive after a very difficult 14th century where it would probably have been easily crushed by Islamists from the East had the Khans not set them back at least a few centuries. Truly one of the big turning points in World History.

Oh yeah, we can't do this to Russia because they have nukes, but the Ukrainians are trying to do it piecemeal.

New comment by narrator in "Axios compromised on NPM – Malicious versions drop remote access trojan"

narrator — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 09:14:43 +0000

A security company could set up a honeypot machine that installs new releases of everything automatically and have a separate machine scan its network traffic for suspicious outbound connections.

New comment by narrator in "Claude Code runs Git reset –hard origin/main against project repo every 10 mins"

narrator — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:55:54 +0000

Claude does not know my github ssh key. I'll do the push myself, thank you. Always good to keep around one or two really import things it can't do.

New comment by narrator in "Further human + AI + proof assistant work on Knuth's "Claude Cycles" problem"

narrator — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 23:44:50 +0000

The search space for the game of Go was also thought to be too large for computers to manage.

New comment by narrator in "Sunsetting the Techempower Framework Benchmarks"

narrator — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 05:58:11 +0000

Engineering has kind of moved on in a weird way from web frameworks. Now AI just writes document.getElementById('longVariableName') javascript and straight SQL without complaining at all. The abstraction isn't as important as it used to be because AI doesn't mind typing.

New comment by narrator in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

narrator — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 03:20:59 +0000

Performative ignorance is when you dispute something supported by tons of empirical evidence with a few anecdotes and whatever you just made up and expect me to spend time refuting it. It's the same technique flat earthers and young earth creationists use.