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New comment by nozzlegear in "The iPhone Upgrade Program is being replaced by Apple Upgrade"

nozzlegear — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:57:55 +0000

> With hardware prices increasing, selling financially challenged people on 'cheap' monthly payments seem like one way to keep the stock price pumped at these levels.

I feel like some people are ignoring the fact that "financially challenged people" have always been paying monthly payments for their phones via their carrier's lease programs, which are very popular and have been a thing since the first iPhone.

People need phones, this is a good program.

> I guess they are one of the good trillion corporations though?

This but unironically

New comment by nozzlegear in "Discovering Cryptographic Weaknesses with Claude"

nozzlegear — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 22:49:03 +0000

Perhaps since the Chinese companies don't have the economy of an entire global superpower riding on them, they can't afford to light $100k+ on fire doing random shit with the hope it'll turn out a research paper.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights"

nozzlegear — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:51:09 +0000

The billionaires are the sheep, and people with less than $100k in annual income are the wolves in this contrived scenario?

> This is a serious issue and possibly the biggest present threat to our current system

Is it?

New comment by nozzlegear in "Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights"

nozzlegear — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:36:17 +0000

He's advocating stripping rights, periodt.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights"

nozzlegear — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:35:13 +0000

No I think most commenters are responding to that. It's a shitty take from a shitty billionaire.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Why a $154B CEO just endorsed stripping most Americans of voting rights"

nozzlegear — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:31:54 +0000

Yes. If the billionaires can do it, why not me?

New comment by nozzlegear in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

nozzlegear — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:18:16 +0000

If they only had to run Mythos for one person, how much do we think that would've cost to train and develop?

New comment by nozzlegear in "About the security content of macOS Tahoe 26.6"

nozzlegear — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 14:15:13 +0000

Is this speculation? Where does it say Mythos was responsible for any of this?

New comment by nozzlegear in "Our position on open-weights models"

nozzlegear — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 05:14:33 +0000

The same things could be done by you or me using the internet or books though, why does the model make it different? If it's speed of iteration, imagine we had a machine that surfaced any piece of knowledge the human race had ever recorded with just a thought, but the human had to write the worm or disease by hand – is it still the model that's the problem, or the knowledge itself?

> And, because we don't want models that will do so without even having been told to, because that furthers one of its goals or subgoals.

Ignoring the fact that you'd need some kind of lab with biological material to create a contagious disease, what kind of prompt are we writing where a model accidentally creates a contagious disease or self-propagating worm as one of its goals?

New comment by nozzlegear in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

nozzlegear — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:43:30 +0000

Then what the hell are Anthropic and OpenAI doing with all that money?

New comment by nozzlegear in "Our position on open-weights models"

nozzlegear — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 03:27:20 +0000

> We should not have models that are willing to build you a contagious disease, or a self-propagating worm.

Why?

New comment by nozzlegear in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"

nozzlegear — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 20:53:15 +0000

I don't think we disagree on the capabilities of the latest agents, but my point is that the software industry has already been through multiple rounds of "the [models,agents,bots] only just became good enough to impact work in the last few months," yet this and several other studies have shown that the clankers still haven't taken any jobs. If the November timeline doesn't show an impact, then it must be because we only just got access to Fable and Solus in July. And if the Fable and Solus timeline don't show an impact, then it's because of this other thing that happened where models really took off – the data just needs to catch up.

Everyone has an anecdote about someone being laid off because of AI, and everyone has anxiety about the next model being the big one that will really cause the industry to implode, but there's never any hard labor impact. It's always still coming, still waiting for the next model, next study, next jobs report. As Smith said, people who believe that AI is going to take jobs will never be convinced that it's not coming eventually.

New comment by nozzlegear in "AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying"

nozzlegear — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:58:59 +0000

I used to make a game of seeing how few matches, or how many deliberate mismatches, I could get away with while still passing the captcha. It asks for 4 bus images? How about 3 bus images, or 2 bus images and a car?

New comment by nozzlegear in "Kimi-K3 on HuggingFace"

nozzlegear — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:56:57 +0000

Who is Clem?

New comment by nozzlegear in "How is the Bun rewrite in Rust going?"

nozzlegear — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:48:26 +0000

IMO a team of engineers (presuming this is pre-AI) would have improved the existing Zig codebase, rather than spent time and money on a Rust port in the first place. In fact, I still think most teams of engineers would choose to improve what they have even now, circa AI.

New comment by nozzlegear in "AI companies spend record sums on Washington lobbying"

nozzlegear — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 16:05:28 +0000

> I got a new busclicking captcha

Busclickers are S-tier captchas IMO, always easy to identify. Motorcycles and bicycles, on the other hand, are maybe the worst – D-tier at best.

/tangent

New comment by nozzlegear in "Humans haven't stopped evolving"

nozzlegear — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 13:21:37 +0000

I'm still not following lol

New comment by nozzlegear in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"

nozzlegear — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 01:41:35 +0000

I think people are, rightly or wrongly, identifying goalpost moving re: coding agents are only just this year working well enough to impact work. I'm reminded of a quote I read last year from one of my favorite writers, Noah Smith:

> The debate over whether AI is taking people’s jobs may or may not last forever. If AI takes a lot of people’s jobs, the debate will end because one side will have clearly won. But if AI doesn’t take a lot of people’s jobs, then the debate will never be resolved, because there will be a bunch of people who will still go around saying that it’s about to take everyone’s job. Sometimes those people will find some subset of workers whose employment prospects are looking weaker than others, and claim that this is the beginning of the great AI job destruction wave. And who will be able to prove them wrong?

Source: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/ai-and-jobs-again

New comment by nozzlegear in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"

nozzlegear — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:29:04 +0000

How many studies do we need showing that AI isn't causing massive job loss before you'll believe it? This isn't the first one showing these results.

New comment by nozzlegear in "Humans haven't stopped evolving"

nozzlegear — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 23:39:09 +0000

I'm not sure what you're getting at here, you seem to be repeating my point that humans are the only animals we know of with genders. Am I misunderstanding?