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New comment by nsvd2 in "The threat is comfortable drift toward not understanding what you're doing"

nsvd2 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 15:20:38 +0000

That is indeed a very annoying part of many AI models. I wish I could turn it off.

New comment by nsvd2 in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"

nsvd2 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:24:55 +0000

Already is in Nevada.

New comment by nsvd2 in "When legal sports betting surges, so do Americans' financial problems"

nsvd2 — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 11:19:05 +0000

While I'm certainly no supporter of casinos, I think that online gambling is a difference in kind.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Mr. Chatterbox is a Victorian-era ethically trained model"

nsvd2 — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 10:04:29 +0000

Given the extent to which the copyright system has benefited corporations and publishing companies to the detriment of individual authors and the general public, I'm constantly surprised that it still has many apologists.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Anatomy of the .claude/ folder"

nsvd2 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:44:30 +0000

I usually relegate the agent to code, I do the git part/put the patch together. Git is an excellent tool to review the changes granularly and find potential weaknesses.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Anatomy of the .claude/ folder"

nsvd2 — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 23:41:26 +0000

I've come to the point where, if the agent makes a wrong assumption about the code base with fresh context, I consider that the code is not obvious enough about it's intent.

New comment by nsvd2 in "We haven't seen the worst of what gambling and prediction markets will do"

nsvd2 — Fri, 27 Mar 2026 10:44:37 +0000

I think you're right broadly, but when that wisdom is applied to e.g. how many dildos will be thrown at WNBA players, I don't know how much actual value is created.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Austin’s surge of new housing construction drove down rents"

nsvd2 — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 18:52:47 +0000

If homes can be bought and sold, then there is a market. Is your are taking about a society without money, that is a different discussion entirely.

Anyways, there are many studies showing that rent control is bad in the long term for housing affordability.

New comment by nsvd2 in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

nsvd2 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:47:53 +0000

The unfortunate answer is that the US seems to be very bad at fighting regulatory corruption which allows small parts of the market to buy laws which give them a moat. Rinse and repeat over the last half century and you get to the situation we're in.

New comment by nsvd2 in "The American Healthcare Conundrum"

nsvd2 — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 16:40:29 +0000

In no way shape or form is the medical industry in the US a free market, it's one of the most heavily regulated sectors in the economy. Remember when the government wanted to make purchasing health insurance mandatory? Forcing employers to pay for their employees health insurance greatly distorts the market. And many other things...

By the way, as much as people complain about the profit seeking motives of insurers, many of them have been performing abmysally in the last six months. As it turns out, our current system is bad for just about everyone.

New comment by nsvd2 in "US Job Market Visualizer"

nsvd2 — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 16:32:47 +0000

Interestingly, it seems from these statistics the median wage for individuals with a Master's is lower than a Bachelor's. I wonder if that's because of immigrants who pursue higher education for visa reasons skewing the data.

New comment by nsvd2 in "RISC-V Is Sloooow"

nsvd2 — Wed, 11 Mar 2026 10:19:59 +0000

Sure, but if you bought a dev board with an experimental ISA I think you knew what you were getting in to.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Most-read tech publications have lost over half their Google traffic since 2024"

nsvd2 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:20:48 +0000

Yes, people have likened pre-LLM Internet content to low-background steel.

If in the hypothetical future the continual learning problem gets solved, the AI could just learn from the real world instead of publications and retain that data.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Points on a ring: An interactive walkthrough of a popular math problem"

nsvd2 — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 18:15:02 +0000

Interesting and fun

New comment by nsvd2 in "Cognitive Debt: When Velocity Exceeds Comprehension"

nsvd2 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 18:06:41 +0000

I think that recording dialog with the agent (prompt, the agent's plan, and agent's report after implementation) will become increasingly important in the future.

New comment by nsvd2 in "OpenAI raises $110B on $730B pre-money valuation"

nsvd2 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 17:19:58 +0000

Sure, but OpenAI doesn't have cash. It does have stock.

Even if Nvidia has capped production for now, increased demand still allows them to sell chips at a greater margin. Or, to put another way, presumably Nvidia is charging OpenAI a premium for the privilege of paying with stock.

New comment by nsvd2 in "OpenAI agrees with Dept. of War to deploy models in their classified network"

nsvd2 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:14:46 +0000

Well, DHS has shown this year that they won't show restraint when it comes to attacking American citizens. I would expect that trend to continue.

New comment by nsvd2 in "The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran"

nsvd2 — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 14:10:44 +0000

If a democracy is meaningfully created in Iran I will consider that a huge win for Trump and it would certainly make me more sympathetic to his party.

To be clear, I don't think the chances of that happening are high.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Firefox 148 Launches with AI Kill Switch Feature and More Enhancements"

nsvd2 — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 11:25:57 +0000

The transformer architecture that powers large language models was designed by Google for the purposes of machine translation. As others have said, ML and AI have always been closely related if not synonymous.

New comment by nsvd2 in "Mexican Forces Kill Nation's Most-Wanted Cartel Boss"

nsvd2 — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 23:26:31 +0000

From TFA:

The Mexican government said the United States had contributed intelligence that aided the operation against Mr. Oseguera.