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New comment by ohNoe5 in "AI should elevate your thinking, not replace it"

ohNoe5 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:45:28 +0000

We will never fundamentally get rid of thinking; it's coupled to navigation of 3D reality we live

And we don't need words to think; cognitive problem solving and language processing are separate processes [1]

We will shift the problems we need to think about. Same as always; humanity isn't really solving building stone pyramids. Did we stop thinking? No just thought about a different todo list.

[1] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/you-dont-need-wor...

New comment by ohNoe5 in "Maine's governor vetoes data center moratorium"

ohNoe5 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:12:57 +0000

Thems the breaks when all the politicians trend towards 60+ and went their entire lives believing the giant foot will smash us if we raise taxes

GenX was the first generation raised on "science" first education And the transition period was uneven in effort with many educators also peddling their personal religious views with the content.

New comment by ohNoe5 in "Show HN: AI memory with biological decay (52% recall)"

ohNoe5 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 04:04:02 +0000

Oops I meant "without intentional conservatism"

And

"Progress or..." not "is or"

New comment by ohNoe5 in "Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)"

ohNoe5 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:44:03 +0000

Kubernetes is software. It cannot do anything "itself" let alone "replace itself". Don't anthropomorphize software

Inevitably it will be a human replacing it with what they define is the best method

New comment by ohNoe5 in "Google banks on AI edge to catch up to cloud rivals Amazon and Microsoft"

ohNoe5 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 01:39:34 +0000

Hardware is important to operation of computers and software as we know them

A bunch of config management DSL startups, and web scale data storage solutions, not so much

New comment by ohNoe5 in "Dear friend, you have built a Kubernetes (2024)"

ohNoe5 — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 00:03:00 +0000

Ephemeral user accounts were agreed upon before that. The OG container

Docker and k8s are just wrappers around namespaces, cgroups, file system ACLs, some essential cli commands, which can also be configured per user.

We may be headed back there. Have seen some experiments leveraging Linux kernels BPF and sched_ext to fire off just the right sized compute schedule in response to sequences of specific BPF events.

Future "containers" may just be kernel processes and threads... again. Especially if enough human agency looks away from software as AI makes employment for enough people untenable. Why would those who remain want to manage kernels and k8s complexity?

Imo its less we agreed on k8s specifically and more we agreed to let people use all the free money to develop whatever was believed to make the job easier; but if the jobs go away then it's just more work for the few left

New comment by ohNoe5 in "Show HN: AI memory with biological decay (52% recall)"

ohNoe5 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 23:46:39 +0000

Yeah it's that lack of perfect recall, imo, that gives rise to intelligence and progress.

If we humans just did exactly what we did yesterday, what progress?

It's baked into the immutable constants of the universe for us; entropy, signal attenuation over distances... information breaks down over time.

Because of this all human social statistics trend towards zero with intentional conservatism. Progress is or collapse is all the universe affords. It doesn't seem interested in conservatism at all.

New comment by ohNoe5 in "Sergey Brin Confronted Gavin Newsom"

ohNoe5 — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 22:56:46 +0000

Oh no, a couple thousand people, largely engaged in little more than modern conservatism, might leave the rest of us 300+ million alone for a change rather than demand fealty to their personal story and personal autonomy (fealty to which actually distracts us from our own lives); people who do nothing to assure the rest of us have food and shelter and healthcare may take their ball and go home!

How tragic.

End of the day we all have the same freedom to not care if Sergey has food shelter or lives in his car as the billionaires give themselves

End of the day we all have the ssme right to select ourselves and tell Sergey Brin "your needs aren't my problem."