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New comment by onethought in "We are entering a period of overlapping crises"

onethought — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:17:16 +0000

Honestly there are writings from the greeks, romans, enlightment, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s... That read just like this.

At some point, this view point, and this predicament is just "The Human Condition".[0]

[0] That's not a excuse to not try to fix the broken things around us. But perspective is important.

New comment by onethought in "Why We're Banning AI"

onethought — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 20:14:09 +0000

Isn't a machine still writing them if you do that?

New comment by onethought in "Extinct Tasmanian tiger's 'snap' unlike any living mammal's bite"

onethought — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:58:08 +0000

If forestry planted it... is it "old growth" ?

And yes, animals could go live in it, even if it was planted.

What's your alternative? boycott wood? Let the trees fall and rerelease their carbon as they rot?

New comment by onethought in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

onethought — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:50:35 +0000

nor Andrew Wiles

New comment by onethought in "A misalignment of AI in mathematics"

onethought — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 21:45:54 +0000

It literally was a replacement for portraits.

New comment by onethought in "Extinct Tasmanian tiger's 'snap' unlike any living mammal's bite"

onethought — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 12:03:40 +0000

Logging of the forest that the Tasmanian government planted, to log. Fear not, a Tasmanian tiger never saw the forest they are logging.

Environmentalists trip over themselves on what “old growth” means.

It is a renewable resource, and Tasmanian forestry is one of the most advanced and sustainable industries in the world.

New comment by onethought in "India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch"

onethought — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:49:00 +0000

Google incorporated in Ireland to gain tax benefits. They’ve been Irish ever since.

New comment by onethought in "Italy Blocks Reproductive Health Websites Women on Web and Women Help Women"

onethought — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 16:47:38 +0000

Just want to point out, it’s polarising because it’s a wedge issues that divides voting blocks neatly, and nothing to do with it being The Issue that it is.

More people die from obesity, cars, flu, preventable illness, etc. But we discuss endless this one issue… it’s for political science reasons not humanity/moral/etc reasons.

New comment by onethought in "US citizen charged after GrapheneOS phone wipes during airport search"

onethought — Mon, 27 Jul 2026 17:52:55 +0000

Duress pin should unlock a benign version with ai generated chats to ai generated friends about the latest benign topics.

In the Age of LLMs we could generate a fake digital existence as fast as we can delete a real one.

The goal is to appear like you complying without any evidence you are not. Graphene — build this feature!

New comment by onethought in "India's first privately-developed rocket reaches orbit on debut launch"

onethought — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:01:56 +0000

Maybe you need to let them know.

They were founded in NZ by a NZer, they launch from NZ, their employees are NZers. Calling them a US company is equivalent to saying Google is Irish.

New comment by onethought in "Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career"

onethought — Mon, 11 May 2026 18:08:36 +0000

I think it’s more nuanced. Even a “coder” spends the majority of their time, not coding.

New comment by onethought in "Waymo in Portland"

onethought — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 01:32:23 +0000

But you're ignoring the core point (in both your metaphor and in the argument at hand):

- If everyone took a Waymo... Waymo sucks. Not true of trains.

($/MW of power is stupid with nuclear in the age of solar and batteries, with basically zero safety concern... i.e. you can deploy solar and batteries to houses... not so much for nuclear)

New comment by onethought in "STFU"

onethought — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 02:57:54 +0000

Right so it’s not phones at all. We are really saying: turn it down - right?

New comment by onethought in "STFU"

onethought — Sat, 17 Jan 2026 02:15:45 +0000

I think this is the only meaningful point being made in this thread.

The sound from a phone speaker is annoying, more so, than a typical in person talking. To me the solution lies somewhere in fixing that to make it sound more natural.

Everyone else claiming that some how having “loud” conversation is rude, feels like they’ve fallen into some anti-social hole… we are literally the only animal to have developed complex spoken language… it’s part of our humanity.

New comment by onethought in "STFU"

onethought — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:22:25 +0000

How is that different than two people talking in person? Do you interrupt them as well?

New comment by onethought in "Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%"

onethought — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 04:03:52 +0000

That’s “widely available” — no one is buying them, so not “widely sold”

New comment by onethought in "China's BYD set to overtake Tesla as top EV seller"

onethought — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 04:01:50 +0000

Or we could realise that they still have that lead, and they were limited in the US by US government policy that propped up Detroit for union/votes rather than economics/environment.

Meanwhile BYD had US money with a a friendly government enhancing it.

You shouldn’t be angry with Musk, you should be angry with Trump/Biden (ignore left/right they both let Asia take Battery and chip technology on their watch).

Not defending Elon, he’s clearly got some flaws, but Telsa’s expansion has been phenomenal, even with massive head winds against it, just look at Rivian, VW, Lucid, Ford, GM… or anyone if you want to talk about “squandering”.

New comment by onethought in "Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%"

onethought — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:16:30 +0000

I’m not sure id call Chevy widely sold, yet. Their full year sales don’t even match a single quarter of Tesla.

New comment by onethought in "Tesla’s 4680 battery supply chain collapses as partner writes down deal by 99%"

onethought — Tue, 30 Dec 2025 19:13:14 +0000

This isn’t true: “most” non-lfp batteries in EV context are Tesla. Which means they are cylindrical.

Or are you counting OEMs rather than actual vehicles?

New comment by onethought in "GPT-5.2"

onethought — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 21:11:42 +0000

I mean there is benefit to understanding competitor well as well?