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New comment by optomas in "Yes I Will Read Ulysses Yes"

optomas — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 05:25:08 +0000

Oh come on. A snot green nose rag. You can almost taste it, can't you?

If text can make you gag with revulsion, it is, by definition, good communication.

New comment by optomas in "Autonomous drone defeats human champions in racing first"

optomas — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 04:30:37 +0000

Generally, if you are smart enough to fashion this without being caught, you are too smart to do something like that.

Plus, you got a cool and potentially lucrative hobby, designing exterminator machines. Why bother with children at that point?

There are much, much better targets to be had.

Your point on the dwindling barrier to implementation stands.

New comment by optomas in "Sam and Greg's response to OpenAI Safety researcher claims"

optomas — Sun, 19 May 2024 03:56:33 +0000

Are you capable of being manipulated through text? How about an AI trained to generate text that will extract exactly the desired response from you? An advertiser's wet dream.

New comment by optomas in "Speed isn’t everything, and slowness may in fact be more beneficial (2017)"

optomas — Wed, 02 Aug 2023 07:56:29 +0000

>A lot of the reason that time seems to pass more quickly as we age is that we have fewer and fewer novel experiences

Experiential reference grows, reducing what "a long time" really means. At ten years old, a year is one tenth your life experience. At fifty years old, it is one fiftieth. Pretty simple.

Agreement on the novel experiences. They do seem to reset the clock.

New comment by optomas in "The rule says, “No vehicles in the park”"

optomas — Sat, 24 Jun 2023 08:12:18 +0000

The instructions say to ignore intent. We are left with definitions, then.

We do not define park boundaries, so each scenario must indicate those boundaries.

We do not define vehicle, so all objects are vehicles, including this soupy bag of proteins you pilot around.

The Game.

New comment by optomas in "Ask HN: Anyone at Reddit can confirm a traffic dip?"

optomas — Mon, 12 Jun 2023 07:18:48 +0000

I'm out.

New comment by optomas in "Your World of Text, my current side project. Requires FF3+ or Safari 4, I think."

optomas — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:58:38 +0000

Working here. Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.16) Gecko/20080827 Firefox/2.0.0.16

ah. try ff2 maybe? Other possibility is that what ever issue you were having has been fixed in the last five days.

Absolutely brilliant idea!