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

panicinducer — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 11:38:28 +0000

That is quite a take, but I guess it's the perspective that the American education system indoctrinates.

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

panicinducer — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 08:05:21 +0000

I'm an American, but I do not think the American government being strong helps me or my fellow Americans. The less America can project its cultural and military power on the rest of the world, the better.

New comment by panicinducer in "An American Privacy Emergency"

panicinducer — Fri, 03 Jul 2026 04:35:22 +0000

This gets it a bit backwards, the money is a reward for playing along within the system, not a straight cash-for-policy transaction.

If you don't play along with the elite line, they throw $50 million into a primary election to get you out of power. That's where you start to get into enough money to make a political difference, and even then the money is only part of the equation.

New comment by panicinducer in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

panicinducer — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 23:30:58 +0000

Maybe not everything needs to "scale"? You're asking each student to spend well over 100 hours in lectures and study for each class. Surely you can find 20 or 30 minutes per student for evaluation.

New comment by panicinducer in "Steam Machine launches today"

panicinducer — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:54:44 +0000

You could build the equivalent PC for quite a bit cheaper or a PS5 and 7 full price AAA games for the same price. No way this is a console-killer, but will be a nice novelty for Gaben fans for whom $1049 is not a significant amount of money.

New comment by panicinducer in "Siri AI"

panicinducer — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 07:11:07 +0000

It reminds me of the Apple Vision Pro hype trailer. "Put on a helmet so you can view 2D photographs in 3D space." Present-day Apple sure has a way of making extremely impressive tech seem totally superfluous.