<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: parodysbird</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=parodysbird</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2026 17:35:51 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=parodysbird" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parodysbird in "Philosoph Jürgen Habermas Gestorben"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Trump is the most postmodern politician, and MAGA the most postmodern of political movements</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 14 Mar 2026 17:47:25 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47379158</link><dc:creator>parodysbird</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47379158</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47379158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parodysbird in "Backing up Spotify"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It's crazy how convenient and deep the library on soulseek is. I even use it all the time on mobile.</p>
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<p>This is not at all what is meant by fascist corporatism, nor corporatism more generally. Corporatism is more about collective bargaining by professional trades, and is <i>not</i> the sense of corporation as used for private companies.</p>
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<p>> The challenge with comparing AI to humans is that the bar keeps shifting up.<p>Exactly. There is no standard, humans will adapt and find how to use AI as a tool, and the bar will never and should never be fixed.<p>The beauty of Turing's Test (which he strangely seemed to misunderstand) is that it is almost impossible to pass.</p>
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<p>There really isn't any Bayesian "prior" for us. We exist as agents interacting with an environment qua data stream. Every single moment brings new flows of "data" and as such there isnt a sense of having a prior and posterior since this milliseconds prior is last milliseconds posterior.</p>
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<p>Not entirely; it's doesn't necessarily involve taking advantage of price discrepancies in different "markets" of the same asset, or contract so to speak in this case, and so it doesn't necessarily lead to "guaranteed" profit in the way that arbitrage does.</p>
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<p>It is not a good idea for retail investors to get heavily involved in zero-sum derivatives trading against much more sophisticated algorithmic trading models.</p>
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<p>Being next to the steering wheel is worse. If the human needs to be in the car, then he should be behind the wheel. Putting him next to the wheel is categorically stupid and only serves as theater for fools.</p>
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<p>I remember being a young boy spending summers with my grandmother who lived on Church Street. I used to spend whole days in those book shops, good to know they are still a major part of the neighborhood.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 06:46:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45099847</link><dc:creator>parodysbird</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45099847</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45099847</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parodysbird in "Interactive map of Paul's first century travels in Roman world"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I called him a divine being to describe the kind of experience it was. There was a historical human form of Jesus that the chosen apostles interacted with. In Paul's testimony he encounters Jesus who is not take the form of a historical human anymore and therefore the type of religious experience this is, is one with the divine. I am not making a Christological argument on the full nature of Jesus.<p>I am Christian btw, but I support bringing historical and documentary rigor to theology. I also haven't actually doubted anything, at least not of Christ. I've just characterized Paul's gospel and mission as coming from a private and separate revelation, unlike the gospels and missions that the original apostles received.<p>The point that I made based on that is that it is strange that a lot of the theology of Christianity as it develops centuries later is derived more from the exceptional and privately delivered gospel of Paul, rather than from the gospels of the apostles of Jesus when he also held a historical human form.<p>I think there is also an obvious scholarly reason for this that doesn't even require belief, which is that Paul's writings are the closest documents we have to the time of historical Jesus. However, that also gives reason for us to be cautious in hanging major theological positions on specific sections in Paul that seem absent from or in tension with the synoptic gospels.</p>
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<p>> His main privilege was that petty local rulers were more reluctant to persecute him than they would a non-citizen<p>It's more than that. Basically everywhere he went local commoners wanted to kill him and it was the elite local rulers that safeguarded him</p>
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<p>I chose the words carefully for that reason. The prophet of the nascent religion was a human being who was born, lived and died as a human being. Paul did not encounter this man. In his story, he encounters a divine being, and receives a private revelation (gospel) and mission that is distinct from the revelation and mission that the prophet in question gave as a human to his chosen students (apostles).<p>Paul is, in this terminology, also a prophet. He explicitly says the revelation he tells is not of human origin, and so not passed down to him through e.g. the ministry of one of the students (apostles) of the prophet in question.<p>It strikes me as unusual to have so much of the theology coming from someone who simply claims private revelation but is not the prophet in question and when the prophet explicitly chose disciples and set a ministry for them.</p>
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<p>> Even back when every household received a morning paper I cannot fathom how a single article could command such a high pay.<p>He wrote for the New Yorker, which is a magazine rather than a newspaper. The number of long-form literary nonfiction pieces that the New Yorker runs every year is drastically fewer than the number of news articles produced to fill a daily newspaper in just a couple weeks.</p>
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<p>I'd recommend looking into adding a speculative final journey he might have taken to Spain. He mentions plans to go there in Romans, and other sources like 1 Clement and Jerome suggest he actually went there. The city of Tarragona has a tradition that he visited, as a speculative destination to map.</p>
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<p>It is very strange the amount of theology that comes solely from Paul's idiosyncratic writings, given that he neither met the prophet in question (Jesus), nor was taught by any of his students (apostles), nor even got along particularly well with any of his students.</p>
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<p>He was also a Roman citizen, so he could pull some privileges for free rides like getting to Rome through exercising his right to appeal directly to the Emperor</p>
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<p>AGI is made-up nonsense, so it's better to phrase the hardware overhang (and anything else that is meant to refer to reality) without reference to it.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 23 Aug 2025 10:04:57 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44994789</link><dc:creator>parodysbird</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44994789</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44994789</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parodysbird in "GPT-4o is gone and I feel like I lost my soulmate"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think I might value a society where there are fewer people like this</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sat, 09 Aug 2025 11:07:28 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44845569</link><dc:creator>parodysbird</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44845569</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44845569</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by parodysbird in "GPT-4o is gone and I feel like I lost my soulmate"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Or that these people are not suitable to have been judges in the setup of the Turing Test... People also fall for email spam with blatant misspellings, that doesn't mean email spam passes a Turing test, it means the people falling for it are marks.</p>
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<p>> movies that aspire to win academy awards, are meant to be played to the world wide lowest common denominator<p>That's not the kind of films that tend to win the major Oscar awards. Those tend to be either a bit artsy (e.g. Anora this year) or "serious" biopics/history movies (e.g. Oppenheimer last year).</p>
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