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New comment by pasquinelli in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

pasquinelli — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 13:41:51 +0000

it's not that they're bad at logic in general, it's that the "protecting the children" part gets them emotionally reactive, which bypasses logic. same thing happens when you tell a man who's emotionally reactive about his masculinity that soy will give him tits, just those words are enough to shut down his thinking.

people are plenty good at systems thinking. if we made them better at it, their emotional immaturity would still bypass it.

New comment by pasquinelli in "Rhombus Language 1.0"

pasquinelli — Wed, 24 Jun 2026 00:31:46 +0000

why do you think it was a bad choice?

New comment by pasquinelli in "Foreign-Born Entrepreneurs Drive America's Unicorn Boom"

pasquinelli — Sun, 21 Jun 2026 13:17:58 +0000

beyond not caring. that little factoid would turn a lot of people into xenophobes.

New comment by pasquinelli in "Turns Out, There Is a Cabal of Elite Crazies Trying to Control the World"

pasquinelli — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 23:19:50 +0000

a cabal isn't a social club.

New comment by pasquinelli in "Most Beautiful Will Ever Made (1936)"

pasquinelli — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:52:45 +0000

here's a poem by ryokan expressing a similar sentiment

My legacy—What will it be?

Flowers in spring,

The cuckoo in summer,

And the crimson maples

Of autumn...

New comment by pasquinelli in "New method turns ocean water into drinking water, without waste"

pasquinelli — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 00:54:09 +0000

gasoline

New comment by pasquinelli in "Branchless Quicksort faster than std:sort and pdqsort with C and C++ API"

pasquinelli — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 02:12:08 +0000

kind of the flip side of pascal's "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time." if someone does have the time to make the letter short, it'll take longer to read (where "read" means to grasp the subtleties of.)

New comment by pasquinelli in "U.S. to dismantle system tracking Atlantic currents that are at risk of collapse"

pasquinelli — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 03:26:08 +0000

interesting how that logic only applies about half the time.

New comment by pasquinelli in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

pasquinelli — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 23:05:45 +0000

> Yeah, it's kind of mind boggling that Ted Chiang (of all people!) can't imagine intelligence without a body.

the subject is consciousness, not intelligence.

New comment by pasquinelli in "Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording""

pasquinelli — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 18:15:45 +0000

usually people romanticize china when they're comparing it to the united states. are chat apps in the US not infiltrated or run by america?

New comment by pasquinelli in "You can just say it"

pasquinelli — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:28:05 +0000

read "optimize the billionaire class" as "trim the fat."

New comment by pasquinelli in "You can just say it"

pasquinelli — Sat, 30 May 2026 00:21:30 +0000

if we optimize the billionaire class everyone's better off, like i said. of course we can go orange catholic, but my comment was premised on how we might apply ai.

New comment by pasquinelli in "You can just say it"

pasquinelli — Fri, 29 May 2026 23:57:59 +0000

see what you don't understand is that the owning class actually bring crucial long term strategic vision. i wonder though: we always talk of ai replacing the working class, but wouldn't it be more economical for ai to provide that long term strategic thinking? i'm sure the operating costs for ai would be way less than the operating costs of billionaires. everyone would be better off.

New comment by pasquinelli in "The dead economy theory"

pasquinelli — Fri, 29 May 2026 19:20:27 +0000

> Historically, more efficient agriculture meant a population boom. That's kinda the opposite of people starving to death.

not necessarily. you're inadvertently conflating things. just more people alive doesn't mean they aren't starving. a population boom can be had in the starving population too.

New comment by pasquinelli in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

pasquinelli — Fri, 29 May 2026 15:33:04 +0000

> Everyone has different situations and different level of risk.

that's true, and also why it's prudent to not go around giving unsolicited family advice to strangers.

also it's why, when you're talking about one particular woman you've never met, you should keep the demographic insights you think you have about her to yourself.

New comment by pasquinelli in "News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism"

pasquinelli — Sat, 23 May 2026 04:15:42 +0000

if that's the one where you get to own things then there wasn't trade before capitalism, because you can't trade things without ownership. is that what you're saying?

New comment by pasquinelli in "News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism"

pasquinelli — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:16:17 +0000

so how's it the beauty of capitalism?

New comment by pasquinelli in "News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism"

pasquinelli — Fri, 22 May 2026 18:23:48 +0000

why did anyone trade prior to capitalism?

New comment by pasquinelli in "Steve Wozniak cheered after telling students they have AI – actual intelligence"

pasquinelli — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:53:26 +0000

i've been waiting for you to share your conclusion for the last ten years. finally, i can sleep again.

New comment by pasquinelli in "News outlets are limiting the Internet Archive’s access to their journalism"

pasquinelli — Fri, 22 May 2026 08:15:03 +0000

> Greed isn't a problem.

you listed

1. buying the cheapest groceries you can reasonably find 2. trying to get the highest salary you can 3. literally any time you try to get more for yourself

that's a weak list from which to conclude that greed isn't a problem, especially since in the case of 1. and 2. someone's making money off you, the person who's supposedly greedy in these scenarios.