Hacker News: presides

New comment by presides in "Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident"

presides — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:10:58 +0000

>“Once you see AGI you can’t unsee it.” It has a real "ring of power” dynamic to it, and makes people do crazy things. I don’t mean that AGI is the ring itself, but instead the totalizing philosophy of “being the one to control AGI”. The only solution I can come up with is to orient towards sharing the technology with people broadly, and for no one to have the ring.

The analogy has 2 simple rules and you can't even follow them:

#1 It MUST be destroyed.

#2 SOMEONE has to have the ring until then.

Without BOTH of those things you have no meaningful analogy. If we're being super charitable, "For no one to have the ring" is Frodo sitting at the council, with the ring on the table, naively thinking that it can stay right there in that spot forever, safe in Rivendell, about to have the horrifying revelation that there are 2.5 more books in the story. More realistically, it's Boromir moments later arguing that Denethor has the mandate to use it to fight on Gondor's behalf.

Fuck. I'm so past the point of caring about the extinction of our species, or your role in enslaving us to our robot overlords or whatever... but SELLING US SPECIOUS RING ANALOGIES IS WHERE I DRAW THE FUCKING LINE

New comment by presides in "Apple introduces M4 chip"

presides — Tue, 07 May 2024 20:35:33 +0000

Been a while since I've used a chromebook but iirc there's ALSO root access that's just a bit more difficult to access, and you do actually need to access it from time to time for various reasons, or at least you used to.

New comment by presides in "Hacked Nvidia 4090 GPU driver to enable P2P"

presides — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 16:27:39 +0000

This is out of touch; they were mad before and they will be mad again. Lots of people spend a huge chunk of their modest disposable income on high end gaming gear, and the only upside of these issues for them is that eventually, YEARS down the line, capacity/supply issues MIGHT calm down in a way that yields some benefits.

They're going to realize soon enough that they've basically just been told that the extremely shitty problem they thought they'd moved beyond is back with a vengeance and the next generation of gaming cards has the potential to make the past few rounds of scalping shit-shows look tame.

New comment by presides in "Apple Silicon M1 Emulating x86 Is Still Faster Than Every Other Mac"

presides — Mon, 16 Nov 2020 01:33:19 +0000

I feel like if they were going to do this right now they would have offered 32gb configurations on the M1 devices... as it stands they're going to have to offer attractive ~$2k devices for creative professionals who don't need bleeding edge cpu performance but would like a 20h battery and native ios apps.