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New comment by pwndByDeath in "To grieve, or not to grieve?"

pwndByDeath — Mon, 05 Oct 2026 04:52:14 +0000

I guess the point I'm trying to make is though the outputs are the same, the LMs not "doing" formal logic, its not in it, it's doing something else that only fools us because many many others have done formal logic in the training set

New comment by pwndByDeath in "We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything"

pwndByDeath — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:48:52 +0000

I read the title and thought it was going to be a rant about how nations will get out of crushing debt...

New comment by pwndByDeath in "To grieve, or not to grieve?"

pwndByDeath — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 02:46:53 +0000

Perhaps I'm not intelligent enough to understand, Many people don't exercise thinking, many educated and capable people prefer not to, comparing that state to LMs and calling it dangerous intelligence is a bit too much emphasis on the later even of the first part may fit. It could be dangerous, like letting someone who can't drive stick loose in traffic.

New comment by pwndByDeath in "To grieve, or not to grieve?"

pwndByDeath — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 19:13:04 +0000

The inherent 1st order thinking in that way of thinking... It highlights just how little we understand what we understand, and how utterly ignorant we are of what we don't.

I'm already seeing new "engineers" who cannot work things out without AI holding their hand

New comment by pwndByDeath in "To grieve, or not to grieve?"

pwndByDeath — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 17:12:52 +0000

Not really, I think it says more about how little intelligence is in the behaviors we value

New comment by pwndByDeath in "I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken"

pwndByDeath — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:35:19 +0000

I'm in a situation where important people have either bought into the con or are subordinate to people who have, so I'm forced to expend time to justify why not to AI when there is a perfectly good classical solution.

New comment by pwndByDeath in "To grieve, or not to grieve?"

pwndByDeath — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:51:23 +0000

Doing formal logic because they memorized the token patterns of humans doing formal logic.

New comment by pwndByDeath in "I Quit OpenAI Because Its Culture Is Broken"

pwndByDeath — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:35:24 +0000

This smells more like guerilla advertising. These things are not getting more intelligent, they are still no smarter than a slime mold, we are just burning more power to make slim mold that eats tokens than yesterday

New comment by pwndByDeath in "So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe"

pwndByDeath — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 13:25:10 +0000

I've not been a fan of Reddit in a while, but I do appreciate a useful asynchronous human interaction. I think reddit lost the useful humans a few bad ideas ago but I'm not well versed in that drama.

I'm curious what HN minds would consider a useful fix to this cyborg Internet problem. It seems having humans and bots coexisting is problematic.

If you had to start over knowing what could happened and what we should avoid, how would you do it?

Right now the reticulum network stack has my vote, it enables and cripples just the right things to make me think it might help.

But I don't earn my living from the commercial form of the Internet, I find I blame the commercial interest for the bulk of the problems (enabled by human fragility)

But I may just be a crusty old mind.

New comment by pwndByDeath in "Pact: Anonymous Credentials for the Web"

pwndByDeath — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 18:34:17 +0000

I'm likely naive, but I'm very excited about a future that abandons the web and builds on reticulum. But I worry that the same flaws will be replicated out of habit instead of using it as a chance to avoid the dark paths.

Reticulum uses a proof of work "stamp" as a user side defense against not like behavior.

New comment by pwndByDeath in "Bootimus – A Self-Contained PXE and HTTP Boot Server"

pwndByDeath — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 13:54:08 +0000

PXE is one of those easy to take for granted without appreciation for how much of a PIA it is to get working sometimes.

I run a homelab PXE & NFSboot, so no hard drives in the homelab. Works great until I do something to bork it up.

I have been fine tuning setup scripts to automatically get things going for scratch, but I always find there was one more hack I didn't automate last time.

iPXE is on my to-learn list.

New comment by pwndByDeath in "Not everyone is using AI for everything"

pwndByDeath — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 12:47:34 +0000

I'm sorry, David, I'm afraid I can't do that.

New comment by pwndByDeath in "Anti-social: It's fads, not friends, which now dominate social media feeds"

pwndByDeath — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:44:25 +0000

Sounds like adict talk to me ;) Seriously though, the legit claims of benefits are from people who need outreach and don't want to pay for advertising. But your favorite taco truck gets attention while you get to slip into depressive oblivion.

New comment by pwndByDeath in "White Rabbit – sub-nanosecond synchronization for large distributed systems"

pwndByDeath — Mon, 25 May 2026 14:41:42 +0000

I wonder I'd that's the math for the ludicrous space data center ideas "floating" around...

New comment by pwndByDeath in "Princeton mandates proctoring for in-person exams, upending 133 year precedent"

pwndByDeath — Wed, 13 May 2026 21:18:04 +0000

Everyone has an anecdote of the immigrant they know who's a much better "American" in their values. The same for anecdotes of the people with the least American values being home grown and inbred

New comment by pwndByDeath in "The US is winning the AI race where it matters most: commercialization"

pwndByDeath — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:01:39 +0000

Perhaps tokens is a dead end?

New comment by pwndByDeath in "A network smuggling Starlink tech into Iran to beat internet blackout"

pwndByDeath — Sun, 03 May 2026 06:35:50 +0000

Are you under the impression that the starlink terminals in Iran are for US military?

New comment by pwndByDeath in "ASML became the chokepoint for cutting-edge chips"

pwndByDeath — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 15:12:50 +0000

In a vehicle, all the parts are moving

New comment by pwndByDeath in "MeshCore development team splits over trademark dispute and AI-generated code"

pwndByDeath — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 03:37:28 +0000

The protocol is CC and Mark has said go wild, it seems he doesn't want his work to contribute to an unstoppable AI killing machine networm

New comment by pwndByDeath in "Columnar Storage Is Normalization"

pwndByDeath — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 13:59:35 +0000

None-or-many?