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New comment by rf15 in "Pentagon raised threat of Israeli spying on U.S. to highest level, sources say"

rf15 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:48:21 +0000

Forcing the existence of a new jewish state has created, as expected, a permanent political fissure in the area. This is just dumb ideas piling up upon one another.

New comment by rf15 in "Meta confirms 1000s of Instagram accounts were hacked by abusing its AI chatbot"

rf15 — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 20:42:29 +0000

That sweet koolaid taste, how could one resist?

...They really ahouldn't have, and I wonder how this will affect all the big AI IPOs. After all, Meta is one of the big players in the space. Surely if they can't do it right, then...

New comment by rf15 in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

rf15 — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:52:27 +0000

Your mind is very much tethered in reality, and your decisionmaking depends on your various inputs, outputs and their consequences. Reducing all inputs to one (text) and all outputs to one (text) is a reduction of all possible ability to perceive and act and thus a reduction of the ability to think.

Multimodal does not change this significantly, considering that nothing is tied to real consequences.

New comment by rf15 in "Tesla retroactively added 'supervised' to FSD contracts owners signed years ago"

rf15 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 18:37:02 +0000

Is this fraud? Contract forgery?

New comment by rf15 in "The American Missile Crisis"

rf15 — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 04:49:42 +0000

Is that really true regarding what we know of WW2? I thought their designs had major flaws, not just the goldplating issues you mention. Besides, they mostly lost because they spend all their manpower and material on pointless incursions far away from their country.

New comment by rf15 in "Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?"

rf15 — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 03:57:49 +0000

I expect it to be catastrophic or at least chaotic and we have removed our investments from the american market and untied ourselves from the dollar as best as we can. We are sitting this one out.

New comment by rf15 in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

rf15 — Sun, 31 May 2026 18:23:00 +0000

It was a general comment. Sorry for being unclear. I'm very bothered by hearing this exact thing a lot lately.

It's something I'm racking my brains over, how some people can tell certain things and intentions apart and others cannot - and how that set is different for everyone, and how this "flaw" is currently causing a lot of trouble because we, collectively, are not very well practiced in detecting this kind of thing.

I don't think the internet is dead just yet, because I don't think anybody truly has the concrete intention to destroy all knowledge.

New comment by rf15 in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

rf15 — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:26:11 +0000

> instant gratification

I'm with you. I don't understand why it affects some people more than others. To me, using AI triggered my sense for drugs and addiction after a while: when your first association for an engineering product is "it feels _great_!" then run, it's just cocaine with extra components.

A tool should not make you feel good, just accomplish the task.

New comment by rf15 in "Please Do Not Vibe Fuck Up This Software"

rf15 — Sun, 31 May 2026 10:19:11 +0000

funny speculative question: psychosis is evidently a gradient. Does AI just highlight latent general psychosis (i.e. in the simplified interpretation of a worldview shaped more by unchecked belief and fantasy than observation) in otherwise largely functional people?

What if the problem is that we train people too much to take things that are being said at face value without questioning/observing them, increasing the psychosis problem?

New comment by rf15 in "I found a seashell in the middle of the desert"

rf15 — Sun, 31 May 2026 09:52:44 +0000

Splitting hairs in bad faith is not constructive to the points being made here.

New comment by rf15 in "Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism"

rf15 — Sun, 31 May 2026 09:37:19 +0000

I think that can only happen to empire cultures: they only learn one language, and suddenly people think that's all there is. I speak five languages, my wife seven. Language synthesis is a feature, not the entire product, in my experience. Btw, this is only the third best language I can speak/write in. I didn't use AI, autocomplete, spell check, or a dictionary to construct any of my posts. All typos and imperfect grammar are perfectly organicly sourced.

edit: I just remembered, don't we have tons of research suggesting that at least birds, whales and apes/monkeys use words and simple syntax? didn't we teach a few gorillas sign language/symbols?

New comment by rf15 in "Leo's first encyclical attacks technological messianism"

rf15 — Sun, 31 May 2026 06:24:47 +0000

Don't worry, this is just humanity being too far up their own arse and conflating the map with the territory. Speech is a serialisation format, not the foundation of thought. Thus I think that any speech-first approach is inherently misguided. Speech must be a side effect.

New comment by rf15 in "Corporate America Is Starting to Ration AI as Cost Skyrockets"

rf15 — Sat, 30 May 2026 15:21:04 +0000

Money alao has the problematic tendency to warp the people around you, it's its own kind of gravity. The more powerful you are the more you attract yesmannerism and the more you lose touch with what's going on.

New comment by rf15 in "GTA 6 Developers Unionize"

rf15 — Sat, 30 May 2026 05:13:22 +0000

There's also the moral factor, but I've definitely considered switching in the past should money ever be a problem for me.

New comment by rf15 in "The dead economy theory"

rf15 — Fri, 29 May 2026 18:19:04 +0000

Ah, the good old days!

New comment by rf15 in "Our 2D game character grew 3% taller every time he walked"

rf15 — Thu, 28 May 2026 07:17:12 +0000

Absolute trivial problem; I wonder why this needed a blog post. Maybe to advertise the development progress?

New comment by rf15 in "The Vatican-Anthropic relationship that's reshaping the AI ethics debate"

rf15 — Tue, 26 May 2026 03:20:29 +0000

which is funny because I learned the worst kind of "subtle lie" from the west: establishing a favorable interpretation as fact before others have the time to think about an event or circumstance critically and from multiple angles. Because a lot of people don't ask followup questions if you give them An Answer right away.

New comment by rf15 in "I Miss Terry Pratchett"

rf15 — Sat, 23 May 2026 16:01:20 +0000

Three observations on people:

1. They talk too much (and thanks to llms now more than ever)

2. They observe too little

3. They sit too comfortably

New comment by rf15 in "Shunning AI is the human choice"

rf15 — Thu, 21 May 2026 16:40:26 +0000

> Hating work is good, wanting it to all be automated is good.

It's this "path of least resistance life style" that ruins a lot in our society. Yes, being wasteful is bad, but not appreciating the work is also bad.

New comment by rf15 in "Java: Rethink Domain Primitives with Valhalla"

rf15 — Wed, 20 May 2026 06:49:15 +0000

I've been working in Java for more than 20 years now, the last 10 with unperformant, yet performance critical enterprise slop.

I can only really say one thing here: they are really late to the party with this but it's good. The performance boost will be welcome, and would probably change ORMs forever if applied right.

Nullability rules should of course be also part of this domain-constricted types concept, since it would solve a lot of accidental mistakes. Because that's what a type system is for, right? Validation of programmer input.