Hacker News: rhizome

New comment by rhizome in "Waymo Safety Impact"

rhizome — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:04:50 +0000

Pulling out randomly, I see it all the time. I beat the computer by a) anticipating; and b) assuming other drivers are idiots who don't see me. I don't have to calculate trajectories and whatnot, people aren't computers, and they can do some things better than a computer can, especially a solely-reactive one.

New comment by rhizome in "Waymo Safety Impact"

rhizome — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 09:00:21 +0000

Google only hires the best of the best.

New comment by rhizome in "Waymo Safety Impact"

rhizome — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:59:41 +0000

If the CEO isn't juicing market cap 110% of the time, the board will prosecute them and they will go to JAIL!

New comment by rhizome in "Peter Thiel's Antichrist Lectures"

rhizome — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 08:44:23 +0000

"What it does" is a thing that can be changed.

New comment by rhizome in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"

rhizome — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 22:17:17 +0000

You are correct, sir!

New comment by rhizome in "Immich – High performance self-hosted photo and video management"

rhizome — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:23:04 +0000

v0.46.4_p3

New comment by rhizome in "Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity head says Meta endangered billions of users"

rhizome — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:18:36 +0000

Greater Fool Theory

New comment by rhizome in "Ex-WhatsApp cybersecurity head says Meta endangered billions of users"

rhizome — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:16:10 +0000

My understanding is that in the vast majority of investigations law enforcement will be satisfied in learning only who you're talking to, i.e. "just metadata" is fine, and dangerous.

New comment by rhizome in "Chat Control Must Be Stopped"

rhizome — Tue, 09 Sep 2025 00:03:52 +0000

>I wonder why there has been such silence on this

Some combination of cowardice, conflict of interest, and fear of ICE.

New comment by rhizome in "CauseNet: Towards a causality graph extracted from the web"

rhizome — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 07:42:36 +0000

"The map is not the territory" ensures that bias and mistakes are inextricable from the entire AI project. I don't want to get all Jaron Lanier about it, but they're fundamental terms in the vocabulary of simulated intelligence.

New comment by rhizome in "The day Return became Enter (2023)"

rhizome — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 07:35:23 +0000

It's a latch.

New comment by rhizome in "Curl: We still have not seen a valid security report done with AI help"

rhizome — Tue, 06 May 2025 19:14:53 +0000

All three of those should be followed by "...and I checked it to see if it was a sufficient solution to X..." or words to that effect.

New comment by rhizome in "OpenAI reaches agreement to buy Windsurf for $3B"

rhizome — Tue, 06 May 2025 19:05:32 +0000

Maybe to avoid the Second System Effect.

New comment by rhizome in "Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047"

rhizome — Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:53:11 +0000

Congress makes laws, not government agencies like the FDA, EPA, USDA, etc.

What are some examples of laws created by unelected people?

New comment by rhizome in "FTX's Sam Bankman-Fried Should Serve 40 to 50 Years in Prison, Prosecutors Say"

rhizome — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 20:15:12 +0000

Jamie Dimon should be in prison right now, for one.

New comment by rhizome in "Klarna says its AI assistant does the work of 700 people"

rhizome — Wed, 28 Feb 2024 00:34:50 +0000

That equals permission, at least (I'm sure) to them.

New comment by rhizome in "Peter Thiel backs 'Olympics on steroids' event that allows athletes to dope"

rhizome — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 22:48:52 +0000

Swimming is not often a contact sport, so it's not really an apples to apples comparison.

New comment by rhizome in "Peter Thiel backs 'Olympics on steroids' event that allows athletes to dope"

rhizome — Thu, 01 Feb 2024 22:47:27 +0000

Not only is Thiel a dyed in the wool libertarian, but he also owns the dye factory and patents.

I think it's probably just his version of yanking the chain, but if anybody wants to submit to the experiment I'm sure he'll be happy to sit back and watch.

New comment by rhizome in "I don't want anything your AI generates"

rhizome — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:24:53 +0000

"You may not be interested in AI, but AI is interested in you."

New comment by rhizome in "I don't want anything your AI generates"

rhizome — Wed, 31 Jan 2024 23:23:43 +0000

I remember VRML.