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New comment by riazrizvi in "What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks"

riazrizvi — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 20:08:10 +0000

I don't get this. Use cash like me and a bunch of us if you don't want to play the game. Or a debit card. Otherwise it's just an extra game. Extra games are choice. Choice is good.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration"

riazrizvi — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:39:19 +0000

No. It's a shorthand for contextual bias. The context is the tiny window of the statistic. When it's applied to a real world situation, ppl promote the 'unbiasedness' into a real situation that isn't constrained by it.

Bias cannot be avoided in any information, because it's always a position of what is relevant and in what presented order. The only unbiased thing is nature itself in its immediate instantaneous totality.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration"

riazrizvi — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 23:47:56 +0000

There is no position lacking bias. The question of bias against me is a political position not an epistemological problem that can be eliminated. I see authors that are unaware of things like context and relativity.

When ppl say there is an absolute truth that we need to stick to, they are slipping in a totalitarian political position and calling it truth. It runs against the whole premise of nature and life, which has rested for 4 billion years on: Alternative competing positions, seeing which one works best.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Large language models develop novel social biases through adaptive exploration"

riazrizvi — Tue, 08 Sep 2026 23:14:48 +0000

I stopped at the daft-to-me premise:

> As large language models (LLMs) are adopted into frameworks that grant them the capacity to make real decisions, it is increasingly important to ensure that they are unbiased

New comment by riazrizvi in "Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?"

riazrizvi — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:05:08 +0000

Come on. Things still break. Technology isn't _that_ mature.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Any Human Ever – One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived"

riazrizvi — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 17:01:00 +0000

Okay step away from the waving hands and read the source material.

New comment by riazrizvi in "ChatGPT Is Throwing 404"

riazrizvi — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:27:50 +0000

Really? It spins up too many reasoners on the back-end and triggers a safeguard? Fascinating.

New comment by riazrizvi in "ChatGPT Is Throwing 404"

riazrizvi — Thu, 03 Sep 2026 15:09:19 +0000

Phew. It wasn't because of something I said. Lots of ppl are impacted.

New comment by riazrizvi in "'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online"

riazrizvi — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:42:47 +0000

Fascinating. So it seems to have been used for parasitic and fungal skin treatments, angina, and to induce miscarriage. With no doubt a very narrow band of error.

New comment by riazrizvi in "'Mad honey' that can stop your heart is being sold online"

riazrizvi — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 22:02:33 +0000

Florida's manchineel tree (with the tiny apples) is the OG wood you don't burn because it blinds you.

New comment by riazrizvi in "The safest job from AI may be writing"

riazrizvi — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 18:45:24 +0000

The safest jobs are the ones that don't feed a training algorithm with data, any work that remains more of a mystery.

New comment by riazrizvi in "The Internet Is Kind of a Predatory Cesspit Now"

riazrizvi — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 20:44:08 +0000

Nah. It's still the output of multiple ppl merged into one. There's no governing force there. Just human nature, across the world, more captured, more visible than ever before.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Small Models Have Arrived"

riazrizvi — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:39:41 +0000

These are great examples of converting the snippets into imaginary ppl. Thanks.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Small Models Have Arrived"

riazrizvi — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 19:47:03 +0000

I think you're just observing ppl in one of these rare instances where enough of them come together because they are motivated. 'Toxic' is the clamoring sound of a crowded room where what gets through to your ears are just the most annoying snippets of incomplete conversations. I dare you to hang out with any actual people here, understand their viewpoint and listen to what they actually have to say in person, within the context of watching them do it.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Small Models Have Arrived"

riazrizvi — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 18:20:31 +0000

I think there's something subtle about language and ambiguity that means they aren't designed to become superintelligent autonomous machines. They're value is as information repositories that actual intelligent autonomous machines (us) mine and string together.

New comment by riazrizvi in "FDA authorizes first wearable device that monitors ketone and blood sugar levels"

riazrizvi — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:12:45 +0000

So she was merely ahead of her time.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

riazrizvi — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 20:00:25 +0000

For you maybe. I love the color of my turds.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Apple introduces M6 and M5 Ultra"

riazrizvi — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 17:09:54 +0000

The Zune failed vs the iPod because of marketing? Okay.

New comment by riazrizvi in "There's no reason for software to be slow anymore"

riazrizvi — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 06:55:12 +0000

Not paying for premium? That's still a good reason. Even solo SaaS builders have to pay the rent.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Norway Should Buy OpenAI"

riazrizvi — Tue, 18 Aug 2026 20:18:52 +0000

FYI "Silicon Valley" is a bunch of of different ppl. Quite a few. Operating in some totally separate day-to-day environments. Flippant comments rise to top because they are clickbait.