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

riazrizvi — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:52:46 +0000

They're not independent. They are the systematic consequences of a naive intelligentsia pressing their ideals that are not grounded in precedent. They are susceptible to manipulative despotic takeover. The pattern keeps repeating. Across geographies large and small.

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

riazrizvi — Wed, 13 May 2026 19:19:30 +0000

"Yet like Musk the ouster wounded his ego". So the journalist believes that reacting to rejection with emotions like a biological person makes him like Musk. Err okay.

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

riazrizvi — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:52:51 +0000

Ppl don't understand Commercialization is not incidental to the Western system, it's why we beat out Communism. Commercialization incentivizes ppl to build, bc ownership and control.

The FSF was not an attack on commercialization, it was about giving users more freedom with their own copy.

AI commercialization is why we will always be a few steps ahead in AI.

The Chinese and Russians are free to join us. It's a pickup game.

New comment by riazrizvi in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

riazrizvi — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 14:38:29 +0000

This would be a world where the top talent and training capability for that talent lives there. Our universities would have deteriorated, our professional class at this top level would have died off or relocated over there. Probably an example I can think of is the once great textile industry of Britain that is now in Asia.

New comment by riazrizvi in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

riazrizvi — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:13:32 +0000

Pricing is based on customer value and restriction of customer options.

If we're paying $1000 for a Chinese phone that we'd pay $2000 for, we'll end up paying that price when the manufacturers have finally starved the professional capability to compete from the rest of the world. As we get closer to that point, the urgency to onshore is increasing.

Exploitation when we can get away with it is in our social nature as humans. So this isn't about the Chinese, or any other culture. It's just necessary for this to be onshored because it's critical.

New comment by riazrizvi in "F-35 is built for the wrong war"

riazrizvi — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:08:11 +0000

This would be an interesting article 4 years ago. Now I think it's old news and we've got the War Department spending $50bn on a new autonomous warfare wing.

New comment by riazrizvi in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

riazrizvi — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:03:03 +0000

Cook was a steward of Apple as an offshored manufacturing behemoth. I'm looking forward to where this reset goes. Hopefully better and American made products.

The privacy focus is why Apple is dominant today, keep that up.

New comment by riazrizvi in "GitHub's fake star economy"

riazrizvi — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 19:01:04 +0000

VCs are middlemen. It's not their money. As long as they can find a narrative to raise money, make a commission and do damage control on their reputation after the fallout, then their side pieces will never want for nothing.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Scientists discover “cleaner ants” that groom giant ants in Arizona desert"

riazrizvi — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 20:36:55 +0000

They crawl over them and lick and nibble their bodies? Okay I understand the quotes now.

It truly is the oldest profession.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Open Source Isn't Dead"

riazrizvi — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 20:24:53 +0000

Yes. Before AI the source was a demonstration of your substance. Users would be encouraged to reach out to maintainers to pay for upgrades or custom tweaks or training. Or indirectly pay for advertising while reading docs. After AI those revenue streams have collapsed. Now you have to withdraw enough of the work to make it hard for an individual to recreate with an LLM. The open source needs to be restricted to a rich interaction layer. Cloudflare just announced they are using that model with their services which were already closed source but now they are exposing them through new APIs. So they can capitalize on existing services that were not ripe enough for SaaS before AI, that had to be handled by their in-house professionals services folks. With this move they are using AI to expand/automate their white glove professional services business to smaller customers.

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

riazrizvi — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:03:18 +0000

Altman didn't create AI. That disruption is already coming no matter what. He's a fine enough steward of the tech. And what's this garbage about selling to the military? You pay taxes? You fund the military. Without security you can't protect your nation or your allies, and enemy nations would do as they please. Yet another citizen who benefits from a system while trying to attack it.

New comment by riazrizvi in "After 20 years I turned off Google Adsense for my websites (2025)"

riazrizvi — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 01:42:25 +0000

I think there is a super-sophisticated industry where advertisers are gamed out of their advertising dollars, and we occasionally can see it leaking out. For example I was very recently relentlessly hammered by political advertising by some odious tech guy who wants to get nominated for some congressional seat in the Bay Area. This was hard programming, where they just threw out the guy's name before you could hit mute, figuring that ppl would do that as quick as they could because the guy's vibe was so unrelatable. I have to imagine that the seasoned ad folks saw this dude as a pay day that they'd milk for all he is worth with this utterly misery inducing campaign. It's almost 100% brainwashing, with the tiniest sprinkle of substance. It has to be an industry that's preying on the buyer as much as the consumer.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Artemis II crew see first glimpse of far side of Moon [video]"

riazrizvi — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 21:15:57 +0000

It would be good for the interviewer to ask about this! I imagine a lot of people are pretty confused by the basic geometry. Thanks for explaining.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

riazrizvi — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:21:37 +0000

It's not sarcasm. I'm channeling you to a more productive focus for what I see as reaching beliefs/hopes. Try and make them happen instead of trying to convince other people they should happen. It will either temper/align them to the world as it is, or show the world what it can be.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

riazrizvi — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 20:03:08 +0000

I guess we have deep deep divisions on what everyone is doing in society, and what makes a 'good' society.

As I've aged, I've entered new-to-me territory where a good society needs to reflect the world as it is, so that its members have high survivability.

At the local family level for instance. When my kids were young. I had dreams of being super financially successful so that I could give them lots of nice things. I just don't want that for them anymore. Protection, and pandering, does not make a good lineage IMO. It's something of a leap I'm asking of you to connect this to my position here on Meta, but I've got other work to do, and I hope it's enough to convey my point.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

riazrizvi — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:33:12 +0000

Not hurting children is a pretty popular idea. So why don't you make that technical product for children based on this foundation, and blow Meta out of the water? I love your conviction. Good luck.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

riazrizvi — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:11:45 +0000

Your opinion isn't particularly important in our legal system. Since your comment expresses a preconceived notion of the accused's guilt. It would disqualify you from a jury, and undermine your legitimacy in a judicial, defensive and even prosecutorial function.

Though I respect it as a human opinion.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

riazrizvi — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 19:03:20 +0000

I think there's an axis of perceived wrongdoing here, and you and I fall on different points. Yours is more extreme, you say Meta was doing broad harm by exploring this activity, and want to see greater damages to scare other businesses off from the general territory of addictive interfaces. Mine is where we want businesses to continue to explore and develop 'sticky', compelling, user experiences but Meta went too deep in some specific ways.

EDIT: I see I'm mixing up the New Mexico case yesterday on sexploitation with the addiction case in Los Angeles I thought we were talking about here.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down"

riazrizvi — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:55:25 +0000

This is what I call content based on 'garbage'. Because garbage is the random collection of peoples' stuff. You can try and make sense and commentary on a society through the garbage dump, but it's pretty superficial. It doesn't tell you a lot about any real person's motivations. So it's not a great basis for commenting on real people. OPs comments are on the collection of things that they happen to come across through news and social media. Sure it looks like a lot is happening, but look at any one person's or business's approach and it will make a lot more sense. Yes, I realize people are producing content that appeals to the 'garbage' mindset, but it's obviously theater. A system that writes 10,000 lines of code for you a week, is headline theater.

New comment by riazrizvi in "Jury finds Meta liable in case over child sexual exploitation on its platforms"

riazrizvi — Wed, 25 Mar 2026 18:49:27 +0000

That's not how the legal framework in society works. Victims are compensated. The business pays. The precedent of wrongdoing is specifically established which means that further infringements can be quickly resolved.

The legal system does not seek to destroy the business, or individual criminal. Instead it wants them to be able to continue doing their other non-criminal stuff.