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

scruple — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:53:38 +0000

> I know I should be used to people openly lying with no consequence, but it still amazes me a bit.

Well that makes two of us. Character seems to mean nothing today.

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

scruple — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:49:01 +0000

> Can someone help me to understand why OpenAI and Anthropic talks as if the future of humanity controlled by them?

He wants to build the AI that makes people's lives better. Okay. Did the people ask? Do they have a say? It's all very easy for a billionaire to say when it's just him and a couple of people in his cohort in the driver's seat.

Beyond that I'd like to simply know why he thinks any of this is his responsibility. It seems much more obvious to me that he simply found himself in the right place at the right time and is trying to seize it all for himself as if it's his to take.

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

scruple — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 01:31:44 +0000

Incendiary. Is he trying to suggest the journalists are at fault here?

New comment by scruple in "The Pentagon Threatened Pope Leo XIV's Ambassador with the Avignon Papacy"

scruple — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 12:03:50 +0000

Yes. This administration is on a blitz ahead of the midterms. Rubio has his eyes on Cuba and he's positioned himself next to Trump. It is happening.

New comment by scruple in "Sam Altman may control our future – can he be trusted?"

scruple — Tue, 07 Apr 2026 13:31:39 +0000

It would be absolutely astounding to read TFA and then continue to take this weasel and his word at face value.

New comment by scruple in "Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset"

scruple — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:18:13 +0000

Aren't these things just legal fictions that only exist because/as long as the US government allows it?

New comment by scruple in "Gold overtakes U.S. Treasuries as the largest foreign reserve asset"

scruple — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 15:14:13 +0000

So it's a controlled demolition? In this view, is the goal to devalue our own debt? Extract value while it still has value?

New comment by scruple in "The bridge to wealth is being pulled up with AI"

scruple — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 16:27:06 +0000

Service for citizenship, stationed along the border walls and manning really big fucking guns seems to be the place my brain always goes to in these sorts of conversations.

New comment by scruple in "Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back"

scruple — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:11:41 +0000

Through circumstance I went from a fully remote working arrangement to working for a place that's 5 miles down a single surface street from where I live (which, during commute hours pushes up to 15 minutes). I go in twice a week, but since we have kids it's mostly a wash. I still vastly prefer the 3 days per week that I work from home. The office gets very busy and very loud, especially in the afternoons.

New comment by scruple in "Silicon Valley's "Pronatalists" Killed WFH. The Strait of Hormuz Brought It Back"

scruple — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:09:27 +0000

My employer very successfully shipped a lot of brand new stuff during COVID when everyone was full-time remote. We made a lot of money off of those products. Then they sort of bragged about it. Then they instituted RTO. Now (I'm told, I'm at a megacorp so I'm far removed from these discussions) the executive team is bitching that we're not in office 5 days per week.

New comment by scruple in "US- and Greek-owned tankers ablaze after Iran claims 'underwater drone' strike"

scruple — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:04:42 +0000

What's the basis for this war in Iran? Did that stop this administration? This is akin to pointing out that it's actually illegal to drive 30 mph over the speed limit.

New comment by scruple in "We might all be AI engineers now"

scruple — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 19:18:11 +0000

I'm far more interested in understanding how we can 10x our confidence in a change and not just our line counts.

New comment by scruple in "We might all be AI engineers now"

scruple — Fri, 06 Mar 2026 15:13:05 +0000

How much more productive are we supposed to be in engineering? Are we 10x'ing our testing capability at the same time? QA is already a massive bottleneck at my $DAYJOB. I'm not sure what benefits the company at-large derives from having the typing machine type faster.

Child's Play

scruple — Fri, 20 Feb 2026 05:11:11 +0000

Article URL: https://harpers.org/archive/2026/03/childs-play-sam-kriss-ai-startup-roy-lee/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47084027

Points: 4

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New comment by scruple in "America's pensions can't beat Vanguard but they can close a hospital"

scruple — Tue, 17 Feb 2026 18:26:30 +0000

In the end it's a distinction without a difference. The result is the same, and Thiel was building the fire escape before anyone could smell smoke.

New comment by scruple in "The time I didn't meet Jeffrey Epstein"

scruple — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 16:08:00 +0000

> Since you don’t care that much about money, they can’t buy you at least.

I get the sense that Bill does care about money, and so does Larry Summers, so Mom's advice probably wouldn't have done much there.

New comment by scruple in "In praise of –dry-run"

scruple — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 03:31:07 +0000

Having 1 place (or just generally limiting them) that does the things keeps the dry_run check from polluting the entire codebase. I maintain a lot of CLI tooling that's run by headless VMs in automation pipelines and we do this with basically every single tool.

New comment by scruple in "Yes, It's Fascism"

scruple — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 20:14:00 +0000

It is exhausting and frustrating. What level of evidence is required here? And why? It's not unlike the article. Do we need to wait around for firing squads or something? What does it take for people to wake up?

New comment by scruple in "Yes, It's Fascism"

scruple — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 16:47:51 +0000

Is this common belief grounded in reality? We're well past the notion that the "old man" (and his VP, as well as most, if not all of his cabinet) believes in the law and he has stacked the deck in his favor.

New comment by scruple in "Tesla kills Autopilot, locks lane-keeping behind $99/month fee"

scruple — Sat, 24 Jan 2026 16:24:50 +0000

ACC generally has a 3-4 second time interval that it permits between you and the car in front of you. I live in SoCal, so a lot of my driving is on very aggressive routes. The 4-second gap is mechanically safe but it's practically unusable because it creates a void large enough to invite other cars to lane change in front of me. So when that car merges in, the ACC detects a violation of the safe braking distance and decelerates to reestablish the gap. I call it the "cut me off" loop when we're on trips.

And before anyone suggests that I start tinkering around with the settings, I have adjusted it and the damned thing just resets itself constantly.