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

seizethecheese — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 06:34:12 +0000

Why would that be the case?

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

seizethecheese — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:55:19 +0000

Pasting the same reply as you sibling comment:

My comment here is about the ethics of military weapons vs assassinations of private individuals. I have no idea what you’re talking about.

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

seizethecheese — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:54:59 +0000

My comment here is about the ethics of military weapons vs assassinations of private individuals. I have no idea what you’re talking about.

New comment by seizethecheese in "Artemis II safely splashes down"

seizethecheese — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:22:13 +0000

Highly recommend The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe about the Gemini astronauts. They mostly were test pilots prior.

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

seizethecheese — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:11:31 +0000

Might consider reading https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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

seizethecheese — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:09:58 +0000

Maybe I shouldn’t take the bait here…

Yes, military power is evil, but it’s a necessary evil. A society that decides to stop making weapons is going to be subjugated by one that continues to make them. Full stop.

New comment by seizethecheese in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

seizethecheese — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 03:02:09 +0000

Makes me wonder if civil war is more common for larger countries. Reminds me of the phenomenon where Latin American countries pretty much all broke up after independence from Spain.

New comment by seizethecheese in "Chimpanzees in Uganda locked in eight-year 'civil war', say researchers"

seizethecheese — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:58:07 +0000

> We are strongly, strongly evolutionary oriented away from 'murder' - it's the original sin

The idea of sin is designed to fix less than ideal human tendencies. If anything, this being the biggest sin means murder is the most inherent bad trait of humans.

New comment by seizethecheese in "Filing the corners off my MacBooks"

seizethecheese — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 02:16:57 +0000

All things being equal, sure, but I personally am way more likely to mod the Cherokee than the Porsche

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

seizethecheese — Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:46:37 +0000

Military power and attacks on private individuals are different things. It's perfectly consistent to be against attacks on private individuals while being in favor of building military weapons.

New comment by seizethecheese in "France's aircraft carrier located in real time by Le Monde through fitness app"

seizethecheese — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:51:34 +0000

A commercial jet is both way smaller and faster moving than an aircraft carrier. I suspect this is like saying: why can’t you see the fly in the photo, the turtle is right there!

New comment by seizethecheese in "AirPods Max 2"

seizethecheese — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 18:55:22 +0000

I'll briefly join the chorus: AirPods Max were the worst value for money I've ever spent on a tech product.

But more interestingly: what happens at a company like Apple that leads them to not cancel this product and come up with something totally new? Is it that the success of their other products pulls this along so well that they are numb to this product being a dog? AirPods Pro (the earbuds) are a great product, so perhaps the headphones org just doesn't have to face the music?

New comment by seizethecheese in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

seizethecheese — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:07:42 +0000

Prediction markets already had it as more likely than not that the court would rule against the tariffs

New comment by seizethecheese in "Judge orders government to begin refunding more than $130B in tariffs"

seizethecheese — Thu, 05 Mar 2026 18:06:29 +0000

Prediction markets were at something like 60% that the court would rule against the tariffs

New comment by seizethecheese in "Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death"

seizethecheese — Wed, 04 Mar 2026 01:30:27 +0000

I’ll point out the obvious that this is entirely based on perspective. An individual whose dominant mode of transportation is not driving would probably disagree.

New comment by seizethecheese in "Statement on the comments from Secretary of War Pete Hegseth"

seizethecheese — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 02:16:12 +0000

This part stood out to me:

“To the best of our knowledge, these exceptions have not affected a single government mission to date.”

I had assumed these exceptions (on domestic surveillance and autonomous drones) were more than presuppositions.

New comment by seizethecheese in "I am directing the Department of War to designate Anthropic a supply-chain risk"

seizethecheese — Sat, 28 Feb 2026 00:31:18 +0000

He said “from a company working on AGI” which is true. Not to mention that the sarcastic nature of your comment is off putting

New comment by seizethecheese in "How will OpenAI compete?"

seizethecheese — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 05:04:41 +0000

Great article, but I think this is a stretch: "nor does OpenAI have consumer products on top of the models themselves that have product-market fit."

I would argue chatgpt is in the top 10 products of all time with regard to product market fit.

New comment by seizethecheese in "Cardiorespiratory fitness is associated with lower anger and anxiety"

seizethecheese — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 18:21:09 +0000

Diet is the main driver of obesity, not exercise. These folks are often in great shape under a layer of fat.

More apropos, have you ever met an anxious construction worker? I haven’t.

New comment by seizethecheese in "Gemini 3.1 Pro"

seizethecheese — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 18:12:30 +0000

> It feels like we are now able to manage incredibly smart engineers for a month at the price of a good sushi dinner.

In my experience it’s more like idiot savant engineers. Still remarkable.