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New comment by seventytwo in "John Simpson: 'I've reported on 40 wars but I've never seen a year like 2025'"

seventytwo — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 06:28:34 +0000

Remember that Russia is never as strong or as weak as they appear, and if they ally closely with China while Europe and the US is divided, it may mot be a good time for us in the West.

New comment by seventytwo in "John Simpson: 'I've reported on 40 wars but I've never seen a year like 2025'"

seventytwo — Mon, 29 Dec 2025 06:25:50 +0000

And I’m guessing you’ve covered 40 wars and have been reporting on those locations since at least the 1980s?

Sit down.

New comment by seventytwo in "The ultra-rich are claiming an increasing share of global wealth"

seventytwo — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:42:00 +0000

“May” be a problem? Come on man.

New comment by seventytwo in "The ultra-rich are claiming an increasing share of global wealth"

seventytwo — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 16:39:18 +0000

You can’t imagine any other options between what we have today and central planing?

New comment by seventytwo in "Rivian Unveils Custom Silicon, R2 Lidar Roadmap, and Universal Hands Free"

seventytwo — Fri, 12 Dec 2025 04:58:31 +0000

The $10k price exists to make the $100/mo seem like a good deal.

New comment by seventytwo in "The ultra-rich are claiming an increasing share of global wealth"

seventytwo — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:30:35 +0000

The problem isn’t necessarily the wealth itself, it’s the power feedback loop that comes with it. It’s the ability to influence the government to pass laws which maintain or amplify your existing wealth, which then increases your influence, etc.

There is nothing “free market” about this. There is no equitable or efficient destitution of resources when this kind of thing happens - and it will always happen, because it is an inevitability.

New comment by seventytwo in "The ultra-rich are claiming an increasing share of global wealth"

seventytwo — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:27:05 +0000

Here’s one - you presume the decisions they make about capital allocation are good and can’t be improved upon.

New comment by seventytwo in "The ultra-rich are claiming an increasing share of global wealth"

seventytwo — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 05:25:22 +0000

Ah, yes. Which is why we should return to tradition of the fiefdoms of yore, where the dukes and sultans famously brought great wealth and prosperity to their indentured servants!

Thank you, omnipotent billionaires, for your generosity and grace!

New comment by seventytwo in "The AI-Education Death Spiral a.k.a. Let the Kids Cheat"

seventytwo — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:21:30 +0000

Because we’re not wild animals.

New comment by seventytwo in "Over fifty new hallucinations in ICLR 2026 submissions"

seventytwo — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 20:33:05 +0000

Then punish all of it.

New comment by seventytwo in "TIL: The Data Furnace"

seventytwo — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 12:46:23 +0000

Yep. These various “tiers” have already been considered and are described in the Wikipedia article.

New comment by seventytwo in "Paramount Buys the Free Press, Ushering in a New Era at CBS News"

seventytwo — Tue, 07 Oct 2025 04:37:57 +0000

Found the billionaire

New comment by seventytwo in "What Google Translate can tell us about vibecoding"

seventytwo — Wed, 18 Jun 2025 09:40:36 +0000

They’re all just tools. Use the tools or become obsolete.

New comment by seventytwo in "A deep dive into self-improving AI and the Darwin-Gödel Machine"

seventytwo — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 03:26:21 +0000

Genetic algorithms applied as an AI agent…

So… yeah…

New comment by seventytwo in "My AI skeptic friends are all nuts"

seventytwo — Tue, 03 Jun 2025 04:47:40 +0000

Yep. It’s going to do all of those things you fear. And worse.

But you’ll be armed with AI also, if you choose to pick it up. The choice is yours.

New comment by seventytwo in "German court sends VW execs to prison over Dieselgate scandal"

seventytwo — Tue, 27 May 2025 09:56:37 +0000

Seems everyone in here recognizes the problem. I wonder how many actually choose to empower regulators when it comes time to vote each year…

New comment by seventytwo in "TSMC bets on unorthodox optical tech"

seventytwo — Mon, 26 May 2025 21:36:46 +0000

Seems hard to imagine there’s not some non-linear optical property they could take advantage of

New comment by seventytwo in "Claude can now search the web"

seventytwo — Fri, 21 Mar 2025 12:10:31 +0000

The CCC needs to come back

New comment by seventytwo in "AI tools are spotting errors in research papers"

seventytwo — Sun, 09 Mar 2025 15:17:35 +0000

This is a fantastic use of AI.

New comment by seventytwo in "Advanced Magnet Manufacturing Begins in the United States"

seventytwo — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 05:32:05 +0000

Great!