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New comment by simgt in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

simgt — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 09:48:44 +0000

That's why we need and have diplomacy. Everyone is aware that violence is the ultimate option if an actor thinks there's an existential threat to deal with.

If the consensus becomes that a 50+TFlops datacenter in the wrong hands is as dangerous as a uranium enrichment plant, we'll likely move towards treaties and coercion.

"Wrong" is obviously subjective here...

New comment by simgt in "When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement"

simgt — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 07:15:39 +0000

By threatening to nuke their datacenters and chip fabs, for instance.

New comment by simgt in "ESP32-S31"

simgt — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:31:47 +0000

You really come across as condescending and patronizing.

New comment by simgt in "Macsurf, "modern" web browser for macOS 9"

simgt — Sat, 30 May 2026 20:27:18 +0000

That's awesome, thanks for sharing.

New comment by simgt in "Macsurf, "modern" web browser for macOS 9"

simgt — Sat, 30 May 2026 13:51:34 +0000

Cool! I've been wondering for some time if a good low-distraction but pleasant environment could be an old Mac OS on a (good looking) Hackintosh. The UI was baked with UX research at least.

New comment by simgt in "I am retiring from tech to live offline"

simgt — Fri, 29 May 2026 22:37:47 +0000

Same here, it has always been a state transition. There's always that snake showing up who forces everyone to watch their back and eventually disband. A tech coop seems like a good option, but it's almost exclusively web dev.

New comment by simgt in "The worst job interview I ever had"

simgt — Wed, 27 May 2026 00:37:43 +0000

Thanks for that sensible answer, had to scroll down quite a while to find you there.

The real problem is that for many people it takes a while to realize you're being abused, in that case it was only a while after.

I highly recommend learning the basics of persuasion and how to manipulate people. It helps identifying the signs early.

New comment by simgt in "Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades"

simgt — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:43:44 +0000

No they can't, it's dirt cheap because the social and environmental consequences aren't accounted for. Both the US and EU could have kept producing with higher standards on their land, they chose not to for profit. China is also not forcing their products onto the west.

New comment by simgt in "Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades"

simgt — Sun, 24 May 2026 17:40:00 +0000

Not rebuilding, but at least not building more of it. But this exact mindset is why the US can't be helped and will be the last one to go low on carbon. The whole culture is built exclusively on unlimited space and resources.

Suburbia is much younger than a 100 years btw: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y_SXXTBypIg&list=PLJp5q-R0lZ0_...

New comment by simgt in "Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades"

simgt — Fri, 22 May 2026 13:35:11 +0000

It depends on what you mean by EVs really. There is an alternative to big electric individual cars, we've been building for 70 years car-centric urban areas for big vehicles doing 30km+ of commute every day. Good luck with a hellscape like Dallas but electrifying Utrech or Tokyo will scale to 9B people just fine.

New comment by simgt in "Project Hail Mary – Stellar Navigation Chart"

simgt — Fri, 22 May 2026 08:54:30 +0000

That's an awesome website! I had never heard of Patrick O'Brian before looking at your maps, I'll give The Mauritius Command a read.

New comment by simgt in "Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades"

simgt — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:44:35 +0000

Everything you wrote is plain obvious to anyone who looked into the topic. But come on, we don't have to change anything about our consumption because we'll eventually reach some solar punk utopia? That's the comment I was replying to.

Nothing for now tells us we can power our current needs with renewables only, however we know we can drive around in much lighter vehicles, fly much less, eat more local, buy less clothes, use compute for less stupid things in data centers.

New comment by simgt in "Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades"

simgt — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:32:20 +0000

Yes, but you're missing the point, I'm not debating that. Renewables aren't free, we should care about consumption just as much as production, and we don't know (yet) how to sustain the current consumption with renewables only, that includes being able to manufacture renewables.

New comment by simgt in "Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades"

simgt — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:28:39 +0000

Of course, but pretending consumption doesn't matter in that situation is just silly

New comment by simgt in "Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades"

simgt — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:21:09 +0000

Asia is producing all of our shit. Also: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/cumulative-co-emissions

New comment by simgt in "Earth is now heating up twice as fast as in previous decades"

simgt — Thu, 21 May 2026 12:18:56 +0000

It does matter because for now renewables are manufactured mostly with coal and oil

EDIT: I'm not a renewable skeptic, answers bellow

New comment by simgt in "Rewrite Bun in Rust has been merged"

simgt — Fri, 15 May 2026 09:36:01 +0000

You don't, pi with a codex subscription is great. Mario Zechner is on the opposite end of that AI hype spectrum.

Until we can daily drive pi + qwen/glm/kimi.

New comment by simgt in "Task Paralysis and AI"

simgt — Mon, 11 May 2026 11:46:12 +0000

I'm in the same boat, weirdly I can't find colleagues or friends who share my point of view. It's always the same "I can do higher level thinking now" or "no it can't do X". You nailed it with the output having no value anymore.

I find some solace in electronics repair, sadly there isn't much money to make in that.

New comment by simgt in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

simgt — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:38:46 +0000

No, in advanced societies we tell children to never hit others.

New comment by simgt in "Singapore introduces caning for boys who bully others at school"

simgt — Fri, 08 May 2026 14:36:43 +0000

Bottom line of all these comments here is "because women are too innocent / fragile / weak / ignorant". It's entirely unrelated to how men view them, of course.