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New comment by singpolyma3 in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"

singpolyma3 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:21:56 +0000

Most people simply do not want to be entrepreneurs

New comment by singpolyma3 in "What is happening to jobs? Separating AI hype from reality"

singpolyma3 — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:21:27 +0000

Or their career will just involve different tools and skills than they previously assumed

New comment by singpolyma3 in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"

singpolyma3 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:29:35 +0000

Except agricultural automation does exist. And people do choose to do it by hand because... It's a hobby and efficiency isn't the point

New comment by singpolyma3 in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"

singpolyma3 — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 20:25:12 +0000

> Mathematicians are paid to prove theorems

lol who is paying for this? Mathematicians are generally paid to do other things and get to do this kind of work as a side effect.

New comment by singpolyma3 in "Couple pay >$800k for a gene-editing therapy for their daughter. She died."

singpolyma3 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 21:31:34 +0000

Headline is the whole story. Sometimes a therapy doesn't work. Especially a new one

New comment by singpolyma3 in "Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs"

singpolyma3 — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 13:10:55 +0000

There is at this time no reason to believe that. We know an AI cannot own copyright in the US. We don't know that the author doesn't own it. And if they don't we don't know how much of their own manual effort on the output would make them own it.

If a photographer can own a point and click snap of a painting then I expect we'll land somewhere where LLM outputs are or can become owned by the tool weilder with at most some minimum effort.

New comment by singpolyma3 in "Orion Browser by Kagi"

singpolyma3 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:37:50 +0000

Another webkit skin pretending to be a browser.

New comment by singpolyma3 in "Sealed tomb filled with paintings and inscriptions discovered in Egypt"

singpolyma3 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:31:31 +0000

If anything is wrong it is preserving human remains to begin with. Waste of space.

New comment by singpolyma3 in "Annoying and alarming things about OpenCode"

singpolyma3 — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 13:29:08 +0000

This is an anti AI post masquerading as an anti opencode port.

Nevertheless I'm curious what people might suggest to use instead with local models.

New comment by singpolyma3 in "The Kimi K3 Moment"

singpolyma3 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:44:45 +0000

We also used to get for free things that people now routinely pay for. Remember maps mash ups?

New comment by singpolyma3 in "The Kimi K3 Moment"

singpolyma3 — Sat, 18 Jul 2026 20:42:58 +0000

Same business model as always: build cool tech because it is cool and figure it out later.

New comment by singpolyma3 in "First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star"

singpolyma3 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:32:50 +0000

Assuming non terrestrial life needs complex molecules. Which we can't know for sure.

New comment by singpolyma3 in "First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star"

singpolyma3 — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 15:03:28 +0000

> The gas detected in the atmosphere is helium, which would not be able to support life

Nonsense. You mean not able to support terrestrial life.

New comment by singpolyma3 in "Backtrack-Free Cursive"

singpolyma3 — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 13:30:25 +0000

Easy reading is achieved by typesetting later if needed. Writing by hand is painful and slow and it makes sense to optimize for the write operation as much as possible

New comment by singpolyma3 in "Why write code in 2026"

singpolyma3 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 21:46:59 +0000

There's some good thinking about this in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children_of_the_Sky

New comment by singpolyma3 in "Don't you mean extinct?"

singpolyma3 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 19:31:27 +0000

Yes I would disagree. I've never had a co-worker who was consistently producing output chastised in any way. No matter how far "behind" me they were.

New comment by singpolyma3 in "How to read more books"

singpolyma3 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 17:35:34 +0000

Use the library

New comment by singpolyma3 in "Don't you mean extinct?"

singpolyma3 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 16:29:50 +0000

I mostly like this article but

> Those who refuse to use an LLM will fall behind because they won't be able to produce as much

Seems like a silly and needlessly aggressive take.

Fall behind what? Able to produce "as much" what? I've never been evaluated on volume in my life. Nor have co workers who were severely "behind" ever feared for their jobs.

New comment by singpolyma3 in "Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family"

singpolyma3 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 15:41:29 +0000

I'm pretty sure there's a reason we frown on people hiring servants in general, such as a driver or a housemaid. It's far too similar to slavery for anyone's comfort

New comment by singpolyma3 in "Woman in Brazil enslaved for 55 years by 3 generations of the same family"

singpolyma3 — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 13:02:29 +0000

If she hires people doesn't that just perpetuate the problem?