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New comment by slibhb in "I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program"

slibhb — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:52:21 +0000

Is "data" to blame for this? Or is it just the normal cycle of every fast food restaurant? There are numerous local franchises near me that were great when I moved here but complete crap now. There are outliers (like Chik-fil-a) but in general, over the decades, fast food restaurants always degenerate.

New comment by slibhb in "I requested a copy of my data from McDonald’s loyalty program"

slibhb — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 17:46:53 +0000

Seriously!

When I clicked the article, I thought it was going to include, like, how many kids/pets he has or his wife's maiden name. But I don't find any of the information listed in the article "creepy". It seems like obvious stuff they'd want to track.

New comment by slibhb in "Flock updates privacy, accountability, security, and transparency safeguards"

slibhb — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:29:38 +0000

My building already has cameras at the entrances and in the halls. Doesn't bother me.

Abuse is possible, but I don't see why we can't limit it with laws and regulations. And the potential gains in terms of preventing crime and catching criminals are huge.

New comment by slibhb in "Flock updates privacy, accountability, security, and transparency safeguards"

slibhb — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 16:04:10 +0000

Policies to limit misuse should be adopted. But the idea that you have a right to privacy while in public is wrong and bad.

New comment by slibhb in "AI psychosis is the new leadership blind spot"

slibhb — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 14:37:12 +0000

There's no reason to link "AI psychosis" (i.e. interactiong with AI triggering psychotic episodes in the mentally ill) to people who "trust AI too much" or "don't bother to verify outputs".

You can be the most AI-pilled wingnut in the world, but until you start hallucinating, there's no reason to call this psychosis.

New comment by slibhb in "New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health"

slibhb — Fri, 07 Aug 2026 12:50:57 +0000

Looks like the states are now getting in on the European scam of fining big US tech companies. A complete racket.

New comment by slibhb in "Degrees of Wealth"

slibhb — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 15:32:18 +0000

> The Netherlands has made the intentional decision to reduce wealth inequality and to achieve a fairer society.

The Netherlands does redistribute more, but the main reason China is less equal is that China is a massive, developing country with huge divides between rural and urban areas, and between east and west.

New comment by slibhb in "Una GPS smart watch – Repairable, USB-C charging, developer-friendly"

slibhb — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 17:14:16 +0000

> Can I swim with UNA?

> UNA is currently a non-submersible device due to its innovative modular design. So, swimming is not something we offer as an activity, nor do we advise it. UNA is IPX5 rated, which means it is splash & showerproof to a high degree.

New comment by slibhb in "I'm 38 and I Can't Support Myself Anymore"

slibhb — Tue, 28 Jul 2026 13:28:04 +0000

The claim that the link between human value and productivity originated in capitalist societies (or via Protestant work ethic) is such bullshit. You think hunter-gatherers valued each other for their "inner worth"? Keep dreaming.

At any rate, judging by the author's 4.3k subscribers, he is doing fine. Whether you react with a heart emoji or revulsion, broadcasting sob stories into the internet is productivity -- in the attention economy, something that only exists in rich, capitalist societies.

New comment by slibhb in "Claude Opus 5"

slibhb — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:40:11 +0000

Nah just focused less on money then you, I guess!

New comment by slibhb in "Claude Opus 5"

slibhb — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 16:39:22 +0000

Nuclear war is a more likely scenario.

New comment by slibhb in "Claude Opus 5"

slibhb — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 15:11:52 +0000

If my earning ability is harmed by AI, so be it. There's more to life than how much I earn, and opposing the spread of technology to maximize my earnings is bad.

New comment by slibhb in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

slibhb — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:41:52 +0000

I didn't say it was a problem, I said it "mattered"

If I wanted to argue that it's a problem, I'd just say that companies investing billions in training frontier models should reap the rewards. And distillation is essentially theft.

New comment by slibhb in "“We have information that Moonshot distilled Fable for the development of K3”"

slibhb — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 19:41:37 +0000

Of course it matters. Regardless of whether distillation is legal, there is a difference between training a model with and without distillation. For one thing, the distilled model wouldn't exist without the model it distilled.

Also, companies that use distillation may be competitive but seem unlikely to surpass the companies that are training these models from scratch.

New comment by slibhb in "Long presumed dead, a thriving coral reef is discovered in West Africa"

slibhb — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:42:53 +0000

Yeah, only publish stories about coral bleaching, animals going extinct, and forest fires. Censor any good news at all costs!

New comment by slibhb in "Human mathematicians are being outcounterexampled"

slibhb — Tue, 21 Jul 2026 17:31:10 +0000

> A member of the faculty (who I won’t name) said to me that the fact that the counterexample was so easy to find just indicated that humans had not spent enough time thinking about the problem, implying that a 60-year-old question of Grothendieck was not actually that interesting to work on. I didn’t tell him that at some point earlier in my career I had spent a week working hard on the problem. In my mind my colleague is just going through the five stages of grief; right now they seem to be in the denial phase.

It seems to me also that the very vocal anti-LLM crowd are in the denial phase of grief.

New comment by slibhb in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

slibhb — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 17:29:00 +0000

No, they're very clearly trained to be truthful.

New comment by slibhb in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

slibhb — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:14:46 +0000

https://claude.ai/share/3c19d0f3-d6e4-47a7-afdd-9a090300c100

So it points out that, according to experts, governments aren't always more efficient but then lists cases when they may be. Seems pretty balanced to me!

Don't know what else you would want. If it neglects to challenge the premise, it's just exhibiting sycophancy.

New comment by slibhb in "China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning"

slibhb — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 16:05:09 +0000

These models are trained to be truthful. Your disagreement isn't with the model, or the US, or the capitalist world but with economics and social sciences.

If you want Claude to list arguments for socialism, be explicit about that ("List the best arguments in favor socialism). It will gladly comply. You didn't do that, you asked it to assume a premise that runs contrary to the current state of expert knowledge.

New comment by slibhb in "AI advice made people less accurate but more confident – sudy"

slibhb — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 23:46:14 +0000

> but also don't give them AI for things they don't know, perhaps

The study doesn't show that at all. It didn't test actual AI.

They could have tested a cohort of subjects with access to actual ChatGPT. Ask yourself why they didn't.