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New comment by sooheon in "Siri AI"

sooheon — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:20:43 +0000

A family member lost years of irreplaceable photos and paid apps due to account lock, and doing this across two countries they were legitimately residing in triggered it.

New comment by sooheon in "Make macOS consistently bad unironically"

sooheon — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 00:03:55 +0000

Also went from one click to two clicks

New comment by sooheon in "Treasure hunter freed from jail after refusing to turn over shipwreck gold"

sooheon — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 03:47:46 +0000

Wonder why he was only charged with contempt, rather than defrauding investors?

New comment by sooheon in "Enhancing gut-brain communication reversed cognitive decline in aging mice"

sooheon — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 13:42:57 +0000

Your nervous system extends over your entire body, the brain doesn't live in a firewalled jar.

New comment by sooheon in "Fixing retail with land value capture"

sooheon — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 02:12:50 +0000

Yeah not disputing that, just saying it's definitionally wrong to say land "is not the means of production".

New comment by sooheon in "Lena by qntm (2021)"

sooheon — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 07:30:44 +0000

This is a sad take, and a misunderstanding of what art is. Tech and tools go "obsolete". Literature poses questions to humans, and the value of art remains to be experienced by future readers, whatever branch of the tech tree we happen to occupy. I don't begrudge Clarke or Vonnegut or Asimov their dated sci-fi premises, because prediction isn't the point.

The role of speculative fiction isn't to accurately predict what future tech will be, or become obsolete.

New comment by sooheon in "Fixing retail with land value capture"

sooheon — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 05:15:49 +0000

Land (or in modern terms, location value) has been seen as a means of production along with labor and capital since Adam Smith.

New comment by sooheon in "A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived"

sooheon — Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:31:19 +0000

My bad, went down rabbit hole and got my writers/links confused.

New comment by sooheon in "A novelist who took on the Italian mafia and lived"

sooheon — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 11:25:50 +0000

The 2020 adaptation of ZeroZeroZero, mentioned in this article, is one of the best crime shows I've ever seen, with basically zero buzz. Pretty interesting reading the reason for the authenticity.

New comment by sooheon in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"

sooheon — Sat, 31 Jan 2026 03:08:29 +0000

The weird cousin of "This time it's different": "That time was different"

New comment by sooheon in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

sooheon — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:11:34 +0000

Yes, but rent seeking isn't even capitalism in theory.

New comment by sooheon in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

sooheon — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:06:44 +0000

I'm not sure what definition of capitalism you're running with, but as early as Adam Smith, the importance of competition free from monopoly and rent seeking was central to the mainstream definition.

New comment by sooheon in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

sooheon — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 07:04:57 +0000

Using power to tilt the playing field is the logical outcome of all political systems, not just capitalism.

> capture the market, and become the sole dominant force in that market and use your position to then pull up the ladder behind you and cement your position

This is worth discussing in detail. Becoming dominant by providing a better thing, or investing more capital, is not tilting the playing field, it's winning the game. Getting government protected monopolies, special tax write-offs, subsidies, exclusive grants is. Uber and Facebook are not anticompetitive just because they are dominant, they are anticompetitive to the extent that they specifically use their dominance to influence politics.

New comment by sooheon in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

sooheon — Tue, 27 Jan 2026 06:56:38 +0000

> Survival of the fittest and efficient marketplace

Rent seeking is an Econ 101 example of market inefficiency.

> what's the other option, rent seeking is socialism?

Rent seeking is rent seeking. It is a form of corruption, via regulatory capture. It is a way in which any political system can fail, not limited to an ideology like "socialism" or "capitalism".

New comment by sooheon in "Predicting OpenAI's ad strategy"

sooheon — Sun, 18 Jan 2026 16:15:11 +0000

This is misuse of language. Rent seeking is anti-competitive by definition. The current system, as far as it encourages and rewards rent seeking, is anti-capitalist.

New comment by sooheon in "Andrej Karpathy – It will take a decade to work through the issues with agents"

sooheon — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 16:41:27 +0000

Just like human atoms have been repurposed to make other things.

New comment by sooheon in "A teen was suicidal. ChatGPT was the friend he confided in"

sooheon — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 06:32:55 +0000

Let's flip the hypothetical -- if someone googles for suicide info and scrolls past the hotline info and ends up killing themselves anyway, should google be on the hook?

New comment by sooheon in "A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation"

sooheon — Wed, 27 Aug 2025 03:49:06 +0000

Could be, but there is another app that does the same thing faster so there must be some optimizations available.

New comment by sooheon in "A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation"

sooheon — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 21:58:06 +0000

The configuration lies. Even with "Show hints" set to "Immediately", there is a long delay. Feels like half a second on M1 Pro.

New comment by sooheon in "A small change to improve browsers for keyboard navigation"

sooheon — Tue, 26 Aug 2025 01:29:47 +0000

Shortcat has a ~second delay before showing links, homerow (https://www.homerow.app) is faster.