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New comment by sorokod in "Sogen Kato"

sorokod — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 16:20:33 +0000

More in the Guardian review of Morbid by Saul Justin Newman

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/17/morbid-by-saul...

Sogen Kato

sorokod — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 15:21:26 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sogen_Kato

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48609863

Points: 17

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New comment by sorokod in "Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]"

sorokod — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 15:48:59 +0000

Can you share the source of the anecdote? I tried to find it in Zhuangzi and was not successful.

New comment by sorokod in "Albania Is Not for Sale: Kushner's $4B Resort Triggers'Flamingo Revolution'"

sorokod — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 15:42:06 +0000

vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis, lit. 'vampire squid from hell') is actually a thing.

New comment by sorokod in "Learn SQL Once, Use It for 30 Years"

sorokod — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:17:40 +0000

I knew a lady who was named Isis at birth.

She stopped using that name.

New comment by sorokod in "Spain blocks prediction markets Polymarket, Kalshi over lack of gambling licence"

sorokod — Tue, 26 May 2026 15:28:14 +0000

A thought experiment: how would you feel about betting on a market that is an the outcome of a medical procedure? On a negative outcome? On a market for a negative outcome of your own procedure?

New comment by sorokod in "Anthropic Cofounder Chris Olah's Remarks on Pope Leo XIV's "Magnifica Humanitas""

sorokod — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:41:16 +0000

I'm not sure why you worry about how Chris Olah appears to others.

Talking is cheap, but even talk is better then the impotent call for "people outside."

New comment by sorokod in "Anthropic Cofounder Chris Olah's Remarks on Pope Leo XIV's "Magnifica Humanitas""

sorokod — Mon, 25 May 2026 20:08:39 +0000

Chris Olah and other leaders at Anthropic, OpenAI, and others would do well to consider the principles of Social Doctrine spelled out in the encyclical. The question they should ask themselves is how their corporations advance those principles.

Olah argues that "if we want this technology to go well, it is enormously important that there be people outside those incentives."

That sounds part hypocritical and part evasive; the responsibility starts with the people inside the incentives — with him.

New comment by sorokod in "Magnifica Humanitas"

sorokod — Mon, 25 May 2026 19:30:19 +0000

You have to Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive

New comment by sorokod in "StanChart CEO: AI to Replace "Lower-Value Human Capital""

sorokod — Tue, 19 May 2026 18:16:53 +0000

What a disgusting way to refer to humans. Might as well go with Biomass.

New comment by sorokod in "The bird eye was pushed to an evolutionary extreme"

sorokod — Sat, 16 May 2026 07:32:19 +0000

>the avian lineage had split from crocodiles

Aren't crocodiles and dinosaurs seperarte branches ?

New comment by sorokod in "Claude for Legal"

sorokod — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:13:46 +0000

A 100 years ago that ratio was the other way around. There were powerful technological and financial insetives to change the public's attitude and the law.

They say that history rhimes.

New comment by sorokod in "Claude for Legal"

sorokod — Fri, 15 May 2026 16:19:19 +0000

> The legal system will not look fondly upon this stuff

True, but the legal system didn't look fondly on outlawing jaywalking, until it did. Took it about 20 years in the US.

New comment by sorokod in "London's Smallest Public Sculptures"

sorokod — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:32:02 +0000

The grave of Douglas Adams in the Highgate cemetery.

New comment by sorokod in "German intelligence offices snub Palantir software"

sorokod — Thu, 14 May 2026 21:22:42 +0000

Some do:

U.S. Is Not a Piggy Bank for Europe’s Socialist Policies

https://waysandmeans.house.gov/2024/03/11/u-s-is-not-a-piggy...

New comment by sorokod in "An AI agent deleted our production database. The agent's confession is below"

sorokod — Sun, 26 Apr 2026 19:07:45 +0000

To quote Captain Willard:

"And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine."

New comment by sorokod in "Palantir employees are starting to wonder if they're the bad guys"

sorokod — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 19:02:09 +0000

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKcmnrE5oY

...now it is complete

New comment by sorokod in "A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory"

sorokod — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 18:19:18 +0000

Most of the names you mention belong to the next (18th) century.

Gauss worked out some sort of probability distribution too.

New comment by sorokod in "A Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability theory"

sorokod — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 16:20:04 +0000

In what way was it always behind? This work of Fermat and Pascal is ballpark contemporary to the development of calculus.

AI job scams are booming – and I was fooled by one. Here is how to avoid them

sorokod — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 05:00:56 +0000

Article URL: https://www.theguardian.com/money/2026/apr/21/how-to-avoid-ai-online-job-recruitment-scams

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47844702

Points: 3

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