<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: spolitry</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=spolitry</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2026 05:13:59 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=spolitry" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spolitry in "New iPad mini"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Value/$ in iPad basically has not changed since 2022. Inflation (general and AI/antitrust-driven component shortages) has cancelled out technical gains.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 14:14:26 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50244091</link><dc:creator>spolitry</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50244091</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50244091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spolitry in "Apollo says AI has delivered 'zero financial payoff' outside the tech industry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I suspect AI has delivered financial value but AI psychosis has cancelled it out.<p>It's also possible that AI has created value for consumers, but the profits flowed to the AI producers (due to scarcity) not the middle layer of the value chain, due to completion.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 01:15:23 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237827</link><dc:creator>spolitry</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237827</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237827</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spolitry in "Apollo says AI has delivered 'zero financial payoff' outside the tech industry"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>How does this compare to financial payoff from Bitcoin and NFT adoption?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 01:11:41 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237801</link><dc:creator>spolitry</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237801</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237801</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spolitry in "Lula wins election after final votes tallied"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Letting cirixes vote in elections is bad?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 01:08:09 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237771</link><dc:creator>spolitry</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237771</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237771</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spolitry in "Lula wins election after final votes tallied"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>This is a very confusing comment. Most on this side don't know the insider informing the Brazilian elections, and we only know the public news<p>Can you explain?<p>You are right winger but don't like the Brazilian right wing aligning with the US right wing, but do like the politicians who are aligned with the US right wing?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 26 Oct 2026 01:05:39 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237738</link><dc:creator>spolitry</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237738</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50237738</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spolitry in "I don't understand quantum physics (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>A Bohmian Rhapsody, you say?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 04:45:13 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228405</link><dc:creator>spolitry</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228405</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228405</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spolitry in "I don't understand quantum physics (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Reality is in no way constrained by what you feel is realistic.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 04:14:07 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228259</link><dc:creator>spolitry</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228259</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228259</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spolitry in "I don't understand quantum physics (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What interview was that?<p>The famous interview I know is when he said:<p>"I really can't do a good job, any job, of explaining magnetic force in terms of something else you're more familiar with, because I don't understand it in terms of anything else that you're more familiar with"<p>His point was that fundamental forces cannot be understood as "like" everyday objects, because we don't "understand" everyday objects except as applications of fundamental forces. Using those things to explain fundamental forces would just be circular. He can tell you that a stretching  rubber band is due to the electric field, but he can't then turn around and "explain" that the electric field is like a stretching rubber band!
Fundamental forces just are, and you understand them by studying them.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 04:08:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228220</link><dc:creator>spolitry</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228220</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228220</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spolitry in "I don't understand quantum physics (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Ironically everyone assumed non spooky action at a distance for most of human history, until relativity.</p>
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<p>Time extending into the future is validated by direct experience.<p>A continuum of variants of myself is bought.<p>What is the value of assuming that literally every possible trajectory actually happens, but somehow I am only in one of them, while also being a continuum of other ones? If everything  is true, than nothing is true.</p>
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<p>Sean Carroll is trying to bring storytelling fantasy back to physics. No good comes from "studying" the angels dancing on the head of a pin.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 03:46:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228112</link><dc:creator>spolitry</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228112</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228112</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spolitry in "I don't understand quantum physics (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>You make an extraordinary claim.<p>Where in MWI do you believe the preferred unique macroscopic reality is defined?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 03:37:32 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228054</link><dc:creator>spolitry</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228054</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228054</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spolitry in "I don't understand quantum physics (2018)"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What do call someone who wants good "Just So" story explanations that don't explain anything, but posit the existence of meaningless things?</p>
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<p>I'm not Sean Carroll. I'm interested in logical arguments for why I should be convinced that something completely impossible to ever test, not even in theory, is correct.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2026 01:03:38 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227157</link><dc:creator>spolitry</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227157</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50227157</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spolitry in "Oregon lawmakers approve money to buy an iconic waterfall listed on Redfin"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Listed on RMLS by Lisa Johnson. HORSEPOWER REAL ESTATE<p>Not Hydropower Real Estate?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:32:24 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50189544</link><dc:creator>spolitry</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50189544</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50189544</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spolitry in "Making chicken transparent using Dorito dust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>No because the laws were specific not general. But obviously people can follow the inspiration of avoiding "unclean" food.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 02:02:50 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50137129</link><dc:creator>spolitry</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50137129</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50137129</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spolitry in "Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I have no idea what you are trying to dog whistle</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 01:58:18 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50137099</link><dc:creator>spolitry</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50137099</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50137099</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spolitry in "Zuckerberg's Meta Takes Down No Kings Instagram During Protest Day"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>What is the value on trolling like this?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2026 01:57:16 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50137091</link><dc:creator>spolitry</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50137091</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50137091</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spolitry in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>The ways AI can eliminate humanity are trivial obvious and already published. 
It's just "let the AI control anything of importance and let it spit out slop"</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2026 13:17:30 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49992391</link><dc:creator>spolitry</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49992391</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49992391</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by spolitry in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>And I can cross the country slowly on a go-kart. Not a substitute.</p>
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