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New comment by stretchwithme in "Age verification is just a precursor to automated attribution of speech"

stretchwithme — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 05:04:09 +0000

Maybe it should be possible for a parent to set a child age in a device.

Everyone else can stay anonymous.

I look forward to hearing why that won't work and what problems it will cause.

New comment by stretchwithme in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

stretchwithme — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 07:04:38 +0000

Just because intelligence evolved in people that find rights useful doesn't mean intelligence can only reside in a person.

Living things are driven by a need to reproduce. That's the only reason we exist. The only reason we have self interest.

A machine doesn't require self interest. There's no reason to implement it, except to show it can be done. And of course it can. There's just no practical reason to. It becomes less useful to us.

New comment by stretchwithme in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

stretchwithme — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:52:31 +0000

Of course it isn't. What it knows is many weeks old, except for what you tell it. Then it forgets everything you told it.

And it's just a model. It can have many exact copies. It has no life of its own. It doesn't know anything about where it is. It doesn't have sensory organs.

Your phone isn't alive either.

New comment by stretchwithme in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

stretchwithme — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:46:59 +0000

so only do things that yield results fast.

New comment by stretchwithme in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"

stretchwithme — Fri, 01 May 2026 00:43:59 +0000

Glad to see a country be less foolish.

New comment by stretchwithme in "Greece to ban anonymity on social media"

stretchwithme — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:19:52 +0000

The more government controls, the more checks and balances evolve into paychecks and hidden bank balances.

Government can do a lot of things to you when it controls a lot of things.

And what government is doing is harder to see when it's doing millions of things.

New comment by stretchwithme in "Greece to ban anonymity on social media"

stretchwithme — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 17:17:36 +0000

I think individuals have the right to hide from government bot swarms.

New comment by stretchwithme in "When AI writes the software, who verifies it?"

stretchwithme — Tue, 03 Mar 2026 19:40:28 +0000

I can solve a problem in 10% of the time. Dealing with an issue TODAY, instead of having to put it in the backlog.

New comment by stretchwithme in "Is it a bubble?"

stretchwithme — Thu, 11 Dec 2025 02:58:00 +0000

It's often true. But not when it's easier to code than to explain.

New comment by stretchwithme in "We Induced Smells With Ultrasound"

stretchwithme — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 05:08:20 +0000

No, you want the smell of your ideal partner.

New comment by stretchwithme in "We Induced Smells With Ultrasound"

stretchwithme — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 05:05:35 +0000

iNose what you did there.

New comment by stretchwithme in "We Induced Smells With Ultrasound"

stretchwithme — Sun, 23 Nov 2025 05:05:01 +0000

That doesn't surprise me.

Our fingertips feel using low frequency sound generated by our fingerprints passing over things.

New comment by stretchwithme in "Britain's railway privatization was an abject failure"

stretchwithme — Thu, 13 Nov 2025 19:49:21 +0000

And, yet, railroads were privately created and operated before government got control of them.

Subways too.

New comment by stretchwithme in "A16Z-backed data firms Fivetran, dbt Labs to merge in all-stock deal"

stretchwithme — Mon, 13 Oct 2025 17:17:50 +0000

That happened at a company I was at 8 years ago. It acquired a company also owned by the major investor. Layoffs started with a month. They whole thing shut down within 6 months.

ChatGPT art is part of the evidence in Palisades arson case

stretchwithme — Thu, 09 Oct 2025 03:37:40 +0000

Article URL: https://abc7.com/post/department-justice-hold-news-conference-palisades-fire-investigation/17963467/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45523237

Points: 1

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New comment by stretchwithme in "America's top companies keep talking about AI – but can't explain the upsides"

stretchwithme — Wed, 24 Sep 2025 04:45:10 +0000

AI is useful to people who read and understand the answers and who would have eventually come up with a similar result on their own.

They have judgement. They can improve what was generated. They can fix a result when it falls short of the objective.

And they know when to give up on trying to get AI to understand. When rephrasing won't improve next word prediction. Which happens when the situation is complex.

New comment by stretchwithme in "Rand Paul: FCC chair had "no business" intervening in ABC/Kimmel controversy"

stretchwithme — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:12:26 +0000

You mean like FCC fining people over Janet Jackson's boob?

You have freedom of the press, when you own a press. But the spectrum is not owned by the licensees. There are rules. Limits.

I am not for government owning the spectrum. But that's the current situation.

New comment by stretchwithme in "Rand Paul: FCC chair had "no business" intervening in ABC/Kimmel controversy"

stretchwithme — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:09:08 +0000

In a free market, the spectrum would be private property.

New comment by stretchwithme in "Keeping secrets out of logs (2024)"

stretchwithme — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 22:17:17 +0000

A user's password is something I shouldn't see in a log, even if I'm in control of what gets logged and frequently access them to do my job.

Even if I trust me.

Audits happen. I assume other people will eventually see this bad practice.

New comment by stretchwithme in "Electromechanical reshaping offers safer eye surgery"

stretchwithme — Thu, 04 Sep 2025 20:40:05 +0000

They can replace your eye's clouded lens with a corrective lens now.