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New comment by tacitusarc in "A barbarian tribe's mythic origin story is true, ancient DNA reveals"

tacitusarc — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 17:42:11 +0000

Wouldn’t the racist claim be that because some group has a lower average IQ, they deserve fewer rights and freedom and less dignity?

The implication that if one group was shown to have a measurably lower intellect they are less “human” somehow is really worrying.

New comment by tacitusarc in "AI Made Me Homeless"

tacitusarc — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 04:25:35 +0000

Makes me think of this:

> There is a pattern I keep seeing, especially in the Bay Area. So many fabulously wealthy people where it’s never enough. Never enough money.

Somehow people make 500k a year and end up broke and I know families making 60k with 3 kids and they are still saving and getting by.

https://irrationalanalysis.substack.com/p/its-just-money-its...

New comment by tacitusarc in "‘You Are Done’: The letter sent to King by the F.B.I (2014)"

tacitusarc — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 14:25:44 +0000

It seems likely this comment is a waste but… no, that clearly was not a personal attack, and going through life treating comments like those as personal attacks seems like a good way to be miserable.

New comment by tacitusarc in "A 28-Year-Old DOGE Operative Gutted USAID. HR Had No Record of Him Working There"

tacitusarc — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 22:28:57 +0000

> The system was created with the assumption that the president would act cautiously and judiciously

I do not believe this is true historically

New comment by tacitusarc in "Microsoft offers mass buyouts for roughly a quarter of its workforce"

tacitusarc — Tue, 27 Oct 2026 14:20:32 +0000

Romance in the context of languages means they were derived from Latin, the language of Rome.

New comment by tacitusarc in "Meta strikes deal with Zuckerberg to protect him from California wealth tax"

tacitusarc — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 13:55:51 +0000

I don’t hate taxes per se but I hate that the government will take tax dollars earmarked for one purpose, which is how they got the tax approved by the voters in the first place, and move it to the general fund where they can spend it on their pet project.

New comment by tacitusarc in "Novo Nordisk, Eli Lilly Report GLP-1 Signals of Slowed Biological Aging at ARDD"

tacitusarc — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 04:02:23 +0000

What if you’re not able bodied?

New comment by tacitusarc in "X purges 13,000 accounts linked to suspected meddling ahead of US midterms"

tacitusarc — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:49:59 +0000

Being off by a factor of greater than one thousand is pretty bad.

If you think there is a wealth inequality problem, I would encourage you to call out bad information, because it is the simplest way for opponents to discredit your position.

(Clearly this is what I am doing…)

New comment by tacitusarc in "X purges 13,000 accounts linked to suspected meddling ahead of US midterms"

tacitusarc — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:36:08 +0000

> The 0.004% richest Americans hold the majority of US wealth

That is massively false. It’s closer to 5%. Still really bad IMO but 0.004% is a ludicrous thing to claim

https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distr...

New comment by tacitusarc in "China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024"

tacitusarc — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 14:30:58 +0000

Almost certainly much sooner

New comment by tacitusarc in "Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?"

tacitusarc — Fri, 09 Oct 2026 13:53:19 +0000

Play that out. How does destroying the company halt the problem?

New comment by tacitusarc in "I quit OpenAI because its culture is broken"

tacitusarc — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 16:10:03 +0000

Personally I think intuionism provides a good answer to this.

New comment by tacitusarc in "The last time my family was replaced by technology"

tacitusarc — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 01:06:21 +0000

Even if the executives care, they are pressured by the board.

Even if the board cares, they are pressured by the investors.

Even if the investors care, they are pressured by the pension fund administrators.

Even if the pension fund administrators care, that far removed, they care about their pensioners more.

New comment by tacitusarc in "The last time my family was replaced by technology"

tacitusarc — Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:59:29 +0000

Does this result in millions of micro-businesses? All on the verge on bankruptcy, all continuously going out of business as new ones are invested in by VCs hoping to make a quick buck

New comment by tacitusarc in "MiMo v2.6"

tacitusarc — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 04:34:12 +0000

Broken window is different from the mowing lawns hypothetical

New comment by tacitusarc in "AI chatbots are becoming experts at changing people's minds"

tacitusarc — Fri, 18 Sep 2026 14:25:53 +0000

Perfectly fine to disagree with someone but the personal attack is unnecessary

New comment by tacitusarc in "Exit the Cave"

tacitusarc — Wed, 02 Sep 2026 15:01:13 +0000

Posts like this remind me of a story:

A young Thomas Carlyle was attending church with his mother. Upon returning home, after a lengthy sermon by the minister, Thomas turned to his mother and exclaimed, “If I were the minister, I would simply say: good people, you know what to do, now go and do it!”

His mother replied, “Aye Thomas, but would you tell them how?”

New comment by tacitusarc in "Apple Maps Ads Are Here, and There's No Way to Turn Them Off"

tacitusarc — Wed, 26 Aug 2026 13:25:55 +0000

Are there any privacy focused, non profit alternatives?

New comment by tacitusarc in "Xiaomi: New CPU matches Apple cores single threaded, much faster multithreaded"

tacitusarc — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 12:58:05 +0000

There was a noticeable degradation after the introduction of “liquid glass”. Of course I’m still on my 13 mini so I don’t think they really care about how changes impact the performance and battery life of my phone.

New comment by tacitusarc in "Was modern art a CIA psy-op? (2020)"

tacitusarc — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 03:24:11 +0000

I feel like a picture of rolling hills with spring wheat and a blue sky wouldn’t go amiss