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New comment by thereader12 in "The Test"

thereader12 — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 19:29:25 +0000

I do wonder what your economic philosophy is. It seems to assume that money's existence is its own societal good. I would argue that resources are finite so 2.5trillion is not new money but a representative part of a ratio of resources allocated. Ie, every one else got 2.5 trillion units poorer

New comment by thereader12 in "Woman Arrested, Dragged Away After Speaking About Flock at City Council Meeting"

thereader12 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 17:29:24 +0000

Because the council canceled comments on the Flock issue that had been scheduled for that day.

New comment by thereader12 in "OpenAI is enlisting an influencer army to make it look 'good for the world'"

thereader12 — Wed, 23 Sep 2026 15:54:02 +0000

>And I don't buy that it's being jammed down the throats by most employers. Sometimes maybe, but I see the reverse, where people WANT to use frontier models and are being prevented through archaic security hoops.

I can say everyone I know in software is both forced to use AI and hates it, even if they would have used ai otherwise. With one exception of someone who does less software than infrastructure and he complains about his coworkers bad (but voluntary) ai code. I wonder what your industry is?

New comment by thereader12 in "Show HN: A facial analysis tool with scores and geometry measurements"

thereader12 — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:41:02 +0000

This is, very literally, Red pill/incel ideology in an app. It even uses terms like "chadlite" and "high tier normie". It does do measurements as far as i can tell (haven't tried it) but it is not a scientific analysis like the title implies.