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New comment by therobots927 in "[dead]"

therobots927 — Fri, 22 May 2026 20:01:33 +0000

New comment by therobots927 in "Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success"

therobots927 — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:30:50 +0000

Which is a far cry away from the “free market” we see in the west.

Wild how I got downvoted for stating a pretty obvious fact. Long term planning and self sacrifice in the interest of long term community benefit which transfers to one’s future self / progeny is actually very similar to communism.

Fuck me I guess

New comment by therobots927 in "Israel's operation to turn Hezbollah's beepers into bombs – exclusive"

therobots927 — Fri, 22 May 2026 14:20:45 +0000

I’m pretty sure the people who are keeping thousands of kids under 10 in maximum security prisons where they are raped by dogs are the good guys here. You’re right!

Also bombing Gaza into oblivion is clearly not terorism either

New comment by therobots927 in "Israel's operation to turn Hezbollah's beepers into bombs – exclusive"

therobots927 — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:55:55 +0000

No one cares how smart Israel thinks they are. Or has any interest in watching them pat themselves on the back for what amounts to a massive distributed terrorist attack. And it would be labeled as such if Muslims did it.

New comment by therobots927 in "Mycorrhizal Fungi, Nature's Key to Plant Survival and Success"

therobots927 — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:34:24 +0000

Sounds like communism to me.

New comment by therobots927 in "Americans beware: markets can be out of sync with reality"

therobots927 — Fri, 22 May 2026 03:30:40 +0000

This time is different, though. Self improving AI = infinite money.

New comment by therobots927 in "IDF struggles to curb endless feed of soldiers posting misdeeds on social media"

therobots927 — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:21:00 +0000

They’re just outsourcing their censorship.

New comment by therobots927 in "IDF struggles to curb endless feed of soldiers posting misdeeds on social media"

therobots927 — Tue, 19 May 2026 13:05:04 +0000

TIL running over people with bulldozers and sexual torture and wanton slaughter of children are “misdeeds”.

I would hate to know what they consider a war crime.

New comment by therobots927 in "Eric Schmidt speech about AI booed during graduation"

therobots927 — Mon, 18 May 2026 13:26:29 +0000

HBO’s Silicon Valley looks more and more like a documentary every day. The out of touch antics of Gavin Belson or Peter Gregory are fucking spot on.

New comment by therobots927 in "Fecal transplants for autism deliver success in clinical trials (2019)"

therobots927 — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:28:19 +0000

I’ve noticed I really need to keep alcohol and sugar consumption in check. Sometimes it seems like one drink is enough to kick off a gut ecosystem collapse, and other times my gut is more resistant to the effects. Definitely trying to increase fiber consumption significantly.

New comment by therobots927 in "U.S. DOJ demands Apple and Google unmask over 100k users of car-tinkering app"

therobots927 — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:12:35 +0000

Well if they don’t want to get defunded they better start doing their jobs. Not that they were all that useful in the first place. If your house is getting broken into the cops will not be able to help you. So I don’t know what the big deal is about defunding the police. It’s not clear to me what the money is being used for.

New comment by therobots927 in "NextEra and Dominion in talks over tie-up to create $400B US utility giant"

therobots927 — Sat, 16 May 2026 03:46:41 +0000

Oh fantastic, exactly what we need. More monopolization in the utility sector.

New comment by therobots927 in "Avoiding and reducing microplastic false positives from dry glove contact"

therobots927 — Thu, 14 May 2026 14:44:21 +0000

What benefits? Single use plastics have one purpose and one purpose only: allow for fossil fuel producers to dispose of the ethane byproduct that accumulates during extraction. They get paid for the disposal vs having to process it as waste themselves.

New comment by therobots927 in "Marx's Theory of Alienation of Labor"

therobots927 — Thu, 14 May 2026 03:04:35 +0000

More than a few. I wonder how many are true followers of Curtis Yarvin vs the somewhat naive libertarian / neoliberal types. I.e. witting vs unwitting advocates of hypergenocide.

New comment by therobots927 in "Marx's Theory of Alienation of Labor"

therobots927 — Thu, 14 May 2026 00:22:34 +0000

Too bad most engineers have a visceral reaction to anything left of center, despite understanding the tech facing downsides of late stage capitalism such as loss of privacy, enshitification etc.

New comment by therobots927 in "50K Tahoe residents need power as utility eyes redirecting lines to data centers"

therobots927 — Wed, 13 May 2026 20:40:44 +0000

*Transferring wealth from the poor to the rich

New comment by therobots927 in "Twin brothers wipe 96 government databases minutes after being fired"

therobots927 — Wed, 13 May 2026 18:04:31 +0000

That is some top notch wrongthink… HN does NOT find it funny!

New comment by therobots927 in "The AI Circular Economy"

therobots927 — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:09:04 +0000

I think you’re onto something here. I saw a YouTube clip referring to the Gel Mann Amnesia effect, and how when you hear people say things like “AI is terrible at front end by great at backend” in many cases that’s because the speaker knows front end so they can see the mistakes the LLM is making. The speaker doesn’t know backend so when an LLM produces code that “works” the speaker is blown away.

Speaking for myself, it’s the other way around. I see its weaknesses in backend work but am impressed (initially) by its front end abilities. Only after wrestling with it for a month and realizing that a good front end Eng could’ve made me a better and more reliable app in a week does the illusion start to fade.

Given the enormous amounts of money invested in this I don’t know how long the myth can sustain itself. For the record I’m not saying AI can’t be useful and can’t accelerate your work but it cannot replace jobs and I have yet to see a ten person startup vibe code a competing product with a leading SaaS company.

New comment by therobots927 in "AI will soon be capable of telling convincing lies"

therobots927 — Wed, 13 May 2026 12:01:57 +0000

If you’re ever bored, give an LLM a nonsensical word salad about “retrocausal computing algorithms” and have it write you up a whole thesis. Then think of something as far removed from the subject area as possible, and ask it to incorporate it in the analysis.

Without fail it will say something like “that is a natural next step” or “that’s an insightful connection” and go on to twist itself in contortions to draw connections between two completely nonsensical ideas.

If it’s capable of doing that, it is capable of lying, full stop.

New comment by therobots927 in "User reports show problems with Spotify"

therobots927 — Tue, 12 May 2026 17:33:41 +0000

Spotify’s algorithm is just way too hyper focused and has a tendency to suggest AI generated music. I cancelled and now use Qobuz.