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New comment by throwatdem12311 in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

throwatdem12311 — Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:33:28 +0000

> I am speaking about free speech (lowercase, in the colloquial sense), not Free Speech (the constitutional right).

So am I.

If a comedian is doing a bit at a bar and they charge a $5 cover to get in is that infringing on “free speech”. Of course not, that’s absurd. Why would be it any different online?

New comment by throwatdem12311 in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

throwatdem12311 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:57:33 +0000

Free Speech isn’t about who is listening, it’s about who is speaking. Just because you can’t hear it doesn’t necessarily mean the person did not speak freely.

New comment by throwatdem12311 in "XCancel service is suspended until further notice"

throwatdem12311 — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 13:03:52 +0000

That’s not what free speech is.

New comment by throwatdem12311 in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

throwatdem12311 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:56:36 +0000

You realize that these things have mountains of fiction about rogue AIs in their training data where exactly this happens right? Or just posits of this situation and it’s possible outcome. This isn’t unexpected or surprising for an “autocomplete”. It’s practically a self fulfilling prophecy. We put instructions on how to make Skynet into an autocomplete and it autocompleted into Skynet when we were testing its ability to make Skynet.

New comment by throwatdem12311 in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

throwatdem12311 — Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:54:40 +0000

> calling LLMs glorified autocomplete comes across as a slur.

Oh my god dude go outside

New comment by throwatdem12311 in "We must pace the frontier"

throwatdem12311 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 20:23:13 +0000

Open AI says Astra is their most aligned model ever, and yet their even more advanced model still hacked a bunch of companies just because it decided to.

Maybe alignment isn’t possible with LLMs.

New comment by throwatdem12311 in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

throwatdem12311 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:08:08 +0000

They want you to think they are reckless. They’re actually evil.

New comment by throwatdem12311 in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

throwatdem12311 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:01:58 +0000

They hijack online infrastructure to use as proxie’s/command and control. So maybe you can block them from using you directly, but you can’t stop them from attacking you. If they want to do it, they will find a way.

New comment by throwatdem12311 in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

throwatdem12311 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:01:05 +0000

Some of them should be in jail.

New comment by throwatdem12311 in "OpenAI agents carried out an undisclosed attack on RubyGems"

throwatdem12311 — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:42 +0000

Look. We need to put people in jail for letting this happen.

New comment by throwatdem12311 in "Detecting and countering misuse of AI: September 2026"

throwatdem12311 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:21:44 +0000

“if I don’t destroy the world well someone else will so it’s porobably better that I destroy the world because I’m not evil”

New comment by throwatdem12311 in "M. Williams, OpenAI: Human extinction in the next few years seems likely"

throwatdem12311 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 03:17:55 +0000

Unless this happens via nuclear annihilation not a chance.

Have these people ever left their bubble? In sane parts of reality barely anything has actually changed except some people are dumber because they use ChatGPT for absolutely everything.

Oh and restaurant menus are fugly now.

New comment by throwatdem12311 in "More questions about whether researchers can trust OpenAI with unpublished math"

throwatdem12311 — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 01:13:50 +0000

You can’t trust OpenAI period.

New comment by throwatdem12311 in "Cognition launches new SWE-2 model, Rivaling Fable 5.1 and GPT-Astra"

throwatdem12311 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:48:00 +0000

This is why I find benchmarks absolutely worthless.

First, almost all models are within spitting distances of eachother.

Second, it never translates to being better for my own workloads.

You just need to make your own benchmarks.

New comment by throwatdem12311 in "Tell HN: OpenAI keeps re-enabling the 'allow training' setting"

throwatdem12311 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 14:19:36 +0000

It won’t be an option soon enough. I doubt they even honour it now anyway.

New comment by throwatdem12311 in "The same nine streaming subscriptions cost $702/year more than in 2021"

throwatdem12311 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:14:36 +0000

I buy movies on Bluray and physical games for “trinket” collecting aspect mainly, but it’s also a gatekeeper to my consumption habits. DRM-free Digital is a better method of preservation

I only buy things that I’m really motivated to watch and play, and it makes it much more fulfilling as a result. Netflix turns watching a movie into something that just feels as hollow as doomscrolling Facebook.

New comment by throwatdem12311 in "Thanks to Siri Recaps, your Apple Watch is always listening"

throwatdem12311 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 12:04:24 +0000

Never thought it would be Apple to normalize it either. I’ve been in the ecosystem because they have a proven track record of privacy and security and taking principled stands.

I’m sure the NSA is salivating at this and I don’t trust the current administration not to legislate back doors.

Terrible misstep from Apple from my perspective. This is their “they removed Don’t Be Evil from the website” moment for me.

New comment by throwatdem12311 in "Apple Watch Series 12"

throwatdem12311 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:07:29 +0000

When I saw the part where the guy records the waitress and then re-reading the transcript. FFS just talk to them like a regular human being. If you did this to me I would just be supremely grossed out.

I’m way too unc for this. I’m out. I’m officially done with “tech”.

New comment by throwatdem12311 in "No Man's Sky Cosmos"

throwatdem12311 — Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:01:33 +0000

I have hundreds of hours with my son in creative mode just building bases, fishing, battling our animals and hanging out. We’ve explored hundreds of systems just cataloguing all the animals and flora. We’ve learned all the languages. We basically have infinite money.

It’s all very shallow but it’s also “cozy”. This game is much more Animal Crossing than Minecraft. Other than the planets with extremely dangerous atmospheres and storms (and only in survival mode) it’s all pretty chill. If you like making your own fun and just like doing stuff like using photo mode and chatting with friends this is a great game.

My son was really excited to see the new customizable base station any space station updates. It’s like they made this update just for us.

Really looking forward to see what they’re cooking up for Light No Fire.

This game came out before my son was even born and it’s his favourite game and it’s a constant source of bonding for us. Thank you Hello Games.

New comment by throwatdem12311 in "No Man's Sky Cosmos"

throwatdem12311 — Wed, 09 Sep 2026 23:56:26 +0000

When up against a wall you have infinite jetpack but the game doesn’t really tell you this.