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OpenAI invests $250m in Sam Altman's brain computer interface startup Merge Labs

tobarpal — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:26:25 +0000

Article URL: https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/15/openai-invests-in-sam-altmans-brain-computer-interface-startup-merge-labs/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46637819

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New comment by tobarpal in "I am dying of squamous cell carcinoma, and potential treatments are out of reach"

tobarpal — Sun, 23 Jul 2023 13:46:34 +0000

Before anyone shows up at FDA decision makers' kids soccer practice please consider things from the point of view of an FDA decision maker. They have to make a choice which they know will lead to both type 1 and type 2 errors. For life saving medicine, when the decision isn't clear, both type 1 and type 2 errors are awful. It's likely they already feel the burden of responsibility.

New comment by tobarpal in "Craft: A simple Minecraft clone written in C using OpenGL shaders"

tobarpal — Thu, 23 Aug 2018 20:28:33 +0000

My theory is that when you have children the sum of time spent at work, commute, chores, exercise, child minding, sleeping is very close to 24 hours per day. So any decrease in the time requirement for any of those means a big difference in discretionary time. So no commute vs commute could triple your discretionary time. Then, amazingly, you can be three times as "productive" despite being in a very similar situation.