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New comment by tourgen in "Statement on AI Risk"

tourgen — Tue, 30 May 2023 12:37:16 +0000

The elite class in your country views AI as a risk to their status as elites, not an actual existential threat to humanity. They are just lying to you, as usual. That is what our current crop of globalist, free-trade, open-borders elites do.

Imagine if you had an AI companion that instantly identified pilpul in every piece of media you consumed: voice, text, whatever. It highlighted it for you. What if you had an AI companion that identified instantly when you are being lied to or emotionally manipulated?

What if this AI companion could also recommend economic and social policies that would actually improve the lives of people within your nation and not simply enrich a criminal cabal of globalist elites that treat you like cattle?

New comment by tourgen in "Ask HN: What are your favorite sci-fi books?"

tourgen — Sun, 21 May 2023 14:59:35 +0000

Gene Wolfe - "The Shadow of the Torturer" - 4 books series called The Book of the New Sun

New comment by tourgen in "John Conway's FRACTRAN, a ridiculous, yet surprisingly deep language (2020)"

tourgen — Wed, 17 May 2023 10:47:25 +0000

Who really knows what was in the Library of Alexandria before it was burned for the 6th or 7th time.

New comment by tourgen in "Flecs – A fast entity component system for C and C++"

tourgen — Tue, 04 Apr 2023 13:37:12 +0000

Here's a rogue-like game written in straight C, with hard-coded arrays, structs, and defines.

https://github.com/tmewett/BrogueCE

component systems are useful when you have no design doc, or a design doc written by new-hire monkeys. Or when management has no idea what the goals are.

New comment by tourgen in "The 'Insanely Broad' Restrict Act Could Ban Much More Than Just TikTok"

tourgen — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 15:14:48 +0000

I dunno. I was listening to a twitter space with a bunch of feds and they brought up an interesting topic. foreign nations are running _very real_ psychological operations on groups and individuals in the USA using modern internet communication and media technologies. Real evil stuff. People have died. People killed themselves, or are now homeless.

not everyone you talk to on the internet is "just like me!" Some of them are weird foreign nationals and they want to extract useful info from you then wreck your life.

New comment by tourgen in "History’s Fool: The long century of Ernst Jünger"

tourgen — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:27:58 +0000

Democracy is mob rule. Democracy is one of the worst political systems ever conceived of. The men that built the USA knew this and did all they could to protect against it. Unfortunately it did not last and here we are: people with no vested interest in the system making decisions.

New comment by tourgen in "How did Dennis Ritchie produce his PhD thesis? A typographical mystery (2022) [pdf]"

tourgen — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 13:20:05 +0000

This is how it has always been. This is reality. This is basic human nature. Shaking your fist at the sky and being mad at natural human interactions is silly. Please stop.

The most important thing you can do for your career, for a successful and fulfilled life is to get good at interpersonal relationships. Don't be a weird, anti-social shut-in. Your family, your community, your society are the most important things in life. This is good. This is healthy.