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New comment by unsupp0rted in "Craig Venter has died"

unsupp0rted — Fri, 01 May 2026 11:25:26 +0000

If you value accomplishment, then adding more years to accomplish more things is a no-brainer

New comment by unsupp0rted in "Craig Venter has died"

unsupp0rted — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:12:06 +0000

Why didn't anybody warn Alexander Fleming about Chesterton's fence?

New comment by unsupp0rted in "Craig Venter has died"

unsupp0rted — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:10:58 +0000

Yes. A lot of people would live life so fully if they knew they had 790 years: in fact more so.

Right now the most ambitious projects people start barely scratch a decade or two.

New comment by unsupp0rted in "Craig Venter has died"

unsupp0rted — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 15:09:10 +0000

The longer your lifespan, the more chances you have to waste chunks of it in a rut of zero experience, but have time to work your way out of it.

At just 60 ~ 90 years, a rut of a single decade can take up > 15% of your lifespan.

New comment by unsupp0rted in "Craig Venter has died"

unsupp0rted — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:11:34 +0000

What an un-hacker ethos: the idea is to continuously fix problems so that, if anything, quality of life improves from year to year.

New comment by unsupp0rted in "Craig Venter has died"

unsupp0rted — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:50:16 +0000

500 years is as arbitrary a number as 79 is.

A Craig Venter that lives (a healthy life) to 158 is quite likely to accomplish at least 1 more great thing than one who lives to 79.

New comment by unsupp0rted in "Craig Venter has died"

unsupp0rted — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 11:25:55 +0000

Imagine what a guy like that could do with 79 more years... or 10x of that.

It's not that outlandish: sharks, turtles, etc get far more years than we do.

It's shocking all billionaires aren't devoting all their resources to solving this cosmic crime against humanity.

New comment by unsupp0rted in "Craig Venter has died"

unsupp0rted — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 10:22:05 +0000

Only 79… far from a complete human experience. It’s incredibly sad how little time we get here, especially the best of us.

New comment by unsupp0rted in "An open-source stethoscope that costs between $2.5 and $5 to produce"

unsupp0rted — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 16:48:59 +0000

Is that a lot or a little?

New comment by unsupp0rted in "He asked AI to count carbs 27000 times. It couldn't give the same answer twice"

unsupp0rted — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:04:00 +0000

And what if that guy in the surveillance video is just 2 kids in a trench coat? There's no way for AI to be sure from the photons: we should scrap it.

New comment by unsupp0rted in "Ask HN: Anyone else get fatigued by interaction with LLMs?"

unsupp0rted — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 15:42:21 +0000

It's actually less fatiguing than interacting with humans, who never admit they're wrong or agree to look at things from a fresh perspective.

New comment by unsupp0rted in "Ask HN: What sw do you dream about but don't have the time to code yourself?"

unsupp0rted — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:51:42 +0000

> An AI with no knowledge of how a historical event played out

... that predicts accurately how the historical event did play out

New comment by unsupp0rted in "How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences"

unsupp0rted — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:49:04 +0000

> sometimes best to just let people continue being wrong for the sake of being social

There's almost no time when it's better to try to convince somebody they're wrong. It won't help you, and it won't work anyway, so it won't help them either.

Sure if you're somebody's doctor, and even then you have to pick your battles.

New comment by unsupp0rted in "How to be anti-social – a guide to incoherent and isolating social experiences"

unsupp0rted — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:43:18 +0000

I've tried this and I'm not sure its explanation is useful. It wasn't there and it only knows what I tell it, so it's missing a lot of context clues.

And I'm probably less autistic than the average HNer.

New comment by unsupp0rted in "South Korea police arrest man for posting AI photo of runaway wolf"

unsupp0rted — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:38:37 +0000

> It's also a nice illustration of how LLMs screw up everything they touch

And you'll be shocked what the kids have been doing with databases and API calls

New comment by unsupp0rted in "GPT-5.5"

unsupp0rted — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 21:55:54 +0000

Doesn't OpenAI get mad if you ask cybersecurity questions and force you to upload a government ID, otherwise they'll silently route you to a less capable model?

> Developers and security professionals doing cybersecurity-related work or similar activity that could be mistaken by automated detection systems may have requests rerouted to GPT-5.2 as a fallback.

https://developers.openai.com/codex/concepts/cyber-safety

https://chatgpt.com/cyber

New comment by unsupp0rted in "ChatGPT Images 2.0"

unsupp0rted — Wed, 22 Apr 2026 12:31:13 +0000

This doesn’t bother me one bit.

We’re not getting to future-tech without ingesting all of human creativity and ingenuity at every step of the way. Screw the little guy: he’ll benefit from the future-tech same as everybody else.

New comment by unsupp0rted in "Deezer says 44% of songs uploaded to its platform daily are AI-generated"

unsupp0rted — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:23:57 +0000

Yup, a lot of these AI songs are just plain good: https://youtu.be/nwBDmUdX8Io

If you heard these on the radio while working at a grocery store in 1983 you'd be begging your local music store to sell them to you.

To me this AI-generated "slop" is much more enjoyable than human-generated slop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPAg7ODubB4

Where "slop" = "what can I put out that I don't love but that people will click on?"

New comment by unsupp0rted in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

unsupp0rted — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:33:39 +0000

> this spoiled cheese tastes terrible

> when’s the last time you tried spoiled milk then?

New comment by unsupp0rted in "John Ternus to become Apple CEO"

unsupp0rted — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 22:31:17 +0000

The less companies “participate in US politics”, the better for all involved