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New comment by vinyl7 in ""I'm on a war footing": Terry Tao and the crisis in math"

vinyl7 — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 12:58:20 +0000

> human beings distracted from the real task at hand (eliminating poverty, hunger, human suffering) as usual.

We've already had this solved for a long time, but nobody has implemented it yet. Automating math isn't going to get us closer.

New comment by vinyl7 in "US federal budget deficit jumps 12% in one year to nearly $2 Trillion"

vinyl7 — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 21:06:08 +0000

The rich and the corporations are the ones currently the one looting the treasury, not the common folk like the quote implies

New comment by vinyl7 in "Sunsetting Decomp.dev"

vinyl7 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:56:19 +0000

The destruction brought by AI continues unabated

New comment by vinyl7 in "I know why the mathematicians weep"

vinyl7 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 13:00:26 +0000

> Would doctors weep if cancer is cured by AI?

The pharama and medical PE companies will definitely weep as a source of their income is lost

New comment by vinyl7 in "I know why the mathematicians weep"

vinyl7 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:28:52 +0000

The people at the top of the hierarchy are not very intelligent or engineer minded, so the more likely result of all of this simply to genocide the population. That's easier than trying to solve logistics.

New comment by vinyl7 in "I know why the mathematicians weep"

vinyl7 — Fri, 16 Oct 2026 12:22:26 +0000

Modern day society has normalized being forced to sit in a cubicle or at your desk otherwise face the wrath of managers for not working, despite massive increases in technology that multiplied productivity.

I have no idea where people get this pipe dream that suddenly societal norms will change such that our employers will let us off the hook for most of the day. This should be obvious with the largely abandoned work-from-home allowances.

Why We're Banning AI

vinyl7 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 18:32:29 +0000

Article URL: https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/why-were-banning-ai

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50108131

Points: 261

# Comments: 203

New comment by vinyl7 in "Opus 5.5 made our product launch video (linked)"

vinyl7 — Thu, 15 Oct 2026 17:00:55 +0000

I've already started seeing AI generated ads on Twitter and it fills me with utter disgust. Ads were already misleading and full of lies, AI just compounds the issue.

New comment by vinyl7 in "Linus Torvalds's first LLM-assisted patch series"

vinyl7 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:46:05 +0000

Pretty much all of the no longer existing empires. Roman empire, perhaps.

New comment by vinyl7 in "Redesigning source control at Anthropic"

vinyl7 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:48:40 +0000

Hear hear

New comment by vinyl7 in "OpenAI CFO Says Firms Using Chinese AI Models Are Risking Safety"

vinyl7 — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 15:43:12 +0000

Tool seller says don't buy other companies tools

New comment by vinyl7 in "Blood cells from 80-year-old donor become stem cells with molecular age under 20"

vinyl7 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:28:55 +0000

I'm not so sure humanity will be around that long

New comment by vinyl7 in "China Overtakes U.S. For First Time as Top Spender on R&D in 2024"

vinyl7 — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 04:00:12 +0000

I work on hobby projects when I'm not burned out from working + getting all my other stuff done in the remaining 4 hours of the day I have left.

New comment by vinyl7 in "Epic Games tells employees to use AI to get Disney game done"

vinyl7 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 22:29:19 +0000

If it is, then I see a wide opening for a modern tech company that produces high quality artisanal hand crafted software.

I'm a big fan of the advice "See what everyone else is doing, and do the opposite"

New comment by vinyl7 in "Fable Took My Job"

vinyl7 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:21:38 +0000

You're assuming that people will be able to buy GPUs in the future. Which currently isn't the case and there is no timeline when they will be available again (at their pre-AI affordable price). I wouldn't be surprised if the labs keep buying up all the GPU capacity forever just to keep home models at bay (which I'm sure is what they're currently doing with all computer hardware).

New comment by vinyl7 in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

vinyl7 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:20:34 +0000

And the human society was entirely destroyed, but for a brief moment we were able create share holder value.

New comment by vinyl7 in "The gap in shared understanding of LLM capability is widening"

vinyl7 — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 00:11:13 +0000

As a middle aged man, thing are indeed getting worse every year.

New comment by vinyl7 in "Grieving the loss of details"

vinyl7 — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 14:21:16 +0000

Partial redraws are mostly a waste of complexity at this point. It's much faster easier just to re-layout and re-draw the whole thing in a frame. It can be done in a millisecond if you're not beholden to the browser.

New comment by vinyl7 in "Yes, and"

vinyl7 — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 23:06:40 +0000

Have we coined the term Slopgineer yet?

New comment by vinyl7 in "Sharing AI progress in mathematics"

vinyl7 — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 22:53:22 +0000

Look forward to being obsolete I guess