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New comment by vouwfietsman in "Anthropic S-1"

vouwfietsman — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 19:23:21 +0000

Haha, indeed all of the preparations are surprisingly short-sighted. Nevertheless it shows the thought process behind many of the so-called 'leaders'.

New comment by vouwfietsman in "Anthropic S-1"

vouwfietsman — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:43:20 +0000

Sadly true, even to the point of paying for not only the pilot to fly their helicopter to the island in the inevitable collapse, but also the pilot's family. Not as a token of generosity of course, no, because otherwise the pilot wouldn't fly them.

New comment by vouwfietsman in "Anthropic S-1"

vouwfietsman — Mon, 26 Oct 2026 18:40:51 +0000

The point OP is making is that it is not, in fact that its the opposite: its a magical valuation that almost guarantees you lose money.

Also rare for an IPO, I assume.

New comment by vouwfietsman in "Mistral Large 4"

vouwfietsman — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 17:34:35 +0000

I'm glad that geopolitics can be anthropomorphized, so we don't waste brainpower trying to see the nuance of all of it.

Also, have you watched the news in the last 50 years?

New comment by vouwfietsman in "Mistral Large 4"

vouwfietsman — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 18:00:15 +0000

I see you are making a lot of similar comments. I am not sure where you get this perceived 'arrogance', I'm sure some of its there, but I'm similarly sure it can be found for Americans or Chinese. People being people, what's new.

> y'all are supposed to be our moral allies

This all comes across as rather black and white. I don't know why you take this stance. I'm sure you understand that it would be very hard for you to understand Europe as a whole, and judge it, just like it would be hard for me to do this with America.

Regardless, when talking morals, I'm also sure you agree there are numerous examples where America has not held up its end of the moral utopian future of prosperity and world peace.

New comment by vouwfietsman in "Mistral Large 4"

vouwfietsman — Tue, 06 Oct 2026 17:54:47 +0000

Depends. If you are middle class in US with little savings, moving to Europe will probably make your life worse as relative wages are lower for many professions (e.g software eng).

If you are middle class in EU and have little savings, moving to US will do the opposite and you would be better off.

Your comparison holds for the inverse: getting most of your quality of life from static wealth.

New comment by vouwfietsman in "The Escalation of War in Ethiopia"

vouwfietsman — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 14:04:58 +0000

That's nice but none of that is what I said.

Do you change your worldview daily, on the level of opting in or out of religions? Do you think most people do? Do you think we can expect them to?

New comment by vouwfietsman in "The Escalation of War in Ethiopia"

vouwfietsman — Sat, 03 Oct 2026 14:27:17 +0000

Not really, that's not how worldviews work. On top of that, religions and cults are very good at embedding themselves into your social/family life marrying leaving the religion with leaving or estranging a large part of social life.

At this point, it is indeed still a choice, but hardly a daily or conscious choice.

Renouncing/converting exists but is rare, life changing, and sometimes dangerous.

New comment by vouwfietsman in "Dutch computer museums (2022)"

vouwfietsman — Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:55:08 +0000

Only a tourist would call Helmond and Zwolle closeby, that's like half the Netherlands!

New comment by vouwfietsman in "September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy"

vouwfietsman — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:32:36 +0000

Although I support the idea that Rutte likely possesses a brain, I don't think he's a sensible example as an 'outside view' that tolerates Trump.

Put differently, I don't think a NATO can exist where the Sec. Gen. disagrees fundamentally with Trump. If that were to happen, NATO would simply cease to exist.

This is why its a bad example.

New comment by vouwfietsman in "September 2026: The world today, as seen by one Polish guy"

vouwfietsman — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 17:29:38 +0000

Rutte being NATO Secretary General says more about that position than it does about Rutte. He is a serial liar, lacks any conviction or personal moral compass, and sees politics mostly as a professional career meta-game detached from society.

New comment by vouwfietsman in "AI coding has made CI a bottleneck, so we reworked ours to keep up"

vouwfietsman — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 17:39:25 +0000

I think there's a couple things going on:

1. the metrics you mention are hard to measure and usually lag 2. the metrics might not be moving yet, because AI accelerates everything a little bit, and most of the hype is still the promise rather than the actuality 3. people are using the gained productivity to speed up secondary tasks / do different work, because applying it to their main work is still complex or not of sufficient quality

New comment by vouwfietsman in "Prompts aren’t Real"

vouwfietsman — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:38:01 +0000

No idea how effective this is, but it sure looks a lot more like engineering than most of the 'prompt engineering' things I've seen in the past years. Kudos to the author for writing this concisely without aggrandizing his work.

New comment by vouwfietsman in "Prompts Aren't Real"

vouwfietsman — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:36:37 +0000

your loss

New comment by vouwfietsman in "Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA"

vouwfietsman — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 17:08:10 +0000

Perfectly describes Australia, indeed. Note how I'm not saying that taxes should be higher and should be "squandered on bureaucracy and monetary black holes", so I'm not sure if I really am one of those.

The world is not black and white, contrary to popular belief.

New comment by vouwfietsman in "Fujitsu launches made-in-Japan next-generation CPU FUJITSU-MONAKA"

vouwfietsman — Thu, 17 Sep 2026 17:44:57 +0000

> The record for highest number of bureaucrats per capita in the world is owned by Australia

You have been convinced by fake news, please recheck this claim, its false.

> wealthy people

*rich people

> All they know how to do is tax people

Oh god you're one of those. People who complain about taxes have historically been on the wrong side of arguments.

New comment by vouwfietsman in "Resist "AI""

vouwfietsman — Sat, 12 Sep 2026 05:46:37 +0000

These are the same thing. Youth has been able to effortlessly do math by using calculators in the past decades, yet we expect and succeed in them learning math. The main thing we need to do is ban llm use somehow for education, as we have with calculators. Then, piecemeal, bring it back when it makes sense.

New comment by vouwfietsman in "Rust is tier-1 language at Microsoft"

vouwfietsman — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:35:26 +0000

True, I hate windows like most people. I just also hate being unrealistic about it. Good thing about AI is you no longer really have to care about really understanding the OS, unless you are an admin.

New comment by vouwfietsman in "Resist "AI""

vouwfietsman — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:33:24 +0000

No I'm arguing that many developments that simplify work while not undermining understanding exist, and we have dealt with them. In the narrow scope of understanding engineering, the fact that AI can also engineer does not prevent us from proper education or gaining understanding.

New comment by vouwfietsman in "Resist "AI""

vouwfietsman — Fri, 11 Sep 2026 14:32:34 +0000

Indeed it is, so it would be bad to just "resist ai"