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New comment by warkdarrior in "The Competitive Moat That AI Can't Replicate"

warkdarrior — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 23:35:56 +0000

Have you read any literature ever? Outside of technical and business docs..

New comment by warkdarrior in "Pentagon boasts of using AI to write reports mandated by Congress (1.5mil users)"

warkdarrior — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:52:45 +0000

It's true that Pentagon audits failed to account for hundreds of billions of dollars. https://econofact.org/factbrief/has-the-pentagon-failed-its-...

But I am sure future audits will succeed in tracking down all of the prompts used for AI-generated reports. /s

New comment by warkdarrior in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

warkdarrior — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:49:10 +0000

That's a starting point, but it seems the VW app is using a Google SDK for integrity checks, so maybe we need certain SDKs to be banned.

New comment by warkdarrior in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

warkdarrior — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:45:44 +0000

Sure the app is not required, though one loses on all of the remote-control functionality (remote start, remote climate control, etc.).

Maybe then app developers should be mandated to open fully their server-side protocols, so people can create apps for platforms that are not supported by default. No more undocumented APIs, anybody can get an API key, no API serving limits!

New comment by warkdarrior in "Volkswagen started blocking GrapheneOS users"

warkdarrior — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:36:02 +0000

Answer from VW:

> Please note that the use of the Volkswagen app is only supported on iOS devices and Android devices with supported operating system versions.

Is it time to mandate app developers support all operating systems for a device?

New comment by warkdarrior in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

warkdarrior — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:13:02 +0000

> Must have been written by a highly paid consultant.

ChatGPT?

New comment by warkdarrior in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

warkdarrior — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 21:00:01 +0000

Not an actual joke, this was Trump's idea during his first term.

New comment by warkdarrior in "U.S. pulling ocean sensors a 'shock' for Canadian research as El Niño nears"

warkdarrior — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:58:04 +0000

If you destroy the sensor network now, it is that much more expensive for a future administration to rebuild from scratch.

New comment by warkdarrior in "Can Europe train a frontier AI model on the compute it owns?"

warkdarrior — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 21:30:34 +0000

> Services like Street View should have distance-based friction to preserve privacy. The further you are, the less (or at lower quality) should be available, to keep it proportional with the effort required to inspect the place in the real world.

How would the website validate how far I am from your neighborhood? What if I am your neighbor but I am traveling this week? Can I still check Street View of my neighborhood? This is how we get websites to require ID-based verification for everything.

New comment by warkdarrior in "If you are asking for human attention, demonstrate human effort"

warkdarrior — Fri, 12 Jun 2026 21:19:32 +0000

"performative" = "ego-driven"

New comment by warkdarrior in "Solar generates more energy in US than coal for first time"

warkdarrior — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 17:19:32 +0000

Coal-powered AI has fewer hallucinations.

New comment by warkdarrior in "Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents"

warkdarrior — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:22:43 +0000

ChatGPT has 112M monthly active users in US, https://searchlab.nl/en/statistics/chatgpt-statistics-2026#g...

Is is OK for them to build datacenters in US?

New comment by warkdarrior in "If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know"

warkdarrior — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 02:24:39 +0000

> If a tool's output lacks any defined semantics, it isn’t a compiler.

Are you claiming that the natural language of the LLM output (e.g., English, Chinese) does not have semantics?? Someone should tell all the people cited at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_semantics_(natural_lang...

New comment by warkdarrior in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

warkdarrior — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:43:07 +0000

Fable is Mythos with extra guardrails, so the analysis holds.

New comment by warkdarrior in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

warkdarrior — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:40:56 +0000

> The results don’t seem much better than you’d get from putting Opus in a long loop.

Care to share the results you got from Opus working on the same prompt? It should be easy to compare quality.

New comment by warkdarrior in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

warkdarrior — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:38:28 +0000

> pay me significantly more

Ha ha, that's how you negotiate yourself out of a job!

New comment by warkdarrior in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

warkdarrior — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:36:28 +0000

Depends on the skill of the person working on it.

New comment by warkdarrior in "What it feels like to work with Mythos"

warkdarrior — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 20:35:30 +0000

That's the beauty of these AI advancements. You, a human, will have to compete against a model for the same job.

If you get $100,000 per year as a SWE, and Anthropic offers a coding model for $100,000 per year (but working 24/7), then you'll have to give up all of those addons that make the fully burdened cost of the employee. Say goodbye to vacation, sick time, benefits, etc.

New comment by warkdarrior in "American Wealth, Sliced Up"

warkdarrior — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:16:01 +0000

The economy is not zero sum, so new wealth is being created. But that does not say anything about who receives that new wealth.

New comment by warkdarrior in "Different attitudes towards AI in California's university system"

warkdarrior — Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:38:05 +0000

How does this work? Are you embracing AI and also against it? Are you protesting against your own use of AI?