<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: watwut</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=watwut</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 14:14:50 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=watwut" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by watwut in "Why Wall Street is ignoring big tech's debt [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>It is not "often" it is "sometimes" and it is also less than a participation trophy. It does not make the bubble not harmful or even less harmful. It just means that sometimes you can repurpose an expensively build junk.</p>
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<p>It sounds like it was good for you, but I would add a word of caution about 'one of the most surprising discoveries was just how much speaking is unnecessary' part.<p>It is easy to overdo it and torpedo relationships. Relationships are build from small interactions and when you refuse to do communication that is not strictly necessary, they just wont build. A lot of that "useless" communication has social purpose - it allows people to learn in initiate connections without putting large stakes on it. When you stop engaging, they will stop engaging and it all, well, stops.</p>
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<p>This is not about development. This is about rubber stamping insurance denial by an unaccountable system.</p>
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<p>It makes perfect sense. You are being intentionally obtuse.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2026 07:56:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49240666</link><dc:creator>watwut</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49240666</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49240666</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by watwut in "The Philippines' big offshoring industry is growing despite AI"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Hospitals in America are increasingly outsourcing the checking of insurance eligibility and filing of medical records to Filipinos packing AI tools<p>So, insurance claims are handled by people who operate in different legal system and by unaccountable undererministic system. And people are pressured to perform fast.<p>This is not about "automating complex task". This is about "create accountability sink for fraud we want them to do and create system that will perform said fraud".</p>
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<p>Layer can be disbarred. And judges do not accept "ai did it therefore I, the layer am not responsible for the false claim" as an excuse from layers.</p>
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<p>What is e/acc?</p>
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<p>They dont forget that. They dont care about any of that. It is a pursuit of a complete power, origins of DARPA are as relevant as history of typewriter.</p>
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<p>I dont perceive openings as puzzles. Do you have an example of what you mean?<p>Also, how is Harry Potter breaking show dont tell rule?</p>
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<p>Reality check: we already know those companies were actively and knowingly harming children and adults. We know they have basically infinite resources at their disposal unlike parents who are expected to somehow counteract it by miracle.<p>Expectations on parents are historically sky high while there is zero accountability and responsibility placed on rich companies.</p>
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<p>Many of those assets were useless - like railways from nowhere to nowhere. Only some ended up being used.<p>And many innocent people ended up being hurt in the process.<p>Bubbles are not good. They are harmful. The ability yo recoup some of the losses in the span of next 15 years does not make the bubbles something positive.</p>
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<p>Bullshit.</p>
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<p>We are on the path to gated monopoly controlled internet.<p>So, goverment controlled is better then Musk, Zuckenberg and Altman controlled.</p>
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<p>That one is actually enforced by police, by general society that calls police when they see junkies. Limits on smoking and alcohol are enforced by sellers who cant sell to kids and regulators who punish sellers who do.<p>Parents are not expected to follow the kid home from school and watch it every second. Parents are expected to have general talk about drugs.<p>Oh yeah, and it is illegal to maket smoking to kids. Meanwhile, facebook spends billions on A/B testing increasingly sophisticated addiction builders ... and you expect the kids and parents to just be able to win over it with no support.</p>
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<p>> They want to build the data centres right now,<p>And I want them to behave in a decent way, but universe does not ensure we get what we want.<p>They should be forced to build a grid in a way that does not speeds up global warming. What they want should be irrelevant.</p>
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<p>Both sides! We need to make up democrats against EV, because conservatives are!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2026 06:58:12 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49229066</link><dc:creator>watwut</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49229066</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49229066</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by watwut in "ChatGPT starts blocking direct requests to copy an author's style"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> who should adapt, not obstruct.<p>Lol, why do you talk like cartoon evil villan? As if AI and its boosters were not hated enough.<p>Of course AI companies should respect the rest of society. And of course non-ai interests should by protected.</p>
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<p>Useless. The work is still lost or abandoned.</p>
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<p>> The companies are begging to be regulated for this reason and have been doing so for years<p>They can stop doing a thing they claim should be regulated. You dont need to be regulated and forced to do the thing you consider right, especially when you are the primary one collecting the money to do the bad thing.<p>They could train ai for pro-social purposes, they dont here. They could make it useful for worker, they intentionally try to harm workers. And then pretend "it just happened".</p>
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<p>Meh, no not true. Plenty of software developers dont even like playing games.<p>And making a game is not all that much more fun anyway. A lot of that work is plain boring.<p>Fun software project and flashy outcome are two different things.</p>
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