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New comment by wavefunction in "Statement on US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5"

wavefunction — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 11:38:16 +0000

The first party didn't actually force anyone to get vaccinated though. And that second party also says they can tell you what to put in your body and mandates death panels now in health care. Means-testing for cancer patients. Murder and rapine as government policies. The second party is actually doing that. But yeah, both parties...

New comment by wavefunction in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

wavefunction — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 16:44:41 +0000

It seems like Silicon Valley has decided on solidarity among tech billionaires and they're gonna take average Americans' wealth to keep themselves semi-relevant globally as China assumes global dominance. This is after insulting and demeaning the rest of the world, they plan to try to sell anemic services to other countries in whose politics they're also meddling. Circular agreements promising to purchase goods and services without the money in the bank, but you can show your promissory note to a guy with his own promissory note who then writes you a new promissory note based on your first one to take to another guy with his promissory notes, look at all the paper.

New comment by wavefunction in "Private equity bought America's essential services"

wavefunction — Wed, 27 May 2026 14:26:54 +0000

I don't believe that's ironic. Harvard and other "elite institutions" are the places with massive endowments, not state colleges or anything. Frankly the more I think about it the more it's nothing particularly interesting, just a fractal representation of the privilege of wealth as far as you want to drill down.

New comment by wavefunction in "Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Arabia and the UAE"

wavefunction — Wed, 20 May 2026 14:36:29 +0000

I don't find it too objectionable, Saudi Arabia refers to the country and part of Arabia (the peninsula) that is under control of the House of Saud. It may be an expat affectation though. My... American family lived there when I was a child and we called it "Saudi." Flying back to Saudi, where we'd see and interact with the native Saudis. To your point about New Zealand, of course NZ would be used.

New comment by wavefunction in "I want to live like Costco people"

wavefunction — Fri, 08 May 2026 02:41:52 +0000

You are out of touch

New comment by wavefunction in "Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw""

wavefunction — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 22:23:34 +0000

Sounds like you should be more worried about Claude Code which is actually already doing what you're describing. Hence this discussion! And you folks are paying for this abuse which is truly amazing...

New comment by wavefunction in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"

wavefunction — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 12:14:29 +0000

I don't discount the scholarly value of these works as you note. They provide a very important insight into these early and semi-documented societies but they don't have a visceral impact for the public like "The Hidden Mysteries of Things Previously Unknown" we accord to the Library of Alexandria in popular acclaim

New comment by wavefunction in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"

wavefunction — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:08:35 +0000

The early Egyptian Christians were a particularly violent bunch. Lots of murders and political scheming against each other and other Christian authorities in the larger world of the Late Antique. They came to power in Alexandria by murder and looting, specifically

New comment by wavefunction in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"

wavefunction — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:06:17 +0000

It probably held a bunch of relatively boring local administrative records as far as "documents found only in the Library of Alexandria" from what I've read. Of course some scholars of the boring administrative history of the world would be thrilled though.

New comment by wavefunction in "Iliad fragment found in Roman-era mummy"

wavefunction — Sat, 25 Apr 2026 03:04:00 +0000

As well, both the Iliad and Vedas are originally oral traditions. Likely there were different versions and different parts of the stories were emphasized to appeal to their audiences and local tastes and current events. Something that can still be apparent in historical texts but probably greatly reduced by the function of printed versions presenting a singular "authoritative version."

New comment by wavefunction in "Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training"

wavefunction — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 21:32:03 +0000

>Why do people expect to have a right to do non-work related stuff on the job?

Like use the restroom? Personally, I'm not a slave. I am getting more and more used to the idea of having to push back on those who do exhibit such a mentality. Y'all are beginning to become a threat to the rest of us.

New comment by wavefunction in "The buns in McDonald's Japan's burger photos are all slightly askew"

wavefunction — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 22:07:37 +0000

noone says you can't use industrial adhesives imperceptible to the advertised eye

New comment by wavefunction in "I wrote to Flock's privacy contact to opt out of their domestic spying program"

wavefunction — Wed, 15 Apr 2026 04:03:12 +0000

I assume they are building "meta-data" profiles of people based on the data they say they can't use directly. That seems like an easy work-around that satisfies the lip-service they've given to the issue.

New comment by wavefunction in "I went to America's worst national parks so you don't have to"

wavefunction — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:36:31 +0000

In form it approximates a classic "park" more than the sort of national parks you and I probably think of. I like the idea of diversity in our national parks and public lands. Some could focus on history and education, others on naturalism and ecology, others could mix and match as needed. Urban national parks seem like a fine idea and a way to encourage urban populations to explore more public lands outside of their cities too, eventually. To build a nation of parks and gardens would be laudable.

New comment by wavefunction in "AI Will Be Met with Violence, and Nothing Good Will Come of It"

wavefunction — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 15:35:24 +0000

It's the way that machine-learning automation is deployed and used in/against society and individuals that will engender violence. I don't necessarily think it will be unjustified even if I think such violence will be unproductive and should be discouraged in favor of a wider consensus in society.

New comment by wavefunction in "We intercepted the White House app's network traffic"

wavefunction — Wed, 01 Apr 2026 04:34:21 +0000

People will excuse anything when it suits them

New comment by wavefunction in "Missile defense is NP-complete"

wavefunction — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 14:30:09 +0000

You could counter multipayload missiles by hitting the missile earlier in its trajectory before the payloads deploy, that was the plan for MIRV nukes but it requires usually forward interceptors or perhaps energy weapons we don't yet have.

New comment by wavefunction in "Palantir extends reach into British state as gets access to sensitive FCA data"

wavefunction — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:30:43 +0000

He joked about Palantir killing people. I know Israel and the US have been using some sort of Palantir system for target designation and that speaks for itself.

New comment by wavefunction in "Please do not A/B test my workflow"

wavefunction — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:14:14 +0000

Big tech companies are not serving their "users" but advertisers, it's a common mistake.

New comment by wavefunction in "Starlink militarization and its impact on global strategic stability (2023)"

wavefunction — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 15:13:26 +0000

The paper argues that the militarization of space is inevitable. I agree based on it being a self-fulfilling prophecy by paranoids and not the charming type.