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New comment by yks in "US summons bank bosses over cyber risks from Anthropic's latest AI model"

yks — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 16:39:45 +0000

Tangentially related, but how does one protect themselves against the bank account/brokerage being hacked? Can you print out a proof of funds/securities owned to take to court to be made whole?

New comment by yks in "F-15E jet shot down over Iran"

yks — Sat, 04 Apr 2026 01:55:16 +0000

> the DOJ can't turn around and charge you with a crime, if they advised you beforehand it was not a crime

this sounds like the kind of rules we, as a society, decided to dispense with, so the DOJ can absolutely turn around.

New comment by yks in "The first 40 months of the AI era"

yks — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 00:54:46 +0000

But that documentation itself is likely AI-generated

New comment by yks in "Marketing for Founders"

yks — Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:50:08 +0000

X is not Y — it’s Z.

Because: - A: … - B: …

New comment by yks in "Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock"

yks — Fri, 13 Mar 2026 21:55:17 +0000

With JD Vance things will go even worse

New comment by yks in "Claws are now a new layer on top of LLM agents"

yks — Sat, 21 Feb 2026 15:38:28 +0000

> it's the first agent that many people who usually avoid AI simply LOVE.

Not arguing with your other points, but I can't imagine "people who usually avoid AI" going through the motions to host OpenClaw.

New comment by yks in "DOGE Bro's Grant Review Process Was Literally Just Asking ChatGPT 'Is This DEI?'"

yks — Thu, 19 Feb 2026 19:48:45 +0000

> My guess is you couldn't get a roomful of experts to agree on what "DEI" means

let's not pretend that anyone involved cares one bit

New comment by yks in "I’m joining OpenAI"

yks — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 23:41:40 +0000

It's how Steve Yegge became a "father of agentic orchestration" or something - there is some Canonical Universe Building exercise somewhere on twitter that just looks, for the lack of a better word, not rigorous. But good for all these people, I guess, for riding the hype to glory.

New comment by yks in "What Drives Stock Market Returns? (2018)"

yks — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 17:11:13 +0000

What does "contraction of circulating currency" look like in the post-cash world?

New comment by yks in "Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions"

yks — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 14:25:43 +0000

Agree, langchain was useless then and completely irrelevant now, but the idea that we need to orchestrate different LLM loops is extremely obvious.

New comment by yks in "Orchestrate teams of Claude Code sessions"

yks — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 03:35:56 +0000

Seriously, I thought that was what langchain was for back in 2023.

New comment by yks in "ICE using Palantir tool that feeds on Medicaid data"

yks — Sun, 25 Jan 2026 18:37:45 +0000

How about this: no masks, no weapons (if they feel they are in danger they can call the cops who already have more weapons than they possibly need). Every time a citizen is detained in jail, detaining agent and their manager lose their paycheck for that period. Family with kids jailed and separated? No paycheck. You know, do it in the Christian compassionate way, not in the shooting single moms way.

New comment by yks in "Harvard legal scholars debate the state of the U.S. constitution (2025)"

yks — Tue, 20 Jan 2026 01:52:55 +0000

> If we had a national vote where 51% of the people voted to kill 49% of the people, that would be bad.

How is it different from the majority of electoral votes supporting killing everyone in, I don't know, let's pick a random state, Minnesota.

New comment by yks in "How will the miracle happen today?"

yks — Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:20:31 +0000

When I read these enjoyable posts, I agree, but then the thought creeps in that the human experience is not all that bliss. Thoughts about the Russian soldiers raping Ukrainians and putting the grenade booby traps into the children toys (replace with other war experiences of your choice), or about parts of our society idolizing insecure men being cruel and inevitable murder of innocent bystanders that happens then.

Of course the author had a great experience, he's a weird white American somewhere unexpected, the embodiment of a "traveler" archetype. Would that Swedish person give their car keys to a random Roma on their doorstep? Yeah no.

I don't know where I'm going with this rant. "Check your privilege" screeds are overused. Being kind, on the other hand, isn't.

New comment by yks in "ChatGPT Health"

yks — Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:16:23 +0000

And just like the CSAM of Grok, it will be exempt from consequences

New comment by yks in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

yks — Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:32:19 +0000

> we rescued Europe from fascism, and they will never forgive us for it.

is that why modern Russia bankrolling every fascist party under the sun?

New comment by yks in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

yks — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 19:09:07 +0000

Nah, Stalin didn’t anticipate the attack. And also deposing capitalist regimes, in what would become Allies, was famously the long-standing goal of the USSR

New comment by yks in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

yks — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:23:47 +0000

Looks like we’re forgetting that Soviet Union was pretty buddy buddy with Hitler until surprised pikachu face happened in 1941.

New comment by yks in "Trump says Venezuela’s Maduro captured after strikes"

yks — Sat, 03 Jan 2026 18:17:04 +0000

Authoritarians can legitimately win elections, as in receiving the majority of the cast votes, there is no “joke” or contradiction here.

New comment by yks in "Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea cable damaged"

yks — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 01:44:34 +0000

When I think about this, I often come back to thinking that the societies that underwent some conflict or difficult times, absolutely cannot have a member of an older generation in charge, because the only thing they do is to continue that conflict, completely manufacturing it again if needed, just to get their "revenge". Current Russian attempt at genociding Ukrainians is all the more tragic in that the generations, that remember the previous hostilities, were almost all gone by now. Alas, that corner of the world is again poisoned for several generations ahead.