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I don't trust the legal system. They could cover up the evidence, get me blocked on HackerOne, claim that my screenshots are AI-generated, hire top lawyers then make the judge to c…

Last time I reported a DoS bug to HackerOne, the company behind the bounty tried incite me to commit a crime against them by DoS'ing their servers using the hack I had reported in …

Software industry is the same. Main difference is that it is not new in that case; it has always been that way since the dawn of that industry. The software industry is worth trill…

Yes, it's a spectrum. The best test to figure out the extent of your own bias is to make a list of ways which in which a particular ideology benefits you. For most of my contrarian…

I do this already with all of my beliefs. That's not to say my beliefs are exhaustively battle-tested and correct; maybe other people have information that I'm missing but in my ro…

Rational people will pick the ideology which has the fewest contradictions. Irrational people will choose that which serves them best. People who benefit from a system are unlikely…

This article reflects my values and philosophy exactly... However I think the author is underestimating the cost of not following incentives. It's torture. In this society, I'm a l…

Yes, the full extractive structure is much more visible now. Used to be discussed as "conspiracy theory" but now it's obvious that such structure exists and it doesn't require any …

I think the statement "code was never the hard part" is true but it's relative. Programming is not easy and it takes years to master. Some people became really good at solving comp…

Whenever I hear some big AI CEO say that AGI/ASI might end humanity, I imagine it doing so by conditioning people to commit suicide or some kind of massive-scale manipulation. Prob…

I think the part that's hard to absorb is that software engineering was a brutal path. You had to restructure your entire identity, ego, personality, social relationships around th…

AI can uncover certain issues and resolve certain problems but it also has its blind spots. I've been using Claude to create a software architecture diagram. It came up with a lot …

But how many new ones did it introduce?

Especially true now with AI coding. But I would push back on the idea that sciences or other engineering disciplines are not affected. Several of the people I met who were especial…

This article highlight a huge problem which permeates every aspect of society. The entire education system is built around the assumption that speed = merit. Any time a person has …

Sure, but you can only solve a problem that you are aware of. My concern here is about the unknown unknowns. The task at hand is exceedingly complex and requires extreme precision,…

Makes me think. I can't be as confident there as I got lucky in that respect so my perception is distorted towards "it's easy". Based on what I observe from other people, I would t…

The framing that there is some unknown particle affecting the results is probably an understatement. Probably there are a LOT of unknown 'forces' affecting the results. Look at the…

My biggest mistake in life was thinking too big and aiming too high. Now I absolutely hate the saying "If you want to reach the moon, aim for the stars." This belief ruined me. The…

I think that by the time AI can fully automate software engineering, it will be able to fully automate physical electrical work. The challenge in both cases is all the invisible, h…

I don't see the need for MCP for most use cases where it's currently used. You can get better results with skills SKILL.md + linked .md files with curl commands inside... Just plai…

These are all valid points but not strong enough to warrant banning open models IMO. This is a new reality we have to live with, with new dangers we cannot avoid. Best solution is …

I guess in both cases, it's the result of the mind adapting to a strange environment. Once the strange environment becomes the new normal, the old (previously normal) environment s…

I feel like democratizing wealth and retirement has become harmful. Now we have a small number of extremely influential people who are essentially bribing and propagandizing the ma…