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Potentially corrosive. Emphasis on potentially. Powerful and uncanny are morally neutral traits. At root an LLM is a different kind of mind that thinks different kinds of thoughts.…

And I know this is petty but the CC cli/harness just grates. It’s overcomplicated, performatively cutesy, and buggy. It’s in my way. The codex harness gives me what I need and gets…

There’s something phenomenally powerful, uncanny, and potentially deeply corrosive about current AI. Dismissing it as “evil” is pat, and prevents any full encounter with something …

Hit the nail on the head. These bureaucratic obstacles are also a manifestation of a culture. A culture that will, in a subconscious and subtle manner, sneer bristle and balk at yo…

Fandom-as-identity was a niche thing even within nerddom until quite recently. Also a lot of those properties had a lot of substance there decades ago and have since been watered d…

Not necessarily no - but sustainably doing good work while shoulder-to-shoulder with human frailty and confounding diversity does raise the chances.

Nerd-dom has also somehow merged with the world of fantasy and fandom. These are subcultures obsessed with hero journeys, morality tales, escapism, and cartoonish black-and-white e…

We need a whole new generation of fertility medicine aimed not just at conception but the rest of it as well.

That or go "one and done" after having enough fun with: - Stress on the relationship of trying and failing for a long time - Stress of fertility treatments, if needed - Likelihood …

We've gotten smarter, to our detriment.

I have a different pet explanation from the other replies here, and I honestly don't get why it's not talked about more. Basically, our economic reality and expectations have come …

Might sound hyperbolic but this is clearly the softly smiling fascist menace of the corporate regime. A gentle friendly assumption that we are all eager to partake in “euphemism fo…

I strongly agree. I try to urge coders to document intent, that’s how I put it. Sometimes the intent is obvious and doesn’t need explanation, you’re implementing the feature. But i…

I’m pretty sure Claude is German, which complicates things.

One of the reasons I love the Expanse so much is how deftly it wove subtle economic and resource dynamics into the plot, while also integrating so many other themes, genres, and st…

Agreed it’s a tolerable vision, it could be worse. But it’s also a vision of humanity mostly living in enormous disenfranchised structural underclasses - corporate-authoritarianism…

I think an undersung and underquantified factor here is how much less time people have. For reasons psychological and socioeconomic, across class lines, it seems we all have a ment…

I’m not trying to minimize a tragedy, but maybe this is almost the perfect wake up call? Not many fatalities but nevertheless a spectacular collision. At a major hub airport in a m…

Related: Two pilots dead after plane and ground vehicle collide at LaGuardia - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47486386 (667 comments)

My 5ish years in the mines of Android native back in the day are not years I recall fondly. Never change, Google.

I agree with you, but safeguarding the vulnerable while preserving access for the fit is something we as societies know how to do, if we try.

I think 4o was more than just unusually sycophantic. It “understood people” better and had a kind of writerly creativity. I used it to help brainstorm and troubleshoot fiction: cha…

What felt incredible was getting the setup and prompting right and then producing reasonable working code at 50x human speed. And you're right, that doesn't excite after a while. B…

(White) Americans of the center and left have long since lost the conviction that you may just need to bleed for your children’s freedom. It’ll come back, hopefully not too late.