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The most downvoted comment I've ever made on Hacker News was related to climate change. There's a profoundly ignorant collection of people here who want to stick their head in the …

Yep. Smartphones and social media were the jab, jab, and now AI is the knockout punch. We're raising a generation of people who quite literally do not know how to think for themsel…

I've been working on https://www.photogenesis.app It's an iOS & Android app that applies various generative art effects to your photos, letting you turn your photos into creative a…

I've been working on https://www.photogenesis.app/ It's an iOS app that applies various generative art effects to your photos, letting you turn your photos into creative animated w…

Fellow generative artist here :waves: I started out in all the usual ways - inspired by Daniel Shiffman making generative art first using Processing, then p5.js, and now mostly I c…

Just wait until we start to see the full impact of AI on learning. I suspect the results are going to be so catastrophic that there will actually be attempts to hide it. eg. See [1…

I used to also believe along these lines but lately I'm not so sure. I'm honestly shocked by the latest results we're seeing with Gemini 3 Deep Think, Opus 4.6, and Codex 5.3 in ma…

I actually wrote up quite a few thoughts related to this a few days ago but my take is far more pessimistic: https://www.neilwithdata.com/outsourced-thinking My fundamental argumen…

Touching on the atrophy point, I actually wrote a few thoughts about this yesterday: https://www.neilwithdata.com/outsourced-thinking I actually disagree with Andrej here re: "Gene…

Yep, sold to DAZN. Who in turn do all their development out of Hyderabad, India. Almost entire tech team locally is gone now with handover done to that team.

IMO, things are different this time (as someone who has been in this industry for about 20 years now) and I don't see these jobs coming back. For one, many of these companies are n…

I was laid off recently along with most of the tech team (Australian company ~ very well known brand). There's a handful of people left, but even they know their time is coming soo…

I've always found it interesting that on Hacker News, articles like this pretty much fly by without commentary and are routinely downvoted, while articles speculating about the ine…

We're not going to make it to anywhere close to AGI before we see widespread and systematic societal and environmental collapse on almost all fronts due to climate change. We're in…

For anyone looking for the related talk from LeCun discussing the proposed architecture: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRzvpV9DZ8Y

Science does eventually self-correct, but unfortunately it takes far too long to do so. One area I've studied pretty extensively is the history of cancer treatment. In the long sto…

Yes, absolutely this. I don't think many people outside of academia truly understand how much scientific research has degraded over the years. There are an extremely small number o…

That's true. And I agree that the vaccines have saved lives - mostly, of the old and the very sick/unhealthy. However, what is less clear today is whether there has been a net posi…