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If I understand the story correctly, it's even worse than "pivoted to astronomy". He used Claude to "accidentally" (doubtful) copy an existing astronomy app, bugs and all. It's lik…

I've been thinking about this. Almost every way we have to tell human from AI apart can be adopted and automated by AI. It's sort of a corollary of "every metric can be gamed". It'…

> Who the FUCK speaks like that? Do you mean starting sentences with "But"? I do, but then again I'm not a native speaker and my writing may be nonstandard. Or do you mean short an…

Ok, I'll bite! I agree the theatrical cut is inferior, the voice over wasn't done willingly by Harrison Ford, the "happy ending" is forced and hideous, etc... but I kind like the h…

Many Pratchett books aren't riffs on Tolkien at all. Someone recommended Small Gods (excellent choice, and not a whiff of Elves or Dwarves there) but many other Pratchett books are…

Very likely. However, I see two problems with this: one, I think people are going to make comparisons to Matrix rather than Blade Runner, and judging from the trailer it looks a lo…

Donnie Darko is (to me) one of those movies ruined by the director's cut. Not only due to the music changes, but also because the "message" of the movie is made more explicit and o…

Rachael smoking in that scene is almost like a painting, a masterpiece. I love the whole movie and soundtrack with the same enthusiasm as you, it's one of my favorites, but that sc…

If T-1000 was an LLM: "What's wrong with Wolfie?" "Wolfie's fine." "Actually his name's Max." "You're absolutely right. It's not Wolfie -- it's Max." "Actually we don't have a dog.…

Interesting. I wasn't aware of that, I stand corrected. I think it's a bit silly to consider it theft, but I have to eat my words in this case :)

I'd say this can be generalized: threads on HN are goofy about all the kinds of things HN readers and hackers are unfamiliar with but think they have the common sense to reason abo…

Nope. Chessboxing was the invention of comics book artist Enki Bilal (and he's credited with this in Wikipedia). I first saw it in his Nikopol trilogy. Because life is weird, it th…

> Saying "lines of code are a bad measurement" is too easy! It's about time someone presented an opposing argument. I don't know about easy. It's a hard earned lesson of software e…

Isn't this falling into the "lines of code" trap TFA mentions? More code written is not a good measure of productivity. It could be garbage, or redundant code, or simply not addres…

By the strangest of coincidences, I was just re-reading The Martian Chronicles (randomly picking stories) this week, after re-buying it because I lost my copy. So this story and th…

Thanks for the reply. I agree with you that humans are animals and also part of nature. I don't think there's an implied put down of animals or nature in the poem. I think the auth…

Oh! I didn't even think it could be a spambot. You may be right :(

It is really an anti-war poem rather than anti-humanity or about nature in general. Sara Teasdale was forced to write her sentiments obliquely. From Wikipedia: > "The Sedition Act …

The comment was paraphrasing the message of the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains" (which Bradbury used for the title of his story), which is exactly about this: that Nature won't k…

> Nature won't know or care if humanity erases itself. You got downvoted for paraphrasing the poem "There Will Come Soft Rains", from which Bradbury took the title of his story. I …

The first case is theft as legally and traditionally defined. It has low impact, since the item would have likely ended up in the garbage, but it's still theft as we understand it …

How do you know Nolan is irrelevant to future trends? What's your expertise? Your point most definitely does not remain. You're arguing with someone who knows his/her stuff. Your c…

I think you're wrong. A lot of people who dislike AI in art are putting their money (and their actions) where their mouth is. They don't buy stuff done with AI, ask authors whether…