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Gonna put out a blanket assertion about my preferences, to get a read on whether these are shared or not: As humans, we have directives (genetic, cultural, societal, etc.) to prior…

Thank you for your new substack, very illuminating (and scary) reading. It's as if someone was watching the show "Person of Interest" as a guidebook for how to build (and weaponize…

> Oracle will be the first to freeze one can hope

the whataboutism is strong in this one

There are a lot of things that are "perfectly legal" to do. Doesn't mean that, in practice, law enforcement would necessarily take the most extreme legal action possible. This is a…

>Our PMs don't like making things opt-in That is an implementation detail. What matters is the outcome: Notion leadership has signed off on this being opt-out. The calculus here, a…

Subnautica in VR (with the Submersed VR mod) is easily the most immersive environment I have ever encountered.

not entirely. The risk raised in the article is that AI is being promoted beyond its scope (pattern recognition/creation) to legal/moral choice determination. The techo-optimists w…

On HN, you have a significant subset that think it is akshually cool, unironically Move fast and break things, right?

I naturally went down a rabbit hole to see if I could find why those characters weren't printing properly. https://www.atarimania.com/mags/pdf/Antic_Vol_7_No_4.pdf On p. 31, you ca…

> Cool business No it isn't. It's predatory (actually, parasitic) by its very nature. I'm all for innovation, but that's just not cool.

My favorite was the "TYPO II" ("Type Your Program Once") application, which was part of every Antic! Magazine program listing: https://www.atarimagazines.com/v3n9/TYPOII.html https…

I've called this out numerous times (and gotten downvoted regularly), with what I call the "Cult of Optimization" aka optimization-for-its-own-sake, aka pathological optimization. …

> That this has not been historically true in the United States is the notable outlier. So, bootlicker, got it. And yes, it is very much a character thing...

We've crossed the Rubicon, where sarcasm is no longer indistinguishable from reality.

This is what frustrates me to no end, re what's going on with DOGE and the indistriminant shutting off of legacy systems. As Joel Spolsky once commented, , all non-trivial abstract…

accountabilty and role-based permissions based on least-privilege. None of that matters with what DOGE is doing. That should worry you.

This is key. If this were pushed by Apple, people would be responding much differently, since there is an inherent level of trust in regards to Apple's privacy protections, vs Meta…

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> This is hacker news. Hackers generally do not like authoritarianism. disagree. While hackers traditionally do lean anti-authoritarian, I am consistently disappointed by how many …

> The HN response to all this has actually been very strange to me. Are you surprised that folks are generally dismayed that disruption-for-its-own-sake, particularly for governmen…

is it? Depends on your definition of "fine" I'm thinking more of "this is fine...."

> if it can only ward off the manipulations of the yacht class. The inevitable enshittification of goods and services once they reach a certain level of maturity (i.e., profitabili…

> It does not lead to obsessive/compulsive behaviour if you simply optimize your emotional and awareness skills first. I don't think you understand what optimizing entails. Optimiz…

therapy will generally recommend removing the need to optimize entirely, in order to achieve an emotional homeostasis (particularly given that the need to optimize often leads to o…