Ask HN: Did we witness the "Trinity moment" for AI? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Did we witness the "Trinity moment" for AI?

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Post by fosco » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 4:00 AM UTC

HelloUsername wrote: post #12

Straight answer to your question: "No." As soon as the bomb of the Trinity test was detonated, the whole world entered the nuclear age, from that moment, irreversible. Quite a scale of an event to compare to.

LLMs have had an irreversible effect on everything up to and including how humans talk to each other face to face without LLMs in between as I’ve discussed this very topic.

As an example we things like this likened to issues with nuclear tests https://lowbackgroundsteel.ai/

Re: Ask HN: Did we witness the "Trinity moment" for AI?

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Post by silexia » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 4:19 PM UTC

ricardobayes wrote: post #29

silexia wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Europe is too over regulated to produce anything meaningful. The overhead and red tape just drown most entrepreneurs.

Reversing that, what "meaningful" thing came of late, from lower regulated places? Germany specifically is hard at work on photon computing, just to bring an example. Switzerland is the global HQ for CRISPR.

Almost all of the innovations from the last thirty years came from places with low regulations... Taiwan, America, South Korea, Japan, etc. America had by far the most advances.

Re: Ask HN: Did we witness the "Trinity moment" for AI?

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Post by silexia » Mon, Jun 15, 2026, 4:19 PM UTC

vrganj wrote: post #22

silexia wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Europe is too over regulated to produce anything meaningful. The overhead and red tape just drown most entrepreneurs.

Regulation is what enables production by setting clear ground rules. The alternative is executive caprice and we're all seeing that play out right now.

Regulation destroys innovation. Regulation at its very best MAY constrain excesses, but it never produces anything.