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GeoAtreides··on Meta blocks human rights accounts from reaching audiences in Arabia and the UAE
Let's not forget about the slave markets mobile apps:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50228549

GeoAtreides··on Who will buy your services if you fire us all?
Where did Anthropic get money to buy (rent, actually) capacity from SpaceX?
GeoAtreides··on Who will buy your services if you fire us all?
And, as we know, hungry desperate people just lie down and die. Maybe nibble at a piece of cake if they have some.
GeoAtreides··on Ten Signs of Fascism. America has all of them
wrong, [flagged] removes it from the front page
GeoAtreides··on Ten Signs of Fascism. America has all of them
what a lovely loophole
GeoAtreides··on AI subscriptions are a ticking time bomb for enterprise
please stop giving hints on LLM writing markers, let's not do their adversarial training for free
GeoAtreides··on We've made the world too complicated
> I'm writing this with technology I will never fully understand

that's on you. It takes just a bit of effort, and I suppose time, to have a very good idea of what happens, at all levels, between the moment i had this comment in mind and you the reader conceptualizing it in your mind. Are some details missing? Sure. We still don't know where thoughts come from and I, personally, don't have the mathematically training to understand the quantum mechanics involved in PNP junction, for example. I have never seen a verilog program... but I know it exists and what it does. Nor can I tell you the _implementation_ details of firing high powered lasers at tin droplets to generate uv-rays flashes, but I know it exists and why.

Yes, I can not recreate by myself our current civilization, or even the modern tech stack. It doesn't mean I don't understand how it works. There are no places in my mental map with 'hic sunt dracones'.

>I want to never pay with money or read a written word again

not wanting to read might explain why the author doesn't understand the world they are living in

>Our internal intuition about right and wrong seems to leave us at an early age.

good. a child moral compass is neither, and as we grow up and learn, we develop better, more complex ethical framework, against our base instincts and animal intuition.

>Maybe our greatest gift to the world is to do as little as possible. To look at the birds, feel the wind and the water in our own hands, and ... nothing more. Eat when we are hungry, laugh when we are happy, cry when we are empty.

a life unexamined is not worth living

GeoAtreides··on The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
ah, an actual, not a base insult, but a pure ad hominem in its natural state!
GeoAtreides··on The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
>companies growing 3x

which companies are growing, the ones mining for gold or the ones selling the shovels?

GeoAtreides··on Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
exactly! if you _properly_ integrate this argument into Scotland, _then_ it will be a true scotsman, otherwise definitely not!
GeoAtreides··on Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution
How about if you were a working class child, just before they started in a mine or a textile mill? Was it good for them?

Infant deaths decreased for a while (and NOT because of the industrial revolution):

> These patterns are better explained by changes in breastfeeding practices and the prevalence or virulence of particular pathogens than by changes in sanitary conditions or poverty[1]

then rose:

>Mortality at ages 1-4 years demonstrated a more complex pattern, falling between 1750 and 1830 before rising abruptly in the mid-nineteenth century.

[1] Davenport, Romola J. (2021). "Mortality, migration and epidemiological change in English cities, 1600–1870." International Journal of Paleopathology, 34, 37–49. PMC7611108.

GeoAtreides··on AI slop is killing online communities
>HN autokills comments it detects as LLM

No it doesn't. Unless you have proof.... ???

GeoAtreides··on Alignment whack-a-mole: Finetuning activates recall of copyrighted books in LLMs
For a concrete statue there sure are suspicious large amounts of straw peeking through
GeoAtreides··on For the first time in history, more Americans are moving to EU than vice versa
>the vote on limiting Switzerland's population to 10 million

google searches 10 minutes after it passes: what is EU ‎guillotine clause

GeoAtreides··on Your phone is about to stop being yours
So wait, does this mean that Google will forcefully uninstall the apps I currently have installed?! or disable? will the apps work again once I went through the 24h process?
GeoAtreides··on Measuring Claude 4.7's tokenizer costs
> it refused to even touch the code.

???

please i beg post the prompt and the refusal

I literally can not imagine a model refusing to do something

GeoAtreides··on The future of everything is lies, I guess: Where do we go from here?
Why would a series of articles imply repetition?

Let's presume there's a series on re-making the antikythera mechanism:

1. Metallurgy: finding, mining and smelting the ore

2. Building the tools (files, molds, etc)

3. Designing the mechanism

4. Making the parts (gears, bearings, etc)

Am I wrong or there's no repetition, except maybe the title and calling it a series? Why reject parts 2, 3, 4?

GeoAtreides··on AI-assisted cognition endangers human development?
>I have no clue what I read. Just totally odd and unconvincing.

How can it be unconvincing if you didn't understand the argument presented in the post?

GeoAtreides··on The Deepfake Nudes Crisis in Schools Is Worse Than You Thought
The line is consent. The line is always consent.
GeoAtreides··on 40% of lost calories globally are from beef, needing 33 cal of feed per 1 cal
>In terms of the Amazon... that was done BY humans... the cattle didn't tear down any trees

literally the funniest thing I have ever read on HN, well done

GeoAtreides··on Microsoft isn't removing Copilot from Windows 11, it's just renaming it
> Now I just have to wait till prices come down on ssds again

oh man, do I have some really bad news for you:

https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/chart/SNDK

GeoAtreides··on Pro Max 5x quota exhausted in 1.5 hours despite moderate usage
let me put this way: not your ram, not your cache, not waiting patiently for your input.
GeoAtreides··on Sam Altman's response to Molotov cocktail incident
what are you arguing? that people should not violently overthrow their corrupt leaders? that the french should've let the Ancient Regime entrench and continue? That the serfs (slaves) in tsarist Russia should've stayed put and not revolt against the corrupt and incompetent Nicholas II? Or that the Hungarians and Czechoslovaks not revolt against the totalitarian regimes propped by the Russians? Should've the Romanians in 1989 stayed at home, in cold and hunger, and let Ceausescu regime continue to cruelly oppress them?
GeoAtreides··on Women are getting most of the new jobs. What's going on with men?
was the guy who recently torched a warehouse not a threat?

>“You know, if you’re not going to pay us enough ... to afford to live, at least pay us enough not to do this,” the man says while lighting a roll of toilet paper on fire.

GeoAtreides··on Claude mixes up who said what and that's not OK
>structured queries

there's always pseudo-code? instead of generating plans, generate pseudo-code with a specific granularity (from high-level to low-level), read the pseudocode, validate it and then transform into code.

GeoAtreides··on ML promises to be profoundly weird
I see. I must congratulate you on your rhetorical prowess, it's nice seeing a professional at work.
GeoAtreides··on ML promises to be profoundly weird
I was just enumerating some of the issues with the '''solid''' points OP made. Actually addressing them would take too long and be exercise in futility, here, in HN, in april 2026. Why would I put in the effort, for my comment to be flagged and sent to the void? or worse, persisted for ever and used for training without my consent?

And yes, you are right, the legal and moral question of fair use in training data hasn't been settled yet; we agree here.

GeoAtreides··on ML promises to be profoundly weird
he doesn't have solid points, he conflates fair use with free use (?), ignores thousands of years of attribution history, and equates normal human to human learning with corporate LLMs training on original content (without consent). Great presentation, like you said, to cover the logical defects.
GeoAtreides··on Škoda DuoBell: A bicycle bell that penetrates noise-cancelling headphones
hey, if they can prosecute for whistling into a handset...
GeoAtreides··on AI may be making us think and write more alike
I am very sorry, but you are wrong. Between the fall of Rome (476 AD) and the Carolingian empire (~800 AD) there was a period of not only standstill, but regression, devolution and forgetfulness. Compared with what came before, it can be rightly called the dark ages.
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