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MrBuddyCasino··on Israeli Effective Altruism Firm Behind OpenAI, Anthropic, and Meta Cyberattacks
From their POV its been very effective. By now every normie has heard of AI doomerism, that’s quite the achievement.
MrBuddyCasino··on New $100k H-1B visa fee pushes tech jobs offshore
If you believe that the market sets prices via supply and demand in general, do you believe this is true for the labor market as well? If not, why?
MrBuddyCasino··on We must pace the frontier
"The most common question people ask me is “Why do they do it?” That is a hard question to answer, but today I will answer it.

[...]

The first and most persistent oddity I ran into was the Effective Altruists’ willingness to lie, then admit to lying, then lie again."

https://x.com/brianchau57/status/2098035812365463637

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49648088

MrBuddyCasino··on Copper lined vest to help penguins with recovery
more like GHK-CU, or even just zinc salves (common for babies)
MrBuddyCasino··on Don't let anyone take away your big box of cables
What self-respecting household has only one box of cables?

You need at least one big one for the mains-rated bulky ones, and a few smaller ones: USB, Monitor/Ethernet etc, Audio.

I can recommend the small Ikea Knagglig boxes, they look nice and have the right size.

MrBuddyCasino··on I resigned from Anthropic today
Towards a metaphysics of Power

"I think you need to have a personal relationship with Power"

When people today discuss the concept of an all powerful machine-mind, what they are doing is engaging in metaphysics, trying to generate a metaphysics of Power.

The question hounding people, which disguises itself as a science fiction plot about computers is: "What is ultimate, transcendental Power?". What is the ultimate principle of Power.

If you are a weak man, or sufficiently neurotic and full of doubt, that you can only conceive of yourself as such, then power is only something you comprehend from the passive, receptive side. Power is something that happens to you. If you are a fearful man, power is a cruelty and a humiliation. And so it follows, that ultimate power - God - is the ultimate cruelty and the ultimate humiliation. Thus, ai doomerism.

If god wasn't real it would be necessary to invent him, and so they did, and being godless, they built an anti-god - cruel, murderous and tyranical - in their minds.

[…]

https://xcancel.com/robertlasagna1/status/207827473401002846...

MrBuddyCasino··on C Is Not a Low-Level Language (2018)
In what way would exposing the true microcoded out-of-order etc nature of the beast benefit certain tasks?
MrBuddyCasino··on Initial effects of AI technology on employment look positive
I believe this to be completely mistaken, because the bang-for-buck is getting better. Luna on max thinking is very capable and builds you a feature for 20 cents.

Its just that in a gold rush, there are few winners and many losers. There used to be hundreds of car companies in the beginning, only a dozen or so survived long term.

MrBuddyCasino··on Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
Yours is the naïve view of someone who has never looked at how the sausage is made. There are hundreds of billions each year flowing through NGOs. Where do you think this money comes from. Hint: its not your friendly grandma.
MrBuddyCasino··on Wikimedia Foundation Workers Overwhelmingly Vote to Form Union with CWA
This is 95% of all NGOs and their ilk.

Related:

"We now have evidence of how at least $7.7 billion for homelessness was spent on salaries. They created a jobs program that grows at the expense of the actual homeless who need help instead of helping the homeless."

https://x.com/Twolfrecovery/status/2095661343215141026

MrBuddyCasino··on Ask HN: Resources to get good at soldering?
> just being brave enough to go for it and give it a try, and then learning how to undo your mistakes

This is true for most things. Don’t let the naysayers discourage you.

MrBuddyCasino··on Ask HN: Why were OpenAI, Claude, and Grok simultaneously down?
So Gemini was the one who gets into heaven.
MrBuddyCasino··on Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s
Yes if you have no plans in life its perfect, just stay in bed all day.
MrBuddyCasino··on Launch HN: RonanRX (YC S26) – Personalized Peptides and GLP-1s
This 100% aligns with my experience. Peptides are easy and you can mix different GLP1s to get the desired effect of appetite suppression, food noise and metabolic boost via Tirz, Reta and Elora (don't use Cagri btw), but things start to get hairy with TRT/HRT. You really have to do blood work and getting it wrong has serious consequences.
MrBuddyCasino··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Can the free tier be used outside Antigravity CLI? Because its security prompts get old pretty quick.
MrBuddyCasino··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
Its not good at not making mistakes, but what it produces is structurally quite nice, not over-engineered (looking at you Sol) and its personality isn’t annoying (looking at you Claude). A bit like Grok Code, but Grok is a better coder.
MrBuddyCasino··on Gemini 3.8 Flash and 3.8 Flash Cyber
I hope they bring a lite version, its good enough for information parsing and very cheap.
MrBuddyCasino··on European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy
Very well put.
MrBuddyCasino··on European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy
I‘m not being ironic. With a dictator you have full responsibility concentrated in a single person. Bureaucracies are the opposite: they’re intentionally setup to diffuse responsibility as much as possible and hold no one accountable. Instead of a single guy, you now have to fight something resembling a fungus. This is much harder: instead of a decapitation strike, you face an enemy that is more resilient and resistant to change, and near impossible to kill.
MrBuddyCasino··on European Commission Revives Push for Encryption Backdoors in ProtectEU Strategy
> In reality, they want to be dictators.

Its much worse than that. They want to be unaccountable bureaucrats.

MrBuddyCasino··on Brits would quite like their private messages to stay private
Almost as if democracy isn't real and all statecraft is driven by intra-elite conflicts.
MrBuddyCasino··on Functional State Machines in Rust: Typestate and Newtype Patterns
> I’ve always felt that functions needing to be called in a specific order is usually a bad code smell

Can you give an example where a different design eliminates the need for the ticket pattern?

MrBuddyCasino··on What Running Kafka on VMs Taught Us About Systems Thinking
> „It Wasn't a Crisis. It Was a Decision.“

closes tab

MrBuddyCasino··on Gemini-3.5-Transcribe
Its easy to pre-pay tho?
MrBuddyCasino··on The Sloppification of Peptides
Everyone with ADHD knows about peptides. But the normies still have no idea.
MrBuddyCasino··on Project Cybersyn (2022)
You are arguing with a communist. The ideology / theory is just window dressing, it doesn’t matter at all, they still want to take your stuff and kill those who oppose them. There is no marketplace of ideas, just a trap.
MrBuddyCasino··on There's no such thing as a small software team anymore
I used to say my job was „managing complexity“, not being a programmer. After AI, thats still true because they suck at it.
MrBuddyCasino··on And then the men with guns tell you to do it anyway
"To rear a child and give him an education is easy, but to put a good mind into him is impossible... By teaching you will never make the bad man good." — Theognis of Megara (Elegies, lines 429–438) (quoted by both Plato in Meno and Aristotle in Nicomachean Ethics)

Or:

"Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque recurret." ("You may drive out Nature with a pitchfork, yet she will always return.") — Epistles, Book I

MrBuddyCasino··on GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
Yes you have to continuously tune the prompts ever so subtly. 3.5 is a lot better than than 3.1 tho.

Important to remember that json schema instructions take precedence over the normal prompt, so move as much into property descriptions as possible.

MrBuddyCasino··on GPT 5.6 Sol is the best "vision" model OpenAI ever released
Yeah Gemini 3.5 Flash Lite is really good. Which Chinese models can you recommend?
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