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simianparrot··on Musk, the Movie
Libel: The Movie. Classy.
simianparrot··on Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
You can't power a modern country like Japan with green energy. Please educate yourself.
simianparrot··on Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
Solar and wind aren’t profitable either if you count the entire lifecycle including bill of materials, production, transportation, maintenance, and teardown for replacement.
simianparrot··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
Well at least it looks like OpenAI is dogfooding because their announcements, product names, and everything else looks and sounds like LLM-slop.
simianparrot··on CSS-Tricks in Limbo
The racist accusation has been overused so much it's not just having diminishing returns, it's having no effect. If you can't argue someone's point but just throw labels at them, you are going to lose because the labels lose value the more broadly you apply them.

And that will allow the real racists to walk right through your gates because you can no longer identify them when everyone you don't like is a racist.

simianparrot··on XCancel service is suspended until further notice
Did the users of X consent to XCancel copying their posts to their servers?
simianparrot··on Don't be the out of touch Kung Fu master
He also runs an AI company now called Keen something. So he’s yet another biased hypester at this point.
simianparrot··on A misalignment of AI in mathematics
Google which countries have nuclear weapons. Hint: It’s not just the US, it’s also its allies and frenemies who’ve not been invaded. It’s only nutball countries like Iran that get invaded when on the cusp of acquiring it and for good reason.
simianparrot··on DHS is using obscure law to snoop on journalists, non-profits, unions
Domestic terrorists do exist. And Don Lemon got kicked out of the CNN. Not surprised he’s mentioned here. Not everything is an abuse of power.
simianparrot··on U.S. State Department pauses immigrant visa applications
I am so jealous of the American people. You might not all understand it, but this is what putting your own people first looks like.
simianparrot··on Octopus intelligence may be related to never-before-seen mutation
Simplified egg laying are the chicken analogue to human female menstruation. It is technically quite different (chickens don’t have a uterus, for one), but it is still analogous.
simianparrot··on Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk
South Korea's obesity threshold is much lower than western Europe and the US. There you're considered obese at 25 kg/m2 or above. In Europe and the US it's 30 kg/m2.

There's also factors like this: https://biz.chosun.com/en/en-science/2026/08/17/SC54HFSN7JAU...

I didn't mean to say the cases I listed are exclusively the only ones, but I still maintain they are a major part of it.

Japan teaches accountability and taking personal responsibility -- it's a country where its capital city can get away with barely any places to dispose of your trash and not be littered. DEI is barely a thing, if at all. And it definitely does not celebrate mediocrity.

simianparrot··on Flint: A Visualization Language for the AI Era
If "AI" was actually as capable as its salesmen claim, why can't it just use whatever existing library is out there already?
simianparrot··on Canceling "Hey"
Funny how Obama said the very same things and I'm pretty sure he wasn't far right.
simianparrot··on Canceling "Hey"
Sure but I don't want wolves eating my children.
simianparrot··on Zuckerberg's war on whistleblowers
Like how the government operated during covid.
simianparrot··on Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
No they are not
simianparrot··on Hetzner Price Adjustment
Social credit bonus for wild unfounded claims online is probably nice if you live in the top 5 megacities.
simianparrot··on AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
That’s not the topic. Read the post I replied to. No matter what a piece of software will never be a human.
simianparrot··on AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale
AI psychosis would be my term. When you attribute to software the characteristics of a human you are in a psychosis.
simianparrot··on Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
This is a good thing, then we can trace exactly who paid for it, and fine them.
simianparrot··on Iran starts Bitcoin-backed ship insurance for Hormuz strait
There is no other reason to have uranium enriched to that level. None.
simianparrot··on The sigmoids won't save you
The subtle but consistent downvoting to a score of 0 to -1 feels very botted. No matter how I write the comments, anything counter the "AI" propaganda nets me a 0 or -1 total score. I don't care about the points whatsoever, but I find it interesting how there's never a massive downvote, just enough to keep such comments at 0 to -1.

May be reading into things too much, but it is a bit odd.

simianparrot··on The sigmoids won't save you
Because HN is YCombinator which has invested in probably hundreds of «AI» firms by now. Including OpenAI.

Allowing slop articles like this literally prints them evaluation money.

simianparrot··on New arXiv policy: 1-year ban for hallucinated references
In science, one hallucinated reference can corrupt the entire rest of the work. So you're completely wrong.
simianparrot··on Operation: Epic Furious
Yeah but they don’t erect statues like this group does
simianparrot··on Getting arrested in Japan
Morals are relative. I happen to align with Japan's morals, and wish Norway would take inspiration from it. We're on the far opposite end of the spectrum.
simianparrot··on Getting arrested in Japan
The punishment should be harsher than the crime. Stealing an apple might not be a "big problem", but it sets a precedent that taking someone else's property is acceptable under some circumstances -- say, the relative value of said object.
simianparrot··on Getting arrested in Japan
China would be a good guess.
simianparrot··on Getting arrested in Japan
«Uncivilised»

Compared to what? European and other western countries with significantly higher crime rates?

Safety comes at a cost.

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