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thedudeabides5··on 'Capitalism has to become more humane': a Stanford economist on big tech
new new deal type stuff
thedudeabides5··on Show HN: CIA World Factbook Archive (1990–2025), searchable and exportable
thank you
thedudeabides5··on The Singularity will occur on a Tuesday
This is fun but obviously assumes the conclusion

We need a function that hits infinity at a finite time. That's the whole point of a singularity: a pole, a vertical asymptote, the math breaking:

Also interesting that tokens/$ which represents the energy constraint is the shallowest slope, and also weird taking it out doesn't impact the date. That's a red flag, as you would think removing the energy constraint would bind.

thedudeabides5··on The New Collabora Office for Desktop
Nice, does it have Excel for Windows hotkeys?
thedudeabides5··on Retiring GPT-4o, GPT-4.1, GPT-4.1 mini, and OpenAI o4-mini in ChatGPT
will this nuke my old convos?

opus 4.5 is better at gpt on everything except code execution (but with pro you get a lot of claude code usage) and if they nuke all my old convos I'll prob downgrade from pro to freee

thedudeabides5··on The Hallucination Defense
a machine can never be held accountable

but the person who turned it on can

simple as

thedudeabides5··on Ask HN: Do you have any evidence that agentic coding works?
well I made a machine to help my machine's work on their machine building through my knowledge management machine while being prioritized from another machine

but the machine's keep going down, and we haven't cleaned enough of the bugs in the meta machine to open source it yet.

so...kinda?

thedudeabides5··on The Alignment Game (2023)
yes, the classic solution to a hung democracy...appoint a dictator!

(kidding)

thedudeabides5··on The Alignment Game (2023)
what happens when you have three players, and three options that do not have a stable equilibrium?

aka Arrow's impossibility theorem?

thedudeabides5··on MCP is a fad
sometimes a bridge is also a fad
thedudeabides5··on [dead]
The people of Venezuela and Iran seem to be trusting it.

Though I can't speak for the good people of the TAX RESEARCH organization of the UK.

thedudeabides5··on How wolves became dogs
positive sum games
thedudeabides5··on The Napoleon Technique: Postponing things to increase productivity
told my VCs I was going Napoleon mode and they gave me secondary
thedudeabides5··on Show HN: Comet MCP – Give Claude Code a browser that can click
nice, literally had claude tell me it couldnt do browser today.
thedudeabides5··on Claude Code On-the-Go
the future
thedudeabides5··on Microsoft Office renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app”
ugh
thedudeabides5··on An Anti-A.I. Movement Is Coming. Which Party Will Lead It?
In the end the Yuddites will make an allegiance with the Dems.

This was inevitable since EAs/GiveWell got money-jacked by OpenPhilanthropy and all of a sudden immigration and climate change became top priorities.

thedudeabides5··on AI will kill all the lawyers
good
thedudeabides5··on A brief history of Times New Roman
this is cool where can i find these fonts?
thedudeabides5··on Pro-democracy HK tycoon Jimmy Lai convicted in national security trial
The NSL (and the way it was implemented) is as stark a violation of he Sino British Joint Declaration as possible without PLA tanks on the ground.

Game over. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200.

thedudeabides5··on If AI replaces workers, should it also pay taxes?
Corporate taxes exist
thedudeabides5··on Ancient undersea wall dating to 5,800 BC discovered off French coast
kind of funny everyone doubts whether global warming can raise sea levels and we have evidence of sea levels waaaay lower only 5k years ago.

if sea levels can come up that high without dumping carbon into the atmosphere, seems plausible they could keep going higher

thedudeabides5··on Show HN: I built a dashboard to compare mortgage rates across 120 credit unions
nice, more people should do stuff like this
thedudeabides5··on Brain has five 'eras' with adult mode not starting until early 30s
33 year olds really should not be allowed to date 28yr olds
thedudeabides5··on Cognitive and mental health correlates of short-form video use
ban tiktok
thedudeabides5··on Entrepreneurs don't have a special gene for risk, they come from families with m (2015)
things they didn't teach me at business school
thedudeabides5··on Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model
just checked, I wouldn't say it's identical but yes looks way more balanced.

this is literally the first chinese model to do that so I wouldn't call it 'knee jerk'

thedudeabides5··on Kimi K2 Thinking, a SOTA open-source trillion-parameter reasoning model
great, where does it think taiwan is part of...
thedudeabides5··on ChatGPT terms disallow its use in providing legal and medical advice to others
you don't see ANY relationship between the X risk people opening the door for the safety-ist folks to walk through?
thedudeabides5··on OpenAI asks U.S. for loan guarantees to fund $1T AI expansion
very bearish for vibes
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