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Rover222··on Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis
Being nihilistic about everything is intellectually lazy and self righteous, and usually naïve.
Rover222··on Hollywood Enters Oscars Weekend in Existential Crisis
This is such a college freshman worldview take, IMO.
Rover222··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
Yes now compare those numbers to all othere EVs sold in the US.
Rover222··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
I mean it's really TBD on what happens with Cybercab. The X and S models were always low-volume, and it makes perfect sense to move on from those models.
Rover222··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
That's an interesting take. Left or right leaning is kind of just relative to society as a whole. If the world really was so left, I think we'd be calling Wikipedia neutral.
Rover222··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
I've never even heard of telegram competing with X for live world events updates. But maybe I'm just missing out.
Rover222··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
It’s flawed, but still the obvious place to monitor a situation.
Rover222··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
I appreciate you
Rover222··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
Wikipedia obviously is left leaning.
Rover222··on Elon Musk pushes out more xAI founders as AI coding effort falters
How is Tesla falling apart? Cybertruck was a flop, but Model Y is still one of the best selling cars in the world, and very well reviewed.
Rover222··on Emergent Quantization from a Dynamic Vacuum
From the author:

In this work, we develop a fully analytic model showing that the hydrogen spectrum of quantum mechanics can emerge from dynamic vacuum physics.

The key takeaway: quantization can emerge naturally from a dynamic vacuum that varies in space and time, rather than being introduced as a separate postulate.

This represents an important step in strengthening the scientific foundations of the dynamic vacuum framework we are developing at Casimir. If the vacuum behaves as a physical medium with dynamic structure, it could fundamentally change how we think about energy interactions with the vacuum.

Rover222··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
Did you just totally miss the millions of people protesting the other month or what?
Rover222··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
congrats on parroting the propaganda of the Iranian regime
Rover222··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
Good job parroting Iranian propaganda
Rover222··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
anti-interventionism is immoral at some point
Rover222··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
This shows a real ignorance about the true culture of Iran. It is not a Muslim culture. They want to install the son of the shah, and get back to pre-revolution culture.

But liberals will be quick to tell them they don't know best, better to just keep the oppressive ayatollah in power.

Rover222··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
this is so true
Rover222··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
And the tens of thousands of Iranians murdered for protesting? Did you care about them?
Rover222··on The United States and Israel have launched a major attack on Iran
Iranians are celebrating, btw. This is what they have been dreaming of. This is their chance to finally take their country back, and I think they'll do it.

I can't think of a better use of US military power in the world than to take out this terrible regime and let the Iranians do the rest. This isn't Iraq or Venezuela. People saying that we can't bomb our way into regime change apparently didn't follow the protests and massacres very closely a couple months ago. Iranians were begging for help so that they could topple the regime.

Rover222··on Writing code is cheap now
I'm consistently shocked at how much cope about AI is still in hacker news threads. Clinging to the idea that human taste and skill in writing code is still no match for AI.

Yes we still need humans in the code loop, but that window is tiny (relative to the lines of code written) and getting smaller quickly.

A new feature with 1000 lines of code can now be written in 2 minutes, and often work just as desired. Yes, almost always something can be refactored, etc, but it works, and it's good.

Denying that code is now MUCH cheaper than it was pre-AI is... head in the sand stuff, I think?

Rover222··on Global Intelligence Crisis
I think the biggest counter argument to this essay is that the demand for software is infinite. It's a feedback loop of society running on increasingly complex software. This project is never "done". Even as code implementation becomes ever cheaper, the demand scales at least as quickly as the implementation. Developers using these tools are already 95% removed from writing code, but a lot of us are working harder than ever. Company ambitions just scale with what's possible in their budget.

I mean yes, maybe the humans will just be out of the loop in the budget if agents can do it all. But maybe it's a long tail of getting there. Or maybe it happens suddenly. Who the hell knows. Interesting times.

Rover222··on Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown
Good comment
Rover222··on Global Intelligence Crisis
I was at a restaurant last night with a group, and it was the first time I heard people actively organizing on how to block new data centers in the area. It felt like being in a scene in a sci-fi movie. I do think if these feedback loops happen too quickly of white collar displacement, there might be some real violence against data centers.
Rover222··on Global Intelligence Crisis
This was a nice, soothing response after having read the entire article.
Rover222··on Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown
Yes, both unwilling to have an honest discussion.
Rover222··on Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown
"useful idiot" is not meant as a personal insult. It's a common idiom
Rover222··on Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown
Thanks for clarifying.
Rover222··on Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown
Palestinians voted Hamas into power by a large majority. It's not some fringe extremist group. It's mainstream Palestinian culture.
Rover222··on Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown
But foregners know better than the Iranians what's best for Iran? Just like in Cuba and Venezuela.
Rover222··on Iran students stage first large anti-government protests since deadly crackdown
Great comment
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