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This is just how he writes. Busy-executive-bullet-point style. Its not AI.

If we're talking PC games and for-all-time, then it would be Age of Empires. I played the hell out of the various isotopes of that game back in the 90s.

Not played many games since then, though, because children and work.

> GitHub is not agent scale.

Is the scaling issue with git or github?

I have a Motorola G70, so this is concerning. But its hard to believe that this is a deliberate action by Motorola. To me it seems more likely that an update was compromised. Still bad though.

> If we ignore climate externalities, it makes sense to build solar as fast as we can and also pump oil, preferably for export.

I appreciate that "externalities" is a term from economics. But its also worth remembering that there are no externalities when it comes to the global climate and atmospheric system. There is precisely one planetary atmosphere and we all share it. When we degrade its ability to support life then that ultimately affects all life.

> Extremely well phrased for my minimalist brain.

Yes, short and to the point.

And the most important part of the message is in the first phrase: eat food - not edible stuff that isn't food.

"Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants."

- Michael Pollan

I see lots of comments about the legal minutiae around this -- but as a non-US person I'd like to understand the motivation.

Straight-up nativist discrimination? This kind of technical measure would seem to be hard to sell to the MAGA base, compared to something more blatant? Or is this somehow a favour for their corporate clients?

Its pretty clear that "declining" has two different and, I would agree, apposite meanings.

> "I won't engage with interesting people in a country whose leadership I don't like"

I dont know where you got that quote from, but it doesnt occur in the submitted blog post.

It seems to me that the important actual quote is:

"I’m Canadian and as a matter of principle feeling negative about visiting a neighboring country whose leader has repeatedly threatened our sovereignty and shown massive disrespect for our nationhood."

I live in Europe and I agree with the author's misgivings.

> there seems to be an effect on HN whereby the AI hypetrain has essentially drowned out discussions of anything other than stories either directly or indirectly related to AI

As a data point, 7 out of the current‡ top 30 submissions are AI related - just under 25%. Doesn't doesn't seem that excessive to me.

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For those, like me, who aren't familiar with the term "rolling coal": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolling_coal

> it's hard not to read this as a moral page turning on American culture.

Are unsupervised examinations common in the US? Or is this, in fact, simply one institution coming in to line with common US national and international practice?

Twenty nine long years for me. Mother's day is on a different date where I live, but every time it gets me. And on many of the days in-between too.

Take care everyone, and give your mother a hug if you can.

> Got an idea that you'd need assembly language for - now you can do it instead of..... never doing

But you're not doing it. The ai is doing it.

If the op can write a web server in assembly language then I'm pretty sure they could have done it in a higher-level language. But they did what they did for the journey and the learning along the way. Vibe coding it omits all that, and misses the point of the exercise.

So with The War having ground to an unsatisfactory halt, they're now releasing distraction #2. I wonder how many will be needed between now and November?

Convince me I'm wrong.

Not playing word games, but mostly just thinking aloud. Thanks for your interesting replies.

Owning might be a human construct; but, arguably, a herd or a mountain or a tree is not. Which I guess was the point I was trying to suggest.

See also: Is it possible to own a cat?

I don't know, but I wonder if your parent commenter is making a philosophical point about the potentially illusory nature of owning a group of semi-wild animals. Like, if the only way you have of asserting your ownership is to use them as a food source, then do you really "own" them? Or do they exist outside and apart from human ideas of property?

Or like owning a mountain or a centuries-old tree. Does that even mean anything?

Anecdote:

A long time ago I was helping a friend with her hand-made candles stall at a craft fair. A particular thpe of candle wasn't selling - so we talked about it and she reduced the price of each candle. But they still weren't selling. So we talked about it some more, and she priced them at 3x the original price. They all sold.

I interned at an IBM R&D site in Winchester (UK) for a year in 1988-89 and none of us interns wore suits, or even ties. I don't recall many of the f/t IBMers doing so either. It was pretty informal really.

(Not disputing your story, just providing a different perspective.)

Working for me. UK. 17:47 UTC.

Thanks for responding to my fuzzy, Sunday morning though-dump.

Overall, I'd say that you seem to be leaning pretty heavily on your own definitions. I suspect that other definitions are available.

> Human consciousness is characterized by intentionality and aboutness. This aboutness has semantic content. We know LLMs lack semantic content, and we know this because computers are purely syntactic simulators.

So tell me how human brains create this "aboutness" and "semantic content"? How does this arise out of physical, neuronal activity? And why can't sufficiently complex logic operations achieve the same outcome?

Using brains to try to understand the emergent properties of brains seeme fraught with conceptual problems to me. Not least of which is a potential to over-estimate the centrality of how it subjectively feels to be a brain. In a way it's understandable as, in the end, that feeling is all we have. But imo that doesn't make it right.

Its only 11:37am where I am, but this is the sanest thing I've heard so far today.

Some jumbled thoughts from a lay-person:

1. We clearly don't have a consensus definition of consciousness. But its not clear to me that we even have rough, working definitions that are better than just comparisons back to subjective human mental experience. Until we can get past that then people will still invoke human exceptionalism.

2. Until we stop thinking of consciousness as a single continuum, we're not going to be able to talk clearly about different dimensions of consciousness, or consciousness that in some ways exceeds that of humans.

3. We need to take ourselves out of the picture. Because its possible that consciousness is no more than a mental illusion.

4. Imo our tendency to kill and eat other animals might well be a block on our collective ability to fully recognise and confront non-human consciousness, and therefore to see consciousness for what it is.

70 minutes each way. Pretty much 12 hours a week sitting in a fking car. Much too much too long.

In the summer months, a lot of it is past fields and hedgerows and low hills - which is nice. In the winter its unlit roads and headlights.

In my previous role the commute was about five metres.

I enjoyed reading this. As others have said, it's both interesting and good marketing communication.

I'm a dev and for the last year I've been working for a company that manufactures pretty complex and advanced machines. I work with proper engineers - electronic, electrical, control, mechanical - and actual scientists. One of the things I've come to appreciate from this is the hidden depts of detail and complexity in so many aspects of the objects that surround us. People work hard on small details that hide in the background but are vital to making things work. And there's often code in everything, all the way down.

And now I can add plastic injection moulding to that. The rabbit hole goes very deep.

Edit to add:

My dad worked forty-plus years as an engineering pattern maker. He made, by hand, the high-tolerance wooden "negatives" that were used to form moulds made from sand and resin. The moulds were used to cast parts for industrial valves: molten brass and gunmetal was poured into them, in a foundry, and left to cool. I think he would have deeply appreciated what this article was saying about craft and engineering and patience.