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> Equinox EV roundly beats the Model Y head to head

The Y is the best vehicle I’ve ever owned. To me, it took over what the Prius used to be - the best overall vehicle for most people.

You don’t even mention FSD here, I assume strategically. That, to me, is the most important feature. Does Equinox or Ioniq even have FSD?

How do you know the effort that went into the message? Somebody with writing challenges may have written the whole thing up and used ai assistance to help get a better outcome. They may have proof-read and revised the generated message. You sound very judgmental.

I know people with disabilities that struggle with writing. They feel that AI enables them to express themselves better than they could without the help. I know that’s not necessarily what you’re dealing with but it’s worth considering.

Yes 2.5 pro and o3. I’ve been very impressed with Grok 4 so far for this purpose. It’s very thorough and accurate. Granted my time with grok 4 is limited to a few days but I’ve already given it challenging problems and the results were exceptional.

I’m not a vim and eMacs guys - or terminal guy.

Claude Code + Cursor is my setup. Claude Code is my workhorse that I use for most tasks.

For small tiny quick changes, I use Cursor in auto.

For architecture consulting I use Cursor chat with Grok 4.

Claude Code is much better at banging out features than Cursor’s Claude. And Claude itself is better than other models as a coding workhorse.

All that said: while we may all code, we are building wildly different things that have much different specific problems to solve so it doesn’t surprise me that there isn’t a universal setup that works best for everybody.

You’re describing an extreme so let me counter with a different “what if” extreme: If , every day, you use a wheel chair for five minutes and run for several hours followed by 200 squats then your legs will not atrophy. My point is that writing papers is only one way to work your mind and using llm’s for this does not indicate how you use your mind overall.

Bingo! I agree with where you’re going with this line of thinking.

Using llm’s for papers does not mean your brain is atrophying though. There are lots of ways to challenge the mind even if you use llm’s to write some papers.

Well since we’re in a thread about talking to dolphins:

The problem with virtue signaling is that it’s parroting virtue for social praise. This parrot-like, repeater-node behavior often attempts to move the conversation to virtue talking points and away from the specific topic.

To be clear, this is just about online virtue signaling. It’s just as silly in the physical world - certain attire, gestures, tribal obedience, etc.

When you make these tribal, political comments in a thread like this one - signaling your virtues - what do you prefer us to call it?

The leftist coddling crusades are just a different form of dominance over minorities. It absolutely is bigotry and sense of superiority driving it. That said, it would take one incredible therapist to get them to realize it.

> if an AI is left to strictly decide what is best to happen to humans it will logically conclude that there needs to be a lot less of us or none of us left

That may or may not be its logical conclusion. You’re speculating based on your own opinions that this is logical.

If I were to guess, it would be indifferent about us and care more about proliferating into the universe than about earth. The AI should understand how insignificant earth is relative to the scale of the universe or even the Milky Way galaxy.

Haha fair but I was thinking more in a “beauty is in the eye of the beholder” way.

Code is a way of creating something that itself may or may not be good. But the actual code - I agree, it can be objectively bad.

The Nihilism concept, as I mean to use it here, is more about meaning, values, aesthetics. Concepts like Logic & Math, not so much.

“Starving artist” trope.

I bet a LOT of people would be an artist if there was money in it. Most don’t attempt because of the poor risk/reward of that profession.

So if I have a great idea for a cartoon, but my life is filled to the brim and I can’t spend months or years to learn the craft, the idea should die in my head? All because of some idealist opinion?

> nothing is good, nothing is bad anymore

Explain to me why nihilism is factually incorrect?

Good and bad is all relative to the perceiver.

Does it though? We are all constrained by the time cost of everything we do. Not everybody with a quick creative spark cares enough to sacrifice opportunities, dedicate time, skip sleep or whatever it may take to gain the skills needed to act on the creative spark. AI empowering the output is a beautiful thing.

> People are robbing themselves of the joy that can only come from putting yourself through hardship in pursuit of a goal.

This is such an old man “I used to walk uphill both ways” take.

Not everybody has the TIME COST to pursue being an expert in art or code or whatever. But if they have an amazing idea and can now use AI to produce the idea then that is a beautiful thing!

For example: Having an idea for a cartoon used to be a dead end. It would die in your head because most people cannot stop their life and dedicate a substantial amount of time, effort, and sacrifice to produce the single cartoon idea.

People want to express their creativity stuck in their head without having the skill or training (privilege of the training) to be a legit artist. I think it’s awesome that this removes the barrier and empowers people to be creative in ways that they previously could not.

This makes no sense whatsoever to me.

Sounds like a user problem, though. When used properly as a tool they are incredible. When you give up 100% trust to them to be perfect it’s you that is making the mistake.

The tweeters complaints sound like a user problem. LLM’s are tools. How you use them, when you use them, and what you expect out of them should be based on the fact they are tools.

I understand you don’t like Musk. But regardless of that -

vision vs sensors. Isn’t it about shaving costs to make a mass produced car that’s attainable by more people due to lower costs and easier manufacturing? When considering engineering, manufacturing, and cost only - I understand why it is why it is right now. Even the current Tesla Vision FSD today is amazing. Agree that I’d love to see sensors in the future as long as it doesn’t price me out.

Humans rely on two eyes and only look one direction at a time. Even the current Tesla Vision sees much more at once than a human is capable of.

Also I agree we should aim for zero deaths. But any improvement is better than no improvement.

I highly respect your contributions to HN and your moderation work. Your post is thoughtful and well written.

It has been incredibly frustrating to witness multiple social networks fall victim to cult-like political ideologies over the years. Seeing that happen once again on HN is especially disheartening. Consider what has happened to Reddit over time—it used to be full of diverse perspectives, but now it has become a toxic, radical-left cult. The same dynamic appears to be unfolding here, and from what I can tell, it is worsening.

I realize I need to do better and avoid resorting to low-effort posts. I agree with what you've said, and I'm glad you're fighting the good fight.

It may be best for me to move on and find somewhere else to lurk—a place that has not yet fallen victim to this scourge.

Washington did not have anywhere near the financial resources to fund the Revolutionary War, and the war was financed mainly through debt, foreign aid, and state contributions. While he did benefit from independence in some ways, he did not orchestrate it as a means to avoid taxes or personally enrich himself.

> The mere act of asking for help isn’t disrespectful.

I agree but that’s not what happened. Watch the whole event, if you haven’t. Because snippets don’t do justice. And I’m not going to rewatch it just to reply to you. But you’re really misrepresenting what went down. It’s fine if we disagree over what is disrespectful. But I think you can at least admit, if you watch the whole thing, how his behavior can be interpreted that way even if you personally don’t think it merited the response it got.

> I am okay letting Ukraine make their own decisions about their people and their land

Sure. They can do what they want and so can we. We don’t owe them anything. And honestly, in a way we’re just enablers at this point. We’re enabling them to fight on and enabling them to pointless throw away more lives.

And I want a beach front mansion. Beggars can’t be choosers. Maximize for peace and protecting human lives!

Can you explain how that changed from February 27 to February 28? I don’t see it.