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greekrich92··on AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom
I think the Labor Theory of Value is going to bite these companies and the economy as a whole in the end
greekrich92··on Windows 11½
Got a genuine chuckle out of me
greekrich92··on There are no "rogue" AI agents
They do not have emotions, goals, or motivations, "functional" or otherwise. They are statistical models that appear as a magic trick to people who aren't familiar with the math.
greekrich92··on How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)
I assume it's just the mods, not voting rings. It's usually comments that run counter to the HN-approved ideology.
greekrich92··on How Hacker News ranking works: scoring, controversy, and penalties (2013)
I've frequently encountered this same thing. Often the downvotes come a day later, but quickly.
greekrich92··on AI safety is mostly a sex cult
When the sex cult is built around the idea that they and everyone else should fear and respect the false, anthropomorphized God they've created in LLMs, then yes. That makes them stupid and stupid people should not be allowed so close to the wheels of power and history.
greekrich92··on Finder is so frustrating and has been since day one
Finder is terrible. Not sure why it's worth defending to the point of attacking someone who simpy made something which fills its gaps.
greekrich92··on How accurate have Ed Zitron's AI skeptic predictions been?
Humility? I don't think they know what the word means let alone possess the capacity to demonstrate it.
greekrich92··on Silicon Valley is in denial in face of widespread backlash
There is no equivalence. There is a mass of people who are concerned about "woke." The people who are emotionally invested in AI's success are a tiny minority who have no power to push a backlash.

Hmm wait a minute, unless that small minority is politically well connected with a lot of media access. Then they could manufacture a fake backlash. Much like the backlash to "woke!" Ok nevermind it is the same.

greekrich92··on Nostr is an inclusive communication commons
It was created by a popular Bitcoin person and crypto people are its primary user base. Tipping people with crypto is part of the protocol.
greekrich92··on Nostr is an inclusive communication commons
How does this impractical crypto nonsense keep making it to the front page?
greekrich92··on Felony charges for citizen deleting phone data at US Border
The tendency to describe things that are so essentially characteristic of the capitalist imperial core as resembling the Soviet Union is always so funny
greekrich92··on Self hosted email continues to steeply decline
This is a breathtakingly dumb idea
greekrich92··on Timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
You know this was "a work" in pro wrestling parlance, right?
greekrich92··on YC founder asks desperate job seekers to tattoo themselves for an interview
Noted sociopath Sam Altman is the most visible member of the commumity. it's the right judgement.
greekrich92··on Our position on open-weights models
No worse than under US hegemony
greekrich92··on The Odyssey Leaked on X: Bootleg Seen by Millions in Hours Before Takedown
Was it a cam or a legit leak?
greekrich92··on Ah, the Codeberg Drama
Unironic use of "web3": article ignored
greekrich92··on China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning
Doesn't take much to understand why people don't want high electricity bills and a 100Db dull roar inside their homes at all times
greekrich92··on If You Build It, They Will Come
The subway should be free, and continuous fare hikes when you're already double paying with your eyes because of all the advertising they shove in front of you is more incentive to turnstile jump. Overpaid do-nothing senior adminstrators and lawmakers who are in the pocket of privatization are the problem, not that 17 year old.
greekrich92··on Amber the programming language compiled to Bash/Ksh/Zsh
If you don't want to use it, don't use it
greekrich92··on The glass backbone: Why the Army's logistics will break in the next war
Not sure if you've noticed, but none of that SpaceX stuff is going to happen
greekrich92··on Men's average testosterone levels have halved in last 50 years
It's just our shitty food system and sedentary lifestyle but everyone is projecting their weird hangups on it
greekrich92··on Men's average testosterone levels have halved in last 50 years
That is not how biology works
greekrich92··on Rent collections are down in New York
Put the skull calipers down
greekrich92··on Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school
This is Norway, not the US. They have standards and a functioning social contract.
greekrich92··on Project Valhalla, Explained: How a Decade of Work Arrives in JDK 28
Great write-up. Java is getting so good. The improvements over the last decade have been unbelievable. The negativity here is bizarre. Just a reflex I suppose.
greekrich92··on The Birth and Death of JavaScript (2014)
On desktop does flutter have native access to the machine it's running on? Can it talk to printers for example?
greekrich92··on Wind and solar generated more power than gas globally in April 2026
Solar and progress on better batteries is a more consequential and useful technological revolution than AI. Should be a huge story, but there's not enough money to be made via speculation so it's not.
greekrich92··on What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?
Managers, like police and prosecutors, are enforcers for the capitalist class. This is why they are not part of the working class. Managers do the job of squeezing surplus value from workers, rather than producing real Value themselves. Relationship to capital determines class.
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