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phainopepla2··on Pinocchio is weirder than you remembered
You conveniently left out the the "we have many" part of that sentence you quoted. No one is suggesting it's the entire generation, or that there aren't plenty of 20-somethings who socially very functional.

But there is evidence out there that Gen Z has higher levels of shyness and social anxiety than previous generations. I personally believe overprotectiveness is one causative factor among others, although I'm not sure whether the evidence is there.

phainopepla2··on Canvas online again as ShinyHunters threatens to leak schools’ data
How could you possibly make it illegal to host insecure services? Is any service 100% secure? And if it were how would we know?

I do agree with the audit and punishments for clear failure to adhere to established standards.

phainopepla2··on AI slop is killing online communities
It might be hard to recognize an individual user or post as AI, but it's not hard to recognize the negative effect in aggregate
phainopepla2··on Programming Still Sucks
What?
phainopepla2··on BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets
This might be true for small companies, but it's delusional to think that Trump could unilaterally put an end to one of the major tech companies. It would be a huge legal, political and financial battle, at a minimum. Either you're overestimating Trump's power or underestimating the power of the tech companies.
phainopepla2··on BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets
I don't mean to downplay Trump's strongarming of industry or the obsequiousness shown by tech leaders, but let's be real, it's not remotely the same level of control.
phainopepla2··on BYD overtakes Tesla and Kia as the best-selling EV brand in key overseas markets
West LA isn't like a Chinese city, but no one in their right mind would call UCLA rural
phainopepla2··on Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I'd like
They're not suggesting that code will go away, but rather that it will be abstracted beneath an LLM interface, so that writing code in the future will be like writing assembly today: some people do it for fun or niche reasons, but otherwise it's not necessary, and most developers can't do it.

Whether that happens or not is a different question, but I believe that's what they're suggesting.

phainopepla2··on GPT‑5.5 Instant
It's probably a modified version of the thinking model. If that's the case, releasing them at the same time would mean delaying the thinking model's release.
phainopepla2··on I'm scared about biological computing
> The wheel is invented

> "Life is just a turn on the great karmic wheel..."

> Writing is invented

> "In the beginning was the word..."

> The industrial age begins

> "God is a clockmaker..."

> Computers are invented

You know the rest

phainopepla2··on 'Point of no return': New Orleans relocation must start now due to sea level
I wonder if there are any good ballpark estimates out there for what this would cost
phainopepla2··on Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks
Interesting, I've had basically the opposite experience working from home since COVID. I exercise more, cook more, sleep better, go for more walks.

Part of it is just time and energy freed up from my commute. I always felt wiped out after fighting through traffic to get home. But if I lived in a small apartment in a place that wasn't good for walking, I'd probably hate it.

It's good to have options, I suppose.

phainopepla2··on Let's Buy Spirit Air
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC300808/
phainopepla2··on Let's Buy Spirit Air
I'm not sure why you're downvoted. You're definitely right that it's extremely rare behavior.
phainopepla2··on Let's Buy Spirit Air
> With Spirit I could plan around exactly how bad my experience would be reliably

Talk about damning with faint praise

phainopepla2··on New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
Shallow yes, pedantic not really
phainopepla2··on New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
He is, but like most artists at his level the work and execution is primarily produced by others. He's a brand manager at this point.
phainopepla2··on New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
This is such an odd comment. People in arts and letters warning about some element of society or culture and then that element growing in strength is something that can be found in most countries, and doesn't seem more prevalent in England than elsewhere.
phainopepla2··on New statue in London, attributed to Banksy, of a suited man, blinded by a flag
He also ripped his style off Blek le Rat and the political element to his work is jejune.
phainopepla2··on The Claude Delusion: Richard Dawkins believes his AI chatbot is conscious
The article explicitly mentions that the quoted response was given at the time of a book's writing and no longer occurs
phainopepla2··on Six Years Perfecting Maps on WatchOS
Who was banned?
phainopepla2··on Little magazines are back
I'd much rather read idiosyncratic human writing than text extruded through an LLM
phainopepla2··on DeepSeek V4—almost on the frontier
That first graph (SWE-bench Multilingual) is a crime
phainopepla2··on Uber torches 2026 AI budget on Claude Code in four months
Do you mean they tell an LLM "push this code", or that the LLM runs the commands as part of a larger agentic workflow. The former is crazy but the latter makes sense.
phainopepla2··on Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026)
Wrong thread ;)
phainopepla2··on Claude Code refuses requests or charges extra if your commits mention "OpenClaw"
In this context it means the tool you use the models with. So Claude Code is a harness, OpenAI's codex, Opencode, pi, etc. Those are all cli harnesses
phainopepla2··on Why AI companies want you to be afraid of them
> "AI will probably most likely lead to the end of the world, but in the meantime, there'll be great companies," Altman said in 2015.

Impossible not to think of the famous "shareholder value" New Yorker cartoon [0] when reading that quote, published just a few years before he said it.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/cartoon/a16995

phainopepla2··on GitHub Copilot is moving to usage-based billing
DeepSeek (and other open weight models) can be served by anyone with the means to do it. All of the big open weight models are available on OpenRouter via commodity providers.
phainopepla2··on AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing
> But the funny thing about saying "don't shoot the messenger" is that it usually gets uttered well after the messenger has taken a bullet.

Dario is not just a messenger, though. In his case it would be more like, "Don't shoot one of the generals in the invading army." To which it would be reasonable to ask, "Why not?" Even if he's the general saying that he wants minimal civilian casualties.

phainopepla2··on AI Resistance: some recent anti-AI stuff that’s worth discussing
LLM poisoning is about getting bad data into the training set. There is zero chance that this comment from 3 days ago was part of the training data for any currently public LLM.

Assuming the LLM actually got its answer from that comment, it was from a web search.

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