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I suspected that somebody might read what I wrote and interpret it as "attaching your name automatically reduces the toxicity of social networks".

I don't think theres a way to end toxicity and spam in social networks without also ending anonymity.

>I’d find it hard to believe there are evil food scientists in big food companies who are nefariously designing food for overeating.

You really find it hard to believe that profit making companies that engineer food would engineer food for profit?

What about if they advertised it with a catchy phrase like "once you pop you can't stop"? Would you still shake your head and say "not credible"?

First you'd have to stop the agents from flagging hundreds of irrelevant nasties.

I think the next generation of exploit will be putting up code all over the internet that does x, y and z and then when asked to one shot whatever that code does the agents bake in the exploit that was indirectly included in their training corpus.

I crave more reliable software more than I do software that is infinitely customizable.

Spinning jennys are neat but if theyd been invented in a world where use of star trek replicators was routine I think theyd be more curiosity than revolutionary.

"Artisanal code" would definitely die off if the cp command didnt work perfectly or cost thousands of dollars to run but it doesnt hence why the metaphor is at best mistaken (and at worst dishonest, e.g. when frontier labs are desperately pushing it).

And, the flip side is that artisanal clothes would probably make a huge comeback if star trek replicators were invented and nobody would want cheap sweatshop made crap any more. Why would you when handmade Gucci silk clothing could be yours for a couple of bucks?

that backlash is inevitable anyway. that pyramid is based upon projections which are flat out insane.

arguably these days it's even more non profit than before and getting more so.

my previous comment was about my peek behind the scenes.

the worst software decisions were primarily about corruption, even when they looked like they were about competence.

ime the private sector isnt any more competent on average it's just that most companies' IT budgets can't be milked endlessly with the right connection. even there there are exceptions though.

Theyre mostly immune to lobbying.

My instinctive reaction from the readme is that it isnt. It's apparently a vibe coded knock off of llama.CPP.

oh dont think it's done anything the bring down the cost of services and it won't.

95+% of the companies throwing AI at problems have problems which can't be solved with AI.

even where it helps it's usually just duck tape wrapped around badly implemented IT systems.

if AI performed as advertised and wasnt just a mildly useful (& addictive) tool thats been hyped up beyond belief it would still be exerting a deflationary pressure on the economy which would compensate for increasing energy prices.

The UK had some success with GDS. Not all IT in bigger countries is failures.

I honestly think that labeling corruption as corruption and a popular sentiment towards slamming a few people in jail for it would go a long way towards fixing these problems.

Instead even among the general public the sentiment is "government is just incompetent" which helps soften the reaction to it and thus indirectly encourages it to get worse.

There's no shortage of countries around the world that have dug themselves a corruption hole they struggle to get out of. It's easier to fix it starting from here than there but we don't want to end up there.

depends on the country. this type of corruption is guaranteed in some countries, less so in others. Singapore is usually good at avoiding it. Their online services are very good.

the government can switch up the incentives and for example make payment contingent on people actually using the platform as well as opening the tender to startup teams (usually they are locked out).

this is pretty much exactly what I would have said too. they could fix these things but it would cost a lot of money and/or impact the economy and defense and they just dont want to boost the birth rate that badly.

only thing I would add is the size of HDBs - they've been shrinking which I'm sure puts psychological pressure on young adults to not have kids.

this is their third attempt at a government run dating service I think :/

it's low key kind of funny how they keep reaching for the quick fix to their collapsed birth rates instead of changing the things that would cost real money or make them less desirable to foreign investors.

This really is the only scenario that justifies current valuations.

i would like this too but I dont see any way to maintain anonymity or pseudonymity and clamp down on spamming.

you can have neither or both but I dont see any way to have one without the other.

>The more that I interact with moderators on social media the more I've come to realize that as much as they're burnt out from answering the same questions from not-bad actors over and over

I'm mystified why this isnt a problem AI isnt applied to.

"Roadworks and heavy traffic are violence"

It's the AI bro's mantra.

It didnt go wrong

And if it did, it was because you werent using the latest model.

And if you were, it was because you didnt have the appropriate guardrails.

And if you did, it's because you didnt have AGENTS.MD.

And if you did, it's because you didnt prompt it properly.

And if you did, it you're still going to be redundant soon because I'm sure the next model released will fix whatever went wrong.

There is no violent retelling.

Your choice to depict blocking a freeway as "violence" doesnt make it so, it simply puts you in the camp of liberals he criticised for indirectly supporting the racist status quo.

Thats your right of course, although the parallels to MLK's essay about the backlash he faced for holding up traffic are still precisely applicable here no matter how upsetting you may find that.

>I find it fascinating when people make the argument that the reason the civil rights movement succeeded was the harm done to society,

I find it fascinating that what Martin Luther King described as the "polite liberal racist" who moaned about blocking a freeway is still alive and well.

>I believe the civil rights movement succeeded in America because it was morally right

No, it worked because of Martin Luther King's nonviolent protest tactics - the ones which you described as terrorism.

>I’ve never accepted the claims that people who hold up traffic to “raise awareness” for global warming were effective

Martin Luther King wrote an essay about people with this exact attitude called "the racism of the polite liberal"

There were obviously just as many people back then who thought his type of activism - e.g. blocking a freeway would never achieve any of his goals. They thought it was just annoying, even though it was successful.

it'll never end. in six months time when you say the same thing some accounts will be saying "oh you must still be using fable".

I still think nationalizing is a bad idea. There is no legitimate competition between railroads whereas mobile ecosystems can compete.

Mobile app stores are more like banks - a big problem when there are not a lot but a problem that can be remedied by having the government compete (e.g. with a post office bank).

The government could set up a competing app store, that might not be a bad idea, actually. They could hardly do a worse job than google and apple at vetting app developers and it would put a firecracker up google and apples ass.

I'm amused at how many hacker news accounts saw this and immediately jumped to the conclusion that you either were using the model wrong or using the wrong model.

ive been regularly seeing this exact reaction online since November 2025, sadly :/

it doesnt need to be a utility. they just need to crack down on every attempt google uses to kill the competition.

There should be an agency you can complain to for monopolies which has the power to dictate new rules to the monopolist with far reaching power to crack down on anything that smells like anti competitive behavior.

e.g.

- force banking apps that try to secure themselves with google play services to make that dependency optional.

- force google to stop blocking newpipe, aurora, etc.

- force google pay to make itself available on any platform that wants to integrate it (apple, graphene)

- force google to allow alternative app stores to become first class citizens.

mostly it funds google shareholders and their wildly overcompensated workforce.

if the only way to use government services was to purchase either a dairy queen or McDonalds burger first that is a duopoly and they would be way more expensive and shittier quality than regular burgers as a result.

some smart alec would then point out that because even the cheapest, shittiest beef isnt free that this price is justified.