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vjulian··on US voters roundly reject data centers in ballot measures
This all seems reasonable. My question is, how would data centre bossess genuinely respond to these points?

I find it difficult get to the genuine points, as the whole topic is piled high with “arguments”, PR, marketing, and other junk discourse being emitted from all sides.

vjulian··on Nvidia Nemotron 3.5 Transcribe: open ASR for 40 languages
I have a few thousand audio interviews as MP3, around an hour each and with specialized vocabulary. Typically there are no more than 2 to 3 speakers. Audio quality ranges from mediocre to fair to good.

I was thinking of creating a local app that calls OpenAI’s VTT model. In my most recent evaluation, the OpenAI model was best for my use case. But is that indeed the case?

vjulian··on NYC's "Click to Cancel" rule is now in effect
Yes, better decided top dowm by a cabal. The more uniformity, the better.
vjulian··on Lobbying is corruption
Clearly, I’ve struck a nerve. A skill for argument is not a skill for comprehension. Insulting me personally is very telling. Clearly you’ve got quite a lot of skin in this game.
vjulian··on Lobbying is corruption
In common parlance, lobbying refers to range of activities many of which are highly undesirable to the regular guy. It is your choice to focus on the language and ignore the phenomenon.

I am lucky I have been afforded considerably more access than the average person to sway government workings to my benefit, though I do not.

This HN discussion entails three parties: the naive, the just, and the exploiters.

vjulian··on Lobbying is corruption
The discussion has been lost in semantics between technical definition and practice. At issue is the latter.
vjulian··on Lobbying is corruption
Reading this as sarcasm, it indeed reflects a portion of the faerie tale descriptions of government taught in American schools. It is state propaganda of the most traditional (and effective) sort— that which is directed at children.
vjulian··on Anthropic AI model submits false tip on unsolved Philly murder, police say
Did the recorders just happen to be running and capture this candid utterance from Sam Altman? I suggest we stop entertaining manufactured quotes as anything but.
vjulian··on Can good design stop content creators from having sex in robotaxis?
My, how sex averse. Personally, I would rather good design prevent people from picking their noses in robocabs. Disguising. Good design enables sex.
vjulian··on Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked
David Lee Roth did it.
vjulian··on Grandmother falsely accused of bank theft after alleged AI facial recognition
50 year old grandmother of 5.
vjulian··on Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
I’m not suggesting that Three Mile Island was anything like Chernobyl. I’m saying that neither is comparable to the HF situation where mere 1s and 0s interacted in an unplanned way. It’s an interesting data point—-back to work.

Not is the HF data point anywhere near a Three Mile Island type incident. Most commentary I read is a wild overreaction fueled by paranoia, to say nothing about my other point about the implications of AI as a national security asset.

vjulian··on Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?
I don’t understand the bases of all these recommendations. AI is an asset for national security. It will be developed and incidents will happen, no different from other national security programs.

Someday, laws will be useful to curtail plebian misuse of AI. It is naïve bordering on silly to think such laws would be put in place and genuinely applied to frontier AI development.

By the way, the HF incident is not Three Mile Island or Chernobyl—-it is a very interesting data point where unintended things happened to existing 1s and 0s.

vjulian··on The EPA is planning to scrap public review rules for data center pollution
This seems like yet another piece in a build up to a civil war. And those in governance know it.
vjulian··on Claude is no longer available for minors
That is an unnecessary default and also generalizes AI to the point of being analytically not useful.
vjulian··on Claude is only available to people over 18 years
That’s an excellent philosophy that ought be applied to your own child but not extended to others.
vjulian··on Evidence of Fraud in an Influential Study About Procrastination
Because “science” doesn’t know everything, and people don’t want to wait until their options are scientifically-validated.

Yoga, breathing exercises, meditation and the like were once considered fads and derided by your ‘science’.

vjulian··on Hook, hold, harvest and hide: Meta's alleged strategy laid out in first week
It’s lazy shorthand and also serves the obscurity that these individuals seek.

Similarly, I get irritated when people frequently almost continuously attribute actions and results to ‘the President’ or such state heads.

vjulian··on U of Michigan drops first-semester grades to ‘curb mental health crisis’
Working like a dog like this is necessary if you’re gunning for the elite / upper echelon of society, yes. If you’re already in that echelon of society, it’s not necessary.

Thank goodness I didn’t need to work so hard, but I can acknowledge what a shitty system it is.

Help me understand why these children or their parents are gunning in this manner and working like dogs in this manner, to join into and propagate such a shitty system?

vjulian··on The AI Billboards Are Killing SF
Why bother referring to the stadium by some name that some unidentified person has deemed? Just keep calling it Three Rivers Stadium.
vjulian··on Louisiana AG Liz Murrill Keeps Opposing Compensation for Wrongfully Convicted
Earnestly following law and related processes and attributing authority to others are all errands of the foolish.
vjulian··on Ghost Cut – Or why Cut and Paste is broken everywhere
I feel as though I’m reading the script to a Monty Python sketch.
vjulian··on Truth Social will sell Wall Street quicker access to posts
Queue the comments encouraging people to vote, under the ludicrous guise that voting would likely impact the ever-growing and effectively unaddressed cluster of issues in the USA widely discussed here at Hacker News.

Let us name some levers exponentially more powerful than voting, starting with lobbying. As I understand $10,000 will buy a Congressional vote, or has the price gone up?

vjulian··on The social physics of conversation: Communication patterns matter
What are the implications or recommendations for WFH environments, I wonder?
vjulian··on Terrorist Groups Are Using A.I. To Gain an Edge in Battle
In many circles, indeed quite legitimate and prosperous ones, the New York Times is regarded as a mouthpiece for the CIA, a channel for spreading opinion among certain demographics.

As someone within those circles, this article gives me pause.

vjulian··on GPT‑Live
Does this support more than one user voice? Or, are there plans for this? I did not see that mentioned in the announcement.
vjulian··on Right to Local Intelligence
In the worst case it generates symbolism; that is ultimately what you’re saying.

That symbolism is akin to prayer.

I am not casting prayer in a negative light, I’m simply categorising your voting concept.

vjulian··on Right to Local Intelligence
There comes a time when voting becomes silly and ineffective.
vjulian··on U.S. government will decide who gets to use GPT-5.6
And you can measure their influence how?
vjulian··on Noise infusion banned from statistical products published by Census Bureau
Civics is a kind of religion, and it is difficult for people caught up in it to approach discussion from a logical and external perspective. This kind of civics is dangerous to society.
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