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wozer··on Palmer Luckey's heated exchange with Paul Graham
Using words like “traitor” so casually, and now saying that pg is “gone” (https://x.com/PalmerLuckey/status/2094639434436427911)...

From my European perspective, Luckey just comes across as an anti-democratic Trumpist. I don’t understand why pg even engages with people like that.

wozer··on Man shot and killed by federal agents in south Minneapolis this morning
A country that elected Trump twice in spite of his obvious character flaws.

Also using the term "virtue signal" marks you as an idiot.

wozer··on US attack on Venezuela raises fears of future Greenland takeover
The Danish government takes the threat seriously:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g0zg974v1o

wozer··on US destroying its reputation as a scientific leader – European science diplomat
The US doesn't have any partners anymore, except for some small countries like Hungary and Israel.
wozer··on Doge 'doesn't exist' with eight months left on its charter
What if those were exactly his goals?
wozer··on Grok Code Fast 1
Calling the Nazis socialist is insidious and ahistorical.

The Nazis murdered any socialists they could get their hands on.

wozer··on Silence Is a Commons by Ivan Illich (1983)
> He's connected with liberation theology, which is what the KGB was promoting in Catholic countries to recruit for militant groups. [...] I think the Soviets actually claim to have invented liberation theology, but who knows.

Any reputable sources for these claims? Sounds like American Cold War propaganda.

wozer··on Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem Is a Communist Committee (2015)
"The Congress" (2013) probably?
wozer··on US Administration announces 34% tariffs on China, 20% on EU
Might cause a global recession, though. And that might be less funny.
wozer··on Migraine is more than a headache – a rethink offers hope
> Migraine can even drive full-blown visual hallucinations similar to the ‘reflections of the living light’ painted by Hildegard von Bingen, a twelfth-century abbess who was thought to have experienced a condition that is now called migraine with aura.

I don't think the aura effects are usually considered hallucinations?

I get mild migraines sometimes, with hardly noticeable headache, but with aura. In a way, it's pretty cool. You can directly perceive the abnormal brain activity and how it develops in real time. (I get the classic zigzag lines wandering across the field of vision.)

wozer··on Why Is Elon Musk Invited to Speak at AI Startup School?
Y Combinator is mostly ideologically aligned with Musk and the Trump administration. If you don't believe me, look through the tweets of Garry Tan, for example.
wozer··on Elon Musk's DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts
Probably "Grok", trained on typical Twitter content.
wozer··on X deleted all posts of the Magdeburg attacker's support for Musk and far right
And many people in tech still refuse to see Musk's true character, using motivated reasoning to convince themselves that he's not like Trump.
wozer··on NASA remains silent on why crew went to hospital after dragon splashdown
Reminds me of the Apple TV show "Constellation".
wozer··on Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees
Really? I never thought of pg as naive.
wozer··on Drug offers 'breakthrough' in treatment of asbestos-linked cancer
It may not be much, but it's an improvement that hasn't been seen for this type of cancer in a long time.

But the headline is indeed quite misleading.

wozer··on Niklaus Wirth has died
No better source yet, I think.

But it is the real account of Bertrand Meyer, creator of the Eiffel language.

wozer··on Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft
If they really build AGI (I doubt it), the AGI might be able to bring Microsoft under its control. This could be bad news for a lot of businesses.
wozer··on Tell HN: Reddit Removes Multiple Moderator Teams of Large Subreddits
They could have.

But by now they have probably irrecoverably destroyed their relationship to the existing community. Maybe they can build a new community.

wozer··on Tarkovsky's films online for free
It was filmed in Tokyo, but is possibly supposed to depict a futuristic Moscow.
wozer··on Richard Stallman's thoughts on ChatGPT, AI and their impact on humanity
I think his answer is driven by a preference for the status quo and a reluctance to face difficult changes.

ChatGPT, and especially GPT-4, seem to do much more than just play games with words. You can’t overlook the “emergent” phenomena that manifest themselves when using them.

wozer··on Reasons the banking crisis isn’t a repeat of 2008
Well, since it's the investment branch of the bank that's publishing, it would be strange if J.P. Morgan weren't writing about it. Additionally, I think it's definitely worth a read, as it provides detailed information in a cautious style.
wozer··on Planning for AGI and Beyond
The thing is: even when people do have good intentions, they tend to develop biases that serve themselves.

If these developments in AI are really as important as this blog entry says, then it needs democratic control.

wozer··on Reddit is experiencing a partial outage
For me it looks like the "old" reddit design is especially affected by the outage. "new.reddit.com" works fine for me.
wozer··on Ask HN: What are your predictions for the world in 2023?
Big prediction thread from a week ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34125628
wozer··on Twitter suspends pg's account [fixed]
This is really embarrasing. If feel so much Fremdschämen when I think of Elon Musk.
wozer··on Ask HN: What Recession?
It's not there yet, but it's coming.
wozer··on Ask HN: Why is Python package management still a dumpster fire?
I think that is basically why Docker was invented.
wozer··on Nord Stream 1: Russia's Gazprom announces indefinite shutdown of pipeline
Most Germans understand English perfectly fine. So, feel free to scam, I guess.
wozer··on The Big [Censored] Theory
For some things that might be true.

But when the indoctrination collides with reality in a harmful way, it's a different matter. Objectively, it is true that gay people exists and that there is no good reason to restrict their rights.

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