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by Fricken 3mo ago
Marijuana is not a recent invention
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by Fricken 3mo ago
We power AI with methane because it's a powerful greenhouse gas. That's because the future worth destroying is human. If it wasn't we wouldn't be destroying it, duh.
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'Quality decays exponentially following AI arrival': Experts leaving in droves(techradar.com)
5 points by Fricken 3mo ago|0 comments
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by Fricken 3mo ago
It's not that idiosyncratic a list, those were the first two graphic novels that came to my mind when opening up the website. Geoff Darrow's art Hardboiled is incredible. I was a huge batman fan as a young teen and digital justice
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by Fricken 3mo ago
We've known about climate change for more than a century, but we're pigs, we don't care.
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by Fricken 3mo ago
Netflix execs have expressed envy over HBO's uncanny ability to make money off decades old IP. HBO still makes money off decades old IP because much of their decades old IP is made to the highest standards in television. Netflix's
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by Fricken 3mo ago
Cantarians and near-centarians like Warren Buffet, Charlie Munger, Jimmy Carter and Henry Kissinger: They did't stop puttering around. If we're optimizing for lifespan the rule is simply to keep moving. My Grandpa was a railroad e
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by Fricken 3mo ago
Same as the startup world.
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by Fricken 3mo ago
A studied showed that elderly asians have better health outcomes that their western counterparts in part due to their practice of sitting on the floor. The added exertion of standing up from the floor rather than a chair makes a material d
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by Fricken 4mo ago
New drugs enhance. If you can get your hands on a chemical that invokes an altered state no previous artist has experienced then you're in undiscovered country. Ken Kesey was a guinea pig in the CIA's early experiments with LSD. H
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by Fricken 4mo ago
Reid Hoffman isn't relevant. Don't attack the person, attack the substance of their argument. How is xAI not a total shitshow? This is the question you need to be able to answer.
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by Fricken 4mo ago
Last week Yann LeCun called xAI a "failure" https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/18/yann-lecun-elon-musk-xai-fai...
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by Fricken 4mo ago
If ignored, it would imply that the sense you're referring to is not a common one.
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by Fricken 4mo ago
"Pay us and we won't fuck your shit up" is the history of civilization
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by Fricken 4mo ago
Also it takes lies, cheating, and a propensity for murdering women and children, which are the coolest aspects of surplus value creation.
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by Fricken 4mo ago
No, Elon didn't put in a trillion dollars worth of work.
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The Social Reckoning (official teaser trailer) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by Fricken 4mo ago|0 comments
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by Fricken 4mo ago
Not much has changed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9ls4mV51Yk
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The Pentagon is running an AI propaganda mill targeting Latin America(theintercept.com)
121 points by Fricken 4mo ago|113 comments
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The internet has become too American to trust(thewalrus.ca)
14 points by Fricken 5mo ago|3 comments
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by Fricken 5mo ago
I've been having fun playing Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun (2016). In it the player controls a team of stealthy assassins in real time who coordinate to infiltrate heavily guarded Shogunate fortresses. The characters and voice
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by Fricken 5mo ago
Drivers mostly hate on other drivers, but they make time to hate other road users as well.
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by Fricken 5mo ago
The first summer after COVID I was bitten by 3 different dogs in 3 separate incidents. I went 48 years without ever getting bitten by a dog until that one season.
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by Fricken 5mo ago
"Karpathy was either BSing for money, or he actually believed the hype. Either way it was a bad look." That's from top comment in this thread. I'm not sure how you got the impression I was defending him.
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by Fricken 5mo ago
Karpathy didn't leave in protest because he was the guy hired to replace the protesters. His job was to be a credible technical authority on ML backstopping the sales pitch that Full Self-driving could be achieved on Tesla's hard
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by Fricken 5mo ago
The original Autopilot team had some great talent. Elon fired them and then sued them because they wouldn't shut up about Lidar. Elon couldn't say "Every new Tesla is FSD ready" if every new Tesla needed Lidar for that t
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by Fricken 5mo ago
With a cursory glance at Tesla's hardware the rest of the self driving car industry quickly surmised that it was at the time nowhere near sufficient to to deliver L4 autonomy, and that's before sensor modalities entered the equati
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by Fricken 5mo ago
Charlie Stross here on HN 2 days ago: "I'm not a fan of actually-existing late-stage capitalism, frankly. What I want is Banksian fully automated luxury gay space communism. (You can quote me on that. I hate what tech has turned i
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by Fricken 5mo ago
No amount of wealth will protect you from your own mortality, so clearly that's not what wealth is for.
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by Fricken 5mo ago
I would say that poverty is a relative concept, and because technology tends to increase the gap between the wealthiest and poorest persons it ultimately has the effect of creating more poverty. Today You and a million of your closest frien

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