MoltenMan

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by MoltenMan 7mo ago
While I don't necessarily disagree with this, I also wonder how much his 'data' about Nobel Prize winners and Institute of Princeton grads actually holds up vs how much of it is just very expected regression to the mean. He t
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by MoltenMan 7mo ago
I think this makes sense as part of the existing 'skeptic cost'
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by MoltenMan 7mo ago
Ok, but if you are investing capital in some sort of production line or industrialization you are not going to want to do that in an area where you might just lose your entire investment instantly; instead, you're just going to invest
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by MoltenMan 8mo ago
As somebody who is entirely for restrictions on internet / social media, I think you're missing the bigger picture here. First, you assume that parents have the technical knowhow to restrict their kids from specific sites. My pare
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by MoltenMan 8mo ago
Most of this is very true, except for the one caveat I'll point out that a space complexity O(P(n)) for some function P implies at least a O(cubedroot(P(n))) time complexity, but many algorithms don't have high space complexit
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by MoltenMan 8mo ago
This seems like the most likely reason to me!
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by MoltenMan 8mo ago
I don't think this post reads as AI at all. It has none of the tell-tale signs either (em dashes, common constructions like 'not just ____ but ____, bullet points, headers, etc.)
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by MoltenMan 9mo ago
> Right, so the solution is to silently upload their encryption keys to Microsoft's servers without telling them? If users don't understand encryption, they certainly don't understand they've just handed their keys to
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by MoltenMan 9mo ago
> And because of Bitlocker, their encryption is worth nothing in the end. No, it's worth exactly what it's meant for: in case your laptop gets stolen! > flawed default Look, in terms of flaws I would argue 'the governme
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by MoltenMan 9mo ago
Just to be clear: bitlocker is NOT encrypting with your login password! I could be a little fuzzy on the details but I believe how it works is that your TPM (Trusted Platform Module) is able to decrypt your laptop, but will only do so if th
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by MoltenMan 9mo ago
I think most people don't understand that 99% of people don't know what data encryption is and definitely don't care about it. If it weren't for Bitlocker, their laptops wouldn't be encrypted at all! And of course i
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by MoltenMan 9mo ago
I agree with a lot of what you've said, but I completely disagree that LLM's are no longer sycophantic. GPT-5 is definitely still very sycophantic, 'You're absolutely right!' still happens, etc. It's true it ha
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by MoltenMan 9mo ago
Whenever this comes up people point out, 'Come on, let parents decide for their kids!' -- I sympathize with this argument, but let me explain why I don't believe that actually fixes the real problem. For reference, I'm g
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by MoltenMan 9mo ago
I haven't looked at the source but the first paragraph of the article shows the percentage of people thinking a college education is important or worth it declining in the last decade. This is what I was referring to, but to be fair I
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by MoltenMan 9mo ago
I think 'mirage' is the wrong word; college very much has gone out of vogue as a place of learning. But if you want to get a good job, you still do need to go to get the piece of paper, regardless of whether you think you'll
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by MoltenMan 9mo ago
I can't say I understand the Palantir hate. Isn't it just a database analytics SaaS? Why not hate Google as well because government employees who do things you don't like use Google? Is the Palantir hate just manufactured poi
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by MoltenMan 9mo ago
Clicking anything on the banner does absolutely nothing Hanlon's Razor wins out here I think
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by MoltenMan 9mo ago
Thank you! Will be doing this from now on.
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by MoltenMan 9mo ago
I wish there was a way to report AI slop articles; it's frustrating clicking a link and reading a paragraph or two before realizing.
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by MoltenMan 9mo ago
Sorry for being so aggressive. I suppose I'm just very confused at where you're coming from.
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by MoltenMan 9mo ago
...what? What are you talking about? In what world would a compiler implement a preprocessor directive to ever use an llm, the internet, or your credit card details (from where would it get those)??? There are always implementation defined
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by MoltenMan 11mo ago
Good point, the movement is more isomorphic with a fully spherical 2D geometry game than I was thinking. But I still wouldn't say it qualifies as non-euclidean in the same sense as hyperrogue at all, given that you aren't fully st
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by MoltenMan 11mo ago
Actually highly recommend this game. I got a lot of fun out of it when I discovered it a few years back, and it especially works well as an airplane time waster game. I'm not generally one for roguelikes but this one really is incredib
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by MoltenMan 11mo ago
Super Mario Galaxy is not non- euclidean; it's just a regular 3D projection onto a 2D screen. The spheres you travel on are technically non-euclidean if you consider the surface in a vacuum, but you aren't playing on the surface,
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by MoltenMan 11mo ago
Am I going insane or is this an LLM post with all the em dashes replaced by double en dashes??
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by MoltenMan 11mo ago
Genuinely asking: is it against HN ethos to leave a comment warning that this is LLM slop? If yes I can delete this comment. I just wish I had known before I clicked on the link.
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by MoltenMan 11mo ago
> You just wrote a whole bunch of paragraphs talking about how appearances made you feel things without ever addressing the actual facts. Yes, appearances matter! That's why Trump is president right now (a fact, in case it isn&#x2
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by MoltenMan 11mo ago
Ack! There is nothing 'overly sensitive' about being annoyed when you see somebody else get an opportunity because of the color of their skin or gender. It's human nature! In fact I suspect the average person in favor of DE
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by MoltenMan 11mo ago
I feel like you're glossing over my main point, which is that this stuff 100% does breed resentment for the average person, which is how we end up with people like Trump (obviously there are many more factors to consider but this is de
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by MoltenMan 11mo ago
Maybe I wasn't clear in my previous comment about what exactly rubs me the wrong way, so here's an analogy: imagine you went to school and the the teacher lined everyone up by gender and handed out a cookie to everyone. And then s

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