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Re:Stripe reportedly makes offer to acquire PayPal on Tuesday February 24, 2026 @07:19PM (#47145532)
Maybe true but I’ve never had a worse experience than I have with PayPal, truly an awful company
Re:GPT-5.2 on Friday December 12, 2025 @08:45AM (#46244075)
Interesting I’ve noticed the same behavior with Gemini 3.0 but not with Claude, and Gemini 2.5 did not have this behavior. I wonder what tuning is optimising for here.
Re:Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP on Saturday October 18, 2025 @06:23AM (#45626241)
Wrong
It was clearly rhetorical
The sheer amount of copium in this thread is illuminating, it’s fascinating the lengths people will go to downplaying advancements like this when their egos/livelihoods are threatened - pretty natural though I suppose.
How does Nova compare to Boa? Regardless it’s great to see new js engines popping up
To be fair though the author of 2027 has been prescient in his previous predictions
Re:Exploring model welfare on Friday April 25, 2025 @06:41PM (#43799158)
It’s becoming clear that this issue is going to become one of the most divisive in history.

Apparently a large number of people outright dismiss even the possibility of “machine sentience”. It seems to trigger some pretty visceral reactions.

Never mind the fact we can’t even define sentience/consciousness to begin with. We have no idea why or how it arises - yet we’re very quick to make strong claims about it.