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Re:Ask HN: Favorite Speculative Fiction Novels? on Thursday June 19, 2025 @07:32PM (#44323478)
Why is it... the only? Do you think Dick was riffing off this precarious history when he wrote Man in the High Castle?
Re:Brain Study Shows ChatGPT Makes You Dumber on Thursday June 19, 2025 @07:20PM (#44323404)
This feels significant. What if, without understanding how AI works, or even clearly understanding how cognition works, treating is at oracle or deity, or simply just a really weird calculator, theres a tendency to allow the LLM to reason for us, or else reinforce biases (and hence pathways?) My programming ability has certainly declined, but I am also thinking with scope, and with patterns more than in the past, solving work related problems more quickly. What to do with this extra energy is a wholenother matter. If I engage in other activities not requiring the computer, would this compensate for whatever the negative effect this loss of complexity entails?
Re:How AI Is Ruining the Electric Grid [video] on Thursday June 19, 2025 @06:57PM (#44323293)
Should this problem be solved (as it very well could be) or, should ecological and environment constraints and limitations drive policy considerations here?
Re:How to Build an Electrically Heated Table on Thursday June 19, 2025 @06:33PM (#44323146)
There are designs around the web for using tea candles for warmth (when paired with a thermal mass like a terracotta pot.) I tried this but it was not efficient enough. I have some other ideas along these lines but, priorities. You know?
A disease is only real if its physical?
Cool cool... what would you do with a ton of money?
Re:The Word Hacker (2004) on Thursday June 19, 2025 @03:52PM (#44321967)
Generalizing here, and this certainly deserves scrutiny, but if I was an old man advising a young man, my advice:

Be like Kant, not a c*nt.

Oh, for sure. Is there not a significant difference between willingly adopting these values and being compelled to adopt them by an external force?
Re:There Is No A.I. on Thursday June 19, 2025 @11:14AM (#44319439)
This is a poignant observation. What if there was real tender love and care put into gathering these training materials? (Y'know, truly free and open source, with a deep understanding of what it means to be human.) If you are working on this, we should talk.

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