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Homer is a voice from antiquity. How many American stories and storytellers will be remembered and widely known in a millennium or 3? It will take a long time before we have a definitive answer.

Such a person may not have been born yet. Maybe we need to go back to the stone age and rebuild civilization before a bard as reputable as Homer appears in what we currently call America.

It's probably because robots have been doing cool asf demos for half a century and they're still mostly just demos. Elon has made a lot of money greasing the 4-6 months away crowd.

Homer is America's Homer. Homer is western civilization's Homer. Thousands of Americans have composed epics, but Homer is still the one with primacy. All succeeding epics defer to Homer, including the American ones.

Nice ass montage, bro. Great storytelling. In the beginning there was ass. In the middle: ass. And at the end: ass. Both literally and figuratively your whole video is ass.

No effort went into that. No talent went into that. The creator doesn't care about the outcome. Nobody wants to watch it. Fucken A, brilliant. The intelligence is artificial.

Yeah, he's just a humble douchenozzle minding his own business.

Marijuana is not a recent invention

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.

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 came out at peak Batman hype, and it was much hyped itself, but it wasn't very good.

We've known about climate change for more than a century, but we're pigs, we don't care.

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 spreadsheet method of developing shows was a defacto attempt at trying make AI generated content before actual generative AI was available. We can all see clearly see how following that path leads to soulless and forgettable products.

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 engineer, he retired a strong, healthy man at 65, sat down on the lazy boy and wasted away, he died at 74. My Grandpa's younger brother was a farmer, he had no retirement plan, he worked that farm until he was 88.

Same as the startup world.

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 difference in their health.

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. He went on to be amongst LSDs earliest recreational users, and that led to "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest", which is a strikingly original and lucid novel.

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.

Last week Yann LeCun called xAI a "failure"

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/18/yann-lecun-elon-musk-xai-fai...

If ignored, it would imply that the sense you're referring to is not a common one.

"Pay us and we won't fuck your shit up" is the history of civilization

Also it takes lies, cheating, and a propensity for murdering women and children, which are the coolest aspects of surplus value creation.

No, Elon didn't put in a trillion dollars worth of work.

Not much has changed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9ls4mV51Yk

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 acting are quite well done.

The gameplay is very tricky and fickle but I guess it's fun because yesterday I downloaded the expansion with a bunch of new level to sneak around in.

Drivers mostly hate on other drivers, but they make time to hate other road users as well.

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.

"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.

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 hardware.

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 to be true, that was the constraint.

The Woz was on TV in an interview saying he bought 2 Model 3s, one for himself and one he could put to work after the robotaxi update. Regular everyday suckers too were taking on crippling debt to buy Teslas because their cars were gonna pay for themselves after the magical update.

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 equation. Karpathy was either BSing for money, or he actually believed the hype. Either way it was a bad look.

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 into.)"

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48163649

(Charlie wrote the book on our emerging ai dystopia, prophetically, decades ago)