gooseus

Because the collapse of complex societies is real - https://github.com/danielmkarlsson/library/blob/master/Josep...

Unbounded increases in complexity lead to diminishing returns on energy investment and increased system fragility which both contribute to an increased likelihood of collapse as solutions to old problems generate new problems faster than new solutions can be created since energy that should be dedicated to new solutions is needed to maintain the layers of complexity generated by the layers of previous solutions.

I can't help but agree having read the books umpteenth times... even in retrospect I find it more likely that Tolkien added Rosy into the narrative simply to make it clear that Sam was a heterosexual and that Frodo was merely an asexual eccentric like Bilbo.

I don't think there is any problem or harm in reading them as bi or gay, but I'd love to read a better case for Tolkien having written them with that intention. Am I forgetting any character(s) from The Silmarillion or Unfinished Tales that were more obviously coded as gay or any other statements by Tolkien that would point to this as even a remote possibility?

I remember reading The Guardian back in the oughts when they were winning awards for their UX and they were my go-to answer to the front-end interview question of "Which websites do you admire?"

Ha, they even have their "Website of the year" award linked on their top banner

https://web.archive.org/web/20080704050905/http://theguardia...

When it comes to his Antichrist schtick I say "takes one to know one".

Also, Thiel seems like the sort of guy with the money and connections to pop the AI bubble whenever he believes it'd be advantageous, whether that is the product of a rational mind seems to be beside the point.

This is funny because I remember having to pay a euro to take a leak at public train stations, and telling people that if they tried to implement this at Port Authority or Penn Station that people would lose their minds at the indignity.

By Portuguese authorities, not US.

Which is why the title says "seized", and not "torpedoed".

Disney reinstating Kimmel doesn't necessarily mean his show will immediately appear on all ABC-affiliated networks. Conservative broadcaster Sinclair said last week that "regardless of ABC's plans for the future of the program, Sinclair intends not to return Jimmy Kimmel Live! to our air until we are confident that appropriate steps have been taken to uphold the standards expected of a national broadcast platform."

Station owner Nexstar helped pressure Disney into suspending Kimmel's show last week when it announced its ABC-affiliated stations would not air the show "for the foreseeable future."

This is Disney doing damage control for their streaming platforms and other properties while Kimmel is still censored from a large % of audience he used to reach.

I hope he comes back with a show that burns Trump and Carr to the ground and dares them to try something like that again.

Same, and I've never had to replace a phone or screen once... I wouldn't need two hands to count the number of times I've even had a scare.

People need to get a grip. ;)

January 6th was in 2021, 4 years ago today Trump was 9 months out from having perpetrated the Big Lie about the 2020 having been stolen, attempted to alter the results through spurious legal means, and incited a mob to storm the capitol in order to prevent the official electoral vote count.

In my book, if people took liberal democracy serious, he should have been persona-non-grata in the eyes of every politician and political party.

Instead he was saved from impeachment by McConnel rehabilitated by McCarthy, and people increasing memory-holed the event, equivocated about George Floyd protests (not even remotely comparable), or were supporters of the "heroes of J6"... now we are where we are, well-cooked frogs in a pot that's about the boil over.

That was a great question to ask 4 years ago, but I feel like we've already gotten an answer at this point.

It is painfully obvious that this administration and their party do not care about the Constitution, or even the principles they were willing to die to defend just 2 years ago.

If Trump wants Wikipedia gone he'll just sue them or open an investigation that never needs to ever go before a judge. Then in return for dropping the suit/investigation all they need to do is make sure that a friend of MAGA sits on the board and can make sure that certain edits get approved and others don't.

People who are surprised by this or still assuming that he can't/won't do something because of the law or norms or "but then the Democrats will do X" need to wake the fuck up.

These people are going to do whatever the fuck they want under whatever justification they can cook up, and they don't fear any repercussions because they are not planning to turn over their new-found power to anyone else.

Funny, I'd say that for all of SpaceX's innovation and successes, Starship and its owner represent of some of the greatest expressions of humanity's flaws and challenges.

Because if the future household names don't want to be referred to as "not good" people forever, they ought not sacrifice being a good person for their fame and success.

Neat, but it still fails my Forth simulator test, albeit a bit better than the last time. I hope they didn't have to raise the temperature of the ocean by too much to get these marginal improvements that definitely aren't even close to the kind of "general intelligence" you could get from training a clever child or monkey with 500 calories of sweets.

https://chatgpt.com/share/689525f4-20f0-8003-8bf6-f1f21dde6b...

You know what would be more impressive? If it said "Hey, I'm actually not designed to simulate a Forth machine accurately, I'm only going to be able to approximate it (poorly)). If you want an accurate Forth machine you should just implement this code: [Simple Forth Implementation]".

Or better yet, it could recognize when it was being asked to "be" a machine, and instead spin up a side process with the machine implementation and redirect any prompts to that process until a "STOP" token is reached.

Seems cool but disappointingly has nothing to do with sauce, hot or otherwise.

https://ia801604.us.archive.org/27/items/everything-is-bulls...

We exchange diamond rings as part of the engagement process because the diamond company De Beers decided in 1938 that it would like us to. Prior to a stunningly successful marketing campaign, Americans occasionally exchanged engagement rings, but it wasn’t pervasive. Not only is the demand for diamonds a marketing invention, but diamonds aren’t actually that rare. Only by carefully restricting the supply has De Beers kept the price of a diamond high.

Imho, that "soul" you describe is an artifact of human sentimentality and a very successful marketing campaign by a bunch of Afrikaner colonialists.

Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQDqAMTjWrw

Paper: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10.1177/02783649251344...

Everyone knows it's mostly bullshit, but that _someone_ is going to end up coming out as the Amazon-level winner.

Every single one of these "fake it till you make it" AI CEO/Founders are betting they are the Amazon.com and not the Pets.com... but if they are the Pets.com then what is the downside?

The CEO of pets.com certainly didn't end up out on the streets for being the biggest disaster of one of the largest bubbles and effectively burning billions of investor dollars (including institutions investing pensions and retirements funds).

I'm curious if any sci-fi authors were knowledgable and prescient enough to write this into their world building?

If not, it'd make for a pretty cool plot device if done well.

Gonna take this opportunity to recommend Sovereign.

Imho it's the best of the movie of the year, and one big reason is because it is NOT this.

It's because killing unarmed soldiers during war is not a war crime.

Rule 3. All members of the armed forces of a party to the conflict are combatants, except medical and religious personnel.

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule3

Rule 47. Attacking persons who are recognized as hors de combat is prohibited. A person hors de combat is: (a) anyone who is in the power of an adverse party; (b) anyone who is defenceless because of unconsciousness, shipwreck, wounds or sickness; or (c) anyone who clearly expresses an intention to surrender; provided he or she abstains from any hostile act and does not attempt to escape

https://ihl-databases.icrc.org/en/customary-ihl/v1/rule47

A surprise drone attack on any Russian combatant that isn't a medic or chaplain is "lawful", even if they aren't holding a weapon at the time.

I heard of the play originally from Chapter 10 of On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder:

https://archive.org/details/on-tyranny-twenty-lessons-from-t...

Which I did post top-level here on November 7th - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42071791

Unfortunately it didn't a lot of traction and dang told me that there wasn't a way to re-up or "second chance" the post due to the HN policy on posts "correlated with political conflict".

I've never thought ill of Scott Aaronson and have often admired him and his work when I stumble across it.

However, reading this article about all these people at their "Galt's Gultch", I thought — "oh, I guess he's a rhinoceros now"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rhinoceros_(play)

Here's a bad joke for you all — What's the difference between a "rationalist" and "rationalizer"? Only the incentives.

But at what cost? And I don't mean the "human cost", I mean literally, how much will it cost to use an LLM as your "operating system"? Correct me if I'm wrong here, but isn't every useful LLM being operated at a loss?

The point I was trying to make was that the Sam Altman's of the world make a whole lot of unfalsifiable claims about the nature and capabilities of his AI, while just hand-waving a bunch of things away.

In my merry state last night I didn't do a great job so I'm not surprised by the lack of positive response, though I was kind of hoping some people would catch my drift. Oh well.

Lol, 1-1, though guessing my gender on HN doesn't really count for much.

Without habeas corpus, laws aren't worth the paper they're written on.

Well, he drained the swamp, now he's doing what he does best, paving it over and building a soon-to-be-failed casino.

Say what you will about "the swamp" (not a big fan myself), but as a metaphor it kinda works since a swamp may be noxious and filled with unsavory swamp creatures... but it's still an ecosystem where competition and co-evolution amongst these swamp species in response to external environmental changes would still be expected.

I recently published this library for routing messages within an application using the same kind of wildcard semantics that NATS uses - https://www.npmjs.com/package/@gooseus/natsrun

Currently just test driving it in some relatively simple work scenarios, but I imagine it could be a useful tool for consuming a NATS firehose of messages in a single application and routing them internally using the same semantics subject rules so that it would be easy to split them out as separate consumers when/if that became necessary.

What is "blue-anon" discourse?