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b40d-48b2-979e commented on A new bill in New York would require disclaimers on AI-generated news content   niemanlab.org/2026/02/a-n... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico
hermannj314 · 2 days ago
Spell check, autocomplete, grammar editing, A-B tests for bylines and photo use, related stories, viewers also read, tag generation

I guess you have to disclose every single item on your new site that does anything like this. Any byte that touches a stochastic process is tainted forever.

b40d-48b2-979e · 2 days ago
None of those things are "AI" (LLMs). We had those things before, we'll have them after.
b40d-48b2-979e commented on Flock CEO calls Deflock a “terrorist organization” (2025) [video]   youtube.com/watch?v=l-kZG... · Posted by u/cdrnsf
mlrtime · 3 days ago
Don't worry, when the Millennia's and Zoomers are running the world, Alpha and Beta will be writing the exact same cruft as above, and the cycle will continue forever.

Now get off my lawn!

b40d-48b2-979e · 2 days ago
I don't know that they will be. Millennials and Zoomers aren't lead poisoned.
b40d-48b2-979e commented on Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins   fortune.com/2026/02/03/fa... · Posted by u/shscs911
direwolf20 · 4 days ago
That relies on a third party to maintain the value of the currency. Maybe I'd prefer to minimise my dependence on third parties. The crypto ecosystem makes it much easier to trade six cows for two tons of lumber and offload all of the exchange risk to speculators. It still can't enforce the physical exchange of goods, but it can atomically negotiate a swap from anything to anything through as many intermediaries as required. With a suitable transaction fee — which may come out of the transaction inputs.

A cryptocurrency system can negotiate that my six cow NFTs (which are not jpegs, I guarantee they are exchangeable for cows) for two Ethereum, of which 0.05 is taken as a fee and 1.95 flows on to Uniswap to buy Home Depot coin which buys two tonnes of lumber at a specific location and time. Except oh dear — Home Depot only trades on Polygon. Well then my 1.95 ether is bridged to Polygon where my 1.94 wrapped ether is traded for 9999999 POL and then for Home Depot coins. Or I buy wrapped Home Depot coins atomically on Ethereum and then unwrap them back to Polygon.

Crucially it all happens automatically.

That infra doesn't exist since cows and lumber aren't being traded on a blockchain, but it's the kind of thing that could be enabled.

Since I only hold ETH, WETH and POL during the transaction, their absolute value doesn't matter.

b40d-48b2-979e · 4 days ago
You just replaced one currency with at least three and who knows whether it's a company-store type situation or rugpull where suddenly the currency has zero value.
b40d-48b2-979e commented on Mean People Fail (2014)   paulgraham.com/mean.html... · Posted by u/insuranceguru
raffael_de · 4 days ago
But didn't all those people you list fail at the end of the day?

Bill Gates is not just unfaithful, he even considered slipping his wife STD medication to avoid having to talk about his state of affairs. He's now alone and the only people willing to care for him are probably very few old friends he didn't alienate, yet. The rest is just after his money.

Steve Jobs was an infamously bad father and husband, just as Elon Musk and they both suffered from it. Elon Musks own daughter is attacking him online. Think about that.

Elon Musk is on top of that a seriously pathetic individual. That is pretty obvious, isn't it.

Sam Altman ... I mean, just the accusations are so cringe and ignominious.

None of those people strike me as authentically happy and fulfilled. They all overstepped the mark and paid for it dearly or are in the process of doing so. They all suffered from their habits of being reckless and lacking compassion.

If failing for you means being broke or "not rich", then yes. But that would be a very narrow interpretation. Certainly not mine. I seriously pity all of them.

b40d-48b2-979e · 4 days ago

    Sam Altman ... I mean, just the accusations are so cringe
Yeah.. sexually assaulting your sibling is "so cringe".

b40d-48b2-979e commented on Your Job Isn't Disappearing. It's Shrinking Around You in Real Time   newsletter.jantegze.com/p... · Posted by u/hunglee2
fwip · 5 days ago
AI-written article, as a heads up.
b40d-48b2-979e · 5 days ago
I feel this comment can apply to 80% of the content that gets posted anymore.

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b40d-48b2-979e commented on Y Combinator will let founders receive funds in stablecoins   fortune.com/2026/02/03/fa... · Posted by u/shscs911
direwolf20 · 5 days ago
I don't see how this relates to that.

Ironically enough though, could feudal currencies actually be better on a blockchain? Think shares in a business. Bitcoin is backed by nothing, but if businesses all trade on Ethereum–style L2s, you could lock in whatever you want. Think: I want 2 tonnes of lumber for my new house build so I will trade whatever for 20000 $HomeDepotLMBR and it entitles me to exactly that amount when I go into the store.

b40d-48b2-979e · 5 days ago
You know what else entitles you to two tons of lumber? Cash in the amount of two tons of lumber. That transaction even goes into a database for the business reporting.
b40d-48b2-979e commented on xAI joins SpaceX   spacex.com/updates#xai-jo... · Posted by u/g-mork
tasty_freeze · 6 days ago
> X is not the same. Elon is actively spewing his ultraconservative views on that site.

I wonder if Musk would be willing to let a journalist do a deep dive on all internal communications in the same way he did when he took over twitter.

b40d-48b2-979e · 6 days ago
That was not a journalist.
b40d-48b2-979e commented on EPA Advances Farmers' Right to Repair   epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-... · Posted by u/bilsbie
stronglikedan · 6 days ago
People will remember him for different things, and what they will remember about him will say more about them than him.
b40d-48b2-979e · 6 days ago
You managed to say absolutely nothing in your comment.
b40d-48b2-979e commented on Adoption of EVs tied to real-world reductions in air pollution: study   keck.usc.edu/news/adoptio... · Posted by u/hhs
nottorp · 14 days ago
What does this have to do with mileage? It's about affording to pay for the damn car itself.

Compare the same category of car in gasoline and EV versions. See how the EV adds 10k to the price.

Not much by silicon valley latte standards of course. A lot by "i can barely afford a barebones renault" standards though.

b40d-48b2-979e · 14 days ago

    Compare the same category of car in gasoline and EV versions.
Have you looked at the bulk of cars people are buying new? They're $60K+ trucks and SUVs. Those same people could be buying EVs today.

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