deepfriedchokes (u/deepfriedchokes)

deepfriedchokes commented on White House fires CDC director Monarez after she refuses to resign cnbc.com/2025/08/27/cdc-d... · Posted by u/donsupreme

abeppu · 6 hours ago

Logistically / organizationally, what has to go wrong for the administration to nominate her, have her in place for less than a month, and then remove her? Like, before you send someone through confirmation, do you have a quick conversation to confirm, "I want to do X, I have expectations Y" etc and confirm that they're onboard? It sounds like Monarez wasn't willing to be a loyal obedient servant, and good for her -- but could the Trump administration really not determine that in advance?

Or was she put in that position for the purpose of being fired, just for the news story, and this is all going to plan?

deepfriedchokes · 4 hours ago

The timing of this and the announcement yesterday that the causes of autism will be released in September is pretty interesting.

deepfriedchokes commented on House to investigate Wikipedia over allegations of organized bias thehill.com/homenews/hous... · Posted by u/xqcgrek2

iandanforth · 14 hours ago

This is McCarthyism. You take a polarizing word, then you attack your enemies by claiming they are that thing, and couch the whole thing in an "investigation" whose outcome is predetermined.

There is no merit to discussing if the target is that thing, it doesn't matter. It's an ideological attack. If you take it on its face then the attackers win because you're treating them as if they were honest participants in a discussion, which they are not.

And remember even if the investigation (which is a farce) goes nowhere, allowing it to exist unchallenged means that some people are going to be harassed and intimidated. But, that too is the point, fear is what they want.

deepfriedchokes · 7 hours ago

Ideological suggests they have ideals, and values, but I think it’s simpler than that: This is about power and submission.

All of Trump’s seemingly irrational decisions are his emotionally rational pursuit of forcing people to submit, just like his dad did to him [0]. Like a lot of boomers scarred by untreated trauma, that’s what he understands respect to be: submission. It was wrong then, and wrong now, but attacking Trump, while intuitive, is the wrong way to engage him.

[0] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/07/donald-trump...

deepfriedchokes commented on RFK Jr. Promises to Reveal the 'Cause' of Autism Next Month gizmodo.com/rfk-jr-promis... · Posted by u/ulrischa

leoxv · 13 hours ago

Autism is a hoax orchestrated by the Democrats.

deepfriedchokes · 7 hours ago

This is the way.

deepfriedchokes commented on South Korea deploys hologram police officer scmp.com/week-asia/lifest... · Posted by u/amichail

zdw · 5 days ago

How long before we get a K-drama where some lonely single falls in love with the hologram?

deepfriedchokes · 5 days ago

netflix-greenlit.meme

deepfriedchokes commented on The warning signs the AI bubble is about to burst telegraph.co.uk/business/... · Posted by u/taimurkazmi

tomasphan · 6 days ago

We’re on our way down to the through of disillusionment. See you on the other side.

deepfriedchokes · 5 days ago

It would seem we’re speed running the hype cycle, so the other side might be sooner than we think.

deepfriedchokes commented on The contrarian physics podcast subculture timothynguyen.org/2025/08... · Posted by u/Emerson1

jordanpg · 7 days ago

She has gone way beyond this. She is actively undermining the entire academic scientific enterprise, even as she makes money popularizing it. It's unclear why she does this. She portrays herself as speaking truth to power, but -- much like certain actors in US public life these days -- is simply doing the easy work of tearing things down, without doing the hard work of building things.

deepfriedchokes · 7 days ago

I think it’s Elite Overproduction: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_overproduction

Being a contrarian is often an intellectually dishonest way to seek power. Goes all the way back to the serpent in Adam and Eve.

deepfriedchokes commented on Ask HN: What are you biggest mental / relational challenges? · Posted by u/ada1981

theyknowitsxmas · 8 days ago

You people sit in front of a computer all day and sometimes make good money out of it. Bullied as kids and fell in love with being in control of something... at least you have something to do! Consider it a blessing over being a roughneck on the oil patch.

deepfriedchokes · 7 days ago

Humans are emotional animals, not rational animals, so it would make sense that people who grew up without power would seek out things that empower themselves. However, power corrupts, and we’re seeing a lot of that in tech these days, where the tech is being used to disempower others. That needs to change.

deepfriedchokes commented on The lottery ticket hypothesis: why neural networks work nearlyright.com/how-ai-re... · Posted by u/076ae80a-3c97-4

deepfriedchokes · 9 days ago

Rather than reframing intelligence itself, wouldn’t Occam’s Razor suggest instead that this isn’t intelligence at all?

deepfriedchokes commented on We may not like what we become if A.I. solves loneliness newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/defo10

SoftTalker · a month ago

Savannah Georgia is another example. Taking a "traveler" when you leave a bar is pretty common.

deepfriedchokes · a month ago

We call these “roadies” where I live.

deepfriedchokes commented on How long before superintelligence? (1997) nickbostrom.com/superinte... · Posted by u/jxmorris12

LinuxAmbulance · a month ago

Ah, the optimism of 1997.

The article is super focused on the hardware side of things, and to a point, that makes sense. Your hardware has to be able to handle what you're simulating.

But it's not the hardware that's the difficult problem. We're nowhere close to hitting the limits of scaling hardware capability, and every time people declare that we are, they're proven wrong in just a few years, and sometimes even in just a few months.

It's the software. And we're so far away from being able to construct anything that could think like a human being that the beginning of it isn't even in sight.

LLMs are fantastic, but they're not a path to building something more intelligent than a human being, "Superintelligence". I would have a negative amount of surprise if LLMs are an evolutionary dead end as far as building superintelligence goes.

Is modeling neuron interactions the only way to achieve it? No idea. But even doing that for the number of neurons in a human brain is currently in fantasy land and most likely will be for at least a few decades, if not longer.

If I had to characterize the current state of things, we're like Leonardo Da Vinci and his aerial screw. We know what a helicopter could be and have ideas about how it could work, but the supporting things required to make it happen are a long, long way off.

deepfriedchokes · a month ago

Sometimes I wonder if AGI/superintelligence/whatever will be like flight, which was not successful until we stopped trying to copy nature’s flapping wings and studied flight at a more fundamental level.