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forbiddenvoid commented on Things I want to say to my boss ithoughtaboutthatalot.com... · Posted by u/casca

roarcher · 7 days ago

> EU AI Act to require mandatory labelling for AI-generated content.

No thanks. How would you find violators, with AI detectors? Might as well go back to throwing people into lakes to see if they float.

forbiddenvoid · 7 days ago

The AI turned me into a newt!

forbiddenvoid commented on Things I want to say to my boss ithoughtaboutthatalot.com... · Posted by u/casca

everdrive · 7 days ago

Ah, thanks -- I was just trying to capture the weirdness that happens when a work is set in the past, and then that work itself becomes old. For instance, if you watch Braveheart right now you're getting two views of the past: you're getting a (not-very-realistic) view of medieval England, and then in addition you're getting a view into how people in the 90s felt about history and social issues.

forbiddenvoid · 7 days ago

In the long run, this makes for very interesting rhetorical analysis of the work.

Your example of Braveheart, for instance, involves two views of the past through the lens of the _present_. So even in that context, both of those views are tinted by the experience and environment of the observer.

forbiddenvoid commented on Things I want to say to my boss ithoughtaboutthatalot.com... · Posted by u/casca

macintux · 7 days ago

The complaint is definitely getting old. I wonder how many HN threads at this point don't have someone speculating about AI-generated content.

Hopefully @dang adds something to the guidelines to discourage it.

forbiddenvoid · 7 days ago

I hope so. Random accusations of "this feels like AI" don't add anything to the conversation and are genuinely harmful to those accused when there is no AI involved.

AI has it's demons, for sure, but there is an awful lot of jumping at ghosts these days.

forbiddenvoid commented on Things I want to say to my boss ithoughtaboutthatalot.com... · Posted by u/casca

everdrive · 7 days ago

A very good observation, and true of nearly any contemporary fiction set in the past. People just seem unable to avoid this flaw.

forbiddenvoid · 7 days ago

I would consider it more of a necessary evil than a flaw. Both the writer and the audience need to be able to connect with the story, and you're just going to have a better connection if it feels more familiar to you.

forbiddenvoid commented on Things I want to say to my boss ithoughtaboutthatalot.com... · Posted by u/casca

ivanovm · 7 days ago

this has ai writing smell all over it. entire paragraphs that just say it's-not-this-it's-that over and over again

forbiddenvoid · 7 days ago

It's a construct that long predates AI. And using it with such intensity and frequency is more likely a sign that this _wasn't_ AI generated, since AI writing tends to _not_ repeat things quite so often.

forbiddenvoid commented on Things I want to say to my boss ithoughtaboutthatalot.com... · Posted by u/casca

reallymental · 7 days ago

I think y'all (i.e. who've contributed anonymously to the article), have taken these words too literally. I think we're finally seeing the culmination of around 15+ years (post '08) of leadership mindset finally reap its rewards.

Over the last decade (last 3+ decades realistically, I'm around 35, so that's all my personal anecdotal data goes back to), these "leaders" have all thrown away the facade of "mentorship", "leadership" and all those heavy words.

It's replaced with one phrase, "Profit at any cost". So that means, if you got yours, you're good. If you didn't, see ya! All this is obviously reflected geopolitically (macro-level), so why are we so surprised when it's affecting us at the micro-level?

This is a quote from a really good TV series (called Smiley's people), delivered by George Smiley (Alec Guinness):

`In my time, Peter Guillam, I've seen Whitehall skirts go up and come down again. I've listened to all the excellent argument for doing nothing, and reaped the consequent frightful harvest. I've watched people hop up and down and call it progress. I've seen good men go to the wall and the idiots get promoted with a dazzling regularity. All I'm left with is me and thirty-odd years of cold war without the option.`

So, it's not been out of the norm in our times to watch our own backs. No one is watching ours, the workers, the talent. Moscow rules gentlemen.

forbiddenvoid · 7 days ago

Just a note, because I think the footer might be confusing: this essay was written by just one person. There are 24 essays each year, each one written by a different anonymous contributor.

forbiddenvoid commented on My Favorite Math Problem bytesauna.com/post/my-fav... · Posted by u/mapehe

fsckboy · a month ago

>The problem does not state that the numbers have to be integers. a and b happen to be 9 +- 2 sqrt(11)

but the problem does state that you should be able to do it in your head. who exactly should be able to formulate and reduce simultaneous equations in xy then apply the quadratic formula (with some spicy +/- to keep track of) to get an answer with an irrational number, all in their head? usually, when a problem like this is given there is a shortcut that leads to a simple, not only rational but integer, answer.

the statement "you can do it in your head" generally does not entail this much complexity, as the person who said "you can do it in your head" comes out and says after previously spending a fair amount of time working on it.

words matter, people, that's why I didn't throw in the adjective integral even though I could have.

forbiddenvoid · a month ago

You _can_ literally do this in your head, and also, it doesn't matter what the numbers are, what the product is or what the sum is.

forbiddenvoid commented on Amazon confirms 14,000 job losses in corporate division bbc.com/news/articles/c1m... · Posted by u/mosura

lingrush4 · 2 months ago

For layoffs like this, employers typically give out two months of severance, so I'm not sure what you're whining about.

Of course if you're willing to burn bridges with your employer, there's nothing stopping you from quitting immediately. Have at it.

forbiddenvoid · 2 months ago

Companies pay out severance mostly for compliance with the WARN act. If they could get away with not doing this, they absolutely would.

forbiddenvoid commented on How to create an OS from scratch github.com/cfenollosa/os-... · Posted by u/pykello

forbiddenvoid · 3 months ago

Every time one of these pops up on HN, it's always an abandoned, unfinished project. Why do these OS projects never get completed?

forbiddenvoid commented on Center for the Alignment of AI Alignment Centers alignmentalignment.ai... · Posted by u/louisbarclay

forbiddenvoid · 3 months ago

My first instinct was to think this was satire and I exuded a chuckle.

My second instinct was a brief moment of panic where I worried that it might NOT be satire, and a whole world of horror flashed before my eyes.

It's okay, though. I'm better now. We're not in that other world yet.

But, for a nanosecond or two, I found myself deeply resonating with the dysphoria that I imagine plagued Winston Smith. I think I may just need to sit with that for a while.