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oglop commented on The Lost Art of Research as Leisure kasurian.com/p/research-a... · Posted by u/altilunium

markus_zhang · 5 months ago

Don't know about you guys, but reading has become more and more of a burden for me.

It is as if -- I have greatly narrowed my interest such that most books are not interesting any more. Even the sci-fi and fantasy books, once I loved, lost their magic.

Nowadays there are only two types of books that excite me: 1) those about software/hardware engineering, such as iWoz(I even bought a few Tom Swift JR books for my son), Showstopper and Soul of the New Machine, and 2) books about existentialism such as Shestov's philosophy books.

I suspect it has something to do with getting older and getting kid(s).

What about you guys?

oglop · 5 months ago

It’s more that software books ruin your brain and make you incapable of enjoying good literature. Same for existentialism which you fled into out of despair from working in and reading about software. It is a hollow and empty profession that only breaks humans or turns them into monsters. Or not. Either way you should be worried if you can’t read fiction, it means you’ve lost the ability to put yourself in someone else’s mindset.

oglop commented on The Lost Art of Research as Leisure kasurian.com/p/research-a... · Posted by u/altilunium

bsindcatr · 5 months ago

I perused the three posts on this blog, and believe that an LLM was heavily used, because I used one daily, and this is the way its content reads.

The leisure the author speaks of may be their own, and the research of which they speak today may be done by a machine.

I think the intent is good, and if you as the reader get insight from it, then it is still valid, but I cannot read it, because I don’t feel a thread of consciousness helping me experience life with them.

If an author chose to instead pair with an LLM to research on their own and write themselves about it, perhaps it would be different.

Why do these posts keep getting to the front and even to the top of the HN feed? We are no better than machines, I guess.

oglop · 5 months ago

“We are no better than machines, I guess.”

Well, our minds aren’t but we have legs and arms which is cool. But maybe that will change too.

oglop commented on The Lost Art of Research as Leisure kasurian.com/p/research-a... · Posted by u/altilunium

oglop · 5 months ago

Stan Ulam has a great book discussing his worry about the change in research environments pre-wwII vs post-WWII. Before the war, they’d sit in cafes and draw in tables and just sit and think sometimes as a group. After they would meet in offices with blackboards and no life in the room or fun with direct funding telling them exactly what to study. I think his concern will be shown to be sound.

I wonder if LLMs can help bring that kind of exploratory culture back. Because this is not an exploratory culture.

oglop commented on AI Blindspots – Blindspots in LLMs I've noticed while AI coding ezyang.github.io/ai-blind... · Posted by u/rahimnathwani

oglop · 5 months ago

I just talk to an LLM like it’s a person who is smart, meaning I expect it to be confidently wrong now and then but I don’t have to worry about hurting its feelings. They are remarkably similar to people, though others seems to not think that so maybe it is a case of some people finding them easier to work with compared to others. I wonder what drives that. Maybe it’s the difference between a person who thinks life unfolds before then vs the person who views life as a bundle, with each day a fold making up your experience and through this stack you discern the structure which is your life, which sure seems how these things work.

oglop commented on Global coffee trade grinding to a halt, hit hard by brutal price hikes reuters.com/markets/commo... · Posted by u/speckx

MichaelZuo · 6 months ago

This reply doesn’t make sense… your own words and opinions can’t substitute for providing sources.

Unless you have some extraordinay amount of authority and/or credibility above and beyond that of the other HN users contradicting?

oglop · 6 months ago

lol this thread is amazing. Hacker news is truly a place filled with confidently wrong smart people. Showed this to my wife, a barista in Seattle, and she asked me why I go to this stupid fucking site. I wasn’t able to give a good answer other than boredom.

oglop commented on Suspicious Tesla Sales Surge Triggers Canadian Government Investigation motorillustrated.com/susp... · Posted by u/ragu4u

somerandomqaguy · 6 months ago

We'll have to see. There's ways to pull this off while still operating within the letter of the law. And if they did so, then there's little that can be down to get it back. Worst would happen short of federal tariffs on Tesla products is that if the iZEV resumes, they're taken off the list of illegible vehicles.

oglop · 6 months ago

Oh I thought the worst would be the brand gets even worse promotion and goes even more in the tank in the public’s eye. Somehow.

oglop commented on Ray-Ban Meta glasses have sold 2M units, production to be increased uploadvr.com/ray-ban-meta... · Posted by u/achow

Salgat · 6 months ago

For me the meta sunglasses have two killer features. Taking candid pictures of my family is extremely easy, I no longer miss catching photos of small things my toddlers do and I'm able to do it hands-free. Additionally, they work remarkably well as headphones, they use some technique where only you hear the audio which is great both for music and for watching videos in public without bothering other folks.

oglop · 6 months ago

This might be the laziest shit I’ve ever heard come out of a slobbering consumers mouth.

oglop commented on Ray-Ban Meta glasses have sold 2M units, production to be increased uploadvr.com/ray-ban-meta... · Posted by u/achow

oglop · 6 months ago

Imma blast someone right in the face if they get up in my mug with them shits.

oglop commented on Open source maintainers are feeling the squeeze theregister.com/2025/02/1... · Posted by u/redbell

oglop · 7 months ago

Tech companies are cheap as shit and most programmers are very subservient. Open source won’t go anywhere, I’d bet in there being more open source projects than less in a years time.