> Most automation has led to people transitioning to higher wages. No, what you mean to say is that automation has eventually (decades later) led to higher purchasing power in the system as a whole. The outlook for…
Doing that would open them to the possibility of a competing stack that could push out the default Windows one, similar to a different Linux distro. Also, they wouldn't be able to be kings of the system and force…
I understand, this is why I said that the same line of reasoning is used in pro-surveilance arguments, not that yours was necessarily one of them. I agree that the concerns outside surveillance are also very real, I'm…
No, the surveillance is at the core here. People love making pro-surveillance arguments in this same vein by just asserting that there can exist a world where everyone is surveilled but the usage of surveillance is…
IIRC, people involved in this case made extremely telling comments about the political alignment of the protestors. They despise them either way, the guns are just used as pretext to elevate it to the next level,…
This post is currently #1 on /active and #218 on the front page, sitting right beside 1-5 day old posts. This isn't flagged and I know HN tries to kill posts with a low upvote to comment ratios, but getting pushed this…
The "pretty close" is a hedge in case if the gun ever ends up pointing at them.
I know asking meta questions about HN is not seen in the best light here, but I really am curious about how tied up in knots the reasoning must be of someone flagging this post about AI (HN's primary topic as of 2026).
Nope, "synthetic" would be "syntetyczna". "Sztuczna" just means "artificial/manmade", a direct translation.
You know how there are movies that are so bad that they become entertaining to watch just so you can see how much of a trainwreck they are and how many rules they manage to break - and then are movies that are bad in…
No, it is famously a pointless internet debate with no settled answer. There is no scientific definition of what can or can't be wet, saying that wetness only applies to surfaces is just an opinion. It's an entirely…
> with so many friends going through the layoff/unemployment cycle and hearing their experiences I've concluded it's much more pragmatic to stay in tech. If so many of your friends are becoming unemployed, isn't this a…
This sounds like something straight out of something satirical, but I don't think we're far off from major tech companies announcing layoffs alongside new products at keynotes. After all, their purpose is to drive…
You're still undershooting just how grim the optimal outcome of our system is. It's not going to be about 'refusal', like taking a bargain and making choices. If total automation is achieved, huge swaths of people will…
The fact it's still here 18 hours later is crazy to me, although I am making an assumption that this website is set up similarly to standard PHP websites, without any weird uncommon configs or changes that break the…
Hotels have a reasonable need to know that I am the person who paid for the service, so I can get what I paid for. The hotel also does not remember, a human glances at your ID to compare your name and that's that.…
> Like, are eg. Musk and Zuckerberg doing this for bragging rights about a number on financial statements? No, they're doing this for the power that the number can give them. After we create a system that rewards the…
If we're going just off of the total runtime of all films ever produced, that point was probably already reached before WW2. But that's not entirely relevant, because an average person won't be equally interested in…
I hope that at step 4 this choice will still be as easy as it is today. When we get to that level of lockdown (which may take some years, but we'll get there), it's entirely plausible that Google will move to restrict…
Okay, I'll vote for the candidates that will allocate more of my tax money towards these goods and services I want and support. It's interesting how once people were successfully swindled into privatizing everything,…
24/7 omnipresent behavioral monitoring by an uncompromising algorithm, its hand always hovering over the button that ruins my life? Hell yeah sign me up! I hope this isn't satire, because it's hilarious how often when…
> There is a third position beside "I agree/disagree with the tradeoff", which is "I don't consider the tradeoff as stated truthful and refuse to frame the conversation that way". Thank you. When you see it once, it…
I've already said this, but here is roughly how this progression is going to go: 1. You own your device and can install anything you want on it (what we have today) 2. Google gently yanks you away from the simple…
I'm not assigning moral value to them when talking about 'winners' - objectively, in a game where money equals absolute power, it would be kind of absurd to say that the tiny minority that together holds far more power…
> You are one of the individuals who thinks it is about profit and sales. I'm recommending that you change your mindset. I think you're severely misreading what I'm saying. I would never do or condone any of the abusive…
> Most automation has led to people transitioning to higher wages. No, what you mean to say is that automation has eventually (decades later) led to higher purchasing power in the system as a whole. The outlook for…
Doing that would open them to the possibility of a competing stack that could push out the default Windows one, similar to a different Linux distro. Also, they wouldn't be able to be kings of the system and force…
I understand, this is why I said that the same line of reasoning is used in pro-surveilance arguments, not that yours was necessarily one of them. I agree that the concerns outside surveillance are also very real, I'm…
No, the surveillance is at the core here. People love making pro-surveillance arguments in this same vein by just asserting that there can exist a world where everyone is surveilled but the usage of surveillance is…
IIRC, people involved in this case made extremely telling comments about the political alignment of the protestors. They despise them either way, the guns are just used as pretext to elevate it to the next level,…
This post is currently #1 on /active and #218 on the front page, sitting right beside 1-5 day old posts. This isn't flagged and I know HN tries to kill posts with a low upvote to comment ratios, but getting pushed this…
The "pretty close" is a hedge in case if the gun ever ends up pointing at them.
I know asking meta questions about HN is not seen in the best light here, but I really am curious about how tied up in knots the reasoning must be of someone flagging this post about AI (HN's primary topic as of 2026).
Nope, "synthetic" would be "syntetyczna". "Sztuczna" just means "artificial/manmade", a direct translation.
You know how there are movies that are so bad that they become entertaining to watch just so you can see how much of a trainwreck they are and how many rules they manage to break - and then are movies that are bad in…
No, it is famously a pointless internet debate with no settled answer. There is no scientific definition of what can or can't be wet, saying that wetness only applies to surfaces is just an opinion. It's an entirely…
> with so many friends going through the layoff/unemployment cycle and hearing their experiences I've concluded it's much more pragmatic to stay in tech. If so many of your friends are becoming unemployed, isn't this a…
This sounds like something straight out of something satirical, but I don't think we're far off from major tech companies announcing layoffs alongside new products at keynotes. After all, their purpose is to drive…
You're still undershooting just how grim the optimal outcome of our system is. It's not going to be about 'refusal', like taking a bargain and making choices. If total automation is achieved, huge swaths of people will…
The fact it's still here 18 hours later is crazy to me, although I am making an assumption that this website is set up similarly to standard PHP websites, without any weird uncommon configs or changes that break the…
Hotels have a reasonable need to know that I am the person who paid for the service, so I can get what I paid for. The hotel also does not remember, a human glances at your ID to compare your name and that's that.…
> Like, are eg. Musk and Zuckerberg doing this for bragging rights about a number on financial statements? No, they're doing this for the power that the number can give them. After we create a system that rewards the…
If we're going just off of the total runtime of all films ever produced, that point was probably already reached before WW2. But that's not entirely relevant, because an average person won't be equally interested in…
I hope that at step 4 this choice will still be as easy as it is today. When we get to that level of lockdown (which may take some years, but we'll get there), it's entirely plausible that Google will move to restrict…
Okay, I'll vote for the candidates that will allocate more of my tax money towards these goods and services I want and support. It's interesting how once people were successfully swindled into privatizing everything,…
24/7 omnipresent behavioral monitoring by an uncompromising algorithm, its hand always hovering over the button that ruins my life? Hell yeah sign me up! I hope this isn't satire, because it's hilarious how often when…
> There is a third position beside "I agree/disagree with the tradeoff", which is "I don't consider the tradeoff as stated truthful and refuse to frame the conversation that way". Thank you. When you see it once, it…
I've already said this, but here is roughly how this progression is going to go: 1. You own your device and can install anything you want on it (what we have today) 2. Google gently yanks you away from the simple…
I'm not assigning moral value to them when talking about 'winners' - objectively, in a game where money equals absolute power, it would be kind of absurd to say that the tiny minority that together holds far more power…
> You are one of the individuals who thinks it is about profit and sales. I'm recommending that you change your mindset. I think you're severely misreading what I'm saying. I would never do or condone any of the abusive…