TheMayorOfDunce

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by TheMayorOfDunce 3d ago
admittedly I am not a mathematician, so the Navier-Stokes solution is just an example I am using. But how is it not something "new" if it did not exist before? At what point could something ever possibly be new, if "new&quo
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by TheMayorOfDunce 4d ago
this is immediately disprovable and embarrassingly naive in the year of AI generating cancer vaccines and solving Navier-Stokes. You can argue "the vaccine is just interpolating chemicals together" and "the solution uncovere
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by TheMayorOfDunce 4d ago
there is already a "darknet AI" site on Tor. I don't recall its name, but I found it on a list published by Sam Bent, a Youtuber who talks frequently about his experience as a former darknet vendor of moonshine (seriously).
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by TheMayorOfDunce 1mo ago
Surely you've reached the conclusion by now that "resulting scandal" no longer steers policy, or even any noteworthy degree of public outrage.
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by TheMayorOfDunce 2mo ago
In 2014, the U.S. military distributed almost $85 million of Viagra to their ranks. More than 100,000 prescriptions to active-duty soldiers. I get what you are implying but there is usually a rational reason when armies are distributing E
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by TheMayorOfDunce 10mo ago
I would bet you have encountered a much larger catalog of Charli tracks than you might think. I too was in the same position last year. Then I looked her up and she has actually produced like 30% of the songs played in Urban hat shops, in p
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by TheMayorOfDunce 10mo ago
Yeah, I avoid telling people about HN. It’s too rare and pleasant of an anomaly to risk getting morphed into X/Bluesky/Reddit.
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by TheMayorOfDunce 10mo ago
AI gives you either free expertise or free time. If you can make software above the level of Gemini or Claude output, then have it write your local tools, or have it write synthetic data for tests, or have it optimize your zshrc or bash pro
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by TheMayorOfDunce 2y ago
Honestly that’s just embarrassing. I’m embarrassed for them in the way I’d be embarrassed for someone still injecting “Nope, Chuck Testa!” or “an arrow to the knee!” in human conversations in 2025. Oh wow, an internet crusader who especiall