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by isx726552 2mo ago
I bet it’s as simple as Nolan just wanting the biggest screen and biggest film negative he could practically get his hands on without inventing a whole new format. I do wonder if we’ll see him try to add anamorphic lenses to 15/70 IMAX
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by isx726552 2mo ago
Asimov seems to have missed that the book does not claim that everyone is being watched at all times, but that everyone could be watched at any time, in any place, and that they have no way to know for sure if they are at any given mome
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by isx726552 2mo ago
*BSD is dying! You don’t have to be Kreshkin… But seriously, if one counts macOS and iOS as FreeBSD users, there are more than ever. Of course that means counting Android and Steam as Linux OSes, in which case Linux users still greatly outn
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by isx726552 4mo ago
VCs, too: https://futurism.com/openai-investor-chatgpt-mental-health (From last year…)
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by isx726552 4mo ago
Why would the doomsayers be the ones who need to answer that? That’s kind of their point! It’s the AI boosters who need to answer that, and so far it’s just a big collective shrug + silence.
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by isx726552 6mo ago
> Several commenters suggested the original essay was written by an LLM. They were half right. Both that essay and this one were written with Claude as a drafting partner. I directed the argument; the LLM helped with prose. That’s all we
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by isx726552 7mo ago
> But, the pro-legalization folks would argue patently crazy things: it cures cancer, the smoke isn't bad for you at all, there are no downsides! etc. Who seriously claimed that it “cures cancer”? There have been some claims that it
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by isx726552 7mo ago
Let’s not lose sight of the fact that he piggybacked on a large company’s name recognition by originally calling it “clawd”, clearly intending it to be confused with Claude. I have my doubts it would have gone anywhere without that.
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by isx726552 8mo ago
Lo and behold, here’s a concrete example I stumbled across just a few seconds after opening Reddit again (really gotta stop doing that): https://www.reddit.com/r/codex/s/Y52yB6Fg3A
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by isx726552 8mo ago
The worst is Reddit these days. I pretty much never even went there for technical topics at all, just funny memes and such, but one day recently I started seeing crazy AI hype stories getting posted, and sadly I made a huge mistake and I cl
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by isx726552 8mo ago
Yes, and now we have billionaires arguing in public about such basic facts: X link: https://x.com/paulg/status/2008989862725341658 Screenshot: https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/
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by isx726552 11mo ago
This feels like a narrative being pushed. Tech oligarchs these days are flexing by showing off how much they are able to bully government, and Altman wants to get in on the game by spinning things this way. I’m not convinced they really ben
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by isx726552 1y ago
It was a comment revealing his attitude towards what would soon become his customers in a globally-impactful business over which he has sole control. It’s more relevant than ever today.
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by isx726552 1y ago
Wow. The 2019 novel “The Last Astronaut” hypothesized about a fictional interstellar object coming into the solar system, called “2I” in the novel for short, but back here in real life, we’re already up to 3I.
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by isx726552 1y ago
Agree, as someone who has spent way too much time studying the way motion picture film looks up close, this isn’t very realistic looking. It’s really just a form of dithering.
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by isx726552 1y ago
“Poaching”? It’s called the free market. Capitalists always hate capitalism when it comes to employees getting paid what they are worth. If the market will bear it, he should embrace it and stop whining.
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by isx726552 1y ago
> I’ve been feeling pretty good about my benchmark! It should stay useful for a long time... provided none of the big AI labs catch on. > And then I saw this in the Google I/O keynote a few weeks ago, in a blink and you’ll miss i
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by isx726552 1y ago
They’re probably going to come out at some point and say it was all just an act.
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by isx726552 1y ago
This is a fantastic comment and I couldn’t agree more. I don’t what they’re going to come up with as a result of this partnership but I expect that it will be utterly lacking in the qualities you describe. You really put your finger on it.
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by isx726552 1y ago
Oh yes I’ve thought of that, but I’m sure they have too. If AI advances to the point where everyone is out of work, then it will have also likely advanced to the point where it can aid in getting around the current supply chain fragilities.
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by isx726552 1y ago
I don’t know why you’re being downvoted. It is absolutely in the cards for the ownership class to send out swarms of drones to kill us all. The best we can hope for is to all end up in permanent slums picking through garbage to survive. One
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by isx726552 1y ago
Really curious to know what the test shots from Boss Films looked like! Richard Edlund’s team’s work on various films of the 80s was impeccable (including Ghostbusters, Die Hard, Big Trouble in Little China, and more). They were the inherit
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by isx726552 1y ago
> fraud Prove it. They keep saying “fraud” without proof of anything other than just spending they disagree with. Spending, I might add, which was previously duly authorized by Congress. The use of the word “fraud” is a smoke screen. To
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by isx726552 2y ago
Not the person you’re replying to, but there used to be regulations limiting ownership of radio & TV stations in the US. When these regulations were lifted in the 1990s, it resulted in one company (Clear Channel) going on just such a bu
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by isx726552 2y ago
Did you read the links I posted? They can be made from dandelions. More info can be found in this previous thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37727040 Personally I would love to see a world of 100% transit, bicycl
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by isx726552 2y ago
Here is a comment thread on HN from a while back with more info: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37727040 It really doesn’t sound all that infeasible, just would require some investment to build momentum.
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by isx726552 2y ago
This is why a move to natural latex rubber tires is necessary. Companies have experimented with them[1][2] but a world-wide switchover should be in the works. [1] https://www.continental-tires.com/about/sustainability&#
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by isx726552 2y ago
> This contract was signed in December, during the Biden administration You’ve posted this comment more than once without proof. Here is a comment from someone else which indicates (with references!) that it is part of a procurement fore
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by isx726552 2y ago
Now there are news articles saying Tesla was “removed” just because it was reworded to say “electric vehicles” instead: https://time.com/7221880/state-department-2025-procurement-f... I doubt any reasonable person sinc
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by isx726552 2y ago
They keep claiming to find “fraud” but to me it just looks like spending on things they don’t like.

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