ericmay

> Why have we suddenly decided to DIY our own redundant power sources? Because government is failing to address these issues? Back in Trumpistan we had some storms roll through my area the other da…

Just saying "that's a logical fallacy" doesn't make it so. Running away from challenges to your stated opinions or arguments doesn't make them correct either. If you really wa…

> It does, in precisely the way I described. Your comment was not engaging with the point they brought up. Ok that's incorrect because I did engage with the point they brought up in that comme…

Can you? Ok you're right. We've all agreed Canada should be the 51st State [1]. Or did you have a different menu in mind? [1] I don't like this talk, I'm just using it as an exampl…

Use of non-sequitur doesn't apply to me here. The OP was responding to "government run Facebook?" and the premise is "we need Facebook-style technology to do XYZ things like plan e…

Well, in this case I will "leave it" as a clear refutation of all your previous points. :)

Saying twice now “you didn’t engage with my premise” when someone points out a flaw in your premise or otherwise exposes the weakness in your premise.

I just like to read articles and debate things. I use Claude but don’t have too strong of an opinion on any specific model provider.

> So what is the service Facebook actually provides then? A way to manage communities and events. A way to find, connect, and communicate with others. I don’t have Facebook or use any social media …

> I say China is not starting any wars, you gesture at some vague "not behaving nicely" as if this is equivalent to a war or some damning proof that they will start a war - these are nowh…

Sure but that's all aligned with what I wrote here.

This doesn’t make a lot of sense to me. First, maybe we can just eventually require Flock cameras to also record only to encrypted storage accessible by a judicial warrant. Presumably you are perfectl…

Well I certainly wouldn't, but it's a cultural symbol of America and so when you think anti-American I'd think things like tearing down the symbols that represent our nation would proba…

Yea but if they just oppose the current administration isn't that just being anti-Trump instead of anti-American? His administration is just some other administration that'll come and go lik…

> I am very pro the "dream" of America, in terms of liberty, democracy, etc. According to every "democracy index" I'm aware of we're not doing so hot in that regard, g…

> America is becoming increasingly oligarchic and corrupt with decades of experience of companies profiting off harming people and lying through their teeth and Meta is like one of the worst offen…

When you say you are anti-American, what do you mean by that? Are you, for example, wishing for the demise of the United States? Do you want to tear down the 1st Amendment and the Statue of Liberty? A…

I don't think that's entirely true. As an example you can look at how the European Union is increasingly putting up trade barriers with China and identifying opportunities for new rules and …

I'm certainly pro-America and anti-communist/fascist as a bias, but I don't really care about whether AI tools are open-weight or not. I just use the products that best fit my needs. I …

I can see changes but I'm not sure about flat tariffs going away completely. One of the reasons for those is because what China will do to avoid American tariffs is to basically try and set up sh…

Not applied accurately with respect to my comment, but it is a funny one and also new to me in the naming.

> I don't think there's a strong consensus on Hacker News. Even something like the time of day an article is posted might get different engagement depending on who is active in which tim…

It’s rather amusing to me to read comments like this, and then simultaneously whenever a Chinese company or team releases open-weight models or whatever there is a giant round of applause, America is …

Sure it can end up with a different policy which may or may not be as effective, but the goals are the same. So trying to divorce the two parties here is also a bit of nonsense.

I think as a counter point we continue to see investment and buildout. What do you mean the market is more skeptical? Of course the market doesn’t really have an opinion per se and aren’t all of these…

> It’s unclear where American labs future capital will come from. It’s unclear to you, perhaps? But they’ll raise funds and/or debt as needed in the US capital markets as they have been doing.…

> Immigration is clearly economic policy. Sure but it's not strictly an economic policy. If you want to just talk about the economics of immigration I'd be happy to discuss that. I think …

It's not just the French! I'm obsessed with it too. It's fantastic.

Sure they have an effect but are they economic policies? If you want to take the approach that everything is an economic policy I guess we could do that, but I think it's a bit limiting. I guess …