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cluckindan··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
The rest of the nervous system
cluckindan··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
A fundamental misunderstanding of consciousness is to attribute it entirely to the brain.
cluckindan··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
Who cares?

AI models alone are most suitable for producing text nobody wants to read, music nobody wants to hear, images nobody wants to see, and videos nobody wants to watch.

Navigating around that maelstrom requires considerable effort from a human consciousness.

If your job can be fully replaced by an autonomous agent, it was already a bullshit job. Garbage in, garbage out.

cluckindan··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
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That’s a new record!

Also, please don’t use archive.is/archive.today etc, they are known to use visitor browsers as a DDoS attack botnet and have been caught altering archived content.

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cluckindan··on Pwnd Blaster: Hacking your PC using your speaker without ever touching it
Flash worm into device and RMA it. Boom.
cluckindan··on Malicious npm packages detected across Red Hat Cloud Services
It’s kind of insane this doesn’t happen in the publish pipeline by default.
cluckindan··on I found a seashell in the middle of the desert
In the middle of a desert?
cluckindan··on We suggest using living spiders as cooling devices for data centers (2020)
Finally, a C-suite position!
cluckindan··on Claude Opus 4.8
As far as it has been studied, the relationship between model size and capability is inversely logarithmic: 10x increase in params less than doubles capability.
cluckindan··on AI sticker shock hits corporate America
You get what you measure.
cluckindan··on YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
The average person sees a synthesizer keyboard and thinks ”piano”.
cluckindan··on YouTube to automatically label AI-generated videos
Thing is, if you are not a person who blends into the mass of ”normal”, you need to tell the story of your life. You already stick out like a sore thumb, and you need to explain to others why.

In other words, you need to be in control of your own narrative, or someone else will do it for you to fill the void. For example, someone can use cold reading to deduce what others suspect and fear and then paint you in that specific light, essentially planting individually targeted nasty rumours about you while increasing their rapport with others. That kind of rumours tend to spread.

Eventually you become the outcast in your social circles and you will be hard pressed to regain control of ”you” in the eyes of others.

cluckindan··on Where does next-token prediction leave us?
”We drop the bomb ourselves.”
cluckindan··on AI scans 400k Reddit posts and finds hidden Ozempic side effects
This will lead to more manipulation of GLP-1-adjacent stock prices.
cluckindan··on AI errno(2) values
207 is a bald move
cluckindan··on Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD
That’s probably because many opioids are ligands of both mu and kappa receptors.

Menthol, for example, only activates the kappa receptor: accidentally overdosing on pure menthol felt to me like immediate doom was approaching and nothing would ever again be fine.

I don’t eat anything menthol-flavored any more. It seems like an operant conditioning agent masquerading as a flavor.

cluckindan··on Australia Four-Day Work Week Study Data Shows Boosted Productivity
By inductive logic, a zero day week works best.
cluckindan··on The four-day workweek in Australia: insights from early adopters of 100:80:100
But how will a consulting company bill for the 20%?
cluckindan··on JWT is a scam and your app doesn't need it
Almost every OAuth2 service out there does exactly that: access token for client/bff, refresh token in HttpOnly cookie.

It’s a lot of work to get it right in SSR environments, since both the bff and the frontend need to be able to refresh the access token (preferably transparently during an in-flight request). Even then, access tokens really should expire within a minute or two, not hours or days.

cluckindan··on Who Wins and Who Loses in Prediction Markets? Evidence from Polymarket
They can be in cases where investment lenders don’t have 100% capital requirements, but that’s generally no different from other banks.
cluckindan··on IRS Must Drop Audits of Trump and Family
Congratulations to USA for becoming a stereotypical Eastern European dictatorship.
cluckindan··on Show HN: I made a 3D pose maker for artists
Why not both?
cluckindan··on Show HN: We missed Winamp, so we built an audio player for macOS
DJ mode seems useless for DJ’s and smells like feature creep. KISS, YAGNI.
cluckindan··on Prolog Basics Explained with Pokémon
”I am about to describe the mechanics of a children’s video game in great detail”

Prolog must be an adult programming language :)

cluckindan··on Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD
Kappa-opioid receptor activation causes a person to feel intense dissociative dysphoria. Pretty much the opposite of why people use opioids.
cluckindan··on Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD
No, you are just wrong.
cluckindan··on Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD
Bring back lobotomy!
cluckindan··on Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD
Anecdotal, but I had a friend who had ECT for their depressive symptoms.

They ended their life a few years afterwards.

So no, ”very often works on depression” is not a characterization I would use.

cluckindan··on WHO declares Ebola outbreak a global health emergency
That would set a terrible precedent for all other areas suffering from poverty.
cluckindan··on Kraftwerk's radical 1976 track
That’s because nobody is allowed to settle there. Living in Parkersburg, WV is arguably more dangerous due to the water contamination, it just hasn’t been designated an exclusion zone.

Check out some videos by Chornobyl Family and you’ll see the state of the environment there.

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