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libertyiton Show HN: Bigwords.page – Turn any screen into a sign. The URL is the app

Brilliant

libertyiton How many of the 170k English words do you know?

cool

libertyiton Show HN: Mediator.ai – Using Nash bargaining and LLMs to systematize fairness

Brilliant idea. Congratulations, and good luck.

libertyiton Drones that recharge directly on transmission lines

Great name

libertyiton Open Chaos: A self-evolving open-source project

Genius.

libertyiton Ask HN: Why not ban first-person pronouns from conversational AI?

It should be called Artificial Consciousness. The "intelligence" it provides (ie information) is real, just as Google search results are real (albeit often false).

libertyiton Ask HN: Why not ban first-person pronouns from conversational AI?

Thanks for the questions.

> why do you care

I care about the health and happiness of my fellow humans. It's not unusual to seek restrictions for the community if they prevent harm. Seat belts?

> Obviously AI is not conscious

That may be obvious to you and me, but I am absolutely certain that that is not obvious to the majority of mankind, many (most?) of whom have never even contemplated what "consciousness" means.

> I want to understand your impulse to control others

If you saw someone walking into the path of a train while scrolling on their phone, wouldn't you reach out to stop them? Or would that just be your "impulse to control others"?

> I ask these questions not to be combative.

In my version of reality, questions are never combative.

libertyiton The Number That Turned Sideways

> Who decided √−1 belongs on a vertical axis?

It really doesn't. The imaginary axis is symmetrical and it makes sense to make it horizontal - there's no intrinsic physical difference between left and right. But it makes sense to map the real axis +ve/-ve onto (gravitational) up/down. That's why the Mandelbrot set looks so much more beautiful with that orientation (as it's displayed at https://fractal.institute/introduction-to-fractals/how-to-ge...) - it's a Buddha!