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sim04ful··on Could a computer scientist build a brain?
Imo, thinking is just adaptation happening on a shorter timescale.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_arch

It's doing all that it can.

sim04ful··on Could a computer scientist build a brain?
Imo, there isn't anything fundamentally special about the brain as a cognitive substrate. Even a pool of water could have cognition (reservoir computing), i feel that it's a general property that can emerge in any sufficiently high-dimensional physical system with enough internal degrees of freedom to explore many configurations, and enough coupling and stability to remain coherent, and enough plasticity for experience to leave persistent changes in its future dynamics.

And subjecting such a system to sustained external objective pressure...where some internal organisations perform better than others and it would progressively accumulate some useful structure about its environment.

The brain is just a really old artefact of billions of years of blind environmental weathering of matter being repeatedly shaped by the requirement that its host continue to exist as a coherent, persistent entity.

In short the brain is not fundamentally special in the principles that make cognition feasible.

What i'm trying to say in response to this article is that he's working at a far higher level of abstraction than is required. It's putting software before physics.

Also this somewhat chimes the same tune from the bitter lesson; it’s extremely non-trivial to reverse-engineer from the top down the residue of eons of evolutionary search. You’re basically trying to infer some smarter way of achieving this one absurdly overfit artefact it left behind...won't be betting against the full brunt of mother nature's massively parallel search.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolved_antenna

sim04ful··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
Could you by any chance, share the conversation link here ? there's a share button at the top right
sim04ful··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
Thanks for the feedback, working on it.
sim04ful··on Ask HN: What are you working on? (August 2026)
https://design.withfudge.com.

It gives agents the ability to find website design references to improve their design skills via the mcp - https://design.withfudge.com/mcp

You can also critic your existing designs against competition.

sim04ful··on Harness engineering for self-improvement
All this work for something we already solved 40+ years ago with ontologies and expert systems
sim04ful··on Show HN: Drop your site, get design feedback based on similar sites
Tokens cost money, there's got to be some gating to prevent abuse.
sim04ful··on DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
That's an absolutely terrible idea for any non-trivial project consuming it.
sim04ful··on DeepSeek V4 Flash 0731 Intelligence, Performance and Price Analysis
I can't help but feel the timing coinciding with luna's price updates to be somewhat strategic. But without multi-modality it's slightly dead-in-the-water for my usecase: https://design.withfudge.com. I'm currently using Minimax-M3, but Luna ekes out abit futher on the intelligence, so i'll be switching to it very soon.
sim04ful··on DeepSeek-V4-Flash Update
Why didn't they increment the version as atleast a patch update
sim04ful··on Jack Dorsey launches Buzz to combine team chat, AI agents and Git hosting
Maybe I'm missing something, but it feels like the economics of software are shifting. If companies can afford software tailored to their exact workflows for less than the annual cost of a single engineer, what does the moat of a traditional SaaS company become?
sim04ful··on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling
If there's any hope for AI sovereignty and equality, we would have to either make expensive models cheap to run or make cheaper models do less work.

Making the latter happen involves either reformulating work in ways less intelligent LLMs can work better with. Or condensing intelligence into smaller models.

sim04ful··on Kimi K3, Qwen 3.8, and Anthropic's (Potential) Unravelling
I'm not sure about the harness now: https://github.com/lidge-jun/opencodex
sim04ful··on HMD Touch 4G
I recently found my old Nokia Lumia 800.it behaved rather smoothly with the metro ui, ofcourse nothing worked aside phone calls
sim04ful··on Codex Resets
I'm starting to think It might be a good idea to stay with American models, by virtue of them feeling so threatened they give out more and more free perks.
sim04ful··on Hardcore IndieWeb: Run your own website 100% independently for only $0.01/day
The cost doesn't really matter as much as the payment methods, especially at that price point.

Payment methods are inherently discriminatory.

sim04ful··on If You Build It, They Will Come
This is indeed part of the something i've been internalising for quite a while. I've always felt i needed to improve my social circle by finding/making one, but i realised it's better to just have hobbies and skill sets that make me useful and relevant to a certain niche and then my circle would naturally arise from there.

It's also why i'm trying to participate more here, even with the crippling imposters syndrome that prevents me from contributing anything...It's so difficult actively participating in a group that seemingly got cultivated from a culture somewhat alien to my own upbringing.

sim04ful··on Show HN: Spellsurf – Create words from words
Some of my favorites: Disquake obvermeiled obinn

i'm curious how did you make the two word-gen merge so naturally ?

sim04ful··on Show HN: Spellsurf – Create words from words
I love this. It's so difficult to coin words that both sound familiar but are unique.
sim04ful··on Brainless: Shadcn components that look like Claude Code, Codex and Grok
I love this!
sim04ful··on Cyberpunk Comics, Manga and Graphic Novels
I've honestly not ever considered Ghost in the shell to be under the cyberpunk genre. It's too clean and the characters too ingrained in the working of the system. And the system "works", it's not a sanitised depiction, gits society feels much like our own with a detailed techno-realism it's a society still at the transitional point to something more radical; exemplified by humans still doing very manual things - take for example that classic scene from the 1995 film, where the man uses multiple fingers to extremely fast into a terminal, this would seem impressive but pales in comparison to a direct cyberbrain connection, they still have terminals because this is a world still in transition. Another of my favourite but less known scenes is this scene from gitsac: https://paul.kishimoto.name/2017/01/barcodes/
sim04ful··on An agent in 100 lines of Lisp
Prolog would have been a better choice
sim04ful··on GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra produces proof of the Cycle Double Cover Conjecture [pdf]
I find it somewhat interesting only 1/5th of the prompt has to do with the actual problem, rest is just cajoling the harness into shape.
sim04ful··on Computation as a universal and fundamental concept
I really do think matter wants to be sentient, being sentient is natural. Why i think that exactly, i'm not sure why, it just seems intuitive.
sim04ful··on Good Tools Are Invisible
I would also say good tools have better "physics" they've got some coherent internal model that is somewhat easy to intuit about.
sim04ful··on EVE Online's Carbon engine is now open source: Fenris Creations explains why
Jokes aside apparently they've hired economist to keep the game's market's stable.
sim04ful··on It's not about physical vs. digital games, it's about ownership
Actual digital ownership is what i hoped from NFTs.
sim04ful··on Show HN: Logo Design for Busy Founders
I'm curious, you didn't realize you could click any of the existing logos to edit them ?
sim04ful··on AI can't be listed as inventor on patent applications, Japan's top court rules
One thing i've got to wonder. Would this always remain the case, at what point should society seriously consider the "personhood" of an AI (as a noun).
sim04ful··on AI learns the “dark art” of RFIC design
Then why can't these constraints be encoded into the selection/scoring function ?
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