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New comment by 2snakes in "Early 2000s were peak of humanity"

2snakes — Mon, 31 Aug 2026 12:56:04 +0000

Yimspeak.

New comment by 2snakes in "The Future Belongs to the Weird"

2snakes — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:01:03 +0000

Dean Radin talked about psi genes that witches may have had in an interview with Rogan. When someone is acting truly unpredictably then normies are afraid.

New comment by 2snakes in "Finger: the 1971 social network that never died"

2snakes — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 17:02:06 +0000

A gun? Lmao

New comment by 2snakes in "Prevent cognitive debt by manually retyping LLM-generated code"

2snakes — Mon, 03 Aug 2026 14:36:24 +0000

Llms are a relational responsive reasoning interface, not a mind.

New comment by 2snakes in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"

2snakes — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 22:57:58 +0000

it is just your imagination that has been captured in scifi extrapolations. Humans are the ones that learn millions of times faster lol, based on how little information they need. computational bandwidth for statistical word patterns versus sample efficiency.

New comment by 2snakes in "Terence Tao: Mathematics in the Age of AI [pdf]"

2snakes — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 22:45:42 +0000

You could have said the same thing about mainframes in the past? I am talking about smaller open source models not huge ones that need spaceships to run.

New comment by 2snakes in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"

2snakes — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:56:29 +0000

Um, functional computationalism is scifi, not physics in re consciousness. It assigns the same level of reality to written numeric patterns of a dog as to a real dog. And your self for that matter. How can you prove numbers exist physically?

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014976342...

“Fringe theory” is just a knee jerk authoritarianism for method in re knowledge claims.

Classical functionalism is only mainstream if one prioritizes abstract modeling over empirical brain science.

New comment by 2snakes in "Terence Tao: Mathematics in the Age of AI [pdf]"

2snakes — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 17:41:18 +0000

Open source intellectual power though. The promise of the personal computer.

New comment by 2snakes in "The Dark Night of Mathematics"

2snakes — Sat, 25 Jul 2026 23:59:55 +0000

Are you numeric?

Biological computationalism disagrees with substrate independence.

New comment by 2snakes in "Terence Tao's ChatGPT conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture counterexample"

2snakes — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 22:30:49 +0000

Yeah. Artificial knowledge not artificial intelligence.

New comment by 2snakes in "Germany maybe found a new source of renewable energy"

2snakes — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 22:48:22 +0000

Iron air batteries.

New comment by 2snakes in "France powers down several nuclear reactors due to extreme heat"

2snakes — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:48:41 +0000

Is it iron-air batteries?

New comment by 2snakes in "Why study Diophantine equations?"

2snakes — Sun, 12 Jul 2026 18:24:06 +0000

In Science I think this phenomenon is called consilience.

New comment by 2snakes in "AI 2040 and the cult of intelligence"

2snakes — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 19:21:31 +0000

Yah, another way of putting this is theory-ladenness of hyperreality of personal world model (rationality vs empiricism).

New comment by 2snakes in "The fall of the theorem economy"

2snakes — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:36:02 +0000

It is like an idiot savant, just really widely read enough to seem creative when it tries some obscure thing. see First Proof though if you haven’t.

More divergent type than convergent like ramanujan.

New comment by 2snakes in "The fall of the theorem economy"

2snakes — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 23:27:06 +0000

Said like a true formalist. Mathematical insight is a pretty creative act of consciousness. The formalization of it tends to come after.

New comment by 2snakes in "Words Are a Byproduct of Consciousness. For LLMs, It's Backwards"

2snakes — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 14:38:55 +0000

I do not think the written description of a dog is the same as a dog itself…

New comment by 2snakes in "How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math"

2snakes — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:32:52 +0000

Social constructivism is tougher and tougher than “just tools.” Could the so-called “addictiveness” consist partly of the many other devices smartphones replaced? Sure, some attention economy but also just turn off the data?

New comment by 2snakes in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang"

2snakes — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 04:12:28 +0000

One def I know of is that consciousness is a broad term for infinite meaningful information and finite brain-filtered awareness both.

New comment by 2snakes in "AI has a multiplying effect on existing technical skills"

2snakes — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:32:15 +0000

Yeah… it is because thats the most impactful way to influence, also used by intelligence agencies. Sort of says something about where language leads deterministically.