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New comment by Foskya in "Newly discovered spider builds spring loaded snare to catch ants"

Foskya — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 10:03:38 +0000

It is truly fascinating, I wonder how it evolved like that. Before becoming a spring as it is today how was it hunting in the past? What constraints made it need such a mechanism instead of a typical web?

New comment by Foskya in "Pi is the wrong circle constant"

Foskya — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:11:41 +0000

It is nice to see it submitted other times with nice results. I don't see anything wrong in resubmitting it again during Tau day to spread awareness

Pi is the wrong circle constant

Foskya — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 13:18:30 +0000

Article URL: https://www.tauday.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48707029

Points: 4

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New comment by Foskya in "Big AI labs are hiring philosophers"

Foskya — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 09:07:21 +0000

Animals (humans included) work on the same "framework" (i.e., the brain), so even if the definition of consciousness is fuzzy, we can rank them in a more or less consistent way. LLMs, on the other hand, are just the linguistic part of a brain without anything else. Whether this is enough to be conscious is up for debate (in my opinion no, but that's irrelevant), but it falls outside the spectrum assumption IMO.

New comment by Foskya in "Swiss parliament lifts ban on new nuclear power plants"

Foskya — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 06:57:36 +0000

> we'll have figured out a renewable energy concept that'll handle the load by then"

Seems like wishful thinking. If anything with the current electrical trends there will be even more demand for energy in the future and unless some miracolous clean energy source is invented, nuclear (or fossil fuel) will need to be used

New comment by Foskya in "The user is visibly frustrated"

Foskya — Wed, 27 May 2026 12:04:02 +0000

I've seen a few studies about it. If i remeber correctly, basically making them talk like a caveman increases the information density of every token and decreases the chance that they would allucinate.

As sources this is the one i found but i'm sure there are others: > Persona-based Prompting Has An Effect on Theory-of-Mind Reasoning in Large Language Models > Text Compression as a Proxy for LLM Reasoning Efficiency

New comment by Foskya in "The User Is Visibly Frustrated"

Foskya — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:18:00 +0000

> Id pay to be able to reliably set LLMs to this mode,

You can do it for free. Just give it instrucitons to avoid emotional tones and flattery and it will sound a lot more robotic. If you look into other examples I'm sure you will find other good instructions based on your need

New comment by Foskya in "The user is visibly frustrated"

Foskya — Tue, 26 May 2026 07:04:58 +0000

> They talk like real people. They use a relaxed and friendly tone. They often praise you, and when they “push back” they’re gentle and attentive.

> Maybe I would prefer a more radical solution: drop the human pretense entirely. Make the agent sound clinical, robotic.

Honestly this problem is easy to solve when you gave them the right instructions. It stops being a "relationship" and stars being a tool (for some examples see the smart caveman (my favorite) or just something simple like "Responses should be factual and direct, avoid emotional overtones" or "Avoid flattery of any kind")

New comment by Foskya in "I turned my Kindle into my own personal newspaper"

Foskya — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 06:52:38 +0000

I would suggest to just jailbreak the kindle and automate the workflow with koreader or other "apps"

New comment by Foskya in "Turkish Coffee? Since the 16th Century, It's in the Water"

Foskya — Sun, 22 Mar 2026 21:00:39 +0000

But.. it is not AI? What is giving you that impression?