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

FrancisMoodie — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 06:53:29 +0000

But doesn't the fact that WE have to feed the existing chats back into it and WE have to do further RL prove that your point is moot? Consciousness does not wait to be prompted. Consciousness does not need anything fed back into it because it is already there because they experienced the actual interaction. A conscious mind does not have an on/off switch where it waits for another being to flip the switch in order for it to learn or experience. These systems are static without human intervention. They are in that sense still a lot more like a computer and a lot less like a living organism that exists.

New comment by FrancisMoodie in "Iranians describe scenes of catastrophe after Tehran's oil depots bombed"

FrancisMoodie — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:35:04 +0000

This comment is being down-voted because this post isn't talking in favor the Iranian regime, it is talking about the atrocities that the people of Iran are having to live through, how their own government is self destructing and willing to take everyone with them, so a post about whom the regime has supported feels like it's missing the mark.

No one in this thread is thinking "This makes me like the Iranian regime" or "this is in favor of the Iranian regime". And so ofcourse your pro-Israel comments are even more besides the point, especially because this article is about the suffering of the Iranian people and you're take is "HN is anti-Israel whilst believing it is pro-Israel". HN isn't a single person, it's a lot of people with differing opinions and sometimes you'll have a pro-X sentiment and another time it might go the other way.

Also labeling 'pedophilia' as a 'conspiratorial trope' kind of defeats your entire comment, but maybe that's just me.

New comment by FrancisMoodie in "Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War"

FrancisMoodie — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 08:50:17 +0000

Ofcourse we're gonna compare being against the use of technology for Mass surveillance/Autonomous weapons with being racist, like wtf kind of argument is this? So because businesses can't implement racist policies they shouldn't be allowed to have any policies concerning the use of their tech? Mindblowing.

New comment by FrancisMoodie in "IDF killed Gaza aid workers at point blank range in 2025 massacre: Report"

FrancisMoodie — Wed, 25 Feb 2026 06:53:38 +0000

Journalism isn't valued by how many opinions have changed, it is there to report on stories that are or have happened. You ask for consequences in your comment but how can there be consequences if there are no reports? Absolutely baffling take.

New comment by FrancisMoodie in "AI Added 'Basically Zero' to US Economic Growth Last Year, Goldman Sachs Says"

FrancisMoodie — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 13:34:14 +0000

Yes, and AGI will cure cancer, Alzheimers, Huntingtons and all other diseases known to man... by killing us all. /scifi

New comment by FrancisMoodie in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"

FrancisMoodie — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:51:18 +0000

Something I think people forget when it comes to the valuation of bitcoin is just how much of it is used to fund illegal activities (Betting, Drugs, anything on the darkweb,...). I honestly believe much of the valuation is linked to that, but I have no source or proof.

New comment by FrancisMoodie in "Surely the crash of the US economy has to be soon"

FrancisMoodie — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:44:51 +0000

If all companies fire 50% of their engineers, how will anybody find similar new jobs? In an ideal world software productivity doubling WOULD be a huge boon for the economy IF companies used the increased productivity of their engineers as a way to manage tech debt, R&D and other issues that were put in the backlog because historically there were no resources for this. In reality all companies look at increased productivity as a source for layoffs which does not translate in higher output but the same output done by less people. Which is a net negative because now you have 50% of all engineers without a job and no discernible increase in quality of deliverables.

New comment by FrancisMoodie in "Two days of oatmeal reduce cholesterol level"

FrancisMoodie — Fri, 30 Jan 2026 12:30:22 +0000

They had a control group who also went on a reduced calorie deficit but without oats and found that the oats eating group had a much higher decrease of cholesterol, it's in the article.

New comment by FrancisMoodie in "In Europe, wind and solar overtake fossil fuels"

FrancisMoodie — Fri, 23 Jan 2026 06:35:18 +0000

I don't understand why it always has to be one or the other? Why can't we have both? More sources of energy means more reliable energy distribution, multiple fail-safes, in summer there is more solar, in fall there is more wind, in winter we probably need power plants to uphold the need for energy so everyone can stay warm. But this polarization of things, just like with politics, is so stupid. They all have pro's and con's. We should be investing in all of them, maintaining as much different sources of energy as possible and reassess the situation over time. Or am I missing something in your comment?

New comment by FrancisMoodie in "Everyone in Seattle hates AI"

FrancisMoodie — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 07:12:46 +0000

Bitcoin and other crypto coins have a practical use. You can use them to buy whatever is being sold on the darkweb with the main product categories being drugs and guns. I honestly believe much of the valuation of Crypto is tied to these marketplaces.

New comment by FrancisMoodie in "OpenAI needs to raise at least $207B by 2030"

FrancisMoodie — Thu, 27 Nov 2025 09:24:55 +0000

I wanna push back on this a little, sure, openAI has a certain level of detail in it's dataset because of the fact that you actually have conversations with it in order to use their product, but we're talking about a short window of time since the inception of ChatGPT. Google has all your searches (if you use google.com) and all of your browsing history (if you use a chromium based browser) and all of your emails (if you use gmail.com) and they have been adding to this dataset for a lot longer. Personally I stopped using google.com and I have tried my hardest to avoid Chromium-based web-browsers in the last 5-10 years but they still have a hefty dataset of all of my actions before that or when I'm on a (work) computer that forces me to use their systems. Because of this I'm not entirely sure OpenAI knows my intent better than Google, purely based on amount of data processed.

New comment by FrancisMoodie in "Sora 2"

FrancisMoodie — Wed, 01 Oct 2025 06:13:26 +0000

> So why is the assumption that AI will magically delete all jobs while discounting the fact that it will create careers we haven’t even thought of?

I think that in a vacuum you could reasonably believe that this might be the case but I feel like it isn't just about the technology these days, it's about the hunger c-suites and tech companies have for replacing workforce with ai and/or automation. It's quite clear that layoffs and mass adoption of AI/automation raises shareholder value so there is no incentive to create new jobs.

Will there be an organic shift away from Tech/IT/Computers into new fields? It might, but I think it's a bit naive to think that this will be proportionate to the careers AI will make redundant when there is such a big focus on eliminating as much jobs as possible in lieu of AI.

New comment by FrancisMoodie in "We already live in social credit, we just don't call it that"

FrancisMoodie — Wed, 03 Sep 2025 07:23:49 +0000

What? They don't check your credit score where I live (west-eu). They check your pay slip to see how much you make monthly and if it your rent is less than half your paycheck they can decide to let you rent. After that is a two or three month downpayment that is locked in a seperate bank account specifically for this use and is released at the end of the lease. If there is no damage to the rental unit you get back your full amount, depending on what damage is found, the downpayment is used to fix that.

New comment by FrancisMoodie in "Google AI Overview made up an elaborate story about me"

FrancisMoodie — Tue, 02 Sep 2025 06:50:47 +0000

This is such a weird argument. People were dumping on google because they had already been working on LLM's and machine learning products for quite a few years before Chatgpt released their first public model, and with how much capital and talent google has it was justified criticism how they now also fell behind this piece of new technology. This was before we knew the extent of hallucinations and were still under the impression that they would soon be solved. Now we can clearly see that hallucinations are a problem, especially when you're summarizing information on top of a search query, which yes, they should at least be careful about when releasing, so things like this issue don't happen.

New comment by FrancisMoodie in "I Don't Have Spotify"

FrancisMoodie — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 11:10:19 +0000

And it pays artists a fair share per stream, a lot more than other major streaming platforms.

New comment by FrancisMoodie in "The great displacement is already well underway?"

FrancisMoodie — Wed, 14 May 2025 11:28:18 +0000

Genuine question but since when is being a "survivor" a politically loaded label? Is this an American thing?

New comment by FrancisMoodie in "Universe expected to decay in 10⁷⁸ years, much sooner than previously thought"

FrancisMoodie — Tue, 13 May 2025 07:06:10 +0000

Could you expand on your comment that life has entropy moving from high to low? Doesn't aging increase the entropy in our biological system? I have always thought that we are at our most structured in the early phases of conception with entropy increasing constantly as we age.

New comment by FrancisMoodie in "Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders"

FrancisMoodie — Mon, 28 Apr 2025 06:51:48 +0000

It says in the article that people who lose their drivers license on account of speeding usually keep on driving anyway. I also feel like this is already the case in a lot of countries yet speeding still exists so I don't know if I agree that this is this simple solution no one is thinking of.

New comment by FrancisMoodie in "Whistleblower tells senators that Meta undermined U.S. security, interests"

FrancisMoodie — Thu, 10 Apr 2025 07:16:16 +0000

I get your point, but also, so what? The point of this whistle-blowing is that the public gets to make informed decisions about these companies that provide us with services that much of us use daily, and that the government gets a chance to figure out whether this is the truth or not and take actions accordingly. It's not about who is guilty right now but what needs to be done to prevent this in the future, IMO.

And whatever she might be guilty of doing, the chances of her ever having the same access to sensitive information in any company has gone drastically down after coming forward with this information.

New comment by FrancisMoodie in "Italy moves to reverse anti-nuclear stance"

FrancisMoodie — Tue, 04 Mar 2025 13:58:40 +0000

Huh, so you're claiming that GDP data and such is not correct? Any source on that? Because I see multiple sources reporting that in 2023 the GDP of Russia was $2,009,959M and that of Italy was $2,300,941M, although Italy has a higher debt %. Which would confirm the original posters claim considering Italy is a much, much smaller country than Russia. What I find a common trope is people claiming facts are incorrect without stating proof.