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New comment by Gooblebrai in "Ask HN: Did Anthropic Just Win?"

Gooblebrai — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:25:25 +0000

Not on image generation

New comment by Gooblebrai in "Making peace with your unlived dreams (2023)"

Gooblebrai — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:13:15 +0000

Any specific recommendations?

New comment by Gooblebrai in "Biohub releases a world model of protein biology"

Gooblebrai — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 12:32:49 +0000

The world of uncertainty and the idea that we might not be able to understand everything or control it as much as we'd like.

It seems to me a lot of the modern "tech-bro culture" is trying to control the future and reduce uncertainty: Stop death, merge with the robotic super intelligence, colonize Mars to escape Earth inevitable decay, etc.

I'm still waiting for the startups claiming to reduce entropy or solve the false vacuum decay

Siddhartha (1922): Competence Porn – before it was cool

Gooblebrai — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:18:50 +0000

Article URL: https://acxreviews.robennals.org/reviews/siddhartha-1922-by-hermann-hesse

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48417628

Points: 5

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

Gooblebrai — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 23:43:57 +0000

Strange Days

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

Gooblebrai — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:54:13 +0000

> I have a hard time seeing why molecules could produce consciousness from an electro-chemical path, but not from a purely electrical path.

Do you have any particular reasoning behind this? I could equally say that I have a hard time seeing why molecules could produce consciousness from a purely electrical path.

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

Gooblebrai — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 22:39:52 +0000

> You have them because some signals come in from your nerves, which your brain turns into a world model. You are effectively a "brain in a vat", the vat just happens to be placed on top of your body

I think we give too much credit to the brain. The gut has almost as many neurons as a dog's brain and the heart has neurons too. "You" are more likely the whole ecosystem, not just your brain. There are even some hypothesis of disorders like depression being more influenced by the gut than the brain.

Against the Singularity Hypothesis (2024)

Gooblebrai — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:32:45 +0000

Article URL: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11098-024-02143-5

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48404918

Points: 13

# Comments: 0

New comment by Gooblebrai in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

Gooblebrai — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:22:34 +0000

Fair point on the outsourcing. Although I'd argue that one practical difference is that one device doesn't distract you from being present when you have the person in front of you (presumably because you will have to read the details appearing in the glasses).

Also, I take it that the next logical (and worrisome) step to something like that is to record the conversations so the AI can summarise and extract the important data from the conversation for it to be later accessible, which is going to bring us into the ultimate performative scenario. Young people nowadays are already aware that anyone could be recording their most embarrassing moments; recording everything we say would be worse.

New comment by Gooblebrai in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

Gooblebrai — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:36:59 +0000

Sorry that you have to deal with this condition. What method do you use currently to help with recognising them?

New comment by Gooblebrai in "Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses"

Gooblebrai — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 20:34:35 +0000

> have an instant summary in front of you you reminding you of someone's birthday, the names of their kids

"How much outsourcing of your mind do you want to give to technology?" "Yes"

If you really can't remember all the details of people that you want to remember, you can always write those details on your phone or trusty Rolodex after you meet them and then check them out before you meet them again if you must.

New comment by Gooblebrai in "Laid off. Broke. Depressed. & idk how to market my SaaS"

Gooblebrai — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 19:03:32 +0000

> consistent on X for 3 months

Is the audience of your SaaS on X?

The Stamp Collector (2015)

Gooblebrai — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:11:54 +0000

Article URL: https://mindingourway.com/the-stamp-collector/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48402410

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by Gooblebrai in "I was recently diagnosed with anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis"

Gooblebrai — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 22:30:09 +0000

Can you tell more technical details on how did you approach the research?

New comment by Gooblebrai in "Can we have the day off?"

Gooblebrai — Fri, 29 May 2026 14:51:52 +0000

Software engineers with a network and sales skills

New comment by Gooblebrai in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

Gooblebrai — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:12:22 +0000

I'm curious, before you knew about this article, why were you willing to be an organ donor?

New comment by Gooblebrai in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

Gooblebrai — Thu, 21 May 2026 13:04:44 +0000

Source: Bioenhancement Center (SMAC), Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri

New comment by Gooblebrai in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

Gooblebrai — Thu, 21 May 2026 07:57:03 +0000

That's what I love about this short in particular. Existential Sci-Fi!

New comment by Gooblebrai in "Not alive, but not dead: disembodied human brains used for drug testing"

Gooblebrai — Wed, 20 May 2026 23:50:39 +0000

> the doctor explained to me that I would be awake for part of the procedure, but the anesthesia meant that I would have no memory of it

The short story "Transition Dreams" by Greg Egan touches on this concept

New comment by Gooblebrai in "AI, "Humanity", and Dr. Manhattan Syndrome: A Communications Intervention"

Gooblebrai — Tue, 19 May 2026 23:16:35 +0000

Suspected so at midway reading.

Sad, because I think he has an interesting point but he started going too long on it and that's where I started to question the writing