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New comment by H8crilA in "How much of Thermo Fisher's antibody data has been manipulated?"

H8crilA — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 13:03:14 +0000

Why would you even generate fake pictures of this type? Don't you already have real ones? I mean, it's actually more work, unless you don't have the real ones.

New comment by H8crilA in "Data centers consumed 264B gallons of water as drought hits nearly 63% of US"

H8crilA — Sun, 07 Jun 2026 21:56:16 +0000

That's about 0.25% of total water consumption. I.e. the entire country uses about that much per day.

New comment by H8crilA in "Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"

H8crilA — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 12:47:26 +0000

Why would it ever be more economical to put datacenters in orbit, rather than on some dirt cheap land?

New comment by H8crilA in "India's surprise baby bust"

H8crilA — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 15:13:34 +0000

Every single population goes through a baby bust when a certain level of development is achieved - women education seems to be a particularly strongly correlated sub-component.

New comment by H8crilA in "Artificial intelligence is not conscious"

H8crilA — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 20:23:04 +0000

Yes, that is the definition of consciousness (you care about them).

New comment by H8crilA in "Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute"

H8crilA — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 21:16:44 +0000

Latest filing, as of end of March 2026, shows $126.8B in total cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities:

https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001652044/0...

I guess they don't want to burn it down to $40B?

New comment by H8crilA in "Dav2d"

H8crilA — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 11:03:47 +0000

Dav3.1416d

New comment by H8crilA in "It's Not Just X. It's Y"

H8crilA — Sun, 31 May 2026 23:05:07 +0000

It's not just an unlock. It's a major discovery.

New comment by H8crilA in "Greg Brockman interview [video]"

H8crilA — Sun, 24 May 2026 10:30:44 +0000

As far as Brockman account of the past goes, there's also his personal diary which was made public as a part of that lawsuit by Musk. Includes for example the line: "Financially what will take me to $1B?". BTW, if you don't know, Musk lost it because he filed too late, lol.

New comment by H8crilA in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

H8crilA — Fri, 22 May 2026 15:38:08 +0000

That was my point, make it so that apps can run on that RAM budget. At least some apps.

New comment by H8crilA in "The memory shortage is causing a repricing of consumer electronics"

H8crilA — Fri, 22 May 2026 11:57:15 +0000

It would make memory-poor phones more viable. Like why can't we have a 512MB, or even 256MB RAM phone. Although I doubt that the software effort would be cheaper than just buying the extra RAM. It's definitely much more uncertain.

New comment by H8crilA in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

H8crilA — Tue, 19 May 2026 01:50:46 +0000

I'm trolling, figured some people would actually spend time thinking about this. Wasn't wrong :)

New comment by H8crilA in "Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD"

H8crilA — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:18:09 +0000

Exactly. Just like paracetamol and autism. Like that's a difficult decision, duh.

New comment by H8crilA in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

H8crilA — Mon, 18 May 2026 11:16:05 +0000

I assure you that I am not conscious (and a human, not an LLM). Therefore at least partial solipsism is true.

New comment by H8crilA in "It is time to give up the dualism introduced by the debate on consciousness"

H8crilA — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:31:39 +0000

I am pretty sure I am not conscious, and this seems to solve the entire problem that other people have.

New comment by H8crilA in "Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD"

H8crilA — Sun, 17 May 2026 23:02:33 +0000

I do wonder how many more people would be open to ECT if instead of using the electrical pulse we would give people some drug that causes a brief seizure. Right after the anesthesia, of course, just like now - but there's no electricity involved. I don't even know if such a safe drug exists.

New comment by H8crilA in "Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD"

H8crilA — Sun, 17 May 2026 19:28:44 +0000

I suggest you read some publications on the topic, and not internet forum conspiracies.

New comment by H8crilA in "Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD"

H8crilA — Sun, 17 May 2026 17:53:50 +0000

My point exactly. I am not saying psychedelics do not help people, they clearly help some people with some problems. But the balance of research and general interest is not proportional to how promising both paths already look. For example, which treatments are safer long term? It's unclear. At the same time it's clear that there can be unwanted long term side effects. In one very particular case, pregnant women that unfortunately do need something, we already know from physics and data on anesthesia that ECT is the better choice.

New comment by H8crilA in "Trials on veterans suggest ibogaine could provide a new treatment for PTSD"

H8crilA — Sun, 17 May 2026 15:06:24 +0000

I always wonder why ECT doesn't get more press. It very very often works on depression (and bipolar disorder, catatonia; anything affective-related really), although the effects may wane over time when the treatment is discontinued. Memory loss is one of the side effects, and it could actually be beneficial here.

New comment by H8crilA in "OpenClaw Creator Spent $1.3M on OpenAI Tokens in 30 Days"

H8crilA — Sat, 16 May 2026 14:11:17 +0000

OpenClaw has surprisingly few "dumb" bugs. Is it as stable and secure as the Linux kernel? God no, obviously not. But it has never just crashed for me, for example. Bugs are of the type "X with Y and Z disabled and T turned on - doesn't work", where you're likely one of a few people that have ever tried this combination. Not to mention it can then debug itself and file a bug report, with a bugfix - if you give it a GitHub token.

I run it in a firewalled VM and am very conscious about any tokens I give it access to - so far for all I know this was unnecessary.

PS. for me the core feature of OpenClaw isn't the cron, though that is nice. It's the memory and instant extensibility. Like it takes 5-15 minutes to add an SSH tool where all agent requests go through a manual review, together with a good auto loaded description that just works in all future sessions.