Hacker News: XMPPwocky

New comment by XMPPwocky in "Running local models is good now"

XMPPwocky — Wed, 17 Jun 2026 17:13:43 +0000

Why is something being human or not relevant here?

New comment by XMPPwocky in "LLMs corrupt your documents when you delegate"

XMPPwocky — Sat, 09 May 2026 17:22:30 +0000

> The difference is that when a human reasoner goes to solve a problem, they'll think "this kind of proof usually goes this way" - following an explicit rule enforcement.

How is this different from "probabilistic pattern selection"?

New comment by XMPPwocky in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"

XMPPwocky — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:35:48 +0000

Hm, say more about what your opinion's based on here?

New comment by XMPPwocky in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"

XMPPwocky — Sun, 03 May 2026 05:34:09 +0000

Hm, it sounds like to you consciousness implies non-determinism, and so determinism implies a lack of consciousness - is that right? If so, why do you think so? And if not, what am I missing?

New comment by XMPPwocky in "When Dawkins met Claude – Could this AI be conscious?"

XMPPwocky — Sun, 03 May 2026 01:03:12 +0000

Yup- the question is "can math be conscious?"

(If you've engaged w/ the literature here, it's quite hard to give a confident "yes". it's also quite hard to give a confident "no"! so then what the heck do we do)

New comment by XMPPwocky in "An Interesting Find: STM32 RDP1 Decryptor"

XMPPwocky — Mon, 02 Mar 2026 19:21:26 +0000

Presumably the decryption key is in the firmware.

New comment by XMPPwocky in "NIST's DeepSeek "evaluation" is a hit piece"

XMPPwocky — Sun, 05 Oct 2025 22:14:49 +0000

I also can't help but note that this blog post itself seems (first to my own intuition and heuristics, but also to both Pangram and GPTZero) to be clearly LLM-generated text.

New comment by XMPPwocky in "Claude Sonnet 4.5"

XMPPwocky — Mon, 29 Sep 2025 17:39:02 +0000

nit: assuming you mean basis points, one basis point is 0.01%. 4.5bp would be 72.7% to 72.71%. this is 450bp!

New comment by XMPPwocky in "Graphene OS: a security-enhanced Android build"

XMPPwocky — Fri, 25 Jul 2025 00:50:46 +0000

How is it a black box? You can get the firmware trivially.

New comment by XMPPwocky in "Javier Milei backtracks on $4.4B memecoin after 'insiders' pocket $87M"

XMPPwocky — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 00:39:31 +0000

I think your pitch would be significantly stronger if the resources you linked didn't largely revolve around "What if Snoop Dogg had his own currency?"

I'm not ... completely unable to be persuaded that there are use cases for cryptocurrency. But "Ashton Kutcher should have Aston Kutchercoin, and develop some sort of referral-based pyramid-shaped scheme with it for his fans" is... what is that?

New comment by XMPPwocky in "High-temperature Gibbs states are unentangled and efficiently preparable"

XMPPwocky — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 10:40:17 +0000

What makes you say that? Have you read serious arguments against this view (ideally from academic philosophers, not somebody like me on HN!)?

New comment by XMPPwocky in "China's 'Wukong' Hit Sells 10M Copies in Three Days"

XMPPwocky — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 02:25:20 +0000

> IGN has accused the game developer for being sexist (based on some poorly translated social media posts) and gave it a low score before properly playing/testing it.

What score did they give it? Because I just checked and they seem to have awarded it an 8 out of 10. I don't follow game reviews, but surely review inflation hasn't gotten so bad that people are on some sort of anti-"woke" bent over an 8 out of 10?

I figured "well maybe they changed it after publication, those sneaky skags", so looked at the ol' Wayback Machine capture for Aug 16th, four days before launch, when the review embargo lifted: https://web.archive.org/web/20240816141422/https://www.ign.c...

8/10 there too- "Despite some frustrating technical issues, Black Myth: Wukong is a great action game with fantastic combat, exciting bosses, tantalizing secrets, and a beautiful world.". Really a horrible thing these journalists have done, ripping into the game like that.

Now, I did also find a report from IGN about 6 months ago that some people claim used "mistranslated quotes". But I don't speak Chinese, and the people online who I've found yelling at IGN about this appear to have used ChatGPT or Google Translate to translate things themselves! So- do you speak Chinese? If not, how do you know the claims of "mistranslation" are correct (again, for a thing that is not a review)?

New comment by XMPPwocky in "Judge dismisses majority of GitHub Copilot copyright claims"

XMPPwocky — Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:16:02 +0000

Could you be more specific? What underclass (and why don't they matter?), and what segregation?

New comment by XMPPwocky in "Your Immune System Is Not a Muscle"

XMPPwocky — Tue, 27 Aug 2024 20:31:43 +0000

Experts in any field are generally not the ones communicating with, and making recommendations to, the public.

New comment by XMPPwocky in "Microwaves: A Haven for Bacterial Diversity"

XMPPwocky — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 17:15:30 +0000

" by the same people that believe whatever they're told by anyone in authority, and then feel the urge to pass it on to others without critical thought."

respectfully, what the hell is this bit doing in your post?

New comment by XMPPwocky in "Artificial intelligence is losing hype"

XMPPwocky — Wed, 21 Aug 2024 04:58:43 +0000

In fact, humans will be running at relativistic speeds within this century, risking the total destruction of the Earth if they should ever trip over something and fall down.

Scary stuff. And it's not science fiction- it's based on real, observed trends and scaling laws. Seems impossible? Well, they said the four-minute mile was impossible, too.

New comment by XMPPwocky in "Galois Theory"

XMPPwocky — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 20:56:50 +0000

Absolutely agree. When I was a kid, I took a MOOC (MITx 6.002x) because I was interested in EE. They said calculus was a prerequisite, which I didn't know yet, but I went ahead anyways; every time the course required calculus, I'd go read the relevant chapters in Strang's Calculus. Felt incredibly natural, and I ended up going through the rest of Strang just for fun- probably the best learning experience I've ever had, and I doubt I'd have ever done it without having the MOOC there to motivate the problem.

New comment by XMPPwocky in "Artists score major win in copyright case against AI art generators"

XMPPwocky — Thu, 15 Aug 2024 20:51:24 +0000

The existence of sentient AGIs would certainly have wide-ranging impacts on the law!

This case is not about sentient AGIs.

New comment by XMPPwocky in "AMD's Strix Point: Zen 5 Hits Mobile"

XMPPwocky — Sun, 11 Aug 2024 01:25:31 +0000

But bigger fixed-length instructions mean more I$ pressure, right?

New comment by XMPPwocky in "I got almost all of my wishes granted with RP2350"

XMPPwocky — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 22:11:50 +0000

What stops an attacker from uploading their own firmware that dumps out everything in OTP?