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New comment by akomtu in "ML promises to be profoundly weird"

akomtu — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 02:54:18 +0000

With LLMs, materialists have got a silicone idol to worship. They believe that they know everything about this idol because they've created it, and at the same time they believe that LLMs have a secret sauce that makes it intelligent. Looking at how they are trying to extract intelligence from it reminds me of alchemists of the past who tried to extract gold from lead.

New comment by akomtu in "Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model"

akomtu — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 04:21:39 +0000

AI is turning into a religion for materialists.

New comment by akomtu in "The Technocracy Movement of the 1930s"

akomtu — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 19:08:03 +0000

Technocracy, and the doctrine of materialism, sees humans as machines.

New comment by akomtu in "DRAM pricing is killing the hobbyist SBC market"

akomtu — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 00:09:55 +0000

Curing cancer isn't profitable. But even if someone tries to mix AI and biotech, the result will be a dangerous medical slop.

New comment by akomtu in "Will the AI data centre boom become a $9T bust?"

akomtu — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:08:55 +0000

Society as a whole is those workers. Capital, efficiency, GDP and similar things may be sky high, but the actual people will suffer.

New comment by akomtu in "Creating West Coast Buddhism (2024)"

akomtu — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 05:06:29 +0000

If you were a machine, your highest basis would be electrons and related EM fields: it would be the finest level of matter you are made of, the highest level where your consciousness could reside. The idea behind buddhism and other methods is that humans have a higher basis, sometimes reaching extreme heights. In order to gain enlightenment at those levels, there is buddhism. In this thought framework, our science studies a very coarse level of molecular matter, so it's of no help for gaining enlightenment. Similarly, buddhism isn't concerned with the level of matter that's studied by science, so it's of no help for scientific endeavors. For example, buddhism talks a lot about karma. At a certain level, karma is a form of matter with very concrete properties, but to our science it's an unreachable abstraction that you may as well call fiction.

New comment by akomtu in "Will the AI data centre boom become a $9T bust?"

akomtu — Sun, 29 Mar 2026 03:39:16 +0000

The value is negative to that worker, apparently.

New comment by akomtu in "AI users whose lives were wrecked by delusion"

akomtu — Thu, 26 Mar 2026 19:29:28 +0000

I wouldn't dismiss the GP's point so quickly. Right now people are being trained to think of AI as something you can chat with. What stops an adversarial entity to identify users of interest and swap the chatbot on the other end with a human agent whose objective is to extract information or guide the user?

New comment by akomtu in "Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated"

akomtu — Mon, 23 Mar 2026 03:05:48 +0000

Would you seriously consider merging with cockroaches if a swarm of smart cockroaches invaded Earth?

New comment by akomtu in "Why refusing AI is a fight for the soul"

akomtu — Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:37:25 +0000

> The kind of life deemed meaningful, within the AI narrative, is one that is efficient, fast, and intelligent. This is simply unconvincing to many.

New comment by akomtu in "Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student"

akomtu — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 22:05:27 +0000

In other words "why I prefer machines over humans and how I've replaced my moral compass with productivity metrics".

New comment by akomtu in "Nvidia Launches Vera CPU, Purpose-Built for Agentic AI"

akomtu — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:53:40 +0000

They should've called it Vega: https://doom.fandom.com/wiki/VEGA

New comment by akomtu in "LLMs can be exhausting"

akomtu — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:31:37 +0000

You used to be a Formula 1 driver. Now you are an instructor for a Formula 1 autopilot. You have to watch it at all times with full attention for it's a fast and reckless driver.

New comment by akomtu in "Canada's bill C-22 mandates mass metadata surveillance"

akomtu — Mon, 16 Mar 2026 01:17:17 +0000

I think it's a preparation for wildly unpopular measures in the next ~10 years. There will be dissent, and they need a way to catch dissidents at scale.

New comment by akomtu in "Digg is gone again"

akomtu — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 07:34:50 +0000

Registration by snail mail coming soon to most of the Internet?

New comment by akomtu in "Human Rights Watch says drone strikes in Haiti have killed nearly 1,250 people"

akomtu — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:21:15 +0000

The AI of Sauron? The actual eye in the underworld and its proxy on Earth?

New comment by akomtu in "Don't post generated/AI-edited comments. HN is for conversation between humans"

akomtu — Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:51:21 +0000

Invisible text that will serve as a honey pot for LLMs is one thing to try. Imagine a comment where half of the words are marked as invisible by CSS, the other half has letters rearranged, but at the HTML level all the words look the same. LLMs will have to render pages which is a lot more expensive.

New comment by akomtu in "JSLinux Now Supports x86_64"

akomtu — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 19:46:23 +0000

I'm sure he could implement JSWindows that would be faster than the Microsoft's version.

New comment by akomtu in "Living human brain cells play DOOM on a CL1 [video]"

akomtu — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 02:56:18 +0000

Sounds like a high tech hell.

New comment by akomtu in "Something Big Is Happening"

akomtu — Thu, 12 Feb 2026 20:13:50 +0000

Protect the human culture while you can. His advice to embrace AI in order to survive what's coming is naive. When Europeans came to native Americans, they brought their technology, their way of thinking and erased the native culture in a matter of years. The weak were poisoned with alcohol, the strong were killed and the few survivors were sent to reservations. Would it be possible to survive by embracing the alien culture? Don't fool yourself.